Yearly Archives: 2023
Can The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Recover From The Past Few Years?
A financial review shows that the festival gets up to 80 percent of its budget from ticket sales - a high number that puts...
A Way To Revive The Kitchener-Waterloo Orchestra?
“It’s not that there is no money. There’s a lot of money. It’s just that there must be a reason to spend it. To...
The Lost Buildings Of Britain’s Most Influential Modernist Architect
Georgie Wolton launched the careers of Norman Foster and Richard Rogert, but all that's left of her legacy now is a house in deep...
Hong Kong Man Sentenced To Prison For Importing Children’s Books
"The books feature sheep that lived in a village and had to defend themselves against wolves. In the series of books, the sheep take...
We’re Inside The Orwellian Nightmare
Social media's rewards for rage and hate are immediate, and terrifying. - The Guardian (UK)
Amazon Will Blind Us To The Night Sky
Astronomers aren't happy about the proposed 3200 (!) satellites. - Wired
The Painter Asserting Personhood, Against Picasso And Gauguin
Claudette Johnson: "It’s good to know that there will be another story being told about women, Black women, Black people, that counters some of...
Post-Shooting ‘Rust’ Lawsuits Enter A New Chapter
A judge orders the movie's producers to turn over records to prosecutors. - Los Angeles Times
European Club Music Has Gotten Too Fast For Human Feet To Follow
The speed of music is being shaped by Gen Zers who are bursting with years of lockdown energy - and the fear it may...
In Britain, Indie Vinyl And CD Companies Are Worried
They're stressed for a variety of reasons - and one is that major labels are muscling their way back in. - The Guardian (UK)
Generative AI Is A Real Mess
But tech companies certainly don't care one bit. - Vice
A New Film In The Quest To Never Forget
"My mother was taken. I remember the last thing she said to me was, 'Be good, I’ll be back.'" - The Guardian(UK)
Jessica Lange Is Extremely Over Comic Book Movies
She says it's time to retire: "The emphasis becomes not on the art or the artist or the storytelling. It becomes about satisfying your...
The ‘Dangerous’ Movie For Couples
Not Barbie, though the summer was filled with tales of women leaving their boyfriends after suddenly understanding the patriarchy. Fair Play is an autumn...
Rock Hudson’s Semi-Secret Double Life
A new biographer says,"Let’s be frank about it: he was a horndog!" - The Guardian (UK)
When Dancers Imitate Video Game Characters
This is 2023: On TikTok, "dancers are particularly adept at moving like a machine’s version of a human. That helps creators ... capture more of what...
Filmmaker Terence Davies Dies At 77
Davies, who won numerous awards with his semi-autobiographical work as well as the adaptation of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, was working on a...
The Loneliness, And Creativity, Of Zora Neale Hurston
The writer "was able to form an entire worldview out of her own pain of isolation." - LitHub
Edward James Olmos Is Passing The Torch
Tired of bemoaning a lack of Latin@ folks in Hollywood, he "decided to create a pipeline for training California elementary and high school students...
Scrivener Is For Newbies
Ann Patchett is still using WordPerfect - and why not? It's worked so far. - The New York Times
After Popular Vote, Here’s This Year’s Winner Of ArtPrize
Artist Abdoulaye Conde has won the ArtPrize 2023 public vote grand prize for ‘Raining Wisdom,’ a massive, bright and colorful mural depicting elephants in the African...
How French Museums Are Addressing The Mental Health Of Their Visitors
"The aim is not to cure, but to empower, outside of the medical framework." When it comes to relieving depressive episodes, discouraging suicidal thoughts...
Do Movie Awards Still Matter?
Perhaps understandably, the heads of the two organizations who put on the biggest award shows in the film world have put up a solid...
How Ratmansky Became Ratmansky
Prolific and astonishingly versatile, he has absorbed a wide range of Western styles, from the fleet-footedness of Balanchine to the physicality and casualness of...
Conductor Jonathon Heyward’s Rising Star
Heyward, 31, is Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s first music director of color and the youngest current music director of any major U.S. orchestra. To that,...
