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If You Really Want To Reach Those ‘Book Goals,’ Here Are Some Strategies
Make it a community affair - or read in a new spot in your town or city. Adjust your genre plans. Or, you know,...
What Singers At DC’s Black Opry Think Of Beyonce’s New Album
"No matter how you feel about Cowboy Carter, this is a historic moment. Not only is Beyoncé using her enormous platform to deliver an...
Book Ban Fans Are Targeting Public Libraries In Different Ways Than School Libraries
But make no mistake: They’re coming at, and for, public resources as well. "Sometimes destruction from the inside via library boards is aided in...
Lorraine Graves, Who Dazzled As A Groundbreaking Harlem Ballet Principal, Has Died At 66
"Graves broke barriers — not only as a celebrated dancer for a multiracial company that showcased African American excellence in a traditionally European art...
Facebook Is Cutting Its News Tab For Those In The US And Australia
The feature debuted in 2019, and has already been cut in France, Germany, and the U.K. "The change comes as tries to scale...
A 30-Year Quest To Find The Author Of A Book Picked Up For One...
The author of the book died by suicide in 1963. "All she left was a note by her bed for her son, Abbas, that...
Chance Perdomo, Star Of Gen V And The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina, Has Died...
Perdomo, in a “Breakthrough Brit” video, talked about the power of art and acting. "There’s no point in just ranting at someone. … But...
In The This Seems Fine Department, AI Only Needs A 15-Second Sample To Clone...
"OpenAI suggested several steps that it thinks could limit the risks around tools like these, including phasing out voice-based authentication to access bank accounts,...
For Arts Ecosystems, Dance Is A Harbinger Of Health
The infrastructure necessary for dance to succeed requires development - and support. That’s why "the fall of the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing...
The OED Goes Japanese In Its Latest Update
Most of the new Japanese words relate to food, but there’s also art, including “kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining...
Instead Of Ridding Buildings Of Graffiti, Landlords Are Now Cashing In
Because of course they are. For instance: "Spray painters still add political messages to the mosaic of artwork in east London. But they are...
Lewis Carroll Apparently Had Terrible Insomnia
Of course, the author of Alice in Wonderland embraced the joys of sleeplessness. “For Carroll, waking and dreaming were not quite the opposites they...
We’re In A Golden Age Of Campy TV Shows
“We are positively drowning in shows about the glitzy world of the well-to-do that I can only—facetiously, of course—describe as being catnip for a...
The Woman Who Wants To Push Her Christian Fiction On Us All
As the popular author’s books get turned into a TV series and a movie, she says, "It does feel like an answer to a...
Alex Garland Is, Actually, Worried About Civil War In The UK Or US
The director of the new movie Civil War says that "his varied, inchoate anxieties took the shape of one underlying concern: 'It’s polarisation. You...
As Oppenheimer Opens In Japan, Here’s What Moviegoers Think
A former Hiroshima mayor: "From Hiroshima's standpoint, the horror of nuclear weapons was not sufficiently depicted. … The film was made in a way...
Georgia Decides Not To Cap Its Film Tax Credit
After a strong start, the Georgia Legislature “rejected a bill that would have limited how much the state can spend on tax incentives for...
A Theatre In Manchester Has Canceled A Palestinian Arts Event
"The venue said the cancellation followed "recent publicity" after a letter from the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester (JRCGM)." - BBC
Alice Rohrwacher Is A Director Who Didn’t Seek The Spotlight
Rohrwacher, who made the Oscar-nominated short Le Pupille, says, "Maybe my films are not perfect — maybe a machine could do that, but that’s...
People Are Always, Always Better Than Algorithms At Book Recommendations
"What is unquantifiable is horrifying to the corporate overlords, of course, but it’s the magic that connects readers with particular books." - LitHub
How The Andy Warhol Museum Lost Its Way
Or maybe never found it. "The problem with Warhol ... is that his art doesn’t lend itself to extended aesthetic contemplation. Once you’ve seen Brillo...
Movie Producer, Hollywood Activist, And Studio Executive Paula Weinstein Has Died At 78
She oversaw the production of 9 to 5, helped produce Grace and Frankie, and got the HBO movie Recount made in 2008 - and...
Streamers’ Cancellation Policies And Apparent Greed Are Leading People To Threaten Revolt
Old-school revolt, though: “When you consider the original stories we’ll never see because studio execs don’t believe they’re profitable, that’s frustrating as a viewer...
Martin Scorsese, Perhaps Unsurprisingly, Has Lived A Semi-Secret Life As A VHS Archivist
Truly, this is monumental. “Spanning the 1980s through the 2000s, the Martin Scorsese VHS Tape Collection contains more than 4,400 distinct titles, including features, documentaries, shorts,...
Spotify, Perhaps Inevitably, Has Added Video Classes
The video part seems inevitable, anyway. The classes part? It’s for UK users only, and are “video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and...