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"There are basically no cars," says Axel Bentsen, CEO of Urban Sharing, the company that runs Oslo City Bike, the local bike-share system. The city's changes are designed, in part, to …
“Appropriation remains one of the hardest-to-talk-about phenomena in pop culture, which is, fundamentally, a hodgepodge of widely circulated ideas that originated in specific sub…
A glance at the research reveals that the paper map still thrives in the digital era, and there are distinct advantages to using print maps. – CityLab
A full 35 percent of Generation Z say they personally know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns like "they" and "them,"as compared to a quarter of millennials who said the same. Only …
For now, all the drama is in the music. But tensions continue to simmer beneath the surface. The musicians had been operating under a four-month extension of their previous one-year contract…
"Children's museums have led the way in the museum field regarding play and its positive effects on brain development " and now all types of museums are using play and touch to engage childr…
On all continents, even in the world's remotest regions, indigenous people are swapping their distinctive ways of parsing the world for Western, globalised ones. As a result, human cognitive…
Clay Shirky back in 2009: "If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?" To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace t…
Jill Lepore: “There's no shortage of amazing journalists at work, clear-eyed and courageous, broad-minded and brilliant, and no end of fascinating innovation in matters of form, especi…
The School of Ballet Arizona trains both pre-professional and avocational dancers. Over 250 career-focused ballet students ranging from age, 4 to 18 receive exceptional training from some of…
Alan Rusbridger: “My experience is that readers are surprised when journalists can say, "Can you help me? Here's my article. Is it right? Could it be improved? What's missing here? Wha…
“Viewers who spend more time consuming commonly binge-watched online original programming are more likely to see others in the world as mean, and less likely to perceive them as altrui…
Increasingly it comes down to one of three things: Money, data or attention. “Money is the cleanest transaction and usually, but not always, comes with a few strings attached. Data is …
“It's certainly positive that Google is investing more in Wikipedia, one of the most popular and generally trustworthy online resources in the world. But the decision isn't altru…
When Barbara Peters was awarded her Grade seven last year the Royal Academy of Dance told her she was the oldest ballet dancer in the UK. Peters recently received the top Grade eight award f…
Kevin Fallon: “The real dissonance, as this year's Oscar nominees make clear, is between Oscar voters and critics. It's not whether voters care if their movies have been seen by the ge…
Nashville’s Music Row was a wonder. A collection of seedy bars that seemed to have been there forever, it was a smorgasbord of live music, played by musicians who played for tips. You …
The nominations reflect a completely polarized votership many of whose various constituencies can't stand one another! The resemblance to real life is uncanny. – New York Magazine
In a country grappling with austerity and Brexit, a plan for a 2,000-seat "center for music" seems to hark back to the more confident, stable time in the early 2000s when the Tate Modern ope…
Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour:Â “Marketing-wise at the time I didn't have anyone helping me, so I put my email address in the show. I urged people to write to me. I asked a…
Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times, which came out in the U.S. last October, is the first full-scale English-language primary-source biography of Chopin.1Best known for his d…
The obstruction seems to be protruding from the gargantuan high-rises going up across the street from PS1, at 22-44 Jackson Avenue. These two residential buildings, which replaced the former…
Is it fair to say it’s a mongrel language, drawing influence from all over. So it is important to remember that the formation of English was influenced by a huge range of ethnic and ge…
Advocates of dream-following, of commitment and career leaps of faith, often say: 'You'll regret it if you don't.' They might be right about that (actually, they almost certainly are). But h…
Well, there’s bad traffic. And unaffordable housing. Unaffordable everything. And income inequality. And forget about getting anything done. But why should this be? Rich cities should …
