Yes, Chris Hughes' argument that Facebook needs to be broken up is strong. But it may simply be too late. "In effect, all media lives downstream of a large attention river where Facebook has…
Yes, Las Vegas: "The Strip is still, and ever shall be, as Joan Didion described it, 'bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.' But a recent infu…
Ann Powers re-listens to all of Michael Jackson's work in the wake of Leaving Neverland. "If culture builds itself through revelations, explorations, secrets and lies, any response that does…
Penguin Random House acquired Salamandra on May 3, and some see it as the start of a large rivalry with multimedia firm and publisher Grupo Planeta " but the real rivals to both publishing c…
Whew, Friday's cancellation news was intense, so bad that Vulture called it a "bloodbath." What's left? Fresh Off the Boat got renewed " but star Constance Wu flat-out stated that was nothin…
As 43-year-old ballerina Crystal Brothers prepares to retire from Ballet Memphis, here's what she has been doing each day to keep her body going in the brutal sport, er, art, of dance: She s…
Three Lithuanian artists won the prize for an opera performance piece "on an artificial beach, in which swimsuited performers break from sunbathing to sing warnings of ecological disaster." …
The man in question is 55-year-old West Yorkshire poet Simon Armitrage, who's aware of the issues. "Armitage told the BBC that he believed there had been 'a lot of discussion behind th…
When Natasha Tynes tweeted a photo of a Washington, D.C., Metro employee eating on the train " the same behavior that gets non-employees tickets and is the subject of many online discussions…
Wow, ugh, and this sure messes with those trying to remember Indiana a year after he died. "The complex legal battle surrounding the estate of Indiana began the day before he died at his hom…
This seems … weird: The fewer people watch, the more money comes in from ads? But OK: "A strong economy has sustained robust ad spending in recent years. But another reason the upfront pot…
Shamel Pitts, who grew up in Bed-Stuy and danced in The Ailey School and at Juilliard before leaving to dance with an Israeli group he saw at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has moved back ho…
It's not magic. But it does require some effort (& also, do read Frog and Toad aloud): "Children have never been famed for taking sensible advice, but are superb at following a poor exam…
OK, from low orbit, anyway. Still, potentially cool (and creepy? All at once?): First of all, Elon Musk's SpaceX has a plan for something called "Starlink," and now, "government filings h…
Sargent was the master of the adapted screenplay. "One of Hollywood's most versatile writers, Mr. Sargent, who adapted screenplays from books and stories, wrote or collaborated on scores of …
While actual prop money is pretty well regulated, let's just say there's a lot of fake prop (or fake fake) money flooding the market. By the way, with prop money, "One type is for 'fanning, …
Hart's creative journey began in " and probably before " kindergarten. Then, "encouraged by her parents and refusing to be confined by the contours in coloring books, she made the walls of h…
Camp relies on a sensibility that is deliberately not mainstream. So: "Is camp still 'lots of fun' when everyone's on board, aboveboard? The 'fugitive sensibility' Sontag hoped to capture is…
It's got the collection of the former Museum of the Confederacy, so can it ever truly tell all of the stories suppressed and neglected over the years? Well, that's the plan: "It's unpreceden…
Did the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why *cause* the spike? Bit of an issue with a recent study that claims it did: "Importantly, the researchers don't know if the people who died by suicide watc…
Well, why not? "'Come and convince our showrunners that they can't just make six episodes of things. Like you guys, they should make 200 episodes,' she recalled him saying. Fey rejected the …
Amber Gray auditioned as well as she could for the Broadway-bound Hadestown: She "couldn't read sheet music but had prepared for the tryout by diligently listening to the assigned song from …
Is it too soon after this year's Tony nominations came out? So what? Bring 'em on: "When it comes to new musicals, looking beyond Broadway can reveal productions that may yet be players in t…
The artist was SKU and "the exhibition, Rainbow Scenes, was billed as exploring 'how we, as individuals, are subjected to wider cultural, economic, moral and political forces in society.'" "…
Heller blurred the line between collector and dealer " and caused an international incident because of it. "Heller's sale of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles to the National Gallery of Australia…