“When communities are allowed to craft their own narrative, that narrative is more complex. We are not imposing on or colonizing them with a form of performance that isn’t indigenous or locally grown to their space.” - American Theatre
One of the things that brought me back to moviemaking was Netflix and the idea of streaming and a streaming series. I think theaters are dead. I think they’ll be a niche thing for superhero movies. I haven’t gone to the cinema for decades. You know, I just prefer to watch it at home. - APNews
With 60 million active users, Boomplay is the most popular music streaming service in Africa. Leading the pack, it is one of a bevy of homegrown music streaming and content platforms that are offering alternatives to the on-demand global streaming model. - Global Voices
Paint names developed their own poetic style and, like a certain tradition of lyric poetry they make reference to nature to express mood or atmosphere. Werner’s Nomenclature of Colour (first published in 1814) constructs a system or taxonomy for the classification of colour... - Public Domain Review
"Every day on the respiratory ward at one of (Bishkek's) biggest hospitals, nurse Aidai Temiraly kyzy puts on the music and leads her patients in the Kara Jorgo, the national dance. ... The session is part of a treatment programme offered to people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." - The Guardian
"I disagree that any orchestra has a maximum quality level that can’t be exceeded... It’s a never-ending task, but if we look at it in the long run—if the job has been done well—after a couple or many years of working together, the orchestra will be objectively better than when we started." - Van
Viki (meaning "video wiki"), which specializes in programming from East Asia, has an estimated 100,000 volunteers subtitling in 150 languages for 53 million subscribers. Those translators are fiercely proud of their work and say they have to redo the work of paid translators. (They went on strike over machine translation.) - Vulture
A third of all Americans clock 45 hours or more of work per week, with 8 million reporting 60-plus hours. Compared with 1940, individuals now consume almost 90 times more screen-fed information. That’s 82 hours per week – or 69 per cent of our waking hours. That’s a lot. - Psyche
Since taking office last year, the country's culture minister has had people (including top executives) dismissed from the Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, the National Film Centre, and a TV channel; last week, 40 staffers were sacked from the National Museum. - ArtReview
In many ways, the orchestra can reflect the society we live in and the teams we inhabit at work or at home. Several parallels can be drawn between a business and an orchestra. Both require listening to each other, supporting each other, and working in unison. - The Guardian
Alla Nazimova, a Jewish-born native of Crimea, was raised in Switzerland, studied at the Moscow Art Theater, became a renowned stage actress in New York, made enormous sums in silent movies, and had numerous affairs with men — until she met Mercedes "I can get any woman from a man" de Acosta. - Tablet
Though the number of Americans who said that they personally were “doing at least okay” actually rose slightly from 2019 to 2021, their evaluation of the national economy plummeted in that time frame. - The Atlantic
"Dating from between 600 CE–900 CE, Xiol" — near Mérida on the northern Yucatán Peninsula — "is comprised of 12 structures, including a main ceremonial center with a cenote, or a deep-water well. Two additional structures surrounding the ceremonial center likely served as elite residences." - ARTnews
The departure in particular of hosts Audie Cornish (All Things Considered), Noel King (Morning Edition) and Lulu Garcia-Navarro (Weekend Edition), all women of color, drew considerable criticism. SVP Anya Grundmann said that there's simply a competitive market (all three left for commercial media jobs) and NPR's overall staff turnover is low. - Press Gazette
The site had lost $20 million in 2020, the last full year before the takeover, but deep cuts and new investments led by BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti turned things around. (Now, if only BuzzFeed can make itself profitable ...) - Axios
