Yearly Archives: 2023
How They Turned The Saw Horror Franchise Into A Musical
"'This is a love story that I think people wanted for 20 years,' said Stephanie Rosenberg, the director of Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody...
What Do The French Think About An Englishman’s Concept Of Napoleon?
"Waiting for her movie date to finish his post-film cigarette, Charline Tartar, a librarian, assessed Phoenix’s rendition as too moany. 'It’s too bad Napoleon...
How The Public Dismantling Of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Identity Claims Began
Not that it hadn't been addressed before, but a PBS biography kicked the discussion, and CBC research, off again. - San Francisco Chronicle
Europe Is Still Living In The Wreckage Of The First World War
Or so says author Alice Winn. Also, "In the UK World War One is a selling point; in the US it’s more of an...
The Children Of City Ballet’s Nutcracker
One candy cane (aka a "Hoops"): "Not all ballet companies involve children in their productions, and New York City Ballet kind of prioritizes children. I...
Are Lyrics Free Speech, Or Court Case Evidence?
In Britain, it's definitely the latter: "At least 240 people in the UK have had rap music used against them as criminal evidence in...
Hollywood Has Some Decisions To Make Around Guns On Set
It's been two years since Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed when the gun Alec Baldwin was using on set contained a live bullet,...
Remember When The UK Was Going To Return The Parthenon Marbles?
Greece remembers. But does Britain? And where exactly do the negotiations stand? - The Guardian (UK)
How To Write About Music Without Sounding Ridiculous
It's nearly impossible to write about instrumental albums and "the inarticulable narrative created by the changing relationship between sounds." - The Atlantic
A Majority Of Film Crew Members Have Dealt With Unsafe Working Conditions
Should cinematographers die for the sake of a camera shot? Seems not, yet very little has changed in years since some famous, and avoidable,...
The Tight Relationship Between Cookbooks And Gaming
A new Dragon Age cookbook "admittedly derives from well-worn Europe-centered fantasy tropes — you have your fantasy England, your fantasy France, your fantasy Roman...
A ‘City Of Books’ In Korea Has More Than 900 Publishing-Related Business
This was a civic decision: "In clustering all of its bookmakers in one place, South Korea hoped to better produce and distribute a major...
Can We Fall In Love With Cinemas Again?
Even before COVID-19, "Living rooms and streaming platforms beckoned, offering sweet relief from, not to get too Sartrean about it, the hell of other...
Pina Bausch’s The Rite Of Spring Has Spent Two Years Becoming An African Dance
For African dancers to perform it, said Senegalese choreographer, dance company founder and dancer Germaine Acogny, "felt absolutely right." - The New York Times
Why Is Joaquin Phoenix So Very Unhappy?
"The statement his acting seems to be making, more and more, is that the world is too dire, too mired in injustice — that...
How Are Kids Affected By Florida’s Book Bans?
Surprise! Book bans are not actually "for the children." - NPR
The Re-Rise Of Britain’s High Street Record Store
In 2019, HMV, the century-old record company closed its main London store. Four years and a pandemic later? Here it comes again. - BBC...
You’ll Never Guess Who Won The Streaming Wars
A Merry Scottish Christmas, anyone? - Wired
How Admen And Psychologists Collaborated In The Early 20th Century To Monetize Our Attention
This marriage of convenience between American psychologists and American ad-men was a cozy connection warmed across the early decades of the twentieth century. -...
My Friend Dies, Her Book Unfinished. Could I Complete It?
There are so few things we can do for the dead; this was something I could do for her. Rebecca had been clear that...
The Netflix Queue And How It Shaped My Culture
The queue quickly became much more — a kind of running commentary on the state of my life. Much like books, the number of...
Do You Love Christmas Music? Hate It? Here’s Why
Research has shown that most people in Western countries use music to self-soothe. “They know that there are certain kinds of music that will...
Why It’s Been So Difficult To Diversify The Publishing Industry
Why did it feel, in the mid-2010s, like the conversation was starting from scratch—and why, as the PEN America report phrased it, has “the...
Foster + Partners Reimagines Airports For Saudi Arabia
The terminal will be made up of tapered stone buildings of varying heights interlinked by open-air courtyards and stone-paved walkways. - Dezeen
Actor Sara Porkalob On Speaking Her Truth In Theatre
"In many ways, starting in college, I deliberately refrained from following the art that was made at those epicenters because I was really worried...
