Why Linguists Accept New Expressions And Usage That Grammarians Tend To Hate
"If the only reason we disapprove of something people are saying 'these days' is that we just find it off-putting, then we should consider...
The Artist’s Intention? Actually, It Doesn’t Matter
Authors must accept that art is prone to inspiring disparate, and potentially conflicting, responses — and they can’t do anything about it. - Washington...
New Foundation Plans A Jack Kerouac Museum And Performance Center
The late author's estate has announced the creation of the Jack Kerouac Foundation, which will raise funds to build the center — which will...
No, Norman Mailer Hasn’t Been Canceled By His Publisher, Says His Son
“They didn’t feel they were the right house to do this book right now. I don’t think they have any interest in trying to...
Removal Of Looted Items Leads Smithsonian To Rethink Its Entire Approach To Collecting
The withdrawal from display at the National Museum of African Art of items taken from the Kingdom of Benin "comes as the Smithsonian completes...
Lots Of Great Art Entered The Public Domain This Week. Don’t Celebrate – Marvel...
This massive release isn’t something entirely worth celebrating. Instead, it’s a pointer to the sheer absurdity of American copyright law, which long ago came...
Toledo Ballet Fires Artistic Director And Resident Choreographer
The decision to end the contracts of Artistic Director Lisa Mayer-Lang and her husband, resident choreographer Michael Lang, was reportedly made without consulting the...
Two New York Times Theater Critics Butt Heads (Their Term) Over The Fall Season
To be sure, Jesse Green and Maya Phillips disagree in a most collegial and cordial manner. Indeed, they value their disagreement (not least because...
Malcolm Gladwell’s Nifty Idea For Avoiding The “Sackler Problem” Of Toxic Philanthropy
You've got some benefactors' names all over the buildings of your non-profit, and then those donors, because of how they made their money, become...
Is The Departure Of Minority Hosts From NPR A Crisis Or Just Ordinary Turnover?
The network's spokesperson says hosts such as Audie Cornish and Noel King simply left for competitors who can pay better. But another departed host,...
FBI Arrests Suspect In Fraud Case That Mystified The Publishing World
For five years, someone has been impersonating various publishing industry figures (dozens of them) in order to obtain not-yet-published manuscripts — which were never...
Digital Art Theft Is Now A Thing: Hacker Steals NFTs
"Thieves hacked art dealer Todd Kramer's digital wallet and made off with at least 15 artworks — including five from the high-profile Bored Ape...
Grammy Awards Postponed Indefinitely
"Even though (usual venue) the Crypto.com Arena has a basketball or hockey game or a concert booked nearly every night until mid-April, enough artists...
What The Movies From Decades Ago Predicted 2022 Would Look Like
As you can imagine, many of the visions from long ago about what today would look like were dystopian. Here's what they portrayed. -...
Judge Dismisses Nirvana Baby Album Cover Lawsuit
"He has re-enacted the photograph in exchange for a fee, many times; he has had the album title... tattooed across his chest; and he...
Broadway Box Office Rebounds but Still Struggling
Box office rebounded, climbing to $26 million from Christmas Week’s grim, Covid-decimated $14 million. That’s an overall, week-to-week increase of 87%, and reflects a...
Jan. 6 As Zombie Apocalypse?
In the 20 years that zombie apocalypse narratives have grown and reached critical mass in popular media, such comparisons at an insurrection at the seat of American democracy — where five...
Manuscript? With Words Created On Computers And Produced On Other Computers, What Is It?
A book nowadays is likely to have left its author’s computer to become a bunch of digital assets in Adobe InDesign. These digital assets...
Italy Returns Piece Of The Parthenon Marbles To Greece
Sicily’s regional archaeological museum said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Acropolis Museum in Athens for a once-renewable, four-year loan of the...
Checking In With Baritone Mariusz Kwiecień At His New Opera House
After 20-odd years singing leads at the world's top companies, Kwiecień retired from the stage in 2020 due to long-term injuries. He became artistic...
Tarnished Golden Globes: Diminished Into Irrelevance?
When the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. hands out this year’s awards on Sunday, there will be no party atmosphere: No TV show. No stars....
Tamara Rojo Is Changing The Setting Of A Classic Petipa Ballet But Keeping The...
Well, most of the steps: she's not asking her lead to do 32 one-legged hops on pointe, and she's giving the men more to...
Vinyl Record Sales Are Booming – But The Pressing Plants Can’t Keep Up
Buyers want way more records than the only two remaining pressing facilities in Southern California, can supply. That’s true globally, too: There aren’t enough...
Meet The Founder Of America’s Largest Black-Owned Food Magazine
"The Objective editor Gabe Schneider talked to Whetstone founder Stephen Satterfield about U.S. food media, what values and frameworks define Satterfield and Whetstone's writing,...
Lessons In Creativity From The Demise Of The Once-Ubiquitous Blackberry
The sheer number of cultural artifacts is stupefying. More photographs were taken yesterday than in the entire first century of photography. Odds are that some were...
