Tag: 04.19.21
In Kashmir, Sufi Music Was For Men Only. These Young Women Are Keeping It...
"For centuries, the tradition was passed down from one man to another. But sisters Irfana and Rihana Yousuf began to play with support from...
Novels Can Be Any Length. So Why Are They This Long?
"The novel is an extremely flexible form. It can come out in countless shapes, include infinite content, and end up almost any length. Let’s...
Jazz Musicians Remember Chick Corea
He left behind "thousands of audio and video recordings; the countless notes scrawled on countless piles of music manuscript paper; and, of course, the...
Size Matters: Of Novels And Novellas And Their Fluctuating Lengths
Novels started out long in the 18th and 19th centuries, got shorter in the early 20th century, and really started bulking up (especially genre...
How To Fight Online Disinformation
"The trend of people celebrating and posting photos of themselves or loved ones receiving the vaccine has been far more effective than any attempt...
Historian Pinpoints The Worst Year In Human History
The year was terrible due to cataclysmic eruptions that blocked out the sun and the spread of the plague. It ushered in the coldest...
Brexit Is Killing UK Musicians’ Gigs
The stress and cost of work visa requirements, new taxes, and prohibitively high touring costs have upended the careers of scores of British musicians,...
To Understand The Human Brain, We’re Going To Have To Get Inside It. Cue...
As the risks reduce and the research possibilities open up, then it is easy to imagine how we could slip, unnoticing, from thinking the...
Ballet In America Is Having A COVID-Induced Baby Boom
"A career in ballet lasts only as long as a dancer's body does. If they're lucky, dancers can perform into their 30s — or...
Why Is Howard University Closing Its Classics Department?
Amid a move for educational “prioritization,” Howard University is dissolving its classics department. Tenured faculty will be dispersed to other departments, where their courses...
Class Struggle, Artists, And Changing The World
Struggle without class analysis results in the many empty institutional statements and surface-level concessions we’ve seen across the United States this past year. Class...
NFTs — Not Just For Art Anymore
"What we are primarily focusing on at Time is how NFTs relate to subscriptions, memberships, and access to unique experiences, which would allow us...
Lesson: Streaming Theatre Works When It’s Designed For It
The problem that companies like ACT had been having, said Randy Taradash, was that they weren’t just having to juggle new technology, but also...
Make Room For Theatre Visionaries
Lacking in visionary leaders? Absolutely not. They're just blocked from the table by their status as a young person, or as a queer person,...
The Rise And Fall Of ‘Florida Man’, Once The Internet’s Favorite Laughingstock
Tyler Gillespie, author of The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State and Florida Man: Poems, traces the course of this icon of the...
Two Senior Staffers Quit MOCA In L.A. Over ‘Hostile Environment’ And Resistance To Diversity...
One of the departing execs, the director of human resources, left over conflict with his boss, the deputy director, and alleged retaliation which he...
The Cutting Edge In Breathing Therapy For Recovering COVID Patients? Opera Singing
Last June, English National Opera and a branch of the NHS launched ENO Breathe, a program that offers what are basically online voice lessons...
Creating A Practice Of Public Philosophy
Public philosophy isn’t simply popularizing philosophical ideas (though it typically involves that). It is more often a matter of instigating a kind of thinking,...
Does A “Big” Book Equal A Necessary Book?
"In the marketplace of books, it can be hard to find that next, necessary book. I keep a list of what to read next...
A Soldier’s Tale for Today
The pertinence of A Soldier’s Tale today is self-evident. It is a COVID diversion: compact, flexible, rejecting Romantic symphonic upholstery in favor of a...
The Dueling Bob Dylan Bios By Authors Who Hate Each Other
“It’s not really polite to tell other writers they’re bad writers, because they tend to fling it back to you. In response, I would...
Would It Kill Spotify To Pay Musicians A Penny Per Stream?
And would a penny per stream be a little more fair? After all, "Spotify increasing royalties to a penny per stream would send a...
The Tricks To Playing Drunk
It's not the 1960s anymore (not by a long shot), so actors usually don't play drunk by getting drunk. Instead, consider Aubrey Plaza's technique...
Product Placement, AKA Advertising, Is Coming To Classic Films
This doesn't seem like a great idea, but then again, who asked the audience? "Items can be digitally added to almost any movie or...