Behind The Overwhelming Number Of Book Banning Stories Is A Vast Online Machinery
The effort is concerted. "Many parents have seen Google docs or spreadsheets of contentious titles posted on Facebook by local chapters of organizations such...
Composing Frees A Musician’s Mind
Or so says cellist and composer Nancy Ives. "Something has to happen where the elements are transmuted into something new in relationship to each...
Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren, Other Musicians Join Neil Young In Removing Music From Spotify
"The latest developments are escalating pressure on Spotify to clarify how it will weigh promoting the free speech of its content creators against the...
All You Need To Make A Living As A Piano Player Is YouTube And...
Well, and a boat, and Buckingham Palace, and literally millions of subscribers. - BBC
Author Gish Jen On Going Back And Forth Between Fiction And Nonfiction, And How...
"One of the problems that minority writers face is: How many writers are there? If it’s just you, you’ve got to be pretty careful....
How Contemporary Science Is Uncovering The Secrets Of Stonehenge
"The building of Stonehenge was not a single event but a series of interventions in the site, beginning in 3000BC with the first earthworks and spanning...
Who’s Buried In Yeats’ Grave?
Well, it's not Yeats, after "a somewhat cack-handed, though reasonably successful, conspiracy ... involving a local pathologist, a number of French (and probably Irish)...
Spotify’s Choice Proves It’s Not Really About Music Anymore
Musicians aren't getting paid well, but Spotify "pays most of its revenues from songs back to labels and artists and has rarely turned a...
The Family Of Slain Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins Is Considering A Lawsuit
Meanwhile, "officials in New Mexico are still examining how a live bullet got on set and then into the gun that Baldwin was...
Just How Did Encanto Get So Big *After* It Left Theatres?
Something about another wave, the seeming impossibility of it all - and a family pulling together, maybe? Or, well, a lot of repeat watchings...
If You’re Following Joni Mitchell And Neil Young Off Spotify, Here Are Your Other...
First, of course, you could just buy music. But if you're a streaming fan, there are a lot of other options, some of which...
Tito Matos, Master Of The Tiny Drum Known As The Requinto, Brought Afro-Puerto Rican...
Matos, who has died at 53, and his colleagues reinvigorated and made famous the Afro-Puerto Rican music plena and bomba "by infusing them with...
As Voting Begins, Whose Rep Is Rising For The Oscars?
After all of last week's guild nominations, it's not looking great for Lost Daughter, but Being the Ricardos showed in force. - Vulture
When A Performer Runs Afoul Of TikTok’s Chinese Censors
This is not great. "It’s a fine line that creators have to walk. You can be a creator and true to yourself and true...
What’s A Crime In The Metaverse?
Probably things very similar to crimes offline - assault, murder, torture, etc. Unfortunately, the so-called Web3.0 isn't missing any of that, or the racism,...
So-Called Urban Fiction Shapes A Lot Of Culture, But It Gets No Respect
"Over the decades of its enduring popularity among Black people, street lit has consistently been treated like second-class literature" – at least by the...
Hollywood’s Basic Crafts Unions Reach Tentative Agreement
That's 7500 workers - plumbers, electricians, drivers, animal trainers, etc. - without whom Hollywood would have a very hard time pumping out content. -...
The Super Bowl Dance Kerfuffle
Much more than a kerfuffle - it's about skill, rehearsal, and money. The half-time dancers "frame the action. And in a space as vast...
The UK Is Looking Into The Pathetic Amounts Of Money Musicians Get From Streaming...
"The world’s three biggest music companies: Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, control about three-quarters of the UK recording market, allowing them to strike...
Annals Of Fascism: Mississippi Mayor Withholding $100k From Public Libraries With All LGBTQIA Content
The libraries are steadfastly refusing to do such a thing, and the mayor is on thin - if any - legal grounds, but there's...
B Is For Broadway, And Bernadette
A new book rhymes ways to teach young children about theatre. "There are so many things in here that are favorite shows of mine...
How Spielberg Tricked Me Into Writing The “West Side Story” Screenplay
I love “West Side Story,” I always wanted to work with Stephen Sondheim, and I’ve come to realize that my writerly self-respect is tangled up...
Tubing Streaming Stars Are Burning Out
Twitch is now being criticised for encouraging streamers to spend an unhealthy amount of time on the platform and then not doing enough to...
How To Think About Being Online
The key to cutting through the confusion is to see that digital transformation is not a single thing, but a multi-faceted journey with differing...
Berlin Considers Plan To Ban Cars From City Center
Campaign group Berlin Autofrei has proposed a law to limit private car use within the Ringbahn train line in the German capital, an area of 34...
