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AI Slop Videos Are Terrible, Except Maybe These Translated From Chinese Weird ‘Videos’ Of...
The creator says Mayor Adams "works so well because he has so many existing real videos where he says unusual and funny things. …...
Hollywood’s Latest Drama Is All Of The Fake Props Flooding The Market
"From Dorothy’s ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz to Harry Potter wands, props from iconic films are earning big dollars at both auction...
When Administrators Tried To Squelch The Indiana University Student Paper, A Rival University Stepped...
There’s no First Amendment right if you don’t own your own printing press, as student journalists at Indiana University learned last week when administrators...
The New York-Based Artist Who Has Been Jailed In China For More Than 400...
Gao Zhen’s “detention is linked to three very specific sculptures about the legendary founder of the People’s Republic, Mao Zedong. One entitled Execution of Christ represents a...
The Woman Trying Her Hardest To Keep Classical Music On Track
That is, focused on the music - and out of the hands of predators. Not that she’s rewarded for it, aside from helping other...
Traditional Arts Criticism Is In Trouble
“Today, more and more critics pay their own bills, build their own followings, and invent their own rules. ... For better and for worse,...
Fact And Fiction In The New Lorenz Hart Movie
Was a young Stephen Sondheim really at the party after the opening night of Oklahoma! at Sardi’s, the night that possibly destroyed Lorenz Hart?...
Apple TV Is No Longer A Plus
It’s just itself. But why did Apple exit the plussified name trend? - Fast Company
One Big Thing We’ve Learned From Technology Is That Humans Desperately Need To Be...
“If you deliberately and regularly go without checking your phone, or indeed exposing yourself to any other source of electronic stimulation, you’ll build ‘the...
Sir David Attenborough Has Become The Oldest Daytime Emmy Winner, At 99
He won for his work on Secret Lives of Orangutans, a documentary that also won Emmys for “outstanding music direction and composition and outstanding...
The Passions Of Patricia Arquette
Loves: Baroque music, textiles “from all over the world,” real estate listings from across the world. Oh, and candy. "Am I not human?” -...
The Jewish International Film Festival Has Been Postponed Because Cinemas In Sweden Wouldn’t Participate
Some of the movie theatres in Mälmo “offered safety and security concerns for their refusal because they were worried something might happen to endanger...
The South London Fashion House That Supplies Hamilton, Wicked, And Strictly Come Dancing
DanceSport International London used to be a dance studio - but now it employs 52 artisans constantly engaged in costumes for the West End,...
The Architects Who Love It When Their Architecture Disappears
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi enjoy watching their architecture vanish beneath the landscapes they also design. Or is it all one artistic product? -...
How Much Does Jeff Hiller’s Emmy Win Mean To Him?
First of all, it was a surprise - to HBO. “It was very clear that they had been having meetings for Phase 1, and...
Actors, Dancers, Other Performers Worry They’re Being Replaced By Their Own Bodies
“A friendly assistant director who is already known to you, who brings you tea and holds your phone while you’re acting, says that the...
After Funding Cuts, A DC-Area Book Vending Machine Provides A Small Boost For Local...
The founder: “I had friends who wrote award-winning books and couldn't get their books into D.C. bookstores because they were smaller presses, or they...
Why This Young Copywriter Left The Kennedy Center
“Just as Trump is trying to legally redefine what it means to be ‘American,’ he is also attempting to redefine which Americans can make...
Why Thousands Of People Are Converging On A Museum In Germany
Museum Wiesbaden is seeing an uptick - a rather large uptick - in visitors thanks to none other than Taylor Swift. - BBC
Thieves Break Into The Louvre, Steal Napoleonic Crown Jewels
“The thieves used a basket lift to access the room directly, forced a window and broke display cases to steal the jewels, before escaping...
How To Watch The ‘Olympics Of The Piano World’ From Home
Participants in the International Chopin Piano Competition “train as if they were elite athletes, with superhuman focus and skill, preparing hours of music, even...
What AI News Slop Is Doing With Forgotten URLs
“For readers, the sloppified news churned out by many of the sites is a reason to be wary of a confusing media landscape. And...
As Ireland Institutes Basic Income For Some Artists, Canadian Artists Wonder If Their Country...
Canadian artists aren’t just advocating for themselves, but for everyone in Canada to have a universal (hence the name) basic income. - CBC
Broadway Actors Have A Tentative Deal, But Musicians Still May Strike
The musicians’ local president: “We are thankful that our brothers and sisters in labor at Actors’ Equity have reached an agreement. … Local 802...
Warner Bros Discovery Rejects Paramount’s First Offer, But The Talks Are Far From Over
Chat, is this less than ideal? “The merger would lead to the elimination of one of the original Hollywood film studios, and could see...
