Jennifer Holliday: Were Death Threats Really Necessary When I Made A Mistake About Performing In The Inaugural?

“Holliday says it wasn’t until a Daily Beast article explicated why those in the LGBTQ community, a group that the singer credits with the success of her career, might find her decision to perform so devastating that she understood her responsibility to bow out.”

Just Ten Years Ago, Netflix Took Up Streaming Video – And Changed Everything

“‘Watch Now’ started out small with around 1,000 titles – about 1% of Netflix’s 70,000-video physical library – when it began rolling out on Jan. 16, 2007. Videos ranged from Hollywood classics like Casablanca, to cult movies, to foreign films, to mini-series – including the original 1990 BBC series of House of Cards.

The FM Radio Technology That Was Killed By One Two-Hour Lecture

As broadcasters the world over are gradually dropping traditional FM signals for digital audio, Ernie Smith tells the story of FMX, a 1980s technology that researchers and engineers were convinced would give a huge improvement in sound quality and be relatively smooth to adopt. Radio stations were gradually getting interested, until …

Wole Soyinka Has Now Fled The U.S. For Nigeria (Hoo-Boy)

The first African writer to win a Nobel, Soyinka had to sneak out of his homeland after dictator Sani Abacha confiscated his passport; he claimed asylum in the States when Abacha sentenced him to death. Though the playwright since moved back to Nigeria, he regularly took temporary gigs at American institutions. Now, in the face of you-know-what, he’s given up his green card.

Is This Velázquez Genuine Or Not? Experts Have Argued For Years, And The Ringling Museum Is Going To Settle It Once And For All

Curators at the Sarasota museum have studied this portrait of King Philip IV with an infrared camera, and they think they’ve found the evidence they need.

Sotheby’s Sues Over Another Old Master Painting It Has Found To Be Fake

The auction house filed a complaint against the collector who consigned this work, which was described as 16th-century Italian, after testing discovered pigments that didn’t exist until the 20th century. (Sotheby’s launched a similar lawsuit in October over a different canvas.)

Is Rape Charge Against Moscow’s Scrotum-Nailing Artist Actually Legit?

News broke yesterday that Pyotr Pavlensky, Russia’s most notorious protest artist, had fled the country and sought political asylum in France due to allegations of sexual assault that he says are bogus and politically motivated. Rachel Donadio looks into the situation and finds that it’s not at all so clear-cut.

How Ballet Helped A Neurological Patient Regain The Ability To Walk Across A Room

Middle school student Sarah Hansen has a progressive disorder that had left her unable to take more than one or two steps without holding on to something or falling. Then she found Bonnie Schlachte’s studio, Ballet for All Kids. Schlachte usually teaches developmentally disabled kids, but she knew that, thanks to neuroplasticity, she could help Hansen. (includes video)