The Cultural Framework For Artificial Intelligence: Can Indigenous Frameworks Help?
Such cultural programming is often invisible, unquestioned, limiting and even dangerous when applied carelessly beyond its community of origin. That’s why ethical frameworks for...
Jewish Jokes, And Jewish Humor, In A Time Of Increasing Hatred
"Scolds from the Anti-Defamation League … will never end an ancient prejudice, but they could ruin a good time. … That has made me...
Corruption On A Grand Scale (And Explaining Inequities)
Like a Tammany Hall-type of administrative corruption but on a national or even international scale, key actors representing political regimes and multinational corporations conspire...
The Twilight Of The “Slate Pitch”
"Slate had a whole editorial style that was based around provocative — some would say trolly — articles and up-is-down theses. … Everyone understood...
San Francisco Ballet Pulls Itself Apart Over Diversity
A public Instagram account detailed dancers’ and staff members’ accounts of inequities. Amid the fallout, Executive Director Kelly Tweeddale, hired in 2019, stepped down...
Here’s The Man With The Key To The Past At Jacob’s Pillow
"As director of preservation (and archivist), Norton Owen oversees exhibitions, the growing online resource Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive, PillowTalks, pre- and post-show lectures, and...
A Music Conspiracy Theory: Tuning “A” To 432
I’d never encountered the 432 Hz phenomenon. Its lore has all the hallmarks of your archetypal conspiracy theories. No one version dominates, but most...
William Kraft, Who Helped Make Los Angeles A Hotbed Of New Music, Dead At...
At the L.A. Philharmonic, Kraft was principal timpanist, composer-in-residence, and associate conductor; he co-founded the L.A. Phil New Music Group, with which he started...
How California’s Gig-Economy Law Changed LA Theatre (Perhaps Forever?)
According to a dozen LA-area artistic directors interviewed, the annual budget of small arts organisations has spiked by an average 40%, disproportionately punishing companies...
Inside San Francisco’s Emerging Black Composers Project
The joint program of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is now working with its first class of fellows,...
Why Is Joe Rogan’s Podcast Such A Big Deal? It’s Not Politics. It’s Demographics.
"Rogan is not just a purveyor of right-wing ideologies. He has built an empire by introducing these ideas — and a wide range of...
How Brazil’s Version Of Joe Rogan Got Himself In Hot Water, Too
Bruno Aiub, who uses the nom de microphone Monark and who models his very popular podcast (titled Flow) on Rogan's, made an argument this...
Arts Venues Grapple With Whether To Require (And How To Enforce) Audience Masking
"Venue staff are increasingly on their own, leaving ushers, house managers, security staff and box office managers in the crosshairs of different audience members'...
Is This Broadway’s Worst Job? Front-Of-House COVID Compliance Officer
Says one, "There are so many moments where I'm shocked by humanity. Once when I called out for proof of vaccination and photo IDs,...
Harper Lee’s Executor Will Not Get To Take The “To Kill A Mockingbird” Film...
Those people being the heirs of star Gregory Peck and the producer and director of the 1962 film version. Executor Tonja Carter (as she's...
UK Seizes Three NFTs And Arrests Three People On Tax Evasion Charges
"Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the IRS equivalent in the United Kingdom, announced earlier this week that it had seized three NFTs and about...
Research: Stress Might Have Gotten A Bum Rap
A growing body of research suggests that it is our beliefs about our feelings, as much as the feelings themselves, that determine their effects...
Record Store Day Was Supposed To Help Small Stores. It’s Backfiring
This year, RSD offers 411 new releases, a fact that should leave those in the physical music business seething. Thanks to Brexit and the...
Canadian Minister Of Culture Says Streaming Companies Need To Step Up Support Of Canadian...
In a debate Wednesday in the House of Commons about a bill to regulate online streaming, Rodriguez said updating the broadcasting law is long...
Ever Wanted To Live Inside DisneyLand? Here’s Your Chance…
Disney Imagineers will help design these sub-developments, and this first effort “will welcome homeowners of all ages and will include at least one section...
How Is It That Dance Takes Over The Body And The Mind?
History and culture offer a treasure trove of attempts to interpret dance’s unique power over our bodies and minds. - LitHub
How The Typewriter Imposed Changes On Chinese
Chinese scholars and activists developed new means of analysing and ordering the written language to equip it for, among other things, literacy campaigns, library...
The Prado Digs Out And Displays Two Goya Sketches For The First Time In...
"Pursuing a more 'panoramic approach' to the painter’s oeuvre, the Madrid institution has placed Las Majas in a new gallery alongside two little-seen sketches...
What The Post-Plague Years In Medieval Europe Can Teach Us About Post-COVID
As we move toward a new, post-pandemic era, the tensions in the labor market of the 14th century may have something to teach us...
Paul Theroux Is (Re-)Figuring Out His Relationship With V.S. Naipaul
"More than fifty years of writing about Naipaul! Yet only in the last few years, the dust having settled"— Naipaul died in 2018, and,...
