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One science fiction writer and futurist says we can " but a lot will need to change. "The issue isn't technical. It has to do with the way business is being done in Silicon Valley. The probl…
Of course she was; Tacitus' Annals "described the high politics, treachery and debauchery of the Roman elite." " Reuters
Maybe not 29 movies in a row, of course. But. One writer explains that she opened Netflix in the depths of a serious depression and started watching Christmas Prince. "The movie was terrible…
The book, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, is a collection of the Swedish teenager's speeches. Waterstone's said Thunberg, its author of the year, "had an 'urgent message.'" " BBC
Sure, it's an almost guaranteed moneymaker, but it's also "a community builder, a gateway drug, and a holiday tradition." " American Theatre
Musicians get paid 75 percent less " yes, 75 percent, not a typo " for playing on soundtracks and songs for streaming services. And they're fed up. They get a base wage for playing on stream…
The puppeteers, volunteers, board and donors all got together to save the Marionette Theater after Baker died in 2014 " and after the theater was evicted from its space in 2018. Now, explain…
Evading state censorship made some music extra cool " and risky: "Bans on Western genres such as boogie-woogie, jazz and, later, rock 'n' roll, as well as other styles deemed threatening to …
Burgie, known professionally as Lord Burgess, said that the calypso hits he adapted and wrote for Belafonte "'revolutionized music' by introducing Afro-Caribbean rhythms to the pop mainstrea…
Do you remember 'Cool Britannia'? If you don't, or if the idea makes you cringe, that might partly be because of the PR disaster of the Millennium Dome's opening night. "For a government fam…
Denes, who has a new show up at the (oft-maligned) Hudson Shed, says that "Environmental art spreads like wildfire and now everybody wants to partake in its production. It's okay, but do som…
Was it Scorsese on Netflix? Just Netflix in general " and Disney Plus, and Hulu, and and and? Or the weather? Whatever it was, the Thanksgiving box office took a sharp hit this year. " The N…
In other words, there's little hypocrisy to be seen " and the accusation of "virtue signalling" itself might be a signal from those who make the accusation to like-minded others. That's beca…
Khmer dance has ancient Buddhist, Hindu, and animist roots " and though it's mostly performed by all female groups today, it used to be performed both by men and by women. Now, Prumsodun Ok …
When a woman in a close-knit Jewish family gets divorced and moves in with her parents, her friends tell her she's just like Mrs. Maisel. But she's no comedian, she thinks. And then the firs…
I met Evelyn Grace Dukes, my grand-niece, a week and a half after she was born in Houston in February of 2018, and reflected at the time about her likely place in that which remains of my li…
Helen Beardsley appears as a challenger on To Tell the Truth. The author of Who Gets the Drumstick?, she simultaneously raised twenty children and step-children and was portrayed by Lu…
"All children, except one, grow up." J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy
Since the last bookstore closed, people in the town on Kodiak Island have had to use thrift stores and online purchases for their books. But two residents who moved back home to care for ill…
Yes, the water's up, but the population is also dropping fast. "In the central Castello District, master artisan Paolo Brandolisio " one of only four remaining makers of oars and oar posts f…
He was born and raised in Soviet-occupied Latvia and trained in what was then Leningrad; he became well-known in the West as music director of the Oslo Philharmonic and then the Pittsburgh S…
"Alec Fields, a junior at Forest Hills High School in Pennsylvania, … was one of 144 middle and high school students who were interviewed about seeing themselves reflected " or not " on th…
"Five years ago, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed in a public park by a Cleveland police officer. The incident quickly became a rallying point for a growing national conversation a…
"Led by four jazz musicians, Tribe's members put out their own records; published a widely influential, Afrocentric magazine with a circulation reaching 25,000; organized concerts, often in …
"In previous decades, musicians may have learned [such] skills [as grant writing, marketing, and audience development] on the fly, but more and more educational institutions are beginning to…
