Art and Culture

Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The casualties are staggering, with an estimated eighty-nine colleges closing or merging…
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LAS VEGAS — Paramount Skydance CEO and chairman David Ellison made big promises to movie theater owners at CinemaCon on Thursday in Las Vegas. Ellison said he will guarantee 30 movie releases a year between Paramount and Warner Bros.,…
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Some of our finest contemporary writers got their laurels Friday night at the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.At the awards ceremony, which opens the annual L.A. Times Festival of Books weekend,…
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The French film star Nathalie Baye, who starred in a string of highly regarded French films as well as Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, has died at the age of 77, her family said on Saturday.Baye, a stalwart of France’s domestic…
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“The customer told them that the books had been bequeathed to him by his grandfather, who had kept them in a box at his retirement home in South Carolina.” – The New York Times Source link
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Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Liudmila Chernetska and vasiliki/iStock/Getty Images Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January…
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Reading is experiencing a resurgence among Gen Z and millennials, many of whom are actively seeking alternatives to “doomscrolling” and the mental fatigue associated with constant social media use. In North America, an estimated 57…
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A new report by the Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre shows that while demand for live performance has never been higher, the financial model behind producing theatre is under growing pressure.  More people are going to the…
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Nexstar and Tegna, two of the largest television groups in the United States, agreed to merge last year in a $6.2 billion deal that put scores of stations under the umbrella of Nexstar, the biggest local broadcaster in the industry. …
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Tacoma Musical Playhouse (TMP) seeks an Executive Producer to lead the organization and bring current and future supporters, fans, and volunteers along on an exciting journey to celebrate musical theater and build community in the…
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