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Tech writer Tiffany Ng explores how Google's new text-based music generative AI, MusicLM, paves the way for creativity.

Check out the latest in toys and collectibles at DesignerCon. View the future of the auto industry at the L.A. Auto Show. Visit the Enchanted Forest of Light. Attend Bob Baker Marionette Theater's telethon.

Plus: Two docs reckon with the Afghanistan withdrawal, YACHT makes AI music, and a history of NYC's recent indie scene

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The Portland Art Museum's rebrand of the Northwest Film Center this past spring—to PAM CUT or (deep breath) the Portland Art Museum's Center for an Untold Tomorrow—was met with a fair amount of head scratching and eye rolling at the time, in spite of the organization's laudable goals. And as a result, the center's once regular schedule of repertory screenings have been replaced by experiences and events that, through judicious use of technology like VR...