Even in this age of shamelessness, it’s been astonishing to watch business leaders bend the knee to Donald Trump as he prepares to take office.
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In Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966), a nurse (Bibi Andersson) and her silent patient (Liv Ullmann) share a painful intimacy. As the caregiving relationship evolves, their separate identities begin to break down and apart during a series of tense emotional exchanges. …
Few businesses stand the test of time as well as Mountain Charley’s, surviving for over 50 years in the town of Los Gatos. When a business has made its mark in people’s hearts, is there room for another story?
Last week, on January 5, Chat GPT CEO Sam Altman blogged about Artificial General Intelligence, the next shoe to drop in the AI revolution. “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. …
Strip malls often become incubators for human memory. Princeton Plaza is no exception.
City Lights Theater Company wants everyone to take a screen break this winter, and come explore modern love, loneliness and gamer angst in a new production of In Love and Warcraft.
The December killing of United Health’s CEO Brian Thompson, by alleged shooter Luigi Mangiano, just outside of the annual investor’s conference in NYC, has pulled the bandaid off of a gaping wound impacting millions of Americans—deep disappointment with America’s profit-before-people …
Guitarist William Johnston leads an eight-person ensemble (with lead guitar, bass, drums, two keyboard players and three vocalists) as they present new music and arrangements featured on Johnson’s upcoming album release. The so-called Extravagant Superband claims influences from Al Green …
At 28 years old, Maryna Krut is a musical ambassador for her home country of Ukraine. Krut, a virtuoso of the bandura (a Ukrainian stringed instrument that’s like a cross between a lute and a zither), gained the world’s attention …
Some people dismiss electronic music as mere ones and zeroes, a series of boops and beeps without any musical talent behind it. Those people are wrong, and artists like Myrne are proof. The Singapore-born DJ and producer creates atmospheric music …
Several generations now have grown up with their cinematic escapism soundtracked by the great John Williams, whose work with Steven Spielberg and others has made it so recordings of his music can make a grown human instantly regress to the …
