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,...
Bookstore Sales Up 28 Percent In 2021
The rebound was not quite enough to bring 2021 bookstore sales back to 2019 levels, falling 1% below 2019 sales of $9.13 billion. -...
The Simple Reason A Bunch Of Comedians Are Suing Pandora
"Let's say (Robin Williams is) singing the words 'reality, what a concept' — in that case … a royalty would have been generated and...
Facebook… Er, Meta… Is Revamping Its Art Program
Open Arts was initially founded as a residency program at Facebook. Artists were commissioned to create work along with employees on site at the...
Could Swahili Become The Lingua Franca Of The Entire African Continent?
"With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as...
New Midwest Powerhouse? Iowa Public Radio To Take Over Licenses Of Six University Stations
IPR began managing broadcast operations at the stations in 2007 and now the Board of Regents of the universities will decide on a proposal...
The Set Of “Slave Play” Had To Be Completely Redesigned For Los Angeles, And...
This staging, on the Mark Taper Forum's thrust stage, is the first time since playwright Jeremy O. Harris first workshopped the play at Yale....
How Has The Dance World Changed In The Past Few Years? Matthew Bourne’s Answer...
"In a general way, I think men dancing has become a much more acceptable sort of profession. That change has had a lot to...
For The First Time, Philly’s Barnes Foundation Is Displaying Its Collection Of Native American...
"The collection of 239 objects, encompassing Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry, is not well known, despite the fact that Barnes installed the...
Despite Emergency COVID Aid, Arts Funding In Australia Remains Well Behind Peer Countries
"Standard levels of funding of arts and culture in Australia continue to lag behind major world economies and have failed to keep up with...
The New York Times Bought Wordle Three Weeks Ago, And Already There’s A Controversial...
The newspaper is removing words from the game's master list of possible word choices (mostly dirty words and obscure ones). Consequently, one day this...
Links Between Music Preference And Personality Hold True Even Across Cultures And Demographics: Study
The research, involving well over 350,000 people in more than 50 countries, tested subjects for the "Big Five" personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness,...
An Excellent Year For Women At The Berlin Film Festival
Female artists won six of the nine categories in the Berlinale's main section, including the Golden Bear (Carla Simón for her Catalan film Alcarràs),...
Tate Britain Will Keep Blatantly Offensive Wall Painting, But Recontextualize It
Rex Whistler's wall painting includes depictions of black slaves on a leash and caricatures of Chinese figures. The room will no longer be used...
