Yearly Archives: 2021
Spoleto Festival USA Moves Cautiously Back Into Live Performance
There will be 80 events spread across four stages, three of them outdoors and two of those newly-constructed. (The old Dock Street Theater, site...
From The Wreckage Left By ISIS, Mosul’s Museum Begins To Rise Again
"By the time Mosul was liberated by Iraqi government forces in July 2017, most of the artefacts in the Mosul Cultural Museum had been...
Is Network TV Done For?
According to Nielsen, through Feb. 28, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW, on average, showed a loss of 23 per cent from the...
Does The Identity Of A Translator Matter?
Lawrence Venuti’s watershed book, The Translator’s Invisibility (1995), argued that the practice of ignoring the identity of the translator, to the point of being...
Ken Burns Does Hemingway
Let’s talk about the Burns Method: the frowning pan across the blotchy manuscript page, the dreamy plunge into the old photograph, the smatters of...
A Hollywood Plan To Make More Movies About Older People
A study released in 2017 by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism looked at...
How The Values Of Theatre Move Forward
"The American theatre is a very slow-moving ship, especially when I think about how quickly culture moves, and particularly now that we are in...
Savage Beauty
 A generation of important Chinese composers, paradoxical beneficiaries of enforced rural relocation, wound up studying in the West. For many, Bela Bartok became a...
46-Year-Old LA Stage Alliance Disbands After Awards Mistake
Last week, more than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, revoked their...
Zaha Hadid’s Influence Has Only Grown Since She Died
Her presence continues to be felt across the contemporary design and architecture worlds. With around 1.2 million Instagram followers, Zaha Hadid Architects is now...
For Some Artists, Quarantine Has Been A Gift
The open secret among anyone who enjoys the pleasure of their own company, however, is that the public health strategy of sheltering-in-place to combat...
Why Withdrawing Dr. Seuss Books Is Just A Distraction
"Given these serious—and growing—problems, it’s not whataboutism to wonder why these old books get so much attention. Is it because attacking old books is...
How Our Concept Of Work Has (Is) Evolved
"Work, and the way it fits into one’s life, can be and often has been, less rigid and routinized than is common today. In...
The Archaeologists Of New York
Urban archaeologists can unearth 300-year-old trash, and turn it into narrative (and historical) treasure. "The biggest thing for me is saving something that would...
Is Hollywood Trapping Women Directors In The Franchise Machine?
Or are Chloé Zhao, Emerald Fennell, and others just getting their due like their young male counterparts? Hm. "Marvel, DC and co have awoken...
People Love Their Physical Music
Or at least, a Hollywood record store shuttered for many months by the pandemic: "'We’ve been waiting for a year,' said Silver Lake resident...
Slow Art Is More Than Just Taking Time With A Painting Or Sculpture
Slow Art Day, April 10, is about a lot more than getting lost in a Lee Krasner or a Betye Saar. Though that might...
The Hospitality Industry, Hard Hit By The Pandemic, Wonders If It Can Change Again
What's going to happen as more and more people are vaccinated to the industries that supported thousands of aspiring actors, musicians, and others in...
Keeping Ancient Music Alive, No Matter What
The Ashti Peace Choir, at the Yazidi refugee camp in northern Iraq, is trying to keep music alive despite the desperate history and circumstances...
While We Wait For The Oscars, Ranking The Best Picture Nominees From The Past...
With 43 to choose from, which movie will win? And which one can best be described as "self-conscious Scorsese imitation"? - Los Angeles Times
Winfred Rembert, Artist Who Survived A Lynching And Southern Prisons, Has Died At 75
Rembert's art "told the story of the Jim Crow South. It was exhibited in galleries and museums and helped support his family, though they...
Game Of Thrones: The Musical?
OK, we'll be honest, not a musical. A play. Or two? Seven? Hm. However, why Game of Thrones? "It was an epic, at times...
The SAG Awards, As They Happened
Kinda live, except pre-recorded, with a lot on the cutting room floor. In any case: All of the winners! Right here. - Variety
We Can’t Travel Much Now, But Here Are Some Literary Destinations For The Future
To paraphrase Shakespeare, "Work, work your thoughts, and therein see" ... anything from Paris to London, Lyme Regis to George Orwell's final destination. -...
Hey Literature, Women Can Stutter Too
There's truly, in the American literary canon, only one - Merry Levov, of Philip Roth's American Pastoral. What gives? And what do literary writers...
