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In Florida, Two Young Boys Are Arrested For Creating Deepfake Nudes Of Classmates
To blame? AI (and some very poor teenage decision-making). "As AI image-making tools have become more widely available, there have been several high-profile incidents...
The ‘Invisible’ Art Of Film Editing, And The Women Who Have Long Ruled That...
In the early days of Hollywood, “because many people saw film editing – or cutting, as it was called then – as unglamorous, secretarial...
Akira Toriyama, Creator Of The Hugely Popular Comic And Anime Dragon Ball, Has Died...
Dragon Ball got its start in 1984, and “to many fans, Son Goku's journey from a kid who fumbles his martial arts training to...
Artist Ricky Sencion Celebrates The Pink Sheep Of Los Angeles
Sencion "posted his first sheep on the streets of L.A. in March 2013. , the artist has amassed an inventory of thousands of his...
Performance Space New York Goes With A Triple-Leader Model
In a performance arts space, why not have three women with an equal vote making major decisions - and figuring out how to fund...
The Year In Movies Was Surprising, Tough, And Unpredictable; Long May That Last
However … "The movie industry is notorious for learning precisely the wrong lesson from its successes, not to mention failures." - Washington Post
Radio Hosts Are Another Profession On The Brink
As if radio work isn’t troubled enough, here comes artificial intelligence. - CBC
Writers Stuck In A Rut Should Go Pick Up A Camera
What kind of camera doesn’t matter, but thinking about everything from framing devices to length of exposure surely can kick the writing gears back...
The Oscars Weren’t Always About Fashion
As a matter of fact, the whole fashion discussion was cooked up by Hollywood’s PR people to get television on board - and hiring...
The Frida Kahlo Corporation Has Sued Amazon Kahlo Kitsch Sellers
Apparently, third-party sellers have sold everything "including prints, cosmetics, beverages, smoking accessories, toys, accessories, cooking ware, cameras, and face masks. These objects reportedly depicted...
Da’Vine Joy Randolph On Getting Her Day At The Oscars
"Randolph doesn’t really speak Awards Season — not like the shiny glittery things who seem to have it down. Ask her how she fee-eels and the 37-year-old...
Did Online Trolls From Saudi Arabia Manipulate Opinions About Amber Heard?
Pretty much, yes - and that may have implications for elections in the U.S. and other democracies. - CBC
Petra Mathers, Author And Illustrator Of Many Children’s Books, Has Died At 78
"Mathers’s stories — whose subjects included a soulful museum guard (an alligator) who falls in love with the subject in a painting (another alligator)...
The Woman Who Brought Libraries Online
The internet was hard to use in 1992 - there was no web browser, for instance - so "the service was mediated by local...
Juliette Binoche On Turning Spielberg Down Multiple Times, And That Oscar
"My mind wasn’t working when I went up to receive my Oscar . You’re in a space of awe, in this surprising state of not...
Theatre For A Complex, Multivocal Street In The Nation’s Capital City
“To be able to participate in this project is to not only get to learn more about history, but also to have an outlet...
New York Times Culture Writers Are Still Mad At These Oscar Snubs
Many, many readers are also angry. A few things marinate on and on: Brokeback Mountain’s lack of wins, Shakespeare in Love’s wins, and some...
While We’re Adding Oscar Categories, How About Choreography?
"The Oscars omission carries a special sting: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Academy Awards, used to celebrate choreography." - The...
The EU Has Fined Apple Two Billion Dollars For The Way It Treats Music...
“The commission said it found that Apple violated European competition rules by preventing app developers from informing users about 'alternative and cheaper’ music services."...
If Morality Has A Sound, Two Top Oscar Contenders Try To Help Us Hear...
"Viscerally depicting the psychic gulf between methods of massacre and their creators is not simple in a medium like film. Cinema tends to enforce...
The Curious Case Of The Atlantic’s Japanese Court Settlement
The information furnishes "a useful lesson in how U.S. media companies fare when they cannot fall back on the ironclad legal protections they enjoy...
New York Times Crossword Editor And NPR Sunday Puzzle Host Will Shortz Is Recovering...
Shortz, who has been crossword editor at The New York Times for three decades, "shared the health update in a recorded message that aired on...
A Commitment To Painting Every Day After Tragedy Turns To Global Success
Margo McDaid: “At first, it felt like a coping mechanism; a ritual to hold on to. … I wanted to see how my work...
Is It Possible To Make A ‘Fair’ Crossword Puzzle?
Should crosswords lead solvers to new words and ideas, or should they be for those who’ve been doing crosswords for a while and “don’t...
The Fine Art Of Abandoned Skyscrapers
“‘It’s pretty unheard of to paint a skyscraper, so it was like, ‘Oh man let’s go take advantage of this and do it while...