Ocasek wrote and was lead singer on nearly every song The Cars recorded, including hits like "Best Friend's Girl" and "Shake It Up," and after the group broke up, he had a second career as a…
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is repetitive, redundant, with reformulated ideas in every chapter " but sometime it works. (At least once you're already also in rehab.) " LitHub
It's a quiet war, but it's fierce. Macmillan is planning to block libraries from buying more than one digital copy of new books for eight weeks after the book comes out, starting in November…
The season opener was pushed from September 14 to September 21, though the musicians of the BSO, not under the name of the BSO, played a free concert on opening night at a different venue. T…
Why is this such a secret? "Without the essential first step, without a creative reimagining of nature, a conceiving of hypotheses for what might be going on behind the perceived surface of …
Oh, you thought it was just painting collections, or the sculpture garden? Nope: "Gender bias in favor of males extends to fossil and museum collections of mammals." " Hyperallergic
No, and it's wild that we think there is one. "Technology has improved the world, and our lives, in plenty of ways. But it often seems we are willing to overlook significant potential downsi…
Celebrity in the 21st century: The actor Jeremy Renner was nominated for Oscars two years in a row, with The Hurt Locker and The Town. Then Marvel came calling. Then he got his own app. Then…
Here was the situation the day before Saturday's opening night: "With Domingo staying away from Los Angeles while an internal investigation is underway, the company pushed ahead Friday on se…
Though a man has been arrested "in connection with" the burglary, Maurizio Cattelan's artwork hasn't yet been recovered. "The golden lavatory, named America, drew large crowds when it was ex…
Theodore Seuss Geisel died in 1991, but his widow was cleaning out a closet in 2013 when she came across a box of his unpublished, and some unfinished, manuscripts. Or, as the Times headline…
Girls outnumber boys up to 20 to 1 in ballet classes, and so it seems like ballet would be one place " maybe the only place " where women would have the majority of leadership roles. Nope. "…
The crisis is this: As in the U.S., the number of teacher-librarians or librarians in schools has declined precipitously. Why? "Many principals opt to replace them with cheaper 'library offi…
Used to be, the U.S. TV landscape had a few reality shows, nothing spectacular, nothing great. But 1999 changed things: "The drama, the spectacle and arguably the artifice of reality televis…
The promise " unlimited films for $10 a month " went far beyond its founders' capital and far beyond what the market could support. But for a limited time in 2017, MoviePass was poised with …
Taylor's sundial sculpture Timepiece has been used " or, as she thinks of it, co-opted " by a pro-Brexit party called the Time Party, who are using it both on their website and in their merc…
Smith not only cleared up the reputation of President Ulysses Grant " showing that "Grant's poor reputation as president had been fostered in part by biased graduate students at Columbia Uni…
Barbara Newhall Follett saw her first book " about a wild little girl who longs to be free from structures of brick and glass " published when she was 12. By the time she was 25, "Barbara be…
Well, that's poetic, and sounds incredibly Irish. The director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland says, "We're in competition with a lot of venues backed by private drinks companies, wi…
Siddons was an advertising copywriter before her buddy Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, urged her to write about Atlanta " which she did. But that wasn't her only topic. "'The South is…
It's an important question as The Goldfinch, based on a rather lengthy novel, hits theatres. And then … what about movies based on Stephen King books? "The more sophisticated the source ma…
Sometimes you just need a study to back up what seemingly everyone (at least the women) already knows: "The fields of design, production, and technical theatre are the most male-dominated…
The painting, by Daniel Buren, is described as "a cotton canvas with white and red vertical stripes," and the attacker was being held for psychiatric evaluation. " BBC
For one thing, there's a limit to what you can portray on screen (who knew?): "The film depicts only a fraction of the staff required for similar occasions, as they would simply not fit o…
Constance Wu is about to star in the movie Hustlers alongside Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Lizzo, and some rising stars on the film scene " and it's a film directed by a woman and written by a w…