The Story Behind The Fantastical Dr. Seuss Library
The library is a bit jarring in real life. It's more like the Space Age tower headquarters of the police, only with hundreds of sunkissed students pouring in, out, and around it. " The Daily…
The library is a bit jarring in real life. It's more like the Space Age tower headquarters of the police, only with hundreds of sunkissed students pouring in, out, and around it. " The Daily…
Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn't do in advance, and what we're failing to do now. And that is a failure…
Cinemark CEO and Board Director Mark Zoradi said there will be two weeks of "showing library product, high profile library product" as the chain expects a slow flow of attendance. The big bl…
For people whose "confinement" looks more like days on end in pajama bottoms, media outlets scramble to provide useful tips for combatting quarantine-induced boredom. Users' social-media fee…
Independent institutions that usually depend on entrance fees and are not backed by regular grants or funding are thought to be most at risk. London's Florence Nightingale Museum and Charles…
Dr Dirk Obbink, an associate professor in papyrology and Greek literature at the university, was detained by officers from Thames Valley police. The force had received a report claiming the …
"Sales do not drive a career the way they used to, so it's more imperative than ever for artists to stay out on the road. And right now we're not talking about a diminishment of income, we'r…
Only 26% of internet users 65 years and older said they feel "very confident" when using computers, smartphones or other electronics to do what they need to do online, according to a 2015 st…
There is a growing realization that the binary nature of open versus closed is not the right way to think. "It's not going to be a light switch," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top inf…
Stephen Hetherington: "I think it unfortunate that the rise in state support has produced its own ideological and political adherents, creating for some a mythological differentiation betwee…
A new virtual music platform, cancellation of tours and rethinking the renovation of the orchestra's home. First " keep musicians employed and make sure they have health care " WQXR
Vu Le: "This is the problem. Our sector is afraid of advocacy, much less politics. And we have an absolute disgust for politics. We believe it is beneath us. We don't want to get our hands d…
The battle over the Postal Service has reached a critical stage. Now, others are stepping forward with suggestions for saving the agency that would utterly transform it, from privatizing the…
Calories in, energy out, right? If only it was that simple… " LitHub
"We have to write off 2020. It's already the year that didn't happen," says one top agent at one of the town's powerhouse firms who, like everyone reached by Vulture for this story, requeste…
Valence Media, which includes digital media brands like The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Vibe, is laying off 30% of its employees within its editorial division. " Axios
Much of what was going to happen in any case will now happen suddenly: publishing history is suddenly accelerated. The shift from print to digital at virtually all publications will be radic…
"The floor plans should never have been affected by coronavirus to begin with. The museum should have released them " some semblance of them " months ago. Or how about a year ago, when a rev…
Bleak of course (how could it not be with all the cancellations?). On the other hand, reading through the data gives a sense of where the people who run theatres think they're headed. " Thea…
The story of how about 70 National Guardsmen managed to transform a convention center into an alternate health-care facility in mere days shows a state community coming together to get ahead…
"Who knows if the paintings I donated hold beauty in the harsh, isolated world of incarcerated people? I never ask these viewers directly; in prison, this question can beg answers like, "You…
Social media influencers have had increasing… er… influence in recent years for their ability to get advertising messages out to their followers. But the COVID lockdown has crashed the m…
"People are suspended between terror and wonder. They're terrified that this is all so fragile, but they also realize there are things we have been missing " the birdsong everyone is noticin…
The dictionary's executive editor Bernadette Paton said that it was "a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of t…
Fear of and distancing from those who have or are suspected of having the virus counts as a similarity, the key difference being how AIDS became linked to identity . "In the early days of AI…