Tag: 04.27.21
Should Hollywood Abandon Georgia?
"Here we are in 2021 and many still think they can affect change by pulling their business from the very people who helped get...
Authenticity Is Overrated
"Everyone else might be taken, but the effort to be ourselves is the surest path to being just like everyone else, especially in the...
LA Opens A Tiny Home Village For Homeless People
“The city keeps investing in these temporary shelters, but everyone acknowledges that there’s nowhere to move to from these shelters. And if it’s not...
If You Don’t Start Until Your Teens, Can You Still Make It In Ballet?
"The ballet world is filled with stories of dancers who first pointed their toes as toddlers and became professionals as teenagers. But what about...
Even Square Dancing Has Gone Onto Zoom
"Contra and square dancing involve lots of other people, not just a single partner. Dancing involves live music, played with precision. It involves callers...
That Long-Awaited Final Sondheim Musical? It’s Not Coming
The show, titled Buñuel and based on that filmmaker's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, had been in development with...
AI Routinely Misreads Emotion In Human Faces. Should We Worry?
Today affect-recognition tools can be found in national-security systems and at airports, in education and hiring start-ups, in software that purports to detect psychiatric...
Back From The Brink Of Collapse, Australia’s Leading Professional Vocal Ensemble Is Hard At...
Just two years ago, out of cash, The Song Company entered liquidation bankruptcy; it was rescued by a donor a month later. Then came...
The Biographer Has Been Accused Of Abuse. Should We Ignore The Book?
"If an artist is a bad person, should that change the way audiences interact with his art? In this particular case, if the author...
Honkaku: The Japanese Detective Novels Catching On In English
"Honkaku translates as 'orthodox', and refers to the crafting of fiendishly clever and complex puzzle scenarios – such as a murder in a locked...
Big Bump In UK Book Sales In 2020
UK consumer book sales climbed 7% to £2.1bn last year as people "rediscovered their love of reading" in lockdown, the industry body says. -...
Why Viewers With Thousands Of Options Are Choosing To Stream Old TV Series
The Office and The Sopranos were two of the biggest hits of 2020, according to streaming services, which have recently paid hundreds of millions...
YouTube On Pace To Be Bigger Media Company Than Netflix
In its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, Google parent company Alphabet said YouTube brought in revenue of $6.01 billion in advertising revenue during the quarter —...
Indian-American Calls For Paris Opera Ballet To Cancel ‘La Bayadère’
Rajan Zed, an advocate and the founder of the Reno-based Universal Society of Hinduism, has previously called on other companies, including Houston Ballet, the...
Theodore Lambrinos, Prolific Baritone, Dead Of COVID At 85
A longtime soloist at the Met and a mainstay of New York Grand Opera's summertime productions in Central Park, "over his 60-year career he...
Using Origami To Create Emergency Shelter For Disasters
A team of applied mathematics specialists at Harvard spent three years of calculations and trial-and-error to design a lightweight plastic structure that's about the...
Trial Indoor Performance With Audience Of 4,500 Shows Little Indication Of COVID Transmission
The event, a rock concert at an arena in Barcelona on March 27, required attendees to have an antigen test beforehand and to wear...
The Jane Austen Museum, Slavery, And The Culture Wars
"This month, the museum, Jane Austen's House, touched a nerve when its director said that it would include details about Austen and her family's...