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This economic catastrophe is blowing up the myth of the worker robot and AI takeover. We've been led to believe that a new wave of automation is here, made possible by smarter AI and more so…
"This is the first time in our history that we have had to have a layoff," owner Nancy Bass Wyden Bass Wyden wrote in a statement. Employees will receive a week of pay in addition to payment…
Even in that best-case scenario " say, a May return " it may take years to return to the vibrant, cultural universe that defines our country. " Washington Post
No one seems to fully agree on why reading books or watching movies about apocalyptic pandemics feels appealing during a real crisis with an actual contagious disease. Some readers claim tha…
Mo Willems, Grace Lin, Gene Luen Yang, Amie Kaufman and so many others are offering drawing lessons, read alouds, virtual book tours and so much more online. Oliver Jeffers: "We are all at h…
Founded by a playwright, the Social Distancing Festival has, not surprisingly, already gotten hundreds of submissions, with more coming by the minute. " BBC
Disney is so big it's even creating metaphors about itself in its many, many, many, many properties. "Disney's gravitational pull is warping the very space-time continuum of the media landsc…
Who needs Netflix when you've got the Canadian Film Board, right? (Also, if you like Canadian work, Kim's Convenience is on Netflix.) " CBC
Says one freelance photographer and bartender, "All my jobs have been canceled at the photo studio, and now my safety job has disappeared too." One academic who studies the music industry sa…
In addition, as a huge show in London is suspended because of the COVID-19 outbreak, he says, "Cultural institutions are probably the last to be damaged, but the first to show how severely t…
Ten picks from the NYT include podcasts from curators, artists, and critics in Los Angeles, London, Australia, Canada, Italy, and more. " The New York Times
Miles founded Women's Project and eventually the WP Theater, where she and others "produced more than 600 plays written and directed by women over a 42-year history, nurturing artists like L…
When fire, smoke, and water pumped in for more than 20 hours ripped through the archives at the Museum of the Chinese in America in late January, the staff thought all of the more than 85,00…
Ultra's attempt at virtuality illustrated what happens when the vehicle of that nihilism, the global economy, grinds to a halt. However grim it might have seemed before, the end result is we…
Is it possible that our experience of decision-making " the impression we have of making choices, indeed of having choices to make, sometimes hard ones " is entirely illusory? Is it possible…
How many of us today are able to free ourselves from the page and head out the door when we rise from our desks? Even abiding by the dictates of nature, breathing deeply out in the open air …
No one is comfortable buying tickets yet (literally no one, as in zero people, in two of the provinces where theatres reopened), but the distributors had a plan for that: "Most of the films …
The sudden loss of community is especially marked in theatre. "As companies cancel productions that were months to years in the making for the sake of social distancing and self-quarantining…
Marsha Hunt, who "never wanted to do anything but act," was on the list when the "Red Channels" were published, claiming she was a Communist or "fellow traveler." Why? Because she had defend…
Banff laid off 75 percent of its staff members as classes closed, and the Stratford Festival (reported in a separate CBC story, here) "laid off 495 people Friday and says another 440 will ha…
After multiple sketches and a cold open, not to mention a quarantine-themed title sequence, Ian Abramson might be just a bit exhausted. "If it doesn't kill him, Abramson should do this again…
The singer "said that he is currently in good health but decided to get tested after experiencing 'fever and cough symptoms.'" " CNN
Thanks to a kind-hearted, quick-witted nurse in New York-Presbyterian's cardio-thoracic ICU, I was able to see and speak to Mrs. T via Skype on Sunday night. That sentence really ought by al…
Leopold Stokowski leads the Chicago Symphony in a performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol, originally telecast in 1962. The orchestral soloists inclde Sidney Harth on …
"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts
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