Yearly Archives: 2021
Hollywood’s Behind The Scenes Workers Are Ready To Bring It All To A Halt
"Hollywood couldn’t function without the set builders, costume designers, video engineers and other behind-the-scenes workers who keep the lights on and cameras rolling for...
Streaming Was Supposed To Put A Pause On Piracy
But now it seems to be more prevalent than ever - in part because paying for all of the streaming services you might want...
George Ferencz, Innovative And Experimental Theatre Director, 74
A founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater, and a icon at La MaMa over decades, he infused theatre with music (especially jazz) and reimagined...
The Chopin Competition Finally Opens Again In Poland
Before COVID lockdowns hit, the last competition in the series to be delayed was thanks to WWII. - Seattle Times (AP)
The U.S. Suddenly Has Two Mermaid Museums
What? One museum's founder: "Mermaids must’ve been coming through the ether." - Hyperallergic
When Stanley Tucci Fell In Love With Food
Acting? Eh. Tucci: "You’re going through life, you have this trajectory and this vision, then suddenly this whole other good thing is like a...
Did Los Angeles Just Experience Its Best Hollywood Bowl Season Ever?
Mark Swed thinks so - and it wasn't just post-shutdown elation, either. - Los Angeles Times
Technology Isn’t As Neutral As We Want It To Be
No tech is without cost, but "the digital revolution, instead of just ambivalence, seems instead to promise utopia but deliver harm." - Toronto Star
A School Board Banned Hundreds Of Books And Documentaries Until Students Fought Back
York, Pennsylvania students, their parents, and authors around the country have won a temporary "freeze." But the school board's racism and homophobia seem entrenched...
Yale Historian Resigns Citing Inappropriate Donor Influence
Beverly Gage, a historian of 20th-century politics who has led the program since 2017, has resigned, saying the university failed to stand up for...
The Classics Versus Racism
The study of classics should not make anyone feel ashamed because Asia intersects there, India intersects there, Africa intersects there, the Middle East intersects...
From Sistema To The Montreal Symphony’s New Music Director: Meet Rafael Payare
Winding up in the local El Sistema orchestra, he became a conductor almost by accident when handed a baton and told to conduct a...
The Age Of The New Literary Memoir
The fantasy that you can say something so perfectly and with such absolute authority that it never needs another version told from another point...
What Harvard Learned From The Pandemic
Those 17 months—marked by the pandemic, remote teaching, protests against systemic racism and police brutality, and economic hardship for millions of people—made it clear...
How Public Radio Could Help Save Local News
With a vast network of local licensees spread across urban and small-town America, public media stations should serve local audiences and provide a window...
Toni Morrison Thought This Woman Changed Black Literature Forever. She Left Public View 23...
In 1975, aged 25, Gayl Jones shook the American literary world with her novel Corregidora. After more books and a turbulent personal life, Jones...
Translating Proteins Into Music
We’re computational biologists who believe that hearing the sound of life at the molecular level could help inspire people to learn more about biology and the computational...
When Virgin Voyages Wanted A Dance Show For Its Cruises, It Did Not Go...
No, Richard Branson's grownups-only cruise line chose three choreographers from The Dance Cartel. The trio couldn't believe that a cruise ship wanted their avant-garde-dance-meets-house-party...
What Is The Solidarity Arts Economy?
Why should culture and economic innovation go together? Because, right now, we have a superstar system in which the winners take all and the...
How Did Fox News’s Right-Wing Late-Night TV Host Beat Stephen Colbert In The Ratings?
Not only because Greg Gutfeld has no conservative competition in his time slot. "Right-wing comedy has become both a viable business strategy and a...
Seattle Art Museum Appoints Constance Rice As Board Chair
The museum believes she is the first Black woman to chair a board of a major art museum, besides ethnic art museums, in the...
He Acts And Directs In Four Languages. Actors Say He’s Gentle To A Fault....
Says Tiago Rodrigues, who's coming to Avignon from Portugal's Teatro Nacional, "I really love to see what happens to a play when you did...
Why All Those Blobby Book Covers?
This design trend, well into its third or fourth year in the major publishing houses, has attracted plenty of nicknames and attendant discourse online—culture...
Tommy Kirk, Teen Star Of A String Of Disney Hits, Dead At 79
In the 1950s and '60s, from ages 15 to 23, he starred in 11 Disney features, including The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, The...
Industrial Vacuum Cleaners, Traps, And Micro-Wasps: How Museums Fight The Bugs That Invade During...
It's a battle even in normal times, but when the pandemic closed museums, clothes moths, silverfish, and carpet beetle larvae were left with no...
