Yearly Archives: 2021
French Quarantine Rules May Prevent Britons From Attending Cannes
The problem is a new variant: "After delays caused by Covid, the festival confirmed it would take place in early July, but France has announced...
Faye Schulman, Who Fought The Nazis With A Rifle And A Camera, 101
Her rifle was important during the war; her camera became more important after: "As one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers, Mrs. Schulman,...
How The Show ‘Friends’ Helps People Around The World Learn English
Yes, that's right, the long-running sitcom (still massively popular with Millennials and Gen-Zers thanks to streaming) is useful for English language-learners around the world....
The ‘Paddington 2’ Stranglehold On Rotten Tomatoes Is Over
There's a bad review of Paddington 2? Yes" "The new Paddington 2 review slammed the warm-hearted adventure film for having deviated from the spirit of Michael...
USC’s Pacific Asia Museum Reopens With A Goal
And that goal is to decolonize itself. Museum director Bethany Montagano: "We felt a sense of urgency to do this because colonial systems of...
Under Biden’s Plan, NEA Funding Would Rise
On the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, President Biden proposed a 20 percent increase in funding for an agency the previous president always threatened...
There’s A New Black Superhero In Town – And That Town Is Milan
It's not common for Italian shows to have mostly Black casts, but the new show Zero does - and makes the invisibility of Black...
What Ta-Nehisi Coates Did For Black Panther
And, as his five-year run writing for the comic series comes to an end, what it did for him. "Coates decided early on he...
How Will Amazon Exploit Bond, Other MGM Classics?
Amazon desperately needed content, but will the Bond plan work? "Bond is a treasure trove, unexploited beyond the 25 feature films focusing on its...
Alix Dobkin, Who Wrote Songs Of Liberation, 80
Dobkin was an early idol in the women-loving-women movement. "Long before K.D. Lang transformed herself from a country artist into an androgyne pop idol...
There’s No Actual Mayor Of Easttown, But Residents Have Some Thoughts On Mare
The chair of the Board of Supervisors of Easttown says the real town isn't much like the show. "'I can’t remember when the last...
Gearing Up For Summer Reading
You ready for 75 nonfiction books in 90 days? (Oddly, LitHub also has recommendations for a mere 38 fiction works in the summer, but...
The 1990s Magazine That Showed, And Gripped, Lesbian Mecca San Francisco
Curve began its life as Deneuve, a lesbian magazine founded by a 23-year-old who gambled all her money on horse races, won, and used...
Restarting The New York Phil, In A Cemetery
Justin Davidson, on the NY Phil's Green-Wood Cemetery "Death of Classical" concert: "That might not seem like the obvious location to stage the revival...
It’s Time To Abolish Museums
Does that sound hyperbolic? It is, a bit. It's time to abolish what musuems have been in order to see what they can be,...
Prizewinning Composer Sara Glojnaric Talks About How Music And Identity Intersect
Sara Glojnarić, who won Berlin’s “Neue Szenen” competition last year, explains that being a woman, being queer, and working against racism all intersect in...
Humans Might Not Be Cut Out For Universal Morality
Are there biological or other scientific causes for our moral beliefs? If so, how does that affect our moral beliefs and choices? It's a...
John Steinbeck Really Did Write A Werewolf Novel. No Way His Estate Is Letting...
"The manuscript, Murder at Full Moon, was completed in 1930 but was never published. A single copy has been sitting, mostly forgotten, in an...
Blindsiding Movie Talent With Streaming Is Probably The New Normal
Gotta keep those subscriber numbers up with direct to streaming movies! But ... how do agents, producers, directors, and actors feel about this? It's...
How Biden’s New, De-Trumpified Commission Of Fine Arts Could Make A Real Difference
Philip Kennicott: "The new members aren't just visionaries with a firm command of inspiring rhetoric; they know how to read a plan, look at...
France Reveres Roland Petit. Why Doesn’t It Perform His Ballets More Often?
"Even in Petit's home country, his works haven't been staged with great regularity. Nor do companies seem especially interested in resuscitating any of the...
Musicians Don’t Make Good Money From Streaming, But Is That Spotify’s Fault?
The amount of money people are spending on music hasn't changed from when we bought albums at the record store or CDs by Sony...
Charles Larson, Who Established Study Of African Literature In U.S. Academia, Dead At 83
"As a professor at American University in Washington, where he joined the faculty in 1970, Dr. Larson taught some of the first classes offered...
Inside TikTok’s New Incubator For Black Creators
The app - long derided both for squelching LGBTQIA voices and exploiting Black creators - reacted to the George Floyd protests by starting an...
Shakespeare’s Globe’s Bumpy Return To Work
Not only are audience members (at a quarter of pre-COVID capacity) required to stay six feet from each other, so are all the actors...
