Covering Kyiv’s Anti-Tank “Hedgehogs” With Traditional Ukrainian Art
Artist Varvara Logvyn has been painting the steel obstacles, which look like giant jacks from a children's game, in the traditional, brightly colored Petrykivka...
In Seattle: How Do You Rebuild A Creative Culture?
Arguably, our culture of leadership is in disrepair. Our ability to recognize and celebrate excellence is in doubt. Our effectiveness at building consensus is...
Norah Vincent, Who Wrote A Bestseller About Living And Passing As A Man, Is...
"Ms. Vincent was a lesbian. She was not transgender, or gender fluid. ... She was a contrarian, and proud of it. ... She tilted...
Michael Heiser’s Stunning Masterpiece (50 Years In The Making) Ready To Open In The...
Half a century after Heizer stuck his first shovel in the ground, “City” is finally opening to visitors, which may be the most unbelievable...
Bullfighting Is Fading Away In Spain. So How Can They Repurpose All The Bullrings?
Most of them are in city and town centers, and many are architecturally significant and can't or shouldn't be demolished. Yet they're usually too...
Why Did Netflix Build A Gorgeous Replica Of The Sistine Chapel And Then Destroy...
The streamer spent $5 million to build it for The Two Popes, and it seems nobody understands why it wasn't repurposed. (Perhaps because the...
Why Did The Philadelphia Orchestra Pull Beethoven’s 9th From Its Edinburgh Concert? The Choir...
The concert is the first on a 15-day tour, and the players won't risk COVID transmission, so they asked the Edinburgh Festival Chorus to...
Return The Rosetta Stone To Egypt, Demands The Country’s Most Famous Archaeologist
Says Dr. Zahi Hawass of the 2,200-year-old stele, which provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, "The Rosetta Stone is the icon of Egyptian...
Francesca Zambello Wraps Up 12 Years At Glimmerglass Opera
She feels she has achieved her goals at the upstate New York summer festival: "Creating a 'festival' environment and focusing on our brand of...
Zoom Kept Us Safe, But Kept Us Apart From Music
Irish musician Martin Hayes: "We need to eat, to sleep, to have shelter, to keep our bodies alive, ... our souls need music,...
A New Law Requires Museums In New York To Prominently Identify Nazi-Looted Art
The state senator who introduced the bill said, "Today, artwork previously stolen by Nazis can be found hanging in museums around New York with no recognition...
The Endless Possibilities Of Site-Specific Dance
Every dance is site-specific in some sense, but, in a warming world changed by war, political upheaval and a pandemic, some choreographers forgo traditional...
Another Attempt At MoviePass
It’s been a bumpy road, one with high highs and low lows, for MoviePass. The company shot to notoriety in 2017 by offering customers...
Why Are You Reading This?
The white liberal reading style “has dictated that we go to writers of color for the gooey heart-porn of the ethnographic: to learn about...
What I Learned From A Week Hanging Out With Mensa Members
About 1,100 Mensans journeyed to the Reno area for this year’s convention. They came because they think they are smart, they care deeply about...
Why It’s So Hard To Define Who Is A Millennial
A Pew Research Center poll from 2015 found that, regardless of the parameters, only 40 percent of millennials say they identify with their generation’s label (compared...
Henry Mancini’s Genius
What makes him such an exemplary film composer is the adroitness with which he used style as a catalyst, conspiring with directors to illuminate...
Texas’ New Book Banning Rules In Action: Bible Gets Pulled From Shelves
Forty-two books in total—including the Bible, a graphic novel adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe—were...
Why Are Paris Comedy Clubs Packed?
As a theater critic in France, I’m used to sitting in auditoriums full of all-white, older spectators. In the comedy world, the customers mirrored...
Auditions Suck: A Litany Of Indignities
“Directors are rude, look at their iPhones during the audition, run late and don’t apologise, they chat away to their casting director as if...
The Remarkable Carpenters Of Medieval Practice Rebuilding Notre Dame’s Roof
“There are people outside of here who can do it now, but I tell you they all came here to learn how. If this...
Finding Gold At Shakespeare And Company
A battered copy of The Outsiders helps a writer start to heal, and write again. - LitHub
Reviving Older Crafts, With A Decidedly Raunchy Flair
Yeah, those aren't asparagus stalks on that Delft. - The New York Times
Actor Gary Busey Is Charged With Sex Crimes Offenses After A Horror Convention
Police in New Jersey said there was groping at the Monster-Mania convention. "The 78-year-old Busey ... was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree...
We Already Know We’re Renting, Not Owning, Digital Media
But now we know car companies and other companies might tell us we're also renting proprietary info and perhaps services too, what does this...
