Boris’s Government Says It Will Eliminate The BBC TV License Fee. What Is...
It's the way the BBC is funded — a flat fee, currently £159 ($217) a year, charged to every household in the UK that...
Hamburg’s Massively Expensive Elbphilharmonie Has Proven A Massive Success
By the time the concert hall opened in 2017, it was six years late and had cost €866 million, ten times the initial budget....
The Louvre Threatens To Sue Marine Le Pen For Using Its Image In A...
The far-right National Rally party released a 3½-minute video this weekend showing its presidential candidate speechifying to the camera while walking back and forth...
Ted Gioia Remembers Terry Teachout
"I always appreciated that warmth and compassion, but again I was hardly surprised. I had experienced it myself." - Ted Gioia
YouTube Removes “Dislike” Buttons And Engagement Goes Down
YouTube’s controversial move to remove public dislike counts in November was aimed at shielding smaller creators from harassment campaigns but has already started to discourage certain...
Vicious Book Review Are Back With A Vengeance
If the hatchet job ever died, it is — like Gawker — back with a vengeance. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that...
Why It’s So Difficult To Predict The Future
There is an assumption that the more scientific the approach to predictions, the more accurate forecasts will be. But this belief causes more problems...
Audio Books That Become Inseparable From Their Readers
With audiobooks, voice narrators are (almost) everything. They can make a great story greater and a bad story better. This is especially true with...
What Qualities Ought The Next Music Director Of The Kansas City Symphony Have?
The Symphony board could make a statement by requiring, for one thing, that Michael Stern’s successor take up full-time residence in Kansas City. - KCStudio
IRS Wins: Prince Estate Worth Twice What Executor Claimed It Was
The process came to a head earlier this month when the IRS, the US tax agency, asserted that the estate was worth $163.2m, twice...
End Of The BBC As We Know It?
Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said the Government is signalling “the end of the BBC as we know it” in a “pathetic” attempt to...
Get To Know America’s First Native American Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo’s story is an American epic, a triumph of the spirit, reshaping history’s lens on the West, rewriting a national myth of endless...
What’s Happened To Those Public Statues Celebrating Racists?
Government officials have tried to grapple with the best course of action for monuments that are symbols of both divisiveness and history, balancing the...
Misty Copeland Wants To Honor Those Who Came Before Her
"Copeland says she believes it’s her responsibility to tell the untold stories of trailblazing Black ballerinas who came before her. ... She wants aspiring...
The Tories Freeze BBC’s License Fee For Two Years
Sounds great during a pandemic, right? But the BBC is commercial-free, and the license fee is its income, so when the fee doesn't keep...
Emile Zola, Real Bad Art Friend
Bad Art Friends are far from new. "Case in point: the rift between Émile Zola, novelist/playwright/founder of the naturalism movement, and painter Paul Cézanne....
Sundance Is All Online Again, And That’s Great
Cheers aren't what one might expect for yet another canceled in-person event - and yet, 80 films will be on offer, with art houses...
Where Theatre’s Pause Is Particularly Agonizing
"The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory prides itself (in non-pandemic times) on mounting plays where its actors speak in original pronunciation," and a cabinet-maker who recreated...
Music Catalogs Are Fetching Massive Prices For The Creators
But are those dollar values in any way justified? One trade publication said more than $5 billion "changed hands through music rights acquisitions last...
Lynn Nottage Is About To Have Three Shows Up At One Time
Playwright Nottage: "I will tell you, in all honesty, I haven't been getting a lot of sleep," but that's OK. "The dream is to...
What’s Wrong With Book Reviews?
And n+1 magazine doesn't mean the ones you do in school. No, it's professional book reviews that are in trouble, according to that magazine....
Eddie Basinski Was A Rare Baseball-Violin Double Threat
"Basinski, who had taken classical violin lessons since childhood, played with the University of Buffalo’s symphony orchestra before embarking on his major league career...
A Very American Idea: Writing A Children’s Book In Your Language For Your Kid
"There are very few children’s books, or books in general, published in Karen in the United States, and much of what exists originated in...
Why Isn’t Spotify Doing More To End COVID Misinformation Spread?
Especially with one of its more famous podcasters, Joe Rogan. Now "a coalition of hundreds of doctors and public health experts have called out...
Curtains Go Up, Audiences Flee Omicron, And Broadway Sees Curtains Fall Again
Too familiar, and too grim. On the upside: "Until the pandemic, the industry had been enjoying a sustained boom, fueled by a rebound in...
