Yearly Archives: 2023
The Lost Cultural Cachet Of Chewing Gum
Remember when it was a sign of, like, total rebellion to blow a huge bubble on screen? Well, that time is long gone -...
What Will Happen To The Emmys If Studios Don’t Settle With Striking Writers?
"The Emmy Awards, which are scheduled set to air on FOX in September, could be delayed for months. Reports ... suggest the organizers are discussing...
Novelist Khaled Khalifa Says His Childhood Has Been Wiped Out By War
"Khalifa is a Syrian novelist, poet and screenwriter whose work has been awarded the Naguib Mahfouz medal for literature, one of the Arab world’s...
Actual, Good Theatre News
"On April 21 of the cursed year of 2020, the Upright Citizens Brigade — New York’s premier improv-comedy venue — announced it was closing its Hell’s...
Reddit, And Thus The Entire Internet, Just Changed, A Lot
"If all of this sounds like a lot of fretting over something as wonky as an API change, it’s not. It’s indicative of a...
Let’s Talk About The Sonic Sphere At The Shed
If you miss the sound quality and visual image qualities of the 1970s, or you're in an altered state, you're in luck. "Sober, none...
What Dancers Do In The Off Season
They go to La Jolla, of course. The new company PointeWorks "is intended to 'create a space and platform for artists to perform and...
The Latest Warner Bros Cut: Famed Diversity Exec Karen Horne
Well this seems, in internet parlance, fine: "Horne’s departure comes as Warner Bros. Discovery scales back its socially responsible spending efforts, according to people...
What Is Going To Happen To London’s Docklands As Big Business Quits The Area?
"The rap against the wharf has always been that it is dull and lifeless, no matter how hard its management tries to liven things...
The End Of Affirmative Action Will Truly Kill The College Admissions Essay
Sure, you can blame ChatGPT etc., but: "The pressure to sell one’s race and race-based adversity to colleges will compel students to write like...
Could Fake Reviews At Long Last Be Going Away?
That's the FTC's proposed plan, anyway. Why? Because "there are global businesses dedicated to generating fake reviews for scammers and merchants looking for a...
Los Angeles Officials Damage Artist’s Floating Studio While Impounding It
Artist Sterling Wells: "I’ve been painting in the water for a year and now that they’re paying attention, I can’t be here. ... I’m...
A Rare Happy Fairy Tale Ending For A Small Publisher
"Fans of the publisher World Editions, which has brought translations of work by Maryse Condé, Amin Maalouf, Pilar Quintana, Jaap Robben and Zhang Yueran to...
What Will New York’s Paper Magazine, Under New Ownership, Become Next?
First, look to its (storied) past: "With its mix of bubbly enthusiasm and Gen-X skepticism, Paper became the scrappy kid sibling to the argumentative Village Voice...
Hollywood Actors Aren’t Going On Strike – Yet
On Friday, SAG-AFTRA agreed to a nearly two-week contract extension. "Despite progress in talks, significant differences remain between the parties, which have sparred over how...
The Internet Is – Of Course – Blowing Up With Barbie Vs. Oppenheimer Memes
Social media has apparently turned marketing for the hyped movie Barbie into ... marketing for the grim movie Oppenheimer? "It's the dual movie experience...
Sometimes, You Just Want To Crawl Inside A Pipe Organ
At the Kennedy Center: "Enter the organ through a hidden passageway tucked into a side office, descend down a ladder into its belly, and...
Keeping The Long Secrets For A Creaky Hollywood Franchise
Karen Allen's cameo in the new Indiana Jones movie was a surprise - to the audience. For the actor, who had to keep quiet...
Jakob Hrusa Prepares To Take Over England’s Royal Opera House
The Czech conductor seems to think he's found the ideal spot. "Opera is kind of a pinnacle of what is possible to achieve in...
The Special, Brutal Sums That Underlie Chicago Theatre
"The desire to tell beautiful stories is still there, but the funding to support fair and livable compensation is not. Operating out of rental...
How Nimona Turned From Popular Graphic Novel To Netflix Film
Graphic novel writer ND Stevenson on what he wouldn't give up: The movie "was going to do its own little shapeshift, if you will,...
How Frederick Douglass Crafted, And Used, His Image To Help Fight Slavery
"He always dressed up for his photography, much like he did for his speeches. He wanted to create a dialogue with his photograph that...
What Theatre Audiences Want Now
"Theaters must think more expansively of themselves as communal spaces, not merely entertainment venues for stage presentations to ticket buyers; what does it mean to...
COVID Broke The Habit Of Going To The Theatre
Can anything - musicals, serious plays, popular actors, dramatic cuts to staff, or great bundles of tickets - fix this issue? Who knows? "Audiences...
TikTok Sells A Lot Of Books Through BookTok – And Maybe Now As A...
"By tapping into TikTok’s ability to drive attention to books and its vast trove of user data, ByteDance could boost its own authors at...
