Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
John Cleese Cancels Cambridge Union Appearance Over Speaker Blacklist
"I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for...
Portland’s Iconic Super Bookstore Faces Uncertainty
The latest plot twist has foreshadowed a potentially unhappy ending. Like the rest of Portland’s urban core — and like downtowns across the United...
Study: Listening To Familiar Music Boosts Brain Function
"We have new brain-based evidence that autobiographically salient music -; that is, music that holds special meaning for a person, like the song they...
Theatre Workers Aren’t Just Leaving Jobs, They’re Leaving Theatre
Theater salaries, even for full-time jobs, are so low so often that the weekly nationwide theater newsletter Nothing for the Group recently debuted a section called That’s...
Diagnosis: What Would It Take To Make Victoria BC A Music Center?
Research was completed by an organization that specializes in analyzing local music scenes — Sound Diplomacy — which has come up with strategies for...
Scottish Nightclub Tries To Harness Dancers’ Energy To Power Club
Glasgow nightclub SWG3 is set to trial technology that captures body heat from dancers to create renewable energy to heat up or to cool...
Why “Dark Ages” Is a Flawed Historical Narrative
“Powers and Thrones” reminds us why modern scholars cringe at any reference to the term “Dark Ages.” The idea that the early Middle Ages were an...
Broadway Box Office Rebounds
In all, the 30 productions had a combined paid attendance of 193,309, about 82% of total capacity. The previous week’s attendance was 78% of...
How A Poem Can Change The World
By using things like imagery, metaphor, narrative and even white space, poetry has the power to make abstract or diffuse issues, like climate change, more...
Depression Isn’t Just A Low Mood. It’s an Altered State Of Consciosness
While depressed people are not literally in a different world, they are in a different state of consciousness – one they can become awake...
Vatican Library Opens Its First Contemporary Art Space
The library’s first public exhibition space is meant to “support the culture of encounter,” according to librarian Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça. - Artnet
Netflix Is Being Sued And Sued And Sued. The Nature Of Streaming May...
Why is Netflix facing so many defamation lawsuits? It’s at least partially because of the nonfiction fare that is booming on the streamer. Following...
Yuval Noah Harari: How Stories Drive Humanity
Previously philosophy was a kind of luxury: You can indulge in it or not. Now you really need to answer crucial philosophical questions about...
Why NPR Shouldn’t Take Facebook Money
Legitimate news organizations need to take a stand that goes beyond disclosure. Don’t just tell me that unethical companies are or were sponsors adjacent to...
AMC Rebounds Smartly As People Return To Movie Theatres
AMC Entertainment’s most recent quarterly earnings report, which saw the world’s largest exhibitor post $755.6 million in revenue, a major increase from the $119.5...
A Fresh New Generation Extends UK’s Jazz Revival
These players developed their talents in small venues across the UK capital in the 2010s, from Total Refreshment Centre in Dalston, east London, to...
In COVID, Theatre Moved Outside. We Should Stay There
Being outside makes theatre more precarious, open to a larger universe of weather and chance. Historically the Athenian tragic festivals embraced and marked the seasons. But...
How San Francisco Bay Area Organizations Made It Through COVID
There were 140 funding programs to help... - Vogl Consulting
It’s A Very Big Deal For NYC Cultural Organizations That The US Reopened To...
Tourists from outside the U.S. comprise about 15 percent of Broadway’s audience during a traditional season, said Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the...
How NFTs Are Changing The Art World
To advocates of the NFT, the technology offers a revolutionary new way of selling art, and of circumventing snooty cultural gatekeepers whose resistance to...
Big Bird In The Crosshairs: Ted Cruz Attacks After The Big Guy Gets Vaccinated
“My wing is feeling a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy. Erica Hill...
One Of LA’s Most Beautiful Buildings Lives Again
After the Los Angeles Herald Examiner folded in 1989, the building became an out-of-context medieval ruin along a quiet stretch of South Broadway, as plan after...
Car Parked On Italian Street For 47 Years Becomes Monument
In 1974, Angelo Fregolent, now 94, parked his car at the newsstand he ran with his wife in the town of Conegliano, according to The...
Ian Fleming Estate Authorizes New 007 Series
Kim Sherwood has struck a deal with HarperCollins to write three contemporary thrillers set in the world of James Bond but where the original...
This Nigerian Nobel Laureate’s Got A New Book, 50 Years After The Previous One
Wole Soyinka has received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has written more than two dozen plays, a vast amount of poetry, several memoirs,...