The Man Who Gave Us The De Facto History Of Recorded Music Has Died...
Joel Whitburn, who published nearly 300 books, "was a music lover whose personal collection — meticulously curated in his basement and, later, in a...
The Brand Is Dead
That is, the personal brand. Thanks, internet culture. "We’ve arrived at a new era of anonymity, in which it feels natural to be inscrutable...
Architecture Students Deserve So Much More Than A Toxic Culture Of Overwork
"For years, both have been susceptible to a hero complex where the cause of great architecture is so exalted that almost no sacrifice...
Emmys Changes Force Filmmakers To Choose Between TV And Cinema
"For a long time, the Television Academy included a loophole in which Oscar doc contenders could turn around and try again for sloppy seconds...
The Limits Of The Advice To Write 500 Words A Day
Graham Greene's advice might have been rather ... specific. "Greene could have kids and write 500 words first thing every day because he had...
Who’s Making And Selling Racist Coins On Ebay?
Like the one that celebrates the U.S. Border Patrol's whipping, from horseback, of Haitian refugees? "Unofficial coins ... are funded independently and reflect a...
Who’s Responsible For The Death Threats To The Critics Of A Book?
British publishing surely does not know, or want to deal with it. "You’re not being cancelled, you’re being challenged. You’re not used to being...
The COVID Outbreak On The Show Expats
What happened after the outbreak, including a shutdown by Hollywood unions on the Amazon Studios set, "highlights the delicate balancing act facing Hollywood as...
The Mindset Behind Censoring Others
The censor is convinced that “some forms of expression are so vile or dangerous that they should be restricted, or so valuable that they...
Old People Are Turning To TikTok To Redefine Aging
Many older people are turning to TikTok – best known as a playground for Gen Z – to reframe the experience of ageing and...
Deep Inside Erotic Cookbooks: A Brief History
No, they aren't just gag gifts. From their (modern) beginnings in Playboy magazine's food and drinks column, and then Mimi Sheraton's Seducer's Cookbook (somewhat...
The Surprising Musical Inspiration That Led To Invention Of The Post-It Note
On April 6 1980, Post-it Notes as we know them hit the shelves, and a year later they were also launched in Canada and...
The “Scorched Earth” Option: San Antonio Symphony Board Goes For Broke (Literally)
In comments to TPR, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the symphony's former music director, blasted the board's move as a scorched-earth solution. The maestro has led a behind-the-scenes...
Struggling With Creativity In A Time When Everyone Thinks Everything’s Creative
When I hear people in the corporate world talking about creativity and storytelling — how what they’re really doing is ‘telling a story,’ how everything is...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Casts Its First Disabled Richard III
Arthur Hughes, who opens in the role at Stratford-upon-Avon later this month, lives with radial dysplasia and describes himself as "limb-different." "I've always wanted...
Acclaimed French Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91
Trintignant received a number of accolades throughout his 60-plus-year career, including the best actor prize from Cannes in 1969 for Costa-Gavras’ political thriller Z and a...
Dumb Thieves Steal Million-Dollar Sculpture To Sell For Scrap Metal
Two suspects were apprehended on June 9 after investigators determined that the oblivious pair had peddled the art objects—weighing in at around 2,200 pounds...
Thieves Stole Metal Gates By An Iconic Northwest Sculptor To Melt Them Down. Now...
The Seattle Police Department, savvy to metal theft, one of the fastest-growing crimes in our region, quickly recovered the cut-up pieces of gate through...
Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s Wild Winter Arts Festival, Learns From Last Year’s Disastrous Mistakes
"For those who know Dark Mofo for its gothic bombast, weird surprises and controversial headlines, this year's festival ... may feel a little different....
Why It’s So Difficult To Repeat Productions Of New Operas
Most works of art don’t yield their secrets all at once. It takes time, and repeated exposure, before listeners have a good sense of...
Italy Opens A New Museum Just For Stolen Antiquities It Has Recovered
The Museum of Rescued Art opened this week in part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian in Rome. Its exhibits will rotate every month,...
New York Philharmonic Names Successor To CEO Deborah Borda
Gary Ginstling, currently executive director of the National Symphony at DC's Kennedy Center, will assume the title of executive director this fall and move...
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Is Back To (Almost) Normal
"Almost" because the Pillow's second theatre, the Doris Duke, burned down in 2020; rebuilding won't be complete until 2024. But the flagship Ted Shawn...
Checking In At La MaMa, A Cradle Of Off-Off Broadway, A Decade After Its...
Mia Yoo took over La MaMa after the death of the formidable Ellen Stewart. (Yoo's father is Stewart's adopted son.) While Yoo has kept...
YouTube Shorts Now Has 1.5 Billion-With-a-B Logged-In Viewers Each Month
"Related to its new milestone, YouTube also promoted Shorts' ability to drive viewers to creators' long-form video channels as a byproduct of its investments...
