The Essex council claim they can close a third of the libraries and turn the others into volunteer-run services and still make sure their patrons have “24/7” service. Uh.
Tag: 11.16.18
YouTube Quietly Started Offering Free, Ad-Supported Movies A Couple Of Months Ago
Before October, people could buy movies on the platform, but now? It’s … kind of like TV movies in the 1970s and 1980s. “‘Can we do ad-supported movies, free to the user?’ says Rohit Dhawan, director of product management at YouTube. ‘It also presents a nice opportunity for advertisers.'”
William Goldman, Writer Of ‘The Princess Bride’ And ‘Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,’ Has Died At 87
Goldman wrote screenplays for many a film, and the book and screenplay for Marathon Man and The Princess Bride; but “despite being one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters, [he] was an outspoken critic of the movie industry.”
How Canadian Literature Blew Up
In an attention economy, controversy has value. It’s no exaggeration to say these political battles within CanLit now dominate the discussion of Canadian writers and writing. The “appropriation prize” controversy, for example, blew up in a journal that few people had ever heard of much less read, and yet it garnered an enormous amount of national media coverage. And, while Joseph Boyden is a bestselling, award-winning novelist, he is probably better known today for questions raised about whether or not he qualifies as an Indigenous author.
How The Internet Shut Down The Best Burger Place In America
Apparently, after my story came out, crowds of people started coming in the restaurant, people in from out of town, or from the suburbs, basically just non-regulars. And as the lines started to build up, his employees — who were mainly family members — got stressed out, and the stress would cause them to not be as friendly as they should be, or to shout out crazy long wait times for burgers in an attempt to maybe convince people to leave, and as this started happening, things fell by the wayside.
American Theatre Criticism Is Finally Beginning To Bounce Back, And To Get More Diverse
Howard Sherman surveys the current landscape, where experienced critics discarded by legacy publications are now turning up at high-quality websites, and, though an imbalance remains, a few of those legacy outlets have hired younger female and nonwhite writers. (Sherman seems to have forgotten about Hilton Als, though.)
We’re Spending More On Scientific Research But Are We Getting Less For It?
Over the past century we’ve vastly increased the time and money invested in science, but in scientists’ own judgement we’re producing the most important breakthroughs at a near-constant rate. On a per-dollar or per-person basis, this suggests that science is becoming far less efficient.
I finally have my come-to-Arvo moment
Arvo Pärt is the master of implying far more than he says. At its most spare, his music seems to barely exist. And that’s probably why I’ve had such a long road to fully appreciating this internationally acclaimed composer. But on Monday night, I finally arrived — and then some.
Pop Music? Why That’s Really Only For Rich Now…
“Pop was a child of the 20th century, a form carried on gloriously uniform products that embodied their time just as perfectly as Henry Ford’s Model T did. Those were the days when capitalism was as democratic and egalitarian as it has ever got, and the products – or rather phenomena – at its heart were all the better for it.” No longer. Increasingly, pop culture experiences are only for the rich, only if you can afford to pay great sums…