Yearly Archives: 2023
Does Streaming Availability Actually Help Some Of The Oscars Contenders?
"Streaming services are often thought of as a competitor for the movie theatre experience, but some in the industry see streaming as a benefit...
The Days Of Rolling Thunder
Four years of being the "token able-bodied actor" in Canada's Roliing Thunder Theatre Company, which had three actors with cerebral palsy and one who...
The Women Of Ted Lasso
And we don't mean the women Jason Sudeikis is dating, or the ones the fictional coach may date. Instead, it's the deep on and...
The Real Laundromat At The Heart Of Oscar-Winning Everything Everywhere All At Once
Majers Coin Laundry in San Fernando is "tucked between an auto repair shop and a mobile home park, its tall glass windows revealing vending...
As ‘Phantom’ Closes, So Does The Gig Of A Lifetime
The pit orchestra "will disappear along with the show. It holds 27 full-time musicians, 11 of whom have been with Phantom since it opened...
Architecture Is Missing Many Black Practitioners
In Pascale Sablan's second week at the Pratt Institute, "a young white professor asked Sablan and another female student to stand up in a...
Behind A Lot Of Successful Movies Stand Some Pretty Great Books
Here are this year's for the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay (which was won by Sarah Polley, for Women Talking). - The Millions
The Ways Digital Platforms Are Changing Our Musical Memories
"I worry about how moods are being targeted in music by a company’s algorithms. But I know he loves this music, albeit in...
Where Bad Statistics Come From
And why they just keep chugging along. (For the record, no, you don'tlose 80 perncet of your body heat from your head.) - The...
The Hardcore, Non-CGI Way HBO Made ‘The Last Of Us’ So Creepy
"To achieve the specific sense of degradation, ... the team would build sets then wear them down, wreck them, or, as Paino refers to...
Visiting The Grave Of Raymond Carver
"I read her 'Cathedral' while she rested her head in my lap. It was 'really something' as you had said. Your story, I mean,...
A British Survey Finds Workers In The UK’s Public Arts Sector Are Massively Exploited...
The survey "exposes how many artists, especially those from less privileged backgrounds, have to sustain multiple additional jobs to subsidise poorly paid commissions in...
All The Oscar Winners, In One Place, All At Once
A compact little list instead of a 3.5+ hour event? You're on. - Los Angeles Times
The Oscars Need To Revamp The Best Song Category Entirely
"Just in case you're only feeling partially exercised at the evening's pending legit controversies and fashion disasters, let me give you one more reason to sharpen...
What Should Have Won Best Picture, And The Very Few Times The Academy Has...
The updated list from Washington Post's critics, who started the article in 2016 but, as the writers say, "they just keep on handing out...
Minnesota Premieres Its, And Maybe The, First Hmong Opera
"At first, the Minnesota Opera planned to adapt The Song Poet as a youth opera—part of a program then called Project Opera. But in 2020, that...
SNL Crew Says Everyone’s Ready To Strike In A Couple Of Weeks
What do they want? Health care! When do they want it? In the contract for the future. And pay: "By offering annual increases that...
New York’s Mayor Wants To Cut Library Funding, But Three New Libraries Show Their...
"With the pandemic seemingly in the rearview mirror but the city still seeking its new normal, New York’s recovery depends on fortifying, not diminishing,...
As Fraudulent Indigenous Art Floods The Market, Actual Indigenous Artists Suffer
Fake Indigenous art is a global market, and stamping it out "is like playing Whack-a-Mole." - CBC
How Hollywood Tried To Erase Anna May Wong, Its First Asian American Star
"She continued to be typecast as dragon ladies and China dolls ... always envisioned an alternative future for herself: 'Some day someone will...
Meta Mehta On His Sound, Mahler, And More
"Shortly after becoming music director of the L.A. Phil and not long before her death in 1964, Mehta visited Alma Mahler, the composer’s widow...
Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Writer Suzy McKee Charnas, 83
"In an epic that began with Walk to the End of the World (1974) and concluded 25 years later, ... Charnas conceived a...
Oh No, Chris Rock, Why?
"He and his peers have achieved immense success, but still don’t know how to cope with the cultural shifts that naturally occur over a...
Now Even Going To The Movies Is A Test Of Your Paycheck
Everything is about class, including where we sit in the cinema. "One of the last truly democratic public institutions where everyone paid the same...
A Stranger Things Actor Steps Back From Movies Thanks To A Producer’s Sexual Advances...
So, #MeStillFreakinToo. Grace Van Dien is "looking for more agency after a producer on 'one of the last movies I did' allegedly asked for...
