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This Play Finds the Fun in James Joyce’s Daunting ‘Ulysses’
CHAOS AGENTSJoyce’s mammoth masterpiece has been scaring off readers for more than a century. Elevator Repair Service’s production puts the story’s humor and humanity front and center.

The Little Town Where Faulkner and Football Rule
IT’S STILL A BIG WORLDOxford, Mississippi, is a college town a lot like other college towns, but it’s also like your favorite Southern aunt—lovably eccentric, funny, and always fun to visit.

The Low-Budget Filmmaker Who Remade Hollywood
GRINDHOUSE GREATHe made westerns, sci fi, monster movies, biker movies, and every other B-movie genre you could imagine, and along the way, he greenlit the careers of our greatest filmmakers.

Brian d’Arcy James’ Drunken Broadway Nights May Not Be Over
TOAST OF THE TOWNBrian d’Arcy James talks “Days of Wine and Roses,” Tony nominations, depression, Broadway’s future, and why he and Kelli O’Hara might soon tackle ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’

Destroying DEI Is a Death Sentence for American Prosperity
DON’T QUIT NOWRacism remains entrenched in the corporate world, just as it is in American society. It’s time to evolve—or die.

What Does It Take to Get a Guy to Read a Novel?
MAN UPMen account for only 20 percent of the fiction market. Maybe if they had better recommendations, they’d read more stories. Because life does not have to be like high school.

Google Is Paying News Orgs to Publish AI-Generated Garbage
404 ERRORThe partnership requires the orgs to publish an agreed amount of AI-generated content for 12 months in exchange for a “five-figure sum annually.”

This App May See That You’re Depressed Before You Do
BYTE-SIZED BLUESMoodCapture uses a facial recognition AI to pick up on subtle signs of depression—but it also opens the doors to a mess of privacy and security issues.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Went Completely Off the Rails for Hours
GONE WILD“It’s lost its mind.”

When the Right to Bottle Champagne Detonated Riots
CHAMPAGNE OR DEATH!If you’ve ever wondered just how seriously the French take their wine, consider that in 1911 there were more soldiers than farmers guarding the vineyards.
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