A Linguist Weighs In: Just How Do You Say/Spell Ukraine’s Capital?
‘Kiow’ and ‘Kiou’ seemed to be the most common terms in the 18th century, while ‘Kief’ was the most popular word at the turn of...
A Jobs Crisis In The Arts? Here’s What The Numbers Say
In the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry grouping, the job vacancy rate was 6.8% in March 2022, double the rate before the pandemic (3.4%...
Nope, Sorry. Cooperation Isn’t Always A Good Thing
We often talk about cooperation in glowing terms, associating it with ideas of virtue and morality. But viewing cooperation solely as a force for...
118 Composers Join Forces To Complete One Of Bach’s Great Unfinished Projects
Original sources indicate that J.S. planned to have 164 chorale preludes in his Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book), but he only wrote out 46 of...
The News Is Broken. It’s Not Going To Get Better
I am learning to accept that our mainstream media will not adapt to the needs of this moment in our public life. Having talked...
While Repairing Damage Done By ISIS, Archaeologists Discover Unknown Assyrian Carvings
"A cache of 2,700-year-old marble relief carvings have been unearthed by archaeologists beneath the dilapidated Mashki Gate, just east of Mosul in Iraq. The...
Opera Company In Turmoil? Fort Worth Opera Loses Another General Director
Afton Battle, one of the few Black women to ever run a U.S. opera company, is resigning from the Fort Worth Opera. She will...
“The Paper Chase” Author John Jay Osborn, Jr. Is Dead At 77
"The Paper Chase became a sort of pre-law school bible that students read before embarking on a career in law. One of them was...
Why People Misspeak
This word substitution – and thousands like it – suggests that our mental dictionaries link words with related meanings. In other words, semantic connections...
The Bolshoi And Mariinsky Ballets Have Made Alexei Ratmansky A Non-Person
He's the world's most admired classical ballet choreographer, and he was artistic director at the Bolshoi. But, because he opposes Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
Alex Ross: The Acoustics Of Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall Makeover
My initial impressions, after three performances, were mixed. The sound is bright and clean, with excellent separation of instrumental voices. When the entire ensemble...
“The Waste Land” At 100 — The Most Important English Poem Of The 20th...
"In honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of 'The Waste Land,' we invited four writers and academics — Beci Carver, Jahan Ramazani,...
“The Waste Land” Is 100 Years Old, But Part Of It Is 2,500 Years...
Alok A. Khorana: "When I first read the poem, I was puzzled by the structure ... because it felt strangely familiar. ... The entire...
After A Few Years Of Progress, Is Hollywood Backsliding On #MeToo And Diversity?
"In recent months, however, Hollywood's business culture has started to regress in subtle ways. New problems — widespread cost-cutting as the box office continues...
MetLife Fired This Guy Because He Co-Hosts A Popular Supreme Court Podcast
"On the official 5-4 website, there is a one-liner that pretty much tells you everything you need to know: 'A podcast where we dissect...
A New Arts Journalism Initiative In Dallas
"The Dallas Morning News and KERA announced Monday the formal launch of their new shared endeavor Arts Access, 'a first-of-its-kind journalism partnership' designed to...
Irish Dance’s Match-Fixing Scandal Sees Its First Resignations
Two members of the board of competitive Irish step dancing's chief governing body have stepped down in the wake of revelations that some coaches...
Leslie Jordan, Beloved Actor And Social Media Star, Dead At 67
"After a late start in his performing career, (he) became a recognizable face from roles on numerous television shows, most notably Will & Grace,...
Theatre-Seat-Maker-To-The-Stars
“If a seat’s good, you don’t notice it,” he said. “You only notice it when it’s bad.” In the world of theater seating, he...
Czech Conductor Libor Pesek, 89
Pesek was a Czech conductor with a solid if unspectacular career when in 1987 he was appointed chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic...
David Remnick: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl
Peter was a man of well-developed opinions, on art and much else. He was someone who, after being lost for a time, knew some...
The Alluring Aroma Of Old Books
There are old books and there are old books. Sometimes opening one that I have innocently purchased for 3.99 plus postage can feel like...
Calculating The Moral Value Of The Distant Future
Unless you think—and some philosophers do think this—that the large-scale future consequences of our practices don’t matter at all, it’s hard to see how...
Reconsidering The Music Groupie
The argument for me as groupie is more complex than the definition of the term. Groupies were women who hung around bands. They were...
Audiences For TV Soap Operas Are Falling Off
One of soap operas' major problems in recent times has been a failure to bring in new fans on top of their existing ones....
