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Video Game Writers Long To Improve Their Genre
“A game’s popularity often depends not on quality, Ingold said, but on the whims of the biggest Twitch streamers or the algorithm that drives...
The Tight-Knit Artists’ Community In Altadena That Lost Everything
“It was an improbable place. An artist collective known as JJU, or John Joyce University, hidden in the foothills of Altadena, resembled a 1960s fever...
Publishers, Who First Resisted And Then Embraced TikTok, Worry About What Can Replace It
As author Brandon Taylor noted on social media, it’s a little disingenuous for The NYT to publish this article since it’s a whole newspaper...
Music Therapy Helped Joni Mitchell Walk And Talk Again After Her Stroke
Her neuroscientist friend Daniel Levitin believes "that music is a golden thread in the fabric of identity” - and that music therapy could help...
The Iron Horse Rides Again
University of Georgia students did not like this sculpture: When it was “extricated from a concrete pad in a cornfield outside Athens for conservation,...
The Broad Museum Is Hit With Sexual Harassment And Discrimination Lawsuits
“The lawsuit accuses the Broad of failing to take 'reasonable steps to prevent retaliation and wrongful termination against Walker who opposed discrimination in the...
The San Antonio Philharmonic Is Recently Born, And Now It Would Really Like To...
The group was formed out of the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony in 2022, and things looked rosy. But “bitter disputes have erupted...
In An Era Of Book Censorship, Can Students Develop A Bill Of Rights For...
Students in Texas are lobbying their state legislature, and one says, "Student voices have been silenced far too long in decisions affecting our educational...
When Is A Calder Not A Calder?
Or rather, when is a broken Calder still a Calder? "Richard Brodie, an art collector, says his ability to sell the work has been...
An Idea For Los Angeles This Awards Season
Let’s stop complaining about the Oscars. “Awards season is an intrinsic part of the Los Angeles economy, and keeping the major events in place...
Zilia Sanchez, Whose Erotically Charged Art Earned Her Fame In Her 90s, Has Died...
Sánchez primarily worked in "an era when Latina and lesbian artists — she was both — were largely confined to the shadows.” - The...
Yet Another Hollywood PR Battle
Who’s smearing whom? “Depending on who you’re hearing, information is misinformation, victim is offender, and power is in the eye of the beholder.” -...
Lessons From The Secret Photographer Of Nazi-Occupied Paris
“No matter how small, quiet, or private the expression, art can move the needle in fighting for our collective freedom.” - The New York...
What Would Garcia Marquez Think Of The New Screen Version Of His Masterpiece?
“'It would be a travesty,' he said. 'What is most entrancing in the book cannot be translated into another medium. People keep forgetting that...
A New Deal For Imax
Netflix made a deal with Imax to release Greta Gerwig’s Narnia only in those theatres for two weeks before the movie heads to the...
A War In Massachusetts Over The Soul Of Public Radio
In Cape Cod, the founders of Transom audio training, the Public Radio Exchange (or PRX), and the Moth Radio Hour suddenly discovered that Boston’s...
The San Francisco Girls Chorus Places Its ED On Leave Following Allegations Of ‘Lewd’...
“Members of the chorus staff received an email containing screenshots of a WhatsApp conversation containing images that were 'pornographic in nature,’ according to Chorus...
The Composer And Violinist On A Mission To Keep Musicians Mentally Well
Kyleen King wants to protect the “sacred catharsis” that audiences feel when they listen to music - and one way to do that, she...
The 1890s French Author Who Predicted The Rise Of The Audiobook
In the short story “The End of Books,” one character says, "I do not believe (and the progress of electricity and modern mechanism forbids...
What Does ‘Escapism’ In Reading Even Mean?
“I am not entirely sure if said snobbishness is about books or readers, and that, right there, is the ugly little thought that made...
Let’s Take A Look At The New Sadler’s Wells East
Rowan Moore: “The last thing choreographers and dancers want, I’m told by people who know, are spaces that swoop and curve in imitation of...
William Butler Yeats’ Ornate Stained Glass Lantern Comes Home From The United States To...
Yeats used the lantern to light his way on a winding staircase in his castle’s tower. A century later, a multimedia artist “carried the...
Abigail McGrath, Founder Of Off Center Theater, Has Died At 84
“‘Just as children need sunshine and parks and schools and libraries,’ Ms. McGrath said, ‘so they need the theater.’” - The New York Times
The New Hot Thing In Yoga Is A String Quintet
And why not? "Composer Ellen Fishman t”The musicians play traditional quartet instruments - two violins, a viola and a cello - but Fishman...
Latin American News Sites Brace For What May Be Coming From Zuckerberg
Spanish language factchecker Laura Zommer says, “Far from censoring, fact-checkers add context. ...We never advocate for removing content. We want citizens to have better...
