Tag: 02.27.21
Artificial Intelligence Has A Grammar Problem
Sometimes Grammarly doesn’t do what it should, and sometimes it even does what it shouldn’t. These strengths and failings hint at the essence of...
‘Lamborghini’ Of Ancient Roman Chariots Unearthed At Pompeii
"The chariot is preserved in remarkable detail, officials say, with four iron wheels, metal armrests and backrests, and a seat perched atop that could...
The Pronouns Problem
For now, pronoun declarations are both novel and blatant — which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on whether you’re...
Australian Theatre Is Lighting The Way For The West End And Broadway
Actors get temperature-taking robots; there's Hamiltizer for your hands if you're rehearsing Hamilton; and then there are the actors who can't hug - so...
Ripping Up The Netflix Streaming Playbook, And Winning
The Mouse - Disney Plus, in this case - has a huge back catalog, and it's also doing this little thing called dropping a...
A Judy Chicago Installation Is Scrapped Because Of Sheep
And other animals. And smoke. But the project manager has some questions. "The Living Desert specialists had assured us that the project would not...
Steve McQueen Will Let Critics Decide If ‘Small Axe’ Is TV Or Cinema
McQueen, whose series of (what some of us would call) films hasn't been entered for BAFTAs or Oscars, says, "I just make stuff. You...
How The Internet Has (So Far) Transformed Celebrity
We live in a fragmented celebrity world, due mostly - but not entirely - to social media. It's a global culture "where somebody can...
Dealing With The Existential Void At The Heart Of Our Constant Information Overload
It's not easy for any of us. "More information isn’t always a good thing, particularly when it’s an overload of unwanted (even predatory) (mis)information."...
If You Want To Watch The Golden Globes Tonight, Here’s How
And here's who is nominated, and who, and what, might win. - Los Angeles Times
Oscars So Puritanical? One Director Thinks So
As her movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always - a quiet but hair-raising quest movie about two 17-year-olds from Pennsylvania going to New York to...
The Real Story Of Billie Holiday And The FBI
Behind the new movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday stands a lot of history - and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Parks: "Jimmy Fletcher is...
Yuval Waldman, Violinist And Conductor Focused On Music Composed During Times Of Oppression, 74
Waldman's parents survived WWII and the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and "his career in some ways reflected his multinational upbringing and his sense of...
Reframing Nature Photography
Nature photography means what - Ansel Adams? The National Geographic's contests and covers? Or ... the nature that's around us all of the time...