Art and Culture

Listen to article • 0:00minAfter the threat of a possible split, the Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel University reached a tentative agreement that will continue their affiliation and maintain Drexel’s financial support of the…
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The company launched in 2020 to offer shoppers a way of buying books online that supported independent bookstores and to divert sales away from Amazon and competing platforms. It operates both as a proprietary sales channel and offers…
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Edinburgh's new visitor levy is expected to raise up to £50m annually. Photo: Catherine GerbrandsArts organisations in Edinburgh are in line for a 25% increase to their council funding via the city’s tourist tax but face a ‘deeply…
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I didn’t take much convincing. In movies, there is always that scene where the criminal, having said no, changes his mind and growls, “I’m in,” but I was feeling more agreeable. When an old friend approached me about one more job with…
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Journalist Nicholas Carr called the online world “the shallows” for the way it erodes concentration. But the paradox is that its depthlessness arrives as immersion. – The Walrus Source link
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The Berlin Philharmonic are in London tonight and tomorrow at the Proms, days after closing the Edinburgh international festival in thrilling style. It was their first visit to Scotland in over 20 years, but the orchestra and their chief…
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It's difficult to watch the "Robot Chicken Adult Swim Special" — which features a fart-talking butt with legs and a holstered gun as a key character — without asking yourself "how is this allowed to be on TV?" That's not a question…
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The twin towers were a product of their time, the mid-1960s, and what has replaced them is still, sadly, in too many ways a product of that same time. We have learned a lot about building cities since the World Trade Center went up, and…
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When I declared an English major at UCLA in the fall of 1980, the first thing I had to do was buy The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volumes 1 and 2. This was the fourth edition, a cloth version in solid green with no…
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