“Readers, as their buying patterns have suggested for some years, do not need a critical imprimatur to select their next read.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Comedy Central Is (Kind Of) Booming, Except For The Money Part
“Comedy Central’s quandary is almost paradoxically acute: What does a television network do when its bread-and-butter demographic — young, piracy-fluent, glued to phones — stops watching television?”
Music Streaming Services Are Pretty Terrible At Discovering New Music
“Though I keep listening out of animal curiosity for what comes next, I am almost never surprised. I always feel as if I’m shopping somewhere, and the music reflects What Our Customers Like to Listen To. The experience can feel benignly inhuman.”
A New Shakespeare Play?! Computer Algorithm Says Yep
“The play does have all the hallmarks of a legitimate Shakespeare and Fletcher collaboration.”
Principal Ballet Dancers, Aging Gracefully
“Retirement is there, it is going to happen. This is going to sound morbid and I don’t know if I should say it, but it’s a bit like dying. You know you’re going to die, everybody does, but you don’t stop what you are doing because of that. You don’t slow down because you know you are going to have to retire. You get on with it, you keep taking the vitamins, you go to Pilates, you do what you have to do to survive in this thing that we do.”
Bookstores Are Planning For Harper Lee’s New Novel Like It’s A Harry Potter Sequel
“Because Ms. Lee, who is 89 and famously private, will not be doing any publicity or bookstore appearances, booksellers are finding creative ways to draw in customers and capitalize on the widespread anticipation, with read-a-thons, midnight openings, film screenings, Southern food and discussion groups.”
French Singer And Actress Magali Noël Was Muse To Fellini, And Much More
“Her daughter described Ms. Noel as ‘the muse of Federico.’
“‘It was a great relationship,’ she said. ‘Platonic or not at the start, I do not know.'”
The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From The Next Giant Asteroid
“Unfortunately for the future of the world, the recent 2005 Congressional mandate to find NEOs on the order of 140 meters or larger within the decade appears to be floundering due to organizational and funding challenges.”
Apple Music Starts Tuesday
What it is, what it does, what it means.
The Worst Act Of All Time – Perhaps By Design
The Cherry Sisters’ “variety act included original music, bass drum thumping, poetry, mouth harp playing, inspirational recitations, essay reading, fake hypnosis and other artistic expressions. And the audience responded to the whole shebang by hurling vegetables, shouting interjections and behaving rudely.”