Why Did Famed Gibson Guitars Go Bankrupt?
Faced with the prospect of paying off $500 million in debt"while tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon enter the speaker market"Gibson was forced to file for Chapter 11. Luckily, this d…
Faced with the prospect of paying off $500 million in debt"while tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon enter the speaker market"Gibson was forced to file for Chapter 11. Luckily, this d…
I don't want to sound like an old stodgy codger (even though I am an old stodgy codger) but it seems to me that this lack of narrative finality really hampers the genre. Like video games the…
"Volunteer adjuncts" " it is a term so absurdly reprehensible it sounds like the stuff of parody. Despite what graduate students may gain over the course of their studies, they owe nothing w…
In early 2018, We Have Voice began painstakingly crafting the Code of Conduct via meetings, email and Google Hangout sessions, with members collaborating from the far-flung locations where t…
The Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, Virginia, invites nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director.Â
Its latest online collection, "Open Heritage," features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, from the ancient Mayan metropolis of Chichen Itza in Mexico to the pr…
Thirty Broadway productions were eligible for prizes, the smallest number in more than a decade. This year's Tony Awards will take place on June 10 at Radio City Music Hall and will be broad…
"It is the determination of this audit that the taxpayer operates as a personal endeavour (a hobby), not a business," Canadian Revenue Agency said in its Jan. 26, 2018, reassessment letter t…
The Vatican Secret Archive isn't much use to modern scholars, because it's so inaccessible. Of those 53 miles, just a few millimeters' worth of pages have been scanned and made available onl…
Internationally, Infinity War dislodged Jurassic World ($316.7M) at No. 2 (that movie also had China at open). In comps that did not include China at the bow, Infinity War's overseas start b…
Burning Man is far, far, far from perfect. It's still mostly hedonistic (with some awesome exceptions) and corny at times. It's very white (The Root and The Guardian have both done great int…
This August will mark Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday. The centenary celebrations started last August and are worldwide. The Bernstein estate counts more than 2,000 events on six continen…
Walker State Prison, home to about 400 inmates, is unique among Georgia prisons. In 2011, the facility became the testing ground for the Georgia Department of Corrections' new Faith and Char…
Behind the aphorism's sudden ubiquity lies a long and surprising history"one that yields a fresh perspective on our present technocultural moment. It suggests that Facebook's business model …
At the beginning of the 21st century, a new world is emerging. Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been…
"The decision to do this rests very strongly on my commitment to rewrite the postwar canon," Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford told artnet News. And while institutions sel…
Meural is one of the more notable startups in the digital art subscription space. For hardware that is ultimately just a high-end digital photo frame, the companies are more focused on the i…
How to define a word that's so slippery yet so engrained in everyday use? It's a tricky task, but moore offers the four main characteristics of fabulousness: It doesn't have to be expensive;…
Intelligence has to be defined relative to goals and the knowledge needed to attain them. In any case the argument against the doomsday fear-mongering of existing AI extends to more powerful…
"Worthless" books priced at up to thousands, of dollars on Amazon.com and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author w…
Research on failure as a motivator is limited, though the evidence that does exist suggests that students can grow both from learning about the failures of other successful people and from e…
The Supreme Court's 1948 ruling agreed that the studios were giving preference to their own theaters, which was a violation of antitrust laws. Targeted were Metro, Warners, Paramount, RKO…
Preserving a special sense of meaning is pivotal for Jane Moss. "There are lots of festivals around. You need to stay focused on a festival that has meaning of some sort." She has found that…
Knowing that you may never get a response is disheartening. Yet many embrace the uncertainty and even lean into it. For those playwrights, rejections become the most common form of communica…
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