Playing An Instrument As A Child Can Mean A Sharper Mind As A Senior,...
"People with more experience of playing a musical instrument showed greater lifetime improvement on a test of cognitive ability than those with less or...
There’s A Notorious List Of Great Books Banned In Florida Schools Floating Around On...
"The book list includes novels that have been taught for generations, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and I Know Why...
Natalie Portman’s Apple TV+ Series “Lady In The Lake” Halts Baltimore Shoot After Extortionists...
"A (pair) of locals confronted a driver for the production on Friday and said they would only 'allow' filming to continue if they were...
Vandals Break Into And Smash Up A Sculpture Center In Upstate New York
"Sculpture Space, a residency program for sculptors in Utica, New York, was ransacked and severely damaged by vandals in the early hours of Sunday,...
NBC May Drop An Entire Hour Of Its Prime Time Programming
The schedule for this season is set, but, starting in fall 2023, the network would eliminate its 10-11 pm slate of shows and turn...
The Edinburgh Fringe Is Too Damn Big, Too Damn Crowded, And Too Damn Expensive....
Yes – there's nothing else like it. "But to defend it, we need to reform it. ... The fringe is unregulated, wonderfully so, you...
Metropolitan Opera Ends Its Audience Vaccination Requirement
Patrons will no longer have to wait in line to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before entering the building, though masks will still...
The Cultural Politics Of Counting People
In theory, counting the population seems so basic, so neutral: a math problem, albeit “a serious slog” of one. But the numerical is political,...
Edmonton Nixes Buffalo Sculpture After 12 Years Debate Over History
“Perhaps the city is not ready for a real dialogue about its colonial past and the condition of coloniality that continues to mark the...
Eco-Writing Gets Real
“We” didn’t cause climate disruption; ExxonMobil did. In these types of, albeit nonfictional, narratives, the push is precisely to rescue the “figure-ground” narrative form...
The Latest Version Of Artworld Fame In NY’s Downtown
These niche-famous people are the types who are living out the latest chapter in what it means to be in this particular corner of...
Documenting Great Music Careers — The Age Of Legacy Recordings
That word “historic” is interesting. You may find that you heard these performances, as they happened. Or reviewed them. Or played them. Which may...
Alan Ayckbourn And His 87 Plays
As one of the UK’s most commercially successful theatre-makers, Ayckbourn might seem an odd figure to focus on. He is not cutting-edge; he is...
The Dismantling Of HBO: Make As Much Money As Possible
David Zaslav’s plan is to focus on making as much money as cheaply as possible. When he joined Discovery in 2006, it was a...
What Is The Internet Hiding From Us?
Does its very immensity undermine its utility as a source of information? How often is it burying valuable data under lots of junk? Say...
What Magic Is This? Disney Making More Money Off Fewer Theme Park Visitors
Even as the company limits the number of visitors and keeps attendance at its U.S. theme parks below prepandemic levels, they are generating record sales...
The Readers Driving Romance To The Top Of The Bestseller Lists
BookTok is real. A co-owner of The Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles says, "'We'll get a rush of customers asking for something random and...
The Streamer Bloodbath Is Just A Course Correction
A course correction, or even a tax write-off, but "the streaming industry and the entertainment industry in general trained consumers to think they could...
Doing Edward Albee In A Small Town On The Oregon Coast
Rising Tide Theatre co-founder George Dzundza (The Deer Hunter, Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy) says "Theater is a blood event." While movies are set...
The Best Actor You Probably Don’t Know At All Disappears Into Her Roles
Scottish actor Kate Dickie says, "I’ve had people tell me, ‘Oh, I saw a film you were in and I didn’t even realise it...
Leaving LA, The Modern Version
"I went to an Erewhon supermarket in a hazmat suit. I chopped vegetables and did nothing with them. I put on makeup and rolled...
A Stonemason Working On Britain’s Stately Homes Says More Women Should Get Into Masonry
Alice Eaton, who's 30, has helped restore Haddon Hall - set of parts of Princess Bride, Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley version), and...
Composer William Bolcom Went Forty Years Between Piano Concertos
Pianist Igor Levit "described Bolcom as one of 'the very essential composers of our time,' and also recounted with delight the way in which...
How Marvel’s Superhero Bodies Have Changed Everyone’s Body Issues
It's especially, but not only, an issue for men. "People want to look like an action star, but may not be aware that every...
London’s History Isn’t Even History
Just ask the mudlarkers in the Thames. - Hyperallergic
