Lorne Michaels: "He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on. … He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, h…
The artistic director of the Fulham Opera (which is doing Die Meistersinger this summer) says there's good reason for smaller opera halls: "The immediacy, the storytelling, the quality of th…
Nafissa Thompson-Spires' first book, the short story collection The Heads of Colored People, is short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize (a prize for a book that follows Burn's "bold footsteps…
The federal government is not happy with the town of Tournal, where, after years of argument and discussion, a crane pulled apart the bridge over the Scheldt, in sections. "A crowd on the ri…
That is, reader's block means you're not reading a book. Why? " The New York Times
The author of the viral hit short story "Cat Person" says that it's not easy. to deal with constant questions about sex. "Write a book about the way young women use words to fight back again…
But she said no, every time, and the film seems to have turned out OK. "It broke the box office record set by Avengers: Endgame for per-screen average, taking in $351,330 in four theat…
Then it became a "productivity tool" for work, and "regular folks don't want to organize their private lives as if they were office jobs." But it's not too late to save the technology, if we…
After decades in peril " "Mao's Communist government debated tearing down the complex, or creating a vast Soviet-style wedding cake palace opposite it." " the Forbidden City complex has beco…
Paley won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant for her work. Her methods met with resistance during the era of quantification and textbook standardization, but "in addition to teaching children, she m…
Tim Waterstone " no longer associated with the stores that bear his name " says that "the competition simply wasn't up to scratch. 'I didn't feel guilty,' he says. 'I'd just have to say, no,…
Of course, eccentric dance wasn't new when the movies started recording it. "Eccentric dance can trace its origins to ancient times and has roots in many cultures. But perhaps no place did i…
The timeline: Last August, "more than 40 artists removed their work from the exhibition Hope to Nope at the Design Museum in London after the museum housed an event hosted by the…
Wow, thanks for your data mining project, New York Public Library! Why, though? Because "until the 1976 Copyright Act, US works were not copyrighted unless they were registered, and then the…
Jocelyn Allgood, who participates in several community theatres near her in Texas, says that "it's our small contribution to humanity " to ease the burden of life, to make you laugh, to stir…
The upheaval hasn't ended " it's barely begun: "Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy and Ava DuVernay are among more than 300 writers who have declared their support for dissidents in upcoming board e…
The foot traffic to Shakespeare and Company has only increased since nearby Notre Dame closed for fire repairs. But the bookstore is a monument in and of itself. "Through the narrow aisles a…
Instead, we're all living in an age of terrible anxiety over constant surveillance. What went wrong? " Wired
And this time, one butter sculptor decided to honor the 50th anniversary of the first moonwalk. But how to explain those cows looking on? " Space
Sam Rudy, an actual farm boy who moved to the city and made good, has created publicity for everything from the deeply bad musical Shogun to Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, and h…
One DJ explains it this rather charming way: "If you're 21 now, you can get all kinds of music much faster. You can stream it or listen to it via YouTube … My generation had to buy the rec…
Listen, y'all, Frozen 2 hasn't even come out yet. "After this weekend, the company has surpassed $7.67 billion worldwide, smashing the benchmark previously set by Disney in 2016 with $…
When you're partying during what feels like some pretty dark times, take inspiration from the French existentialists of the 1940s. "Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre spent a lot of tim…
They're expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and very expensive " to the planet " to cool. "Energy used on cooling has doubled since 2000 and accounts for about 14% of all energy use n…
That is, of its refugee population " and of their radio station. " NPR