A 19-Year-Old Wins Britain’s National Poetry Competition
Eric Yip is the youngest winner ever - and he's an engineering student. And "Yip, who cites Ocean Vuong as a writer who made...
How Amazon Workers In New York Won Their Union Election
The lead organizer started a new union from scratch, and raised money through GoFundMe. "It looked like a quixotic venture," to vastly undersell the...
Turns Out The SAT Might Not Be The Problem In College Admissions
The test is still a problem, but not having it as a factor in admissions only harmed lower-income students in college admissions. How? "The...
The Grammys Were Supposed To Be A Return To Normal
But then the Oscars happened. - Los Angeles Times
The Ballet That Almost Didn’t Happen
Music rights were the issue for Christopher Bruce's Rooster, a ballet set to the music of the Rolling Stones. They were cool with the...
Production Companies Have Paused Some Will Smith Projects, But What About His Family?
This seems transparently foolish. After all, it wasn't Jada Pinkett Smith or their adult children up there smacking Chris Rock. Yet: "Public relations specialists...
The Shocking Costs, And Deep Censorship, Of Trying To Read Books While In Prison
First, physical books get banned for transparently hysterical "reasons." Then e-readers might be provided for free - with content that is outrageously expensive. But...
The Past Can Sometimes Be The Past
That is, if you do enough digging - and enough reckoning, as Maud Newton, author of the memoir Ancestor Trouble, well knows. - The...
A Producer Whose Broadway Empire Imploded Seeks A Successful Return
Producer Garth Drabinsky not only lost his company but was jailed in Canada for fraud. He's not involved in the new show financially, but...
Letting Public Art Degrade Is A Mental Health Issue
Seriously, communities need to maintain public art - at least public art that's not intended to fall apart. - Hyperallergic
TikTok Investigates (Or Its Users Do, And It Isn’t Pretty)
In just the past half year, TikTok mobs have dived headlong into engagement-baiting investigations of recent murders, online “pedophile rings,” and the legitimacy of popular...
Are You Stuck In “Goblin Mode”?
“Goblin mode” is taking the current pandemic-ridden world by storm. This state of being is defined by behaviours that feel reminiscent of deep lockdown days –...
How To Stop DoomScrolling
“Doomscrolling is essentially an avoidance technique used to cope with anxiety, so wherever you are vulnerable to anxiety, doomscrolling can become an unhealthy coping...
Scientist Proposes That Information Might Be The “Fifth State Of Matter”
The mass-energy-information equivalence principle Melvin Vopson proposed in his 2019 AIP Advances paper assumes that a digital information bit—used for digital data storage today—is not just physical, but...
Why Australia Needs A Ministry Of Culture
There is abundant evidence to show the government’s financial support for the arts and culture has been significantly reduced over many years. Today the arts don’t...
Time For Hollywood To Rethink Its China Strategy?
In 2021, just 20 revenue-sharing U.S. titles were released in Chinese cinemas, compared with 31 U.S. tentpole releases before the pandemic, in 2019. -...
Charo Is Not A Ditzy Cuchi-Cuchi Woman, She Only Plays One. She Is A...
She studied with Andrés Segovia and is a virtuoso in classical and flamenco styles. "At her shows, after she sings and gyrates to a...
Conservative Media Groups Says It Will Spend $100 Million On Kids Programming (To Counter...
“Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them,” said Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing in a statement. - Axios
Meet The Guy Who Plays The Western Villains In Chinese Movies
Almost nobody knows him back home in England, but in China — thanks to a chance meeting while waiting to renew his visa —...
NY Public Libraries Ended Late Fees. Old Books Began Rolling In
“I can’t tell you how stressed out these fines made our customers,” said Tienya Smith, a librarian who runs the branch in Long Island...
Ashton Hawkins, 84, The Man Who Made The Met Work
If his name was less well known to the museumgoing public than those of Met directors like Thomas Hoving or Philippe de Montebello, two towering figures under...
The Racy Roots And Louche Beginnings Of Kabuki Theatre
It's now an elaborate, rarefied classical art form, but kabuki got its start in the red-light district across the river from Kyoto in 1603,...
Mikhail Baryshnikov On The Russian War On Ukraine
“From the start of the invasion of Ukraine by the armies of Vladimir Putin, I’ve felt deep dread and a certainty that this will...
The Medieval Manuscripts That Offer Health Care And Household Tips
Compiled by a French noblewoman circa 1256 and copied across Europe over the next two centuries, the Régime du corps ("body regimen") survives in...
YouTube’s Most Notorious Stars Seem To Be Burning Out Or Growing Up
"Many of them seem tired of the demands of online celebrity and seem to be moving on from pushing for ever more shocking videos....
