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"No one in live comedy is thrilled about moving shows online. 'Doing standup without an audience is like sex without an orgasm,' quipped Felicia Madison, the booker for West Side Comedy Club…
In addition to performing and recording a great deal of early keyboard repertoire, he prepared and published a new edition of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, became the first North America…
"Less than a month after canceling its spring season because of the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Ballet is back with a six-week slate of online programming. The company announced on M…
Tim Schneider: "An art market justifiably paranoid about frequent international travel is an art market incentivized to fracture into regional and local interests. Short distances won't just…
This is especially true at (now-online) universities, reports Emma Pettit, for students and professors alike. And as professors find themselves unable to focus on the reading they need to do…
Gov. Brian Kemp has said that cinemas in the Peach State may begin welcoming customers again beginning April 27. People actually in the business of showing movies say there's no way things c…
Jason Boog recounts how his experience as a (non-)working writer during the Great Recession moved him to rediscover the story of the publishing industry's first strike. " Literary Hub
"For Roosevelt, it was not superfluous to the country's most exigent needs. And in a move that remained decidedly controversial with his conservative congressional adversaries, he made the r…
From 2010:
I expect that David Mamet's Theatre, which was published last week, is going to stir up a stink, and I plan to write about it at length at some point in the future. For now, th…
"Ignorance never settles a question."
Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons (May 14, 1866)
Continue reading Almanac: Disraeli on ignorance at About Last Night.
As a generation of jazz elders leaves our world " some hastened by the pandemic " their faces as photographed by Sánta István Csaba become even more luminous, haunting, iconic. " Howar…
Of course, I had to grow, pluck my own and juice them. I even bit one on the vine like an animal " I am an animal " and sucked and chewed, thinking of another writer who acted on the same im…
Pina Bausch's work has been a delight and compulsion throughout my theatregoing lifetime. I've seen every piece I can, several of them more than once. And it turns out I've written quite a b…
As Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi recently noted, both capitalism and celebrity rely on the "lie of meritocracy:" that working hard will lead to ultimate success. The grips of COVID-19, wit…
It's not entirely irrational behavior. And it can be explained. It's the product of several longterm trends that encourage hyper-skepticism. " Good Company
Museum director Eike Schmidt recalled that after the Arno River in Florence flooded in 1966 and shuttered the museum, the number of visitors to the Uffizi jumped from 1 million to 1.5 millio…
The latest analysis is computer-aided quantitative analysis of the texts. It's revelatory (in a way), and it adds something to our understanding. But it doesn't replace our previous close co…
"On the one side is the human mind, the source of every story, theory and explanation that our species holds dear. On the other stand the machines, whose algorithms possess astonishing predi…
Composers' letters can make frustrating reading. Beethoven's are brusque, practical affairs; Brahms hides behind a humour as impenetrable as his beard. But with Mozart, you get the whole per…
What's clear to everyone is that the much celebrated "independent bookstore renaissance," which coincided with the post"Great Recession economic expansion, is over. Hundreds of stores may ne…
For the last century, the advertising industry has been centered around this cardinal principle: Find the consumer's problem and fix it with your product. When the problem is practical and t…
The library is a bit jarring in real life. It's more like the Space Age tower headquarters of the police, only with hundreds of sunkissed students pouring in, out, and around it. " The Daily…
Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn't do in advance, and what we're failing to do now. And that is a failure…
The chairwoman of Sotheby's fine art division says, "In effect, we've been in the live theater business. Now we're segueing into what is more like live streaming. The truth is, that revoluti…
There's just nothing left, really. "The temporary halt to playing live removes the one dependable way musicians can make money. Royalties from music being played in pubs, clubs and sho…
