Yearly Archives: 2023
School Field Trip To See “James and the Giant Peach” Canceled After Parents Complain
The cancellation came after a parent told school board members that she was worried about her 5-year-old daughter’s upcoming field trip to see the...
Where Did The EGOT Thing Come From, Anyway?
"Many people who first heard of an EGOT assume it originated on the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock. ... It turns out the term...
What The Writers’ Guild Is Demanding In The Hollywood Strike
"The Guild (wants) a TV staffing minimum, which would range from six to 12 writers per show, based on the number of episodes, ......
An Advance Look At Madrid’s €162 Million Museum Of Royal Collections, Opening This Summer
"Overseen by Spain's national heritage institution, Patrimonio Nacional, the gallery's aim is to share hundreds of items drawn from the 19 royal palaces and...
2023 Tony Nominations Led By “Some Like It Hot,” “& Juliet,” “Shucked,” “A Doll’s...
Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were...
Maybe This Man, Not John James Audubon, Is The Painter Of Birds We Should...
"Born in 1869, (Rex) Brasher left an enormous body of paintings, almost 900 large-scale watercolors documenting American bird life and habitat, that became the...
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Is On
"Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for...
What’s Going To Change During The Hollywood Writers’ Strike: An Explainer
How the walkout will affect talk shows and scripted shows in the near term, and what the stakes are for each side. - AP
Gordon Lightfoot, Hit-Spinning Singer-Songwriter Of The 1970s, Is Dead At 84
A major presence on the US charts and an even bigger star in his native Canada, he's remembered for "Sundown," "If You Could Read...
Fetishizing Neutrality: The Mythologies Of Objectivity
Is neutrality even attainable? “No journalistic process is objective,” Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter, observed in a widely discussed New York Times opinion piece from 2020. “And no...
Traffic Flow — A Story Of Chasing Online Audience
Most people who write for the internet have had the experience of publishing something that escapes the bounds of one’s usual audience and goes...
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NYC’s New Museum Of Natural History Extension Is A Winner
New Yorkers live to grouse about new buildings. This one seems destined to be an instant heartthrob and colossal attraction. - The New York...
Ground Zero For The Art Of Conspiracy Theories: Denver Airport
Earlier this year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that a “new” art installation in Concourse A legitimized the flat earth conspiracy theory. Videos attempting...
Scott Timberg’s Boom Times
That a collection is as well versed in Rechy as it is in Dudamel tells you a lot about the writer, as well as...
Hollywood Writers Fear Being Replaced By AI
“We have a bunch of A.I.s that are creating a bunch of entertainment that people are kind of OK with.” In their attempts to...
Look, Hollywood, You Don’t Have To Do This
But you probably will. "Contentious labor talks in Hollywood are rarely settled without the pressure of a contract expiration deadline bearing down. The stakes...
South Korean Art Student Eats Banana From Maurizio Cattelan Artwork
"Noh Huyn-soo was filmed brazenly removing the banana, which was duct-taped on to a wall at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, unpeeling it and...
The Night The Los Angeles Phil’s Tchaikovsky Moved An Audience Member To Moans
"Multiple people who attended the L.A. Phil concert on Friday reported hearing a woman making a moaning noise during the symphony’s second movement." -...
Hollywood Is Both Frantic And Calm As The Writers Strike Looms
"It’s the first topic that comes up in every meeting, every phone call, and everyone claims to have their own inside source about how...
The Guardian Apologizes For Cartoon Of Former BBC Chair
The cartoon depicted Richard Sharp, "who is Jewish, with exaggerated features and carrying a puppet of Rishi Sunak. One Jewish group said it 'falls...
Piano Fever Is (Once Again) Sweeping The UK
"For years, it seemed like the piano was disappearing from British public life. The bulky instruments were cast out of homes and schools and...
Why Isn’t Artist Pacita Abad More Known?
One explanation: "In addition to being a woman and a woman of color, she was considered a craft artist operating on the fringes of...
Say Goodbye To Ad-Free Television
"Investors are no longer sure streaming is a great business; the streamers are searching desperately for new ways to make money. The golden age of...
A Novelist Pushing On Our Ideas About Prison And Abolition
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, whose new novel incorporates a lot of trademarks in prisons: "Once you go into that for-profit model and also think about...
