by | Apr 27, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Dangerous Minds THAT TIME WHEN XTC’S ANDY PARTRIDGE SANG FOR THE RESIDENTS by Oliver Hall During my childhood and adolescence, XTC was an enigma. When I first heard their minor hit “Dear God,” the band had already long since retired from the stage, and then for...
by | Apr 26, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Deadline Lena Waithe Comedy ‘Twenties’ Gets Series Order At BET By Denise Petski Photo by Shayan Asgharnia On the heels of the second season pickup of Lena Waithe’s critically-acclaimed Boomerang reboot, BET has ordered Twenties, a single-camera comedy series...
by | Apr 25, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from France 24 Bee-wildering! Hives of Notre-Dame in miraculous survival Some 200,000 bees inhabiting hives in Notre-Dame cathedral survived the inferno that engulfed the heritage landmark in a miraculous escape, their beekeeper said Thursday. “The bees are...
by | Apr 21, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from The Guardian The rise of robot authors: is the writing on the wall for human novelists? Artificial intelligence can now write fiction and journalism. But does it measure up to George Orwell – and can it report on Brexit? by Steven Poole An industrial robot writes...
by | Apr 19, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from AFP via Yahoo! News Stolen Picasso unearthed by ‘Indiana Jones of art’ Courtesy of ARTCOPS.COM The Hague (AFP) – A Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” has struck again, finding a Picasso painting worth 25...
by | Apr 18, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Vox How long before big media companies become big sports-gambling companies? Sooner than you think. But AT&T, which owns HBO, TNT, and CNN, says they won’t be taking your bets. By Peter Kafka As sports betting becomes legal in more states, big companies...
