by | May 1, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker The Race to Develop the Moon For science, profit, and pride, China, the U.S., and private companies are hunting for resources on the lunar surface. By Rivka Galchen Illustration by Allan Sanders In January, the China National Space...
by | Apr 29, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Deadline ‘Apocalypse Now’ Director Francis Ford Coppola On Marlon Brando, ‘Damn Yankees’ And Managing Chaos – Tribeca By Dade Hayes Brent N Clarke/Invision/AP/Shutterstock In a conversation at the Tribeca Film Festival with Steven...
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...
