Buyers dish about which films should get U.S. distribution and which will earn Oscar nominations at July buyers-only previews.
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Does Spotify Reduce Piracy And Help Music Sales? Numbers Point To Yes
“Artists who have their music on Spotify see significantly less piracy — and as a result actually more record sales — than artists who don’t distribute their music over the service.”
Sensationalizing Famous Actors’ Addictions Is Good For Clicks, But Not Much Else
“This is an epidemic that now claims more lives per year than car accidents. It kills more people per year than guns. Drugs are now the No. 1 cause of deaths in emergency rooms. Yet there is zero government financing for research. There are no swanky benefits to raise funds to eradicate it.”
Can Architects Spiff Up Newark’s Waterfront Without Gentrifying The City?
“Marcelino Arce, a youth baseball coach, described how some children in the Ironbound neighborhood had no idea the river was even there. Now, they must dodge traffic on the boulevard; but once across, he told me, it’s ‘a whole new world.'”
Can Canada’s New Minister Of Canadian Heritage Step Up For The Arts?
With budget cuts ringing alarms, the arts community is wondering if the former pregnant teenager, cop, and politician has the goods to help Canadian culture survive.
Museum Buildings That Are About To Die, We Salute You
The L.A. County Museum of Art has proposed a huge new building to replace four on its current campus. But what works about the buildings that are already there?
How A Computer Science Professor Outed ‘Robert Galbraith’ As J.K. Rowling
He “loaded e-books by five British authors into his program. Galbraith, Rowling, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell and Val McDermid. He then searched for multiple indicators that would reveal the writer’s distinctive use of language.”
You Know What Ballet Desperately Needs? More Women Dancers
And you know what’s at fault? Billy Elliot. Seriously: Billy Elliot.
Remember Carefree Euro-Youth Movies? Those Days Are So, So Over
“Beyond the simple and depressing economic facts, ‘Juliette’ also speaks of a moral and cultural malaise nobody has found a name for. Bergès-Frisbey sums it up: ‘We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.'”
‘The Wire’ Never Got Its Due – But The Show’s Actors Are Everywhere
The critically beloved show that never found its audience or got any major awards has changed the face of TV, movies, and even Broadway.