Tag: 05.03.21
NPR Is Starting To Put Its Most Popular Podcasts On Traditional Radio
The traffic started out the other way, of course, with over-the-air programs being released as or adapted into podcasts. "But podcasting has turned into...
The Rage Fueling The New Campus Novels
A life made, or half-made, under conditions of academic precarity is often a paranoid, anxious, stupefying life—stupefying in part because, in some sense, you...
New AI System Makes Dubbing Of Films In Foreign Languages Less Awful
"The process begins with recording an actor speaking the dialog in the required language, as one would in a dubbing process, explains co-founder and...
How A John Denver Song Inspired A Generation Of Asian Immigrants
Over the past half century, Denver’s Appalachian anthem has also lodged in the hearts of many families in Asia, thousands of miles away from...
Redefining Monuments In Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Not granite or bronze, these new monuments by Deborah Willis, Sadie Barnette, Ebony G. Patterson, Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist, and Black Quantum Futurism,...
Finally, A Decent App For Borrowing Ebooks From The Library
A clunky, outmoded piece of software called OverDrive had been the standard app for getting reading material from the library onto your Kindle. Instead...
Verizon Sells The Internet Junkyard (AOL, Yahoo…)
The telecom giant is selling Yahoo, AOL and the remainder of its Verizon Media brands to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in...
How Four Regional Ballet Companies Are Moving Back Into In-Person Performance
"Pointe spoke to four U.S. ballet companies — Milwaukee Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Avant Chamber Ballet and Columbia City Ballet — about how...
ABT To Mark End Of Lockdown With Eight-City, 3,100-Mile Tour
"Performances during the tour will take place outdoors on a custom-built stage designed to unfold from an 18-wheeler truck. At each stop, 20...
Jacques d’Amboise, Ballet Dancer, Choreographer, And Teacher, Dead At 86
" combined classical elegance with all-American verve and athleticism to become one of the top male dancers at New York City Ballet, then spent...
Re-Entering Community Life In Person — But I Have Stage Fright
"In my official capacity as theater critic, I’m prepared to make a cultural diagnosis. As the pandemic shows signs of coming under control in...
NYC To Lift COVID Capacity Restrictions May 19. Broadway Back?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that one capacity restriction that will remain in place, with limits still being mandated on the number of people...
Eli Broad, Philanthropic Cautionary Tale
Broad’s style — his power plays, his demands for control and fealty, and his determination to go it alone — meant that controversy and...
Blaming Liam Scarlett’s Death On Cancel Culture Is Just Another Way To Shut Victims...
Reactions such as choreographer Alexei Ratmansky's social media post that claimed "Cancel culture is killing" are deeply harmful - they place "a burden of...
Rome’s Colosseum To Get New High-Tech Floor
Milan Ingegneria, a structural engineering and architecture firm, has won an €18.5m (£16m) bid to build and install a retractable arena floor that will...