When Right-Wingers Targeted Drag Queen Story Hour At A Montana Bookstore, The Community Rallied
"Local bartenders, retirees, restaurant workers and marketing professionals joined other Pride-goers to create a buffer around the store's entrance. Someone started playing music from...
The Crash Is Here: NFT Sales Have Fallen By 97% In Nine Months
"In January 2022, $17.2 billion was traded on the NFT market, a stunning high that eclipsed 2021's NFT mania. ... But since the start...
Two Years After Being Sued, Brown Paper Tickets Still Owes A Lot Of Arts...
In 2020, the attorney general of Washington state ordered the Seattle-based ticketing service to pay what grew, six months later, to a total of...
“It Was Unfinished Business”: The Revamped David Geffen Hall Is What Deborah Borda Came...
She ran the orchestra in the 1990s, and left partly because she saw no real will to fix the Phil's long-problematic venue. After 17...
World’s Second-Largest Cinema Chain Says Attendance Won’t Be Back To Normal For At Least...
"Exhibition giant and Regal owner Cineworld Group, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S., predicted on Friday that cinema admissions...
Canadian Museums Issue Guidelines To Decolonize Museums
The Association urges legislation to support the repatriation of Indigenous belongings and remains of ancestors, and dedicated funding for the repatriation process. It was...
How A Texas Court Ruling On First Amendment Could Break The Internet
A state compelling social-media companies to host all user content without restrictions isn’t merely “the most angrily incoherent First Amendment decision I think I’ve...
The Vocabulary Problem (And What Makes Language Fun)
The problem arises because people use different words for the same thing. Your wallet is stolen, and you’re going to google what to do....
Russia Won’t Submit Entry For This Year’s International Oscar
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian films have not seen much travel to the west, particularly as those made with state...
Christie’s New NFT Platform Is Called Christie’s 3.0
“This is a platform for us to more rapidly scale our digital art offerings and do more frequent emerging artists auctions and work with...
Wendell Pierce Is Broadway’s First Black Willy Loman, A Role He Never Knew He...
"Even though Pierce has enjoyed a robust career, which includes long stints on prestige television shows and an Obie award for sustained excellence of...
Why It’s Difficult To Grasp The Concept Of Time
Physicists and philosophers may have different approaches to the structure of time, but what unites them is a rejection of the notion that that...
The Smiley Face, At 50 Years Old, Is Very Big Business
"The smiley – at least, this particular version of it – is a trademarked image. Want to use it? You gotta pay. Today, the...
The Thing About Sleep: It’s Essential
One thing that sleep researchers are pretty sure of is that every system in our body seems to be impacted by sleep. When we...
At 87, Choreographer Yvonne Rainer Has Created Her Final Work
"Given her age, it makes sense. But is it really true? 'Yeah, I feel it's my last production. ... I don't know. I have...
The Long Brave Effort It Takes To Get A Book Translated Into English
If anything, six years between the publication of the original text and its English translation is rather speedy, especially for a literary work whose...
Why Folks Are Flipping Out About The New Anthony Bourdain Biography
Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of...
Mondrian’s Fanatical Pursuit Of Perfection
“Beneath the surface there was always a major concern which would compromise with nothing. Even though, like Baudelaire’s albatross, he had ‘giant wings,’ he...
What’s Really Extraordinary About Whoopi Goldberg
"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ......
Experience Shows: Four Veteran Stage Actors Discuss The Good Things About Acting Past Age...
"What I think is so wonderful about getting older in this work is that you learn how much you don't have to do. You...
A First Look At The Renovated David Geffen Hall (Yes, A Look) By The...
Michael Kimmelman won't say anything about the acoustics until there are actual concerts, but he recounts the venue's star-crossed history of expensive disappointments and...
Dallas Public Radio Station KERA Is Buying The Daily Newspaper In Denton, Texas
"North Texas Public Broadcasting, the parent company of news/talk KERA Dallas (90.1), is in the process of acquiring the Denton Record-Chronicle. ... Facilitating the...
US Securities And Exchange Commission Sues Former Execs Of MoviePass For Fraud
"The market regulator said that for more than two years, Theodore Farnsworth and former Netflix executive Mitchell Lowe, who were CEOs of Helios and...
President James Madison’s Crystal Flute Gets Played By Lizzo
The instrument is one of the 1,900 flutes in the Library of Congress's collection, the world's largest. Last week, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla...
France Increases Its Arts And Culture Funding By 7% To €4.2 Billion
Rima Abdul Malak, the country's minister of culture, announced the record-high budget earlier this week. €208.5 million of that money will go to the...
