Southern California may seem dry and image-obsessed, but its Instagram garden stars " plantfluencers, perhaps " find not only fame but also community, and acolytes. "Influencers like Christi…
Follow the money: "The resurgence of interest in concert films has been fuelled " in part " by streaming services' need for content without the financial burden of drama." The stars like the…
The Disney heir isn't happy with the numbers " not the raw numbers, but the pay gap. "Disney told attendees that her perspective has been informed by her interactions with Disneyland employe…
Yes, some of it is bad, or uncomfortable, or a real mess of power dynamics. But "the impulse to play dress-up in other people's cultures goes beyond teenagers wearing qipaos to prom, or Coac…
Well, they do, of course, but Nintendo Game Boys don't. The man who invented the Game Boy had a philosophy called "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology." And the Game Boy has had music,…
Classical ballets present a contemporary challenge: "Ballet, like so much else in our current society, is infused with sexist elements that are also elements of beauty. To tease these apart …
Sure, the conflict is about packaging and digital rights " but it's older than that, dating back to Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice and a deal brokered in 1962. Now, "the two sides se…
"On the hunt for a less problematic Simone de Beauvoir who can speak for literally all women at once and also not be so serious. This seems like it should be simple?" (Yes, this is a satiric…
Sure, men have dominated comedy for a long time. But pregnant women aren't about to let that stop them. And actually, says one comic, "When I got pregnant with my second child, things had de…
The music festival actually commissions several massive artworks to go with each year. At first, it was connected closely with Burning Man; now, 20 years in, things are slightly more interna…
Architects weigh in. Here's one opinion: "Surely, this is an opportunity to recreate a once-hidden " and now destroyed " timber structure with a modern, fireproof, lightweight replacement. T…
Unlike English-language stories created for the U.S. market, narco novelas offer "a compelling complexity in the face of the simplistic story lines that emerge out of Hollywood. Narco novela…
Did you notice? Some people sure did. "The alter-typeface became a trending topic on Twitter. Mitch Goldstein, a design professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, tweeted, 'Saw Helv…
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was all set to open a show on the Rosetta Stone, with accompanying Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts, when they invited University of Iow…
The façade of the UN's Secretariat Building is a mirage. " Jan Herman
Is … the circus? " The Stage (UK)
Theresa Lola, 24 years old and a former finance major who preferred poetry, is actually the city's third youth poet laureate. She says, "Poetry was instrumental for me, to find my voice and …
In 2016, John Cho "became the unwitting beneficiary of #StarringJohnCho, a social movement that imagined Cho standing in for, say, Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible and Daniel Craig in Spect…
Sometimes, as with 2012's monster hit "Gangnam Style" and all of the K-pop since, "all it takes is one song to introduce a new culture to the mainstream, paving the way for other acts or sim…
Basically: "Free apps marketed to people with depression or who want to quit smoking are hemorrhaging user data to third parties like Facebook and Google " but often don't admit it in their …
The colonial fairytale doesn't hold up at all in our contemporary world. Crusoe, to put it bluntly, was a slave trader " but somehow it became a children's story: "Educationists agreed that …
When Fiona Shaw decided to perform excerpts from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" in (and near) an empty fountain in Central Park, she didn't want it announced " and there was only a brief menti…
The director is most known for the 1991 film Boyz N the Hood, but he's also a producer and screenwriter whose films include 2 Fast 2 Furious, Shaft, and the documentary LA Burning: The Riots…
Philippe Jordan, 44, has 15 hours of Wagner's Ring Cycle to get through " and try to shine through " at the Met. How does he do it? The man who has been in charge of Opéra National de Paris…
Americans seemed to be into empathy from roughly post-WWII to the 2000s. Then things started going sideways. Now, it's "Empathy, but just for your own team. And empathizing with the other te…