AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.
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Updated management practices and monetized digital production could help opera companies rely less on subscriptions and big donors for revenue – bolstering budgets.
The 75-year-old pop star is part of a generation of Iranians in the diaspora who are watching, with bated breath, as their compatriots seek to topple the Islamic Republic.
Hundreds of thousands of Sanborn maps mapped the fire risk of every US city with over 1,000 people in the 20th century.
TV shows can be misleading when it comes to educating viewers on hands-only CPR, along with who experiences cardiac arrest and where.
From Pig Latin to Punch Buggy, kids have long used nonsensical language, gestures and games to carve out cultures of their own.
As social divisions grow, museums provide forums for civic connection and discourse across political and cultural lines.
The Middle Ages weren’t as dreary and desperate as you’d think, and peasants often had weeks of idle time during the holidays. On Christmas Day, the party was just getting started.
Black Americans and white nationalists have joined forces in the past. And a number of cultural and political shifts have broadened Fuentes’ appeal to Americans of all races.
A trove of century-old belongings − from farm tools to pillowcases − tells the story of Filipinos who migrated to California to build a new life, a journey now honored in a Smithsonian exhibition.
Billie Jean King’s 1973 match was about social change. The upcoming Sabalenka-Kyrgios event – with its rules tweaks and its participants’ questionable politics – may leave women’s tennis worse off.
Hollywood has seen this movie before.
Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet effectiveness of collective action.
There are better ways for teams to cut their climate impact.
The soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass helped define the Sound of Philadelphia in the 1970s.
US industries have traditionally consolidated into 3 to 5 main players. When it comes to streaming, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney are the top trio.
In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
The Michelin awards will almost certainly bring more tourism to the city, and more revenue to the honored restaurants. But will it make Philly’s dining scene better?
From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with fakery, frustration and meaninglessness.
Roots reggae, thrash metal and pop punk add new layers to familiar holiday tropes.
Spotify has hit a marketing sweet spot: Users feel compelled to share their annual listening habits and, in doing so, advertise the streaming service to their legions of followers.
Research on millionaire migration reveals that social and professional ties matter far more than marginal tax rates.
George Plimpton, then a 36-year-old literary editor, endured the brutal realities of a professional football quarterback despite barely ever playing the sport.
As AI floods the internet with text, it could mean human voices will matter more – not less.