Art and Culture

Do you feel that it’s harder to read than it used to be? Not harder to read emails, texts and social media posts, of course. We’re reading those all day long. Harder to sit down and lose yourself in a book? How long is it since you even…
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“The 89-year-old Oscar-winning actor has voiced God and presidents, and he is the go-to narrator for your favorite documentarian. He still brushes aside the impact of his immediately recognizable, resonant baritone.” – The New…
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Cole’s philosophy is that AI in music is nothing new. “I think AI has existed in music as long as there’s been recorded music,” he says. While the biggest barrier to playing guitar is the time it takes to learn the instrument, it’s the…
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A recent episode neatly sums up where Samantha Morton’s career stands. After attending a promotional event for The Odyssey, her latest project as an actress, dozens of professional autograph hunters — the sort who appear with perfectly…
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7 min readI am standing on the side of the dance studio, debating whether to leave. Having recently returned to ballet classes after a two-decade hiatus, I feel defeated by the instructed footwork. It doesn’t help that the “Balletcore”…
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An Australian library has welcomed home a book roughly 150 years overdue after it was discovered inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace. Ross Simmons found the water-damaged copy of “The Antiquities of Athens” while…
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For instance, in one video clip that surfaced after Geno Segers was announced as Hades, “Segers likens transgender people to people pretending they are service animals in hopes of receiving discounts on airfare.” – The New…
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The videos that Instagram suggests in my never-ending “For You” feed are usually of a constellation of women. They’re strangers, but I call them “my girls.” One of them is remodeling her house; one is always cleaning and “resetting” the…
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Before I was a reporter covering the death of American fun, I tried to run on saving it. In 2021, I ran for New York City Council in my home district of Astoria, Queens, on the slogan “Public Space for the Public Good”—a promise to…
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