Tag: 06.04.21
According To Science: Characteristics That Make Us Attractive
Attraction is an instinct. While it’s versatile to some extend, key aspects of perceived attractiveness seem to be inherent to our species. - Medium
Folks Have Been Looking For A Gender-Neutral English Pronoun For A Long Time Now
"Even though people did not … personally identify as nonbinary in the way we understand it today (though some identified as 'neuter'), neutral pronouns...
How Big Was The Hit Public Radio And TV Stations Took Last Year?
"Revenues of public television and radio stations declined by $147 million, or 5%, in fiscal year 2020, which included the first months of the...
Jeanette Winterson Is Literally Burning Her Own Books
Happy Pride Month! Um: The author of the groundbreaking Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and many other experimental, daring works wrote on Twitter,...
The Silencing Of America’s Most Distressed Areas
The newspaper crisis - and be assured, for small, local places, it is a crisis - means that areas where people need the most...
Sophie Rivera, Photographer Of Puerto Rican New York, 82
Rivera began by asking her neighbors to be her subjects. "The images she made were majestic four-by-four-foot prints of everyday New Yorkers of all ages. They...
What Novelists Can Learn From The Marvel Comics Universe
Sounds ridiculous, right? What do literary novels have in common with Avengers or WandaVision? Benjamin Percy says his Comet Cycle came about because...
Frederike Mayrocker, Grande Dame Of German Language Poets, 96
Mayröcker, an Austrian, earned acclaim as a formally inventive poet, but her writing "ranged far more widely, producing an immense body of work that...
Bach, But Make It Upside Down
Another creative moment borne from boredom during the pandemic: "Dan Tepfer plays the first of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations. The piano is a Disklavier, which can...
The National Black Theater Makes A High-Rise Decision
The National Black Theater is trading up - and up. It will replace its current building with a 21-story high-rise, where the theatre can...
The Studio Of Corita Kent, L.A.’s ‘Pop Art Nun,’ Earns Historic Status
And that's historic for more than her art; it's also unusual for Los Angeles to honor women artists in this way. Kent adapted silkscreen...
A Mining Company Sponsors A Fringe Festival No More
In Perth, Australia, the multi-arts Fringe World loses its decade-long sponsor, the decidedly non-edgy mining company Woodside, after three years of protests by festival...
Andras Schiff Embraces Historical Instruments
Admirers and critics alike may say, "At last!" This is a strong about-face. "He proudly played Bach on modern pianos; referred to fortepianists with...
Why Is Philly’s Post-Pandemic Arts Budget So Anemic?
Other cities are thinking big: Chicago's Arts 77 has $60 million for individual artists and arts organizations. "City departments from parks and rec to...
Pompidou Center To Open First U.S. Branch In — Wait, Where?
Jersey City, NJ — which would, if not for the state boundary, be like Brooklyn, since it is directly across the Hudson River from...
If US Orchestras Want More Diverse Conductors, They Have A Source Of Them Very...
Zachary Woolfe: "There are more of them than ever, and they go by a variety of titles: assistant, associate, fellow, resident. Almost every major...