Art and Culture

NPR employees tuned in for a pivotal meeting late last year for a long-awaited update on the future of the public radio network.After many tumultuous months, marked by layoffs, financial turbulence and internal strife, they signed in to…
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the…
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After years in the making, Venice will on Thursday begin charging day trippers to enter the city in an effort to protect the Unesco world heritage site from the effects of over-tourism.While the measure has ignited criticism and derision…
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Julia Malakie/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically impossible to…
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The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to…
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Developed with David…
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The American economy has always relied on household borrowing. Since before the founding, the colonies had been ever short of metallic currency. Our 18th-century forebears substituted credit for cash. They bought goods ‘on account’,…
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The self-organized group of musicians playing under the No Name Pops banner is negotiating with the family of late pianist and conductor Peter Nero to acquire the Philly Pops name. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) Source link
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Previous research has shown that our perception of time is linked to our senses.Credit: Karol Serewis/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty How the brain processes visual information — and its perception…
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We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with 2021 NEA Literature Fellow and poet Leslie Sainz who discusses her debut poetry collection, “Have You Been Long Enough at Table.”  Sainz reads from her collection and talks about its major…
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