Longtime editor Gary Fisketjon, founder of Vintage Contemporary and a vice-president at the company, was asked to leave after a suspension and an investigation because of "a breach of compan…
You know how many vendors want us to leave email addresses when we buy online? Well, Google knows all about that. It says it doesn't do anything with the data. Maybe! "Google offers users a …
The show, which has earned a lot more viewers in its contentious final season, "was a mass-market hit for the era of no social consensus. … It divided its audience from start to finish, ri…
Hardline Hindu activists, empowered by the 2014 election of Narenda Modi as prime minister, have been doing things like this to plays they deem unpatriotic: "Hours before the show was due to…
Kyo was discovered by a film scout in 1949 while she was performing in a dance revue. She worked with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Teinosuke Kinugasa, and she continued to ac…
It's true that those movies don't make much money. "The movies may be great, but the financial returns just aren't there. If a foreign movie makes more than $2 million in the States, as Magn…
Let's start with the most contentious thing: Iceland, whose song seemed popular on Twitter, displayed Palestinian flags while live cameras were on the band during voting. The contest was hel…
Yes, Stanford, we're talking about you, but not only you. Even a libertarian agrees: "What is the point of a university press? Its main task, quite simply, is to publish works that expand ou…
And then, the radical (as in, going to the root kind of radical) act of figuring out what's OK to write about " and what's a step too far. "To present ourselves as flawed is one thing, but t…
That's what worked for Katherine Chandler, "one of the most vital voices in Welsh theatre," who took advantage of a Thatcher-era work for welfare opportunity, got placed at a theatre, fell f…
Gushi FM is a show that strains at the boundaries of acceptable in a highly censored society. "A worker for a Chinese construction company describes a harrowing escape from war in Libya in a…
The drama cleaned up in several categories, including best supporting actress, best actress, and best drama series. See the full list of winners, including Benedict Cumberbatch over Hugh Gra…
Sculptor Mary Spencer Watson left Dunshay Manor to Britain's Landmark Trust, but a woman who grew up in the house claimed that she was due part of the value of the house as her inheritance f…
And for the 1000th issue, the comic book team had to assemble its own creative superheroes. "While most comic books are created by one writer and one art team, Issue No. 1000 will have 80 " …
Sure, she was married to a guy who became pretty famous, but Krasner was prodigiously talented and, long after the guy died, tenaciously working on her own space and art. " The Observer (UK)
Wow: "A 700-year-old fractured moa egg sits at the heart of the exhibition, cocooned in a 70-square-metre, four-metre-high bird's nest woven from recycled materials. Inside, the songs …
Truly not an exhibition space you see every day. " BBC
Day was a star who reinvented herself several times. She "achieved indelible fame in big-screen bedroom farces and put a sunny face on the working woman in postwar America," and walked away …
It's the festival's "sensibility" that must be maintained, after all. (Cue eyerolls.) "If your shoes are deemed unworthy of the Cannes red carpet, you can console yourself with the thought t…
Ah. Ouch: "We will be hearing a lot about Leonardo this year, the 500th anniversary of his death. … A wealth of Leonardo will be on display. Also on display"it never really stops"will be t…
Lipton, also a former model and the mother of actresses Rashida and Kidada Jones, earned a Golden Globe for her role on The Mod Squad, "one of pop culture's first efforts to reckon seriously…
Australian Aboriginal artist Richard Bell " a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities " has commissioned "a sculptural replica of Australia's official Biennale pa…
Happy, or something, Mother's Day, from The Rumpus. "Mother's Day is a Hallmark holiday, and often the celebrations it inspires reinforce our static and outdated ideas of what it means to be…
The series became a juggernaut in the 1990s, but it's not over by any means. As the years have gone on, "the books have continued to multiply, to such an extent that the titles are now, by n…
Lillian Gish appeared in more than 100 movies, but one stands out as a dangerous, racist movie that inspired the spread of the Ku Klux Klan " The Birth of a Nation. And she never seemed to g…