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The First Big Test For Apple Music

“So far Apple’s new service has had a mixed reaction in the music and tech press, and its impact on the music charts over all has been minimal. In a comparison of Nielsen streaming data for a dozen popular albums, most had increases of 10 to 20 percent in the week that Apple Music’s numbers were first incorporated into the charts, but had flat results or even a loss the next week.”

The Emptiness Of The Invented City

Pico Iyer on Pyongyang and Las Vegas: “Plato’s Cave can look much the same in East or West, whether its screens are projecting images of tumbling cheerleaders or brigades of goose-stepping soldiers.”

‘Straight Outta Compton’ Wins Big At The Box Office Without Superheroes

“Summer movies have become so monolithic over the last decade that releasing the film at this time of year was brazen, and I think youth culture responds to brazen.”

Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Is Nothing Like The Damning NYT Article

“Bezos wrote that he ‘very much’ hoped workers did not recognize the workplace depicted in the article — ‘a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard.'”

She Sculpted New York’s Frederick Douglass, But She Can’t Afford Her Studio Anywhere In The City Anymore

“The relentless tide of gentrification has made it impossible for her to stay. One by one, the craftsmen and artists have vanished from the red brick building on Jay Street where Ms. Koren worked. The cabinetmaker? Gone. The photographer? Gone. The lamp maker, the painter and the dealer of 1950s furniture? All gone.”

Can Anything Save Small Businesses In New York?

“When I say they’ve destroyed New York’s old stores, bars, restaurants, hangouts, I’m saying the real estate market has destroyed the sacred watering holes and gathering places of the 20th century.”

That 50-Cent Thrift Store Piece May Be An Original Worth Thousands Or More

“Hurtado has made pictures of a dolphin, a dog, a deer and a sunset — but with contemporary artistic flourishes. That means bold, geometric swaths of primary colors, abstracted elements and quirky additions, such as a wrestling type mask on a young girl. Hurtado then takes this new work and slips it into the thrift-store frame.”

Why Did Britain’s National Youth Theatre Scrap A Play About Radicalized Teenagers Just Before Opening Night?

“In letter published on Saturday signatories, who also included Sir David Hare, Young Vic artistic director David Lan and Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, said the cancellation ‘is a troubling moment for British theatre and freedom of expression.’ ‘We fear that government policy in response to extremism may be creating a culture of caution in the arts,’ they add.”

The Best Comedians Who Never Made It Big

All of the reasons it never quite clicks for these men and women, according to their much more famous peers – including the table comic, “the genre of beloved comic who is funny in conversation with other comedians but not onstage.”

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