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In The Netflix Era Does It Make Sense To Classify Movies?
Censorship ain’t what it used to be, including in Ireland. Here, as elsewhere, it’s been replaced by a different C-word. The last Irish film...
Does Grit Predict Success? Not Much Evidence
"As it turns out, there was never much in the literature to support either of the two ideas that launched grit on its way:...
Community College Enrollment Plunges
The downward trend is occurring at community colleges across the country -- the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center recently reported a 9.5 percent decline at...
Political Theatre Is Useless If It’s Just Preaching To The Choir – So What...
"When political theatre preaches to the choir, it removes its potential to disrupt. Indeed, by having such a laser focus on bringing “awareness” to...
Time To Take Bernard Henri Levy Seriously?
For nearly half a century, Lévy has been one of the most visible public intellectuals in France and a master at manipulating philosophical and...
Baltimore City Council Objects To Proposal That Would Expand Live Music
Pushed by County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., a Democrat, the New Opportunities for Tourism and Entertainment — or NOTE — Act would enable restaurants,...
Make It Stop! Top French Publisher Pleads With Writers To Stop Sending Manuscripts
Successive Covid-19 lockdowns in France have given budding writers the time to finally work on that idea for a novel or to polish up...
Spotify Turns 15 — It Revolutionized The Music Business
How completely has streaming transformed the music world? The platform rose from 7% of the U.S. market in 2010 to a whopping 83% by...
Most People Think In Images. I Think In Sound
One of the distinctive features of my cognition is that not only do I think with sound and music; I also don’t think in...
Revealed: The Masterful Sophistication Of The Aztec Language
New research by a British linguistic anthropologist, Gordon Whittaker, is revealing for the first time that the Aztecs' hieroglyphic writing system was one of...
How Beethoven (And The Philadelphia Orchestra) Brought The US And China Together
The idea that the world’s two most powerful countries can simply “decouple” as their strategic competition grows fiercer — a concept promoted by China...
South African Arts Collapse During COVID
"Just as an example, when I put a post on Facebook that I was looking for someone to help clean my house, I got...
Scientists Map Spider Webs For Their Music
Markus Buehler’s team used laser imaging to create a 3D map of webs made by tropical tent-web spiders (Cyrtophora citricola). They identified each thread’s...
How Endorsements Took Over Celebrity Culture
"The celebrity endorsement is a three-way relationship connecting the star, the product and us, and the internet has worked to draw all of its...
Firsts: Chicago Art Institute Appoints New Board Chair
A 15-year trustee of the museum, Denise Gardner will be the first African-American and first woman leader of the governing body for the museum...
How Big Tech Has “Weaponized” Design Patents
Introduced in 1842, the US design patent law saw just 14 designs registered in its first year, including a typeface, a bathtub and a...
What The Closing Of The Arclight Theatres Means For Movie Theatres
The truth is, the cinema experience as we know it, is likely doomed. While it isn’t going to disappear entirely, it will become a...
Awards Shows Used To Be Ratings Gold. Now They Struggle
The Emmy Awards — already in a ratings tailspin in recent years as it no longer celebrates mass-appeal hits — showed how far audience...
What TikTok Has Taught Us About Learning
A recent Harvard study showed that students actually learn more when education is built on “active learning,” which promotes working collaboratively on projects. And now,...
How Did A Cranky Old Scholar Come To Own An Indigenous Language?
Frank Siebert’s writing system was an obstacle for people who were eager to learn the language. “It was a giant pain for everyone,” he...
How NFTs Fit Into The Performance Art Tradition
"As a scholar of communication and performance studies, what interests me is how NFTs are redrawing parts of the art world in radical ways...
How Social Media Has Collapsed Our Expression Of Thoughtful Ideas
"Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas. We are unable to change...
New Director Of Pompeii Talks Culture Of Archaeology
"I would like to reiterate the concept I have of archaeology not only as a study of beautiful objects or monuments but also of...
Two Beloved California Movie Theatre Chains To Close
ArcLight's stable includes the prized Cinerama Dome Hollywood. The Dome, built in 1963 by Pacific Theatres' parent company the Decurion Corp., is the crown...
When 1970s Boston Was A Hotbed Of Contemporary Music
In its own buttoned-up New England way, it was a modernist hotbed. Each of those institutions was like a little fief, with eminent composers...