Art and Culture

Fans are diagnosing big musical acts with "blue dot fever" — with some saying it's due to high ticket prices.The term comes from the blue dots on Ticketmaster's website for any given show, representing unsold seats. Some upcoming…
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Michael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were nearing the end of their pipe organ tour of Newfoundland when they encountered a hitch in Aguathuna, a town of about 400 people on a craggy peninsula that juts out from the Canadian…
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AI may well be terrible news for software engineers, but I think it’s an intriguing development for people who care about language and ideas – precisely the people who currently reject it the most. – Aeon Source link
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As we’ve reported previously, AI-generated journalism provokes distrust from readers, with audiences favoring a human touch. That might seem obvious, but a lot of questions lie buried in that broad statement. First, with so many ways…
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City records describe it as a 410-seat performing arts and film theater and the last remaining Chinese theater in any Chinatown in the United States. The theater at 636 Jackson St. opened in 1925 as the Great China Theater for Chinese…
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Thank heavens for cinema, that light in the darkness and the source of all shocking scoops. It tells us to wake up and take action before it’s too late. That we live in the Matrix. That the CIA killed JFK. That our spouse is a robot and…
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Critics can’t agree whether the new Obama Presidential Center is a library, a monument, or something without precedent (Christian Science Monitor). And a federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration may install its…
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There is no question about its monumentality. It is at once colossal, haughty and ultimately inscrutable—as a great monument should be. The question is whether it should have been a monument in the first place. – The Wall Street…
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Finally, the box office — north of $4.2 billion year to date domestically — seems to be heading back in a place that we haven’t since before Covid. A new generation of filmmakers in Markiplier, Curry Barker, Kane Parsons and Michael…
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There’s a genre of TikTok video that you might call analogcore. Not quite the calming, whispered monologues of A.S.M.R., this content instead soothes by showing off intricate physical handiwork. I have come across creators who repair…
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