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One Of The World’s Largest Ancient Mosaics Restored and Unveiled In Jericho
The tiled floor in Hisham's Palace in the West Bank city dates back to the 8th century and covers nearly 900 square feet. -...
By 2100, Venice Could Crumble Into The Sea, Warn Scientists
The European Geosciences Union reports that sea levels could rise three feet by the end of the century — and that's before the seasonal...
Middle East’s Leading English-Language Newspaper Shuts Down
The Daily Star was founded in Beirut in 1952 and relaunched in 1996, after Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war. Having struggled financially for years, it...
The Old Soviet Novel That Was The Prototype For Orwell’s “1984”
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, published 100 years ago, set 1,000 years in the future in a technologically controlled superstate, was the first novel ever banned...
AI Is Figuring Out Ancient Board Games — And Letting Us Play Them Online
Those games go back as far as cilivization does. Yet when archaeologists discover game boards and pieces, of course, they never find rule books....
Why #MeToo Isn’t Making Much Headway In Stand-Up Comedy
The female comics in the trenches of the club circuit say it remains a realm of "blatant misogyny" — and that #MeToo has only...
That Godawful Dorm Design For UCal-Santa Barbara? It May Be The Best We Can...
Henry Grabar lays out the web of dysfunction, failure, and perverse incentives that leads to a respected state university accepting, with no changes, a...
True Crime Books, Video, And Podcasts Are Massively Popular. Are They Brain-Rotting Junk Or...
There are arguments to be made on both sides. The Times gathers people to make them. - The New York Times
The Problem With New York City Ballet’s Balanchine
Jennifer Homans: "Balanchine, it seems, has become orthodox: classical, beautiful, the radical edges zipped up and smoothed. This is not the dancers' fault, nor...
Netflix Is A Drug, Its Algorithms Are Dealers, And David Foster Wallace Predicted It...
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos "recognized that viewers were addicts, and that his role was to supply what they wanted" whenever they wanted it. The...
Pianist Nelson Freire Dead At 77
"One of the most celebrated pianists of the second half of the 20th century, … The Guardian once wrote of him, 'few pianists alive...
Why Did The Old Vic Cancel “Into The Woods” So Suddenly Last Week? A...
The high-profile revival of the Sondheim musical was to be directed by Terry Gilliam (yes, from Monty Python), who has made some, er, controversial...
Why Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Important, Despite All The Censorship Controversy
"With 700,000 square feet of space, it is expected to be a major entry into the region's art scene. … Below, a look at...
Preserving Mexico’s Old-Time Popular Cinema — And Getting Some Respect From The World For...
"Had they not been rescued from a dusty storehouse seven years ago, the original negatives of hundreds of Mexican movies featuring the likes of...
Turns Out Poland Is A Hotbed Of Sacred Choral Music
Paweł Łukaszewski, now his nation's leading living composer, has written a lot of good music for choir. So have his Polish colleagues and predecessors...
Victorian “Penny Dreadful” Pulp Novels Actually Contributed To Improving British Society (No, Really)
The cheap, cheesy horror stories became so popular, especially among older children and teens, that they were arguably a bigger factor in spreading literacy...
James Ivory, Still Working At 93, Says His Life As A Gay Man Has...
The director half of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking duo (and the oldest person ever to win an Oscar) says he and Ismail Merchant weren't...
When Rudy Giuliani Tried To Shut Down The Brooklyn Museum
In a new memoir, Arnold Lehman, who was director of the museum at the time, looks back at the culture-war media circus that broke...
COVID Killed Quite A Few Dance Companies, And The Survivors Are Scared
As dance companies are returning to the stage, the ghosts of those that no longer exist haunt the field. … Dance advocates see the...
Why People Really Cancel Their News Subscriptions
The Nieman Journalism Lab asked its readers who had cancelled to tell them why, and hundreds did. Ideological or political bias was cited, but...
The Behemoth Of Broadway Licensing Companies May Be Up For Sale
You may not know of Concord Theatricals, but in the past five years, it has bought up Samuel French, Tams-Whitmark Music Library, and rights...
Off-Broadway’s Leading Awards Eliminate Gender From Acting Categories
The Lucille Lortel Awards will honor outstanding lead performer and outstanding supporting performer in a musical and in a play, thus cutting the number...
“Utterly Astounding”: Well-Preserved Roman Statues Found On Route Of Britain’s Planned High-Speed Railway
"Statues of a Roman man, woman and child have been uncovered by archaeologists at an abandoned medieval church on the route of the HS2...
NBCUniversal Loses Half A Billion Dollars On Its New Streaming Service
"Comcast on Thursday reported $230 million in revenue and a $520 million adjusted loss related to NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock in its third-quarter earnings...
George Butler, The Documentarian Who Made Arnold Schwarzenegger Famous, Dead At 78
It was via Butler's 1977 film Pumping Iron that the charismatic Austrian bodybuilder came to the world's attention. Notable among Butler's other docs were...
