The mayor has instrumentalized culture as an economic driver of the capital's fortunes ever since taking office in 2014 and embarking on the creation of her Cultural Plan one year late…
While virtue theory " the construction of a moral framework around the ideal of "the good life" and related character traits " dates back to Ancient Greece, it has been commonly associated w…
Hundreds of citizens attended the City Commission meeting Monday, and more than 70 of them spoke during public comment, which extended the meeting four hours beyond its estimated end. By the…
"It's amazing that this landmark symphony could have been so easily forgotten. As with the other seminal New Englanders"George Whitefield Chadwick, Horatio Parker, and Edward MacDowell, amon…
The site's standard user rating will now reflect only moviegoers who can prove they've bought a ticket to see it in a theater. " Variety
This invisible city follows different laws of planning to its surface counterpart. Its tunnelled streets often kink and wriggle, or run to dead ends. Some of them curl back on themselves lik…
Students are saddled with crippling debt. And generations will be encumbered by it. The generous philanthropist who says he'll pay the Morehouse College graduating class's student debt has d…
Andrea Scott: "It became an icon of eighties excess (and, thus, of white, male privilege): fuck like bunnies, make more money, the one with the most toys wins. It was an instant classic wort…
Stephen Brown: "This is the problem that Mozart poses for our contemporary ears. His music is so balanced, clear, rational in its order, especially in comparison to the music that has come a…
The results suggest that "ordinary variations in room temperature can affect cognitive performance significantly, and differently for men and women," write co-authors Tom Chang of the …
And he's having a moment now, with the LA Philharmonic's FLUXUS Festival. " San Francisco Classical Voice
According to Jobvite's annual Job Seeker Nation survey, 42% of American workers define themselves by the jobs they perform and/or the companies they work for, and that number rises to 45%…
"There's no sugar-coating it: full-fledged OCD is pathological. It renders you unable to function, as I have experienced firsthand. But at the same time, obsessiveness suits our current cult…
A 2013 study Offers some answers: "After sneakily revealing the end of short stories when describing them to test subjects, he found that their enjoyment of the fictional narratives actually…
In addition to the flagship store on Lexington Ave., the company opened its first store in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square last October. A second New York City store, which opened the foll…
A four-year study by Youth Music concluded that too many schools fail to include current musical genres and recommended that lessons should focus on "Stormzy rather than Mozart" in ord…
"As the conversation of the physical phenomenon under discussion grows more complex, language is revealed to be inadequate to the task of describing abstract thought. At this point, students…
Jazz's highest public honor will go to Roscoe Mitchell, Dorthaan Kirk, Reggie Workman and Bobby McFerrin at a ceremony in April 2020. Held at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, it will be t…
The "great anthology" collections of books drew readers' attention to books of the past. But most of the works chosen were from the historical mainstream. How to change it? A couple of publi…
Dean Baquet: "The greatest crisis in American journalism is the death of local news . . . I don't know what the answer is. Their economic model is gone. I think most local newspapers in Amer…
"The time has come for those of us who work in book-length nonfiction to insist that professional fact-checking become as inalienable from publishing as publicity, marketing and jacket desig…
Justin Davidson: "I, too, joined the scoffer's chorus when the latest designs emerged in March, but the longer I've spent studying these paltry materials and pacing the site, the more promis…
Comedy poses a threat to sovereign power not only because of its anarchic bent, but because it makes light of such momentous matters as suffering and death, hence diminishing the force of so…
The nation's oldest and largest nonprofit repertory theater company is at a pivotal moment, with change at the top and challenges everywhere. It's bringing in its first new artistic director…
Michael Shnayerson's new book, Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art argues that contemporary art, once a thing artists made and dealers tried (unsuccessfully) t…