When The New York Times used the word, the Facebook comments were … interesting, and some were thoughtful. One linguist: “In its attempt to be gender-inclusive… one can argue that it’s gender-erasing of women who have fought for a long time to not just have Latino, but to have Latino/Latina, to make sure women are represented.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
What Did British Theatre Do During – And For – The First World War?
It started with recruiting: “Music hall stars of the day such as Marie Lloyd, Phyllis Dare and Vesta Tilley believed they were doing their bit for the war effort by exhorting – and sometimes shaming – the men in the audience into joining up. ‘We don’t want to lose you / But we think you ought to go,’ went one not very subtle refrain.”
When The University Of Iowa Adds A TV Writing Course, You Know Times Are Changing
Blame, or credit, novelist David Simon and his series The Wire with leading the way.
‘Moonlight’ And ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins Says It’s (Past) Time For Hollywood To Draw From Black Authors’ Work
Jenkins says Hollywood “is also finally recognizing specifically that there is an audience for black literary adaptations: ‘It’s not only very clear there is an audience for this work, but to take it even further, there are people who are familiar with this work in its literary form — the same way people are familiar with work of non-black artists.'”
Longtime Principal Dancer At Milwaukee Ballet Charged With Domestic Abuse
The complaint says Davit Hovhannisyan, who is 37 and has been with the company since 2004, “began to whip [his ex-wife]’s face with a bath rug and then slapped her with an open fist, saying, ‘Don’t make me do this.'”
The Met Celebrates Placido Domingo’s 50th Anniversary
“‘For us, the opera singers, it is just like Frank Sinatra said: New York, New York, if you made it, you made it everywhere,’ the 77-year-old singer from Spain said Friday night when he was honored on stage for the 50th anniversary of his Met debut.”
It’s Time To Abandon The Most Profitable Business In The World
Is it oil? Banking? Nope: It’s academic publishing, and its time must come to an end. “Most of the costs of its content is picked up by taxpayers. Publicly funded researchers do the work, write it up and judge its merits. And yet the resulting intellectual property ends up in the hands of the publishers. To rub salt into the wound they then sell it via exorbitant subscriptions and paywalls, often paid for by taxpayers too.”
What Drives The Art Auction World
In the big sales, financial guarantees do – so that the New York art world can feel reassured it’s moving at least $2 billion worth of art.
What Do Amazon Reviews Reveal About Humanity En Masse?
Here’s the theory: “The power of the Amazon review is not what you might think. They’re not really there to help you purchase a clock or a book or even to develop a conspiracy theory about the increasing flimsiness of Ziploc sandwich bags compared to other brands. … I mean, they are there to help you purchase things, but that is secondary. The real reason to read Amazon reviews, and, in particular, to follow the Hansel-and-Gretel breadcrumb trail of those reviews as left by one person from product to product, is to glimpse into a life, strange and whole and utterly unlike your own. This is where the real magic lies.”
A Bunch Of First-Year College Students Are Involved In ‘Common Reading’ Programs. But What Are They Reading?
In 2018, 481 U.S. colleges and universities picked common readers – and they prefer new or recent books to classics: “67 percent of common reading books assigned were published after 2011.”