Reviving Brooklyn’s Golden Age Of Ashkenazi Cantorial Singing
Back in the 1920s, there was a group of cantors who combined traditional liturgical chanting with improvisation and operatic vocal technique, which they never...
Why Was “Batgirl” Canceled? For a Tax Writedown, Say Sources
"Batgirl was a casualty of new corporate strategy from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who opted to shelve the project in order to...
Here Are Ten More Movies Hollywood Completed And Then Shelved
In honor of Batgirl, Ernie Smith remembers a group of other films — seven of which are from since the turn of the millennium,...
Met Museum Makes Max Hollein CEO As Well As Director
"The move returns the museum to its single chief management structure. ... The Met's current two-pronged leadership structure, which is unusual for art museums,...
Only Months Before Release, Studio Scraps Batgirl Movie After Spending $90 Million
Following reports that the Burbank studio giant will no longer offer the movie on its streaming platform or in theaters, filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall...
One Of Every Five Nightclubs In London Has Gone Out Of Business
The NTIA recorded the lowest number of nightclubs on record - 1,130 - in its latest set of data, based on the situation in...
Canadians Excel At American Reality TV. Why?
Canadians performing well against Americans isn’t a new concept in sports, but the recent onscreen successes raise the obvious question: Are Canadians just better...
What’s Wrong With American Cheerfulness
At its worst, cheer can be breezily dishonest, an on-demand feeling that we can project to get what we want. It can also be...
Stephen King Testifies In Mega-Book-Publisher Merger Trial. Here’s What He Said
During 45 minutes of testimony, King laid out the changes he’s witnessed over a half-century career in collaboration with a number of different publishers....
Academy Of Motion Pictures Elects A New President
Producer Janet Yang brings a deep well of experience within the film industry and in the academy itself. Her producing credits include “The Joy...
Professional Theater Has Been Endangering Its Actors, Literally, For Generations. Now Actors Are Finally...
"In return for the privilege of scraping by in a field they love, they are commonly expected to endanger themselves physically and emotionally." Long...
When Buckminster Fuller Met Steve Jobs
Fuller had devoted his career to predicting the impact of technology, but he saw nothing special in Apple: “I remember him saying that he...
Trying To Figure Out The Sexual-Abuse Scandal At Boston Ballet (Which Doesn’t Involve The...
The accusations are by ex-students of former principal ballerina Dusty Buttons and, especially, her husband. Gretchen Voss spent months investigating the case: "I made...
Dana Gioia: Poetry Is Essential To Religion
At the risk of offending most believers, it is necessary to state a simple but unacknowledged truth: It is impossible to understand the full...
Europe’s Radio Orchestras Mustn’t Be Allowed To Disappear
"Public service radio orchestras have been one of the great civilising forces of the last century. That may be an unsexy proposition but ......
Are Our Emotions Shaped By The Words We Use?
Instead of seeing emotions as bequeathed by biology, we might see them as learned: “instilled in us by our parents and other cultural agents,”...
Barrington Stage Company, One Of The Berkshires’ Major Theatres, Names Its New (And Only...
"Alan Paul, the associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, will ... (take) over the nonprofit theater company in Western Massachusetts...
“Content” Is A Funny Word. But It Degrades Ideas And Truth
But what exactly is content? Who produces it? Why and how did it come to be viewed as “essential”? And how will content continue...
Finally, A TV Series About American Indians, By Indians, For Indians
David Treuer (Ojibwe) meets the creators and writers of Reservation Dogs and explains the ways in which the FX series is wildly, blessedly different...
Larry Josephson, A Public Radio Pioneer Several Times Over, Is Dead At 83
In the mid-1960s, with his daily morning show at New York's WBAI, Josephson helped invent freeform radio. In the 1980s, he pioneered the job...
Reinventing San Francisco’s Business District, Where The Office Culture May Never Fully Return
Office occupancy downtown is still less than a third of what it was before COVID arrived, so the public-private "community benefits district" for the...
Outsider Artist Henry Darger’s Distant Cousins Sue His Old Landlady Over Rights To His...
After Darger died in 1973, his landlords began promoting the art he'd made for 40 years and left behind in his apartment. (Darger had...
Bernard Marson, The Man Who Made SoHo Artists’ Lofts Legally Possible, Is Dead At...
In the late 1970s, artists were settling, illegally, in vacated factory space in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. Marson, an architect and developer, spotted a...
Documenta Is Hit With A Second Anti-Semitic-Imagery Controversy
On display at one of the art festival's venues is a facsimile of a 1988 brochure about the PLO; inside the brochure are drawings...
Would Theatre Be Better If There Was Less Theatre?
One way to take action is to make a conscious decision to collaborate more and do less, but do it more thoughtfully and with...
