Tag: 06.28.21
The Danish Language Is So Weird That Even Danish Kids Have Trouble Learning It
Researchers "have found that the uniquely peculiar way that Danes speak" – mangled consonants and 40 different vowel sounds – "seems to make it...
Why Writers Need Agents
Writers need agents more than agents need writers. They have needed them since the late 19th century, when an increasingly literate public fed by...
San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Up And Quits
"Kelly Tweeddale, the former symphony and opera executive who was hired in 2019 as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, stepped down from...
A Battle Between Under-40s And Over-40s At Publishing Houses
“The distinction really is between social media natives who don’t really treasure free speech because they’ve had a lifetime’s worth and think it’s overrated,...
How To Tell If You’re Part Of A Cult
It is language that can best clue us in as to whether an organization we have joined is a cult or is at least...
Louise Bourgeois And Her Exploration Of Pain
“The subject of pain is the business I am in,” Louise Bourgeois once remarked. Like Emily Dickinson whose business was “circumference,” Bourgeois circled her...
An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set
"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I...
A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25
Tayari Jones: "The miracle of Sapphire's gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without...
Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half
Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will...
YouTube Buys Naming Rights For New 6000-Seat Theatre In LA
The 6,000-seat performance venue at the Hollywood Park sports and entertainment complex in Inglewood, Calif., will be called “YouTube Theater.” - Variety
LA’s Echo Theater: 25 Years As A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Work
Artistic director Chris Fields: "We've had a very simple system at the Echo. We read a play every week amongst ourselves and talk about...
To Protect Your Orchestra Players From COVID, Change Their Layout: Study
A study undertaken over the past season by the Utah Symphony and University of Utah researchers found that a new seating arrangement could reduce...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Sees Reason, Will Have Intermissions
About six weeks after announcing that, as a COVID safety measure, it would eliminate intermissions when it resumes live performances — and just over...
Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center Changes Name
"Penn Live Arts is the new moniker for the group and series long known as the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The switch...
Suffering Under The Weight Of Happiness
Wanting to copy the happiest people in the world is an understandable impulse, but it distracts from a key message of the happiness rankings—that...
No Surprise: How AI Is Choosing The Next Pop Stars
Musiio is just one of many hi-tech firms changing the way songs are categorised, playlisted and promoted, to eventually reach the ears of millions....
The Basic Tensions Between Individualism And The Greater Good
Do we want conflicting disconnected atoms or thriving autonomous individuals? And what role do culture and society have in their formation? - 3 Quarks...
“Banksy: Genius Or Vandal” Raises Ire Of Banksy Fans
The exhibition will take over a “secret” location in L.A. to be disclosed to ticket holders in July. - Los Angeles Times
Emmy Nomination Voters Shouldn’t Miss These Shows
If the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences wants to avoid a Hollywood Foreign Press Association-style meltdown, it really has to prove itself with...