Certainly a book can cause a temporary change, which was all that most researchers had thought of measuring with fMRIs. Dr. Gregory Berns wanted to learn if the changes that reading a powerful book caused might remain after the book had been finished and the stimulus was gone. - Literary Hub
The concentration of arts institutions around Broad Street south of City Hall transformed that portion of the city, but the street north of City Hall has lagged behind. Now, with the Philly Pops joining PAFA, the Met Philadelphia and Philadelphia Ballet in expanding there, North Broad could catch up. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"'I know this woman!' she kept thinking. 'Angered by my inability to summon suitable language,' she writes, 'I threw my pencil on the floor, sucked my teeth in disgust.' Sth. 'So that's what I wrote' she says, and it became the novel's first line." - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
"A just-released study of public radio from National Trust for Local News ... shows that the medium is poised to fill the void left by other local news sources, based on its commitment to spending and hiring newspeople." - Inside Radio
"Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors' Equity for $50 million, accusing the theater union of defamation after he was placed on its 'Do Not Work' list following his tumultuous production of Paradise Square." - Variety
"A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star's career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in 1986. The verdict in the civil trial came with lightning speed." - AP
If we look at the world through Parson’s eyes, we find that dance is all around us, in people stretching or hugging or standing in line. We are all “natural choreographers,” continually navigating through space. - The Atlantic
“Is the Times always going to be fundamentally a news company expanding into these ancillary tech products?” she asked. “Or is it trying to morph into something like a tech company with an ancillary news product?” - Semafor
It turns out that the strategy of exploitation prevails in fiction at large. Knowing the topics of just a few books by an author, fairly accurate predictions can be made about the rest of their books. - Psyche
Drama Centre London stopped taking new students in 2019 before shutting. ALRA, one of England’s most established performing arts institutions, suddenly collapsed. Musical Theatre Academy closed its doors. At Roehampton University, the BA (hons) in drama has been discontinued. - The Stage
What is the arts writer’s beat? Are we still on it when we take a stand about something happening inside a major arts institution, and platform its workers instead of those at the top? Philly’s smaller, independent arts publications say yes. - Broad Street Review
Pleasure activists believe that, by tapping into the potential goodness in each of us, we can generate justice and liberation, growing a healing abundance where we have been socialized to believe only scarcity exists. - Boston Review
Stable Diffusion’s AI allows users to create images from other pictures, drawn on the spot. That’s right: Input your napkin doodles and half-sketched masterpieces and AI will produce a complete image. (Well, sort of.) - Hyperallergic
"I began to enjoy its warmth and inclusivity, the way everyone was equally gathered under its umbrella. I had to admit: It didn't feel sexist, racist or classist. It felt friendly and — most of the time — genuine." Maud Newton's paean to the second-person plural pronoun. - The New York Times Magazine
The rate of the decline has slowed this fall, with college enrollment dropping 1.1% since last autumn. Over the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, enrollment fell about 6.5%. About 1.5 million fewer students are enrolled in college than before the pandemic. - The Wall Street Journal
