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“This Is No Longer A Magazine Company”, Says Condé Nast’s CEO

Roger Lynch: "We have 70 million people who read our magazines, but 300-something million that interact with our websites every month and 450 million that interact with us on social media. Our audience is already telling us that's not the way they interact with us." (podcast with transcript) - The New York Times

“Saturday Night Live” Was A Sexual Harassment Hotbed

"Multiple former female staffers from the early aughts of the long-running sketch show described an environment that was routinely uncomfortable and at times unsafe. ... At worst, the environment was a space where they were objectified and often preyed upon." - Mic

Even As It Impresses The World, South Korea’s Film/TV Industry Is Struggling Domestically

"Insiders say the Korean film industry is facing a host of deeply rooted challenges that were only exacerbated during the pandemic, from the rise of streamers to widespread consolidation that has led to giant conglomerates dominating and squeezing out smaller, more adventurous releases." - The Hollywood Reporter

France Has A(nother) New Culture Minister

Rima Abdul Malak, who as a child fled with her family to France from the Lebanese Civil War, succeeds Roselyne Bachelot, who was in the position for only 22 months. (France has had 15 culture ministers in the past 30 years.) - The National (Abu Dhabi)

Report: Only 22 Percent Of UK Music Festival Headliners Are Women

Two major projects were launched in 2017 aimed at getting more female acts on stages - ReBalance and KeyChange - after a BBC study had found around 80% of headliners were all-male. Five years on, new analysis by the BBC indicates there's been little change at the top of the bills. - BBC

Italian Police Find Missing Titian After Two Decades

Discovered by a Turin branch of the cultural heritage unit, a subsidiary of the Italian state police known as the Carabinieri, the 16th-century work, titled Portrait of a Man with a Beret, first went missing two decades ago from an undisclosed location. - ARTnews

Not What You Thinks: How The Internet Is Destroying Us

We can at least say of the oil economy that its environmental damage, and consequent destruction of the human world, is only an epiphenomenon, whereas for the internet, the destruction of the human is itself the source of value. - LA Review of Books

Untethered: Our Lives Without Cables

"If the trend towards mobile phones continues, and there’s little reason to believe it won’t, landline phones could soon become an endangered species, much like the VCR and other technological relics before it.” - 3 Quarks Daily

How Are We Supposed To Talk About The Future?

I too grew up imbibing common technotopian fantasies of the late-20th Century zeitgeist, of a belief in humanity’s manifest destiny of multi-planetary spread and dominion. I just didn’t put the pieces of the puzzle together until I tried to understand climate change. - 3 Quarks Daily

Schick Happens: Portrait Of The Master Percussionist

“All these percussion solos from that period of time were written for young, acrobatic people. So the question is, what does an aging body, but a more experienced body, have to offer? And it turns out I’m a better player than I was. I don’t waste any time.” - The New York Times

“True Rhymes Are Marvels; A Slant Rhyme’s A Sin. Or Is It Vice Versa? Let The Battle Begin.”

Adam Gopnik considers how "slant rhyme" (English teachers call it assonance) and rap's constant use of it have revivified verse, both sung and spoken — and how long a history slant rhyme really has in the true-rhyme-impoverished English Language. - The New Yorker

Ukraine’s Best Filmmakers Are Recording The War

The country's leading filmmakers, including Oleh Sentsov, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Serhiy Myhalchuk and Olga Beshmelnitsyna, are in the trenches, often literally, documenting Russian atrocities and the impact of the Ukraine war on its citizens. - The Hollywood Reporter

Has TikTok’s Thriving Books Community Changed How Readers Recommend Books To Each Other?

Goodreads, BookTube, Bookstagram, and #LitTwit have been around for many years now.  Do the denizens of BookTok talk about or choose what they're reading any differently?  Here's a look at what has and hasn't been scrambled on the newer platform. - Book Riot

Just Switch It Off: Why Great Numbers Of Australians Have Quit The News

 Research from the University of Canberra found that heavy news use dropped from 69% in April 2020 to 51% in January 2021, while those expressing high interest in the news fell from 64% in 2016 to 52% in 2021. - The Guardian

A Musical For Us Whose Brains Are Fried By Spending Too Much Time On The Interwebs

"Welcome to Octet, the Dave Malloy musical that acutely captures a life lived Too Online. Making its West Coast premiere ... through May 29, the production doubles as a support group for self-identified internet addicts, disclosing their demons in haunting eight-part harmonies." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

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