The world of Hallmark often resembles a kind of rear-guard action in a culture war that the network's prime demographic is losing. The jobs, homes, community and security in the bleached pas…
The last British owner of Penguin, Pearson, announced that it was selling its remaining stake in Penguin Random House, the book publishing joint venture it formed six years ago with Bertelsm…
Typically kids, adolescents and adults with autism take in information differently than their neurotypical peers. They can be easily overwhelmed by the senses, noises, visuals and smells. Th…
Leaving people's personal abilities to distinguish high sonic quality from low sonic quality out of this conversation, there is a virtually insurmountable issue with mass adoption of hi-res …
While Clive James, a critic, writer and television broadcaster who left his native Australia to find fame in the U.K., received encomiums for the catholicity of his taste, the splendor of hi…
"If modesty sucks so bad, then why did I spend so much of my time thinking about it? Because, despite all the unsavoury accumulated baggage that modesty has acquired over the years, I think …
Raising profound, unsettling questions about slavery and the nation's past and present, as The 1619 Project does, is a praiseworthy and urgent public service. Nevertheless, we are dismayed a…
"My explanation is that interest groups that are involved primarily in providing professional services like finance or law or medicine have distorted or corrupted markets. The result is that…
The DOJ investigation found that Live Nation had repeatedly violated the 10-year consent decree signed after the merger, in which the company agreed to refrain from monopolistic practices su…
In all of academia, not only theatre, women who teach become support for students rather than only academic help " and it's burning the women out. One recent Ph.D. discovered that she could …
Just like Young Adult literature, YA theatre " or Teen theatre, perhaps " had an initially rapturous welcome, and a rapid cooling-off. "Critical consensus about Young Adult Theatre took a sh…
Lennox Berkeley's "I sing of a maiden," performed by Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, in 2016: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos…
"Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love." Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
"In the South Bronx at the dawn of the 1970s, all the creative components that would coalesce into what became widely known as hip-hop were beginning to take shape. At the center of them all…
Men are wimping out of seeing Little Women's award showings, which is tanking its chances; despite the awfulness of Cats, Ian McKellen's chances are up; and more. " Vulture
Students responded not only to one incident, in which the lecturer for the class was removed, but many other experiences at the college: "Some of the quotes and scenarios on the board read: …
Indeed: "The catastrophe of climate neglect, the toxic politics, the tangible sense of so many things worsening in your own lifetime, along with a sense of your obscure or outright complicit…
Keita Takahashi, an artist and an "unconventional" game developer, is beloved for his game "Katamari Decency," and now he's got a new game out " ostensibly about golden poop. The game "was i…
The popularity of older formats is growing, including black and white and things like Canción sin nombre's 4:3 format. " Los Angeles Times
This is the calm before the storm of 2020 " a year sure to see a deluge of Beethoven for his 250th birthday. Opera was neglected shamefully, while Clara Schumann, Offenbach, and Berlioz gain…
"The Cleveland Institute of Music has received a $150,000 grant from the Sphinx Organization, to launch an initiative for graduate students of African American and Latin descent, young profe…
"The band Tinariwen hails from the deserts of Mali in North Africa. Its sound blends ancient Saharan instruments with electric guitars, and has earned the band devoted fans around the world.…
In Los Angeles, Portland, Shanghai,. and especially San Francisco, Pamela Conrad has worked on solutions to the problems of invasive plant species, sea level rise, and earthquake readiness. …
"A new exhibition at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle offers a window into how the tech giant hopes to fuse art and AR for the public good." " artnet
Monkman's two large paintings, the first in a series of commissions for the Met's Great Hall, "highlight the Museum as both a byproduct and beneficiary of colonizing forces, and illuminate h…