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Spinning Song: Duck Baker Plays The Music Of Herbie NicholsIn the New York jazz scene of the 1950s and early sixties, the breadth and depth of his talent won enormous respect for pianist and…
It's a provocative claim, and I'll admit my first reaction was to dismiss it out of hand. And yet … " Douglas McLennan
"There's a similar mixture that goes into being a computational linguistics researcher," with lots of coding, math and empirical work. It certainly helps to have a love of language and be in…
"The 2010s were the decade the city became an App Store: an online marketplace where our choices were closely tracked, where that data became part of the products we were using, and where di…
"Margin. It doesn't scale. At Netflix, the more subscribers you have, the less your costs are. In streaming music, the costs follow you. And the streaming music services are utilities " they…
As if theater weren't already mocked enough for its hysteria and jazz hands, it now seems to be pop culture's punching bag. " The New York Times
"The reason that it feels like nothing happened in the 2010s is that too much happened. Each cultural landmark got instantly effaced by the onrush of the next, and the next. This memory-eros…
"The slide in revenues is still disappointing because it occurred at a time when Walt Disney Studios put nearly all of its major franchises on the field " a show of firepower that enabled th…
"Look at the stuff. The Things. Objects. The products that overflow our commercial marketplace, designed for our consumption, that we loved, loathed, mocked, coveted, worried about, or just …
UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary shows how, when confronted with people across the globe who perceived their own lives "in ways radically antagonistic to the requirements of capitalist pr…
"The single undoubted success of the modernist movement was to spread through clever propaganda: first by co-opting the term "modern," then by covering up a long string of practical failures…
Within the monoculture obsession, there are two concerns. The first is that in the digital streaming era we have lost a perceived ability to connect over media products as reference points t…
Instead, at the other end of the decade, ebook sales seem to have stabilized at around 20 percent of total book sales, with print sales making up the remaining 80 percent. " Vox
But a new show (not so ironically called the same thing as Dave Eggers' book satirizing social media) displays exactly how much we're all implicated in a world filled with flurries of hashta…
Foster, who served in the Korean War and helped produce movies including the Oscar-nominated McCabe and Mrs. Miller, "was part of the migration from New York to L.A. where Hollywood was Shan…
And that's a good thing, not something we should be worried about. Having a camera in your pocket all of the time is "an opportunity to capture your own life more honestly"a way to remember …
He was fired, and, to his knowledge, nothing was done to protect the kids from the abuse he saw. The dance company didn't have an HR team, for one thing. All of this brings up many questions…
The Green Mountain Project, which has been devoted to producing end-of-year concerts of Monteverdi's 1610 "Vesper of the Blessed Virgin since 2010, is coming to an end this year in New York …
"I know readers only have time anymore to read lists, but bear with me. Here are the best kinds of shows we watched over the past 10 years. Many of them belong to more than one category " a …
"Within the past year, most opera companies have started holding regular sexual harassment workshops, and many distribute and read aloud their sexual harassment policy to incoming casts befo…
Remember when this lawsuit started, and we discovered that Audible was transcribing every word that its readers " who were, presumably, usually, reading the book word for word " read aloud, …
This is bad. "From Bethune to Dijon, noted directors landed in the National Drama Centers " devoted to theatrical creation " thinking they were touching the Grail: a place and means to make …
On the Netflix show You, a character from New York moves to L.A. " and you can guess what happens next. (Macrobiotic coffee shops! Stand-up comedy moments! "Aspiring Instagrammers live-strea…
In 2011, "the industry itself was broken, transformed from a system of honor and veneration into one of shame and denigration, which treated its products as little more than commodities to b…
Indeed, it can help trauma victims and survivors start to heal. " BBC
