You’ve probably heard the hypothesis before (or even thought of it yourself), but this find is one of the first to take the idea beyond speculation.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Thinking Inside the Box: China’s New Theme Park-Meets-Quiz Show Craze
“A new generation of businesses has popped up around China and elsewhere in Asia in which players must escape by solving riddles and brain teasers.”
Another Evening Standard Theatre Award Judge Explains Why She Quit
Susannah Clapp explains the change in the voting procedures that led to the kerfuffle over Helen Mirren’s best actress award – and points out why this is a difficult matter for just about everyone involved, not least the entirely innocent Mirren herself.
Forget A Christmas Carol, This Is Dickens’s Best Christmas Story
“Christmas literature for how the other half lives” – Colin Fleming argues for “The Signal-Man”.
The Stalin Museum To Reassess Its Subject Yet Again
“The museum honouring Joseph Stalin in his birthplace, the town of Gori, Georgia, will become more ‘realistic’, an adviser to Georgia’s ministry of culture has promised.” And what exactly does that mean?
No New Joni Mitchell Ballet Next Year (There’s Too Much Material)
The Edmonton Ballet’s 2007 project based on Mitchell songs, The Fiddle and the Drum, was such a smash hit that Mitchell and the company planned a second collaboration for 2014. The project isn’t cancelled, but it won’t happen just yet.
New York Court Finds That Sellers at Auction Can Remain Anonymous
“New York’s highest court on Tuesday reversed a decision in a case that could have forced the state’s auction industry to change its practice of keeping sellers’ names anonymous.”
Seven Reasons Listicles Capture Our Attention (and Confuse Our Brains)
Derek Thompson: “Rankings create order where there is chaos. They enumerate the innumerable variety of the world and give us a small sense of mastery over our environment. … They’re also devious in both obvious ways (they can be wrong, and not everything is rank-able) and surprising ways that researchers are only beginning to understand.”
Arts Crowdfunding Is Catching On In Britain
“Already well established in the US, crowdfunding has begun to establish itself in the UK with beneficial consequences for producers keen to create and promote new shows and for companies struggling to cope with the ever-tightening purse strings of public funding.”
There’s No Such Thing As An Oscar “Snub”
“There’s no real shortage of pieces about people and films and shows that should have been nominated but weren’t, and those that should have won awards but didn’t. This is something that gets talked about every year. And it needs to stop.” Daniel Carlson explains why.