More And More Libraries Are Censoring Books From Children
“This is a state-sponsored purging of ideas and identities that has no precedent in the United States of America. We’re witnessing the silencing of...
Movie Theatre Giant Says Admissions Down Due To “Limited Film Slate”
Cineworld’s liquidity and debt burden, which stood at more than $5 billion in net debt as of the end of 2021, have long been...
Department Of Ego-Mania: Mariah Carey Tries To Trademark “Queen Of Christmas”
The 53-year-old pop singer is trying to trademark that title so that she alone can sell goods — perfume, lotion, sunglasses, face masks —...
How Maria Montez Made Hollywood Make Her A Star
"An immigrant from the Dominican Republic with minimal acting skills, she managed by sheer force of will to become one of Hollywood's brightest stars...
How Google Search Has Evolved, Subtlely Undermining Democracy
By adding all of these features, Google has effectively changed the experience from an explorative search environment to a platform designed around verification, replacing a process...
Preserving The Traditional Kashmiri Craft Of Papier-Mâché
"Papier-mâché has been practiced for centuries by Kashmiri artisans ... who make their living from the craft. But, in recent years, just as Kashmiri...
Composer Eva-Maria Houben On Music Structure And Listening
"I think these methods of analysis and talking about music are ideas musicologists need to explore a piece. When I listen to music, it...
How Much Medieval European Literature Have We Lost?
A team of European researchers, using a method borrowed from biostatistics called the "unseen species model," has estimated that 90% of the literary manuscripts...
The Power Of Music To Drive TikTok Memes
Though TikTok didn’t invent the audio meme, its effortless interface may have perfected it, and the platform, which recently ended Google’s 15-year-long run as...
Paris Is Developing Something It’s Never Had Before: A Lively Comedy Club Scene
"American-style comedy clubs ... barely existed in France before the 21st century. ... At (several) venues ..., all opened within the past three years,...
Argentine Prosecutors Link Placido Domingo To Criminal Gang
Numerous broadcast channels in Latin America have been airing excerpts of audio recordings, obtained by wiretap, that include the voice of a man whom authorities claim...
The Cult Of Offense: We Are Not All Salman Rushdie, And Some Of Us...
"We have conceded moral authority to howling mobs, and the louder the howls, the more we have agreed that the howls were worth heeding....
Bollywood’s Blockbusters Are Having A Bad Time At The Box Office This Summer
In recent months, the marquee releases from the Hindi-language film industry in Mumbai have been earning much less than they cost to make. Why?...
The Magical Power Of House Dance
With its freestyle form and openness to incorporating almost any movement style — from tap to voguing to capoeira to jacking — house dance...
Explaining The Controversy Over The Painted Ancient Greek Statuary At The Met Museum
The argument is not about pristine whiteness or the purity of uncolored marble: scholars have known ancient Greek statuary was originally painted for over...
A Trans Cleveland Orchestra Staffer Is Suing Her Employers For Discrimination. The Issue? Health...
Rem Wransky had completed her transition when she became the orchestra's web developer in April 2021, but she developed some physically painful complications which,...
For Its New Artistic Leadership, Philadelphia Theatre Company Scores A 2-For-1 Deal
Co-artistic directors and spouses Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky are coming from Trinity Rep in Providence, where they were, respectively, associate artistic director and...
It Seems The Prized Galileo Manuscript At U.Mich Is A Forgery
"Now the staff of the Michigan library is considering ways to use the object to examine the methods and motivations behind forgeries, potentially making...
The Unexpurgated Darwin — Lost Notebooks Reveal His Thinking
For academics, the uncooked contents of the notebooks represent some of the liveliest writing in biology. “A lot of Darwin’s prose feels quite Victorian....
The Internet Has Become A Giant Whataboutism Chamber
Attention is finite, the record of how we spend it public, and it is easy enough to check if somebody who tweets every day...
Publishing’s Blockbuster Merger Trial Is Turning Out To Be Something Of A Circus
The spectacle has been curiously entertaining. Publishing executives have had to initiate federal employees into a dialect of “backlists,” “advance copies,” and “BookTok influencers.”...
Why Streaming Services Are Adding Ads
But ads are coming back because streamers have more info about our consumption habits than the cable companies or networks ever did, so the...
UK Literary Festivals Are Back. But…
“The mood music seemed that ‘leisure’ activities had to be jettisoned due to the already felt increased cost of fuel/food, and there was a...
The 1927 Scandal That Made Mae West’s Career
"Before West hit the big-screen, she was prosecuted for staging not one, but two scandalous plays. In this episode of Decoder Ring, we look...
Mounting Evidence? People Are Stopping Listening To Music
For the last few years, I have felt the inescapable disappearance of music from my friends’ lives. Even people with whom I have longstanding...
