Seeing Yourself Onscreen Is Good, but Not Good Enough
WANNABE: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me, by Aisha Harris Being a Black critic in a time of exceptional art made by Black people has immense rewards and myriad risks.Wannabe, the debut essay collection from Aisha Harris, a co-host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, is at its best when engaging with those risks and the thorny questions of her profession.
'The Artifice Girl' Review: Brilliant Indie Sci-Fi Movie Bucks an Alarmist Trend
AI focused-stories, much like the AI at the center of them, are getting out of control.Now that students are using ChatGPT to skirt their homework and "grandma hacks" are subverting OpenAI's most strict restraints on its own technology, sci-fi is doing what it does best - extrapolating to the worst possible scenario.
Nell Minow on Women Writers Week 2023 | Features | Roger Ebert
And we were delighted to welcome back our friends, including Sherin Nicole, who wrote about "violent and brilliant heroines," Laura Emerick on the real conductors that may have inspired " TÁR," Marya Gates' illuminating discussion of women filmmakers in the silent era, Carla Renata with a sensitive essay on the way mental health challenges for Black men are reflected in media, and Sarah Knight Adamson with a peek ahead at one of the year's biggest releases, Martin Scorsese 's "Killers of the Flower Moon."
Bob Chiarito: Rock fans hope XRT's Lin Brehmer's Friday sign-off was not a goodbye
Chicago radio icon Lin Brehmer closed his last show Friday afternoon in the most Brehmer-esque way, telling a story before spinning a song that emphasized his point even more.
All 10 Planet Of The Apes Movies Ranked, Including Kingdom
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a soft reboot of the franchise, set many generations after the previous movies, with no returning characters. [ more ]
Kast Media And Big IP Media Announce First Look, Multi-Year Partnerships
Podcast studio Kast Media and production company Big IP Media have teamed up for a multi-year distribution deal for four popular shows that simulcast on podcast and video platforms and a first-look deal for new simulcast projects.The two companies announced a distribution deal last month for Happy Sad Confused, an interview podcast hosted by Josh Horowitz that launched in 2014, added YouTube to its distribution in 2022, and just launched in video on Spotify.
Frustrated by society's erasure, the Lesbian Avengers fought back
When Yusef Hawkins, a 16-year-old Black teenager, was ambushed and murdered by a white mob in 1989, it drew attention to New York City's deep and longstanding racial divide.