Yearly Archives: 2023
So, Is Greta Gerwig A Sell-out With Barbie?
"With Gerwig, there was always the sense that independent cinema meant a great deal to her, and so fans have felt disappointed. ... Gerwig...
Can A Male Soprano Bring New Audiences To Opera?
That's Samuel Mariño's goal, anyway. "I really love this music," says the 29-year-old soprano, who's appearing at Glyndebourne in Handel's Semele, "and I think...
Want To Read Banned Books In Your Area?
An app is coming to your rescue (surely it will be banned soon as well). Digital Public Library of America officials say they use...
The ‘Garden-Variety Shit Show’ Of Flooding At Hamptons Art Fair
One gallerist said that "the tents were built over ground-level plywood rather than on above-ground risers, like one would see at other art fairs....
Is There A Power Broker In Hollywood Who Can End The Strikes?
Not really. "The studios that now must figure out how to appease actors and writers are wildly different in size and have diverging priorities....
And What Are Social Media Influencers Supposed To Do Around The Strikes?
"SAG-AFTRA has published guidelines for how influencers should operate during the strike, calling on them to not promote struck companies or content unless obligated to do...
So During The Strikes, What’s The Deal With Celebrity Podcasts?
Looks like no one fully knows. "The actors hosting podcasts that recap the TV shows It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, One Tree Hill and...
Is The Entertainment Industry Collapsing, Or Simply Going Through A Remodel?
"Netflix and all these other streaming services debuted in an environment where shareholders were encouraging them to spend money for growth. Interest rates were...
Met Trustee’s Lawyer Claims She Didn’t Knowingly Buy Looted Art
"Since February, the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, has returned 29 antiquities from White collection’s to Greece, 12 to Turkey, four to Iraq, two to China and...
Tony Bennett Had A Preternatural Gift Of Coming Back Into Style, Again And Again
Had Bennett listened to "outside noise instead of his gut, he would’ve missed out on his greatest hits, an enormous second life in his...
In Portland, A Massive Shakeup For Arts Funding Presages Potential Chaos
Portland is taking a huge pot of money from a regional arts council - as "the tri-county area is in the midst of developing...
This Is Probably The Last Happy Hollywood Weekend For A While
"In the past few weeks, as the 'Barbenheimer' hype grew, so did the animosity between the guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and...
Barbie Drives A High Weekend Box Office
"Barbie has gone boom. The film was a gambit by Mattel to enter the filmmaking space, costing $145 million to produce, not to mention more...
Most People Have No Clue About The ‘Right’ Way To Perform Karaoke
No groups on stage. No quiet, shy performances. And never, ever cut someone off in the middle of a song. - Slate
The Camelot Star Transmitting Shakespeare Skills Between The Acts
"The earliest of Matthews’s Shakespeare workshops for fellow cast members was in 2001, for ... Romeo and Juliet in Los Angeles. He also held...
Scientists Develop Whitest Paint Ever (It Can Cool Surfaces)
“We weren’t really trying to develop the world’s whitest paint. We wanted to help with climate change, and now it’s more of a crisis,...
How Writers For TV Became Just Another Cog In The Machine
Over time “you get this tiered work force of prestige workers and lesser workers” — fewer officers, more grunts. The writers’ experience shows how...
Dallas Arts Leaders Say They Need Significant Help From City, Not Just Token Support
Arts leaders say the city is treating the needs of cultural institutions like paper cuts, when the issues they’re facing are more like bleeding,...
Study: Turns Out There Are Effective Strategies To Counter Bullshit
Turns out, the interventions do help. Reminders to think about accuracy, tips on digital literacy, and effective crowd-sourced accuracy ratings improve the information hygiene...
Reinventing Hubbard Street Dance For The Next Generation
Audience numbers had dropped off well before the pandemic, leaving some in the administration to question if they could continue to support a home...
Hollywood CEOs Have Fallen For Tech’s “Magical Thinking”
It’s not, ultimately, technology that’s at the root of the problem. It’s that the studio executives both new and old have embraced the powerful...
Ken Jennings’s Travel Guide To John Milton’s Paradise
"You'll arrive at a realm ringed by a crystal wall and enter through the blazing portal of its golden-hinged gate — which will open...
A Vanishingly Small Number Of International Plays Are Produced In The US. Why?
Theatre scenes in scores of countries around the world are every bit as sophisticated as ours in the U.S. (and in many cases far...
Don’t Fret, Book Lovers: ChatGPT And Other AI Programs Will Not Destroy Literature
"For years, venture capitalists have promised to upend books and the structures around their creation and consumption. … For the most part, despite tech's...
Do Hollywood Studios Realize They Are Ultimately On The Same Side As The Unions?
"My experience working in Hollywood has led me to believe that if studios are smart, they will understand that their interests are aligned with...
