How Word Games Give Us A Sense Of Control In An Out Of Control...
"I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning. Death counts, infection rates, mass shootings,...
Actress Anne Heche Has Died At 53
Heche, an Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor, was declared brain dead six days after a fiery one-car crash in L.A. The Daily Beast said that...
The Right To Repair Movement Is Now Reaching Everything Electronic, Including Tractors
"After years of controversy in the United States over right-to-repair, the movement seems to have reached a turning point." - Wired
How Teens Are Getting Around Book Bans
Students have formed banned book clubs like the one at Vandegrift High School, organized with statewide groups, and even overturned bans, like the students at Central...
Colored Statues — Did The Ancients Just Have Bad Taste?
The supposed whiteness of ancient statuary is intertwined with larger ideas of Whiteness in European culture, and the sense that colorizing the statues somehow...
Is The Out-Of-Town Tryout Done?
There’s a certain romance in the bygone days when shows would play Boston, Philadelphia and New Haven before turning up in the Big Apple,...
Why Facts Mostly Don’t Change People’s Minds
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position....
Dances With Chairs: How A Wheelchair Artist Conquered Australian Stages
One day a dance tutor, Catherine Chappell, came to show the children a video about “mixed ability” dance. She invited Rodney Bell to play harmonica...
Gen Z Dilemma: What Actually Is A Healthy Relationship With Social Media?
Because young people have grown up with online communities, they have a more inextricable relationship with platforms and their identities. This changes the idea...
Charlotte Politicians Battle Over Allocating $2 Million In Arts Funding
"When Charlotte City Council last discussed arts funding a month ago, members were sharply divided about ... $2 million allocated to the Arts &...
The Publishing Eco-System Is Consolidating, Narrowing What Americans Read
The Justice Department argues that the resulting merged company would control close to half of the best-seller market, continuing a longer history of publisher...
Was Lady Rochford Really The Villainess Of Anne Boleyn’s Story?
Jane Boleyn, married to Anne's brother George, tends to be portrayed as a schemer whose (likely false) testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to...
Salman Rushdie Attacked On Stage
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being...
There’s Country Music In Africa? Yes, And There Has Been For Almost 100 Years
"The history of African country music is largely uncharted. When you piece together the fragments, a long and rich musical relationship begins to emerge....
Steve Martin Is Busier Than Ever. Retirement?
What these projects have in common — and what distinguishes them from Martin’s early days as the only guy onstage — is that he...
The Mysterious, Endangered Language That Can’t Say “No” (Or “Yes”)
"Nepal's Kusunda language has no known origin and a number of quirks, like no words for 'yes' or 'no'. It also has only one...
Is There Any Such Thing Anymore As A Star Whose Name Can Sell Movie...
"The A-list is a shrinking paddock of ageing thoroughbreds. All five films in the top 100 this year that might be called 'star vehicles'...
Netflix Offers A Whole Bunch Of Games. No One Is Playing Them.
"According to recent findings from analytics company Apptopia, 99 percent of the service's users have never touched a single video game on the platform....
A Bunch Of Theater Company Directors In The Bay Area Are Leaving Their Jobs...
Lily Janiak: "Recently, I heard about three artistic director resignations all in a single week. ... Three points do not a data set make,...
A New Cadre Of “Monuments Men” (Of All Genders) Trains To Protect Cultural Heritage...
Patterned after the famous "Monuments Men" who tracked down treasures looted by the Nazis, a group of archivists, archaeologists, art historians, and other specialists...
Getty Museum Determines Its Orpheus Sculptures Were Looted And Sends Them Back To Italy
"The J. Paul Getty Museum is returning its Orpheus group of sculptures — a significant group of nearly life-size terra-cotta figures known as 'Orpheus...
State Legislation Threatens To Criminalize Librarians For Providing Information About Abortion
"(The American Library Association) says it is 'developing guidance' for libraries and library workers and working with other organizations to 'oppose any efforts to...
Disney Passes Netflix In Number Of Subscribers
Disney’s numbers include Disney+ (152M), ESPN+ (22.8M) and Hulu total, including Live TV, at (46.2M). - Deadline
Our Ever-Evolving Definitions Of What’s Obscene
Many words we consider, at best, crude were medieval common-or-garden words of description and were not considered obscene. To say ‘I’m going to piss’...
Why The Role Of Poet Critics Is Different From Other Critics
Most often the role of the poet-critic is neither to delineate nor disseminate, but rather to illuminate. In such manner the main subject of...
