Yearly Archives: 2023
Poised For Change At The Dance Theater Of Harlem
The legacy: "I remember being at barre on the first day, in Studio 3 with the beautiful red brick, and not having ever experienced...
Music Festivals Can Be Crowded, Hot, And Sometimes Seemingly Out Of Control
And yet, whether they're classical or pop or rock or whatever Coachella is, we fall for them. "As festivalgoers we untether, if only for...
The Woman Revolutionizing An Iranian Storytelling Tradition In Los Angeles
"For centuries, skilled Iranian storytellers known as Naqqals have transfixed audiences in traditional coffeehouses" - but it was always an art by men, and...
Author Celeste Ng On Book Hangovers And Getting Through The Last Few Years
"I had a crisis of faith in the early days of the pandemic. I thought: books don’t do anything, maybe I should go and...
Lynn Nottage And Her Daughter Are Creating Theatre, And Opera, Together
Ruby Aiyo Gerber to her mom: "For so long, I rebelled against wanting to be a writer, fearing that admiring any part of you...
The Bloody Past And Blurry Future Of The So-Called Digital Revolution In News
"The time has come for us to stop using the term 'digital revolution' in such a catchphrase-cute way, with the inevitable emphasis on 'digital' and little...
Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer And Self-Described Archaeologist Of Dance, 91
"A notation-based reconstruction movement took hold around the turn of the 21st century, but Lacotte — ahead of his time — had already been...
Perhaps Writers Don’t Actually Fetishize The Tools Of The Trade Enough
Tobias Wolff reflects on his unfilled notebooks and wonders, "At what point do the tools of writing go from functional objects in their own...
The Film Industry Is Pretty Much Gone, Says Jim Jarmusch, Who’s Releasing A Rock...
The director of Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes says that "funnelling creative energy into making music has become a vital escape from some...
Can EDM Get Milliennials And Gen Z Into Classical Ballet?
That's a gamble the San Francisco Ballet is willing to make. - San Francisco Standard
If The Writers Strike, SNL Will Be Among The First Shows To Go
A May strike would hit late-night first, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and many other popular shows, but then start hitting at fall content -...
Creating An Entirely New Way To Save A Threatened Language
It was not exactly easy, but Brian Maracle "has figured out this improbable, but linguistically extremely smart, method of delivering this radically different language...
Wisconsin Has Some Tips On Building Statewide Local Theatre Connections
World Premiere Wisconsin was born in 2019 with three goals - connecting theatres, raising national awareness, and commissioning new work. Then came the pandemic,...
As Record Store Day Becomes An Institution, Young Fans Drive Vinyl Sales
In Britain, vinyl outsold CDs in 2022, and for some Gen-Z members, they're better than streaming too. One 19-year-old: "I think the sound quality's...
The Jazz Detective Who Unearthed Legendary Baltimore Recordings
Concerts at the Famous Ballroom "were recorded, mostly for the private archives of the Left Bank and for the artists. ... Only a handful...
The Stars Of Netflix’s ‘Beef’ Defend Their Coworker Over A Sexual Assault Story
Actor David Choe says he made up a rape story for a podcast. Beef creators and stars stated, "We’re aware David has apologized in...
How One Woman Amassed A 10,000-Movie Pan-African Film Archive
When June Givanni, a Black British archivist, activist, and curator, "received the British independent film awards’ grand jury prize in 2021, the organisers said that she...
Book Bans Proliferate Across The US
From July to December 2022, PEN found 1,477 cases of books being removed, up from 1,149 during the previous six months. Since the organization...
The Italian Government’s War On English
Since 2000, the use of English words has shot up by 773% according to data from Italy’s Treccani dictionary. There are now around 9,000 English words...
Is Climate Change Sci-Fi Counter-Productive?
I not only worry that "cli-fi" might not be an effective form of environmental expression – I have come to believe that the genre...
Not So Fast: Santa Fe Contemporary Art Museum Might Not Close After All
In the wake of the April 6 announcement, there has been an outpouring of support from Santa Fe community. Members of the community are...
“Princess” Evicted From Rome House Containing Caravaggio
The US-born Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi was escorted out of the 16th-century Villa Aurora by police on Thursday after receiving an eviction order amid a long-running...
Report: Piracy Costs Streaming Services $113 Billion
By 2027, there is a projected loss of $113 billion for streaming video providers serving U.S. customers due to content theft, according to a...
A Pair Of Amateur Investigators Tracks Down Art Treasures Looted From India
"These sleuths, with the help of a small, anonymous global team of volunteers from various fields – who communicate mostly online – have brought...
Has Twitter Lost Its Cultural Relevance?
Musk’s takeover of the platform has not only strained the dinner-party metaphor (a new host comes in and dominates the conversation, demanding money from...
