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“Vinegar Valentines” — Send A Token Of Your Sentiment To The Ex You Despise
The name was given by present-day collectors and dealers; in their Victorian heyday, they were usually called mock or mocking valentines. They were very...
Coffee Poets: The 16th-Century Muslim World’s Culture War Over The Brew Was Fought In...
In the medieval period, poets had used “coffee” as a symbol (or euphemism) for wine (forbidden in Islam), so praising coffee in a poem...
For The First Time, A Male Dancer Plays The Evil Fairy In New York...
In 2023, principal Taylor Stanley asked management if they’d permit a male-identifying dancer to play Carabosse; they said no. This year, they said no...
How Minneapolis’s Theater Community Has Been Dealing With The ICE Occupation
It hasn’t been easy: some artists are scared to come to the theater, as are many audience members, and some shows have had to...
Is An Organized Ring Running Online Smear Campaigns In Hollywood?
“This clandestine smear machine seemingly connects some of the most talked-about scandals of recent years. … (Figures are) targeted by mysteriously operated websites that...
Playwright Mark Ravenhill (“Shopping And F***Ing”) Is Directing Strauss’s “Salome”. Too Obvious A Choice?
“You know, when I said I was going to do Salome a couple of people told me that this was the perfect opera for me because...
Cees Noteboom, One Of Europe’s Most Important Postwar Writers, Is Dead At 92
“A Dutch novelist, travel writer and journalist, (he) was lauded for his insights into European history and culture and often tipped as a possible...
More Kennedy Center Woes: Fundraising Is Reportedly A Mess
According to several staffers (speaking anonymously), senior vice president of development Lisa Dale — best friend of Kari Lake and a former TV host...
London’s National Gallery, Facing $11.1 Million Deficit, Announces Staff-Wide Buyout Scheme And Cuts
“In the face of an £8.2 million deficit in the coming year, … initially there will be a ‘voluntary exit scheme’ available to all...
Alleged Massive Ticket Fraud Scheme At Louvre; Police Arrest Nine Suspects
“The Paris prosecutor's office on Thursday said that nine people were being detained as part of an investigation into a suspected decade-long, 10 million...
BBC To Cut Hundreds Of Millions From Budget
“Staff at the BBC were told about plans to cut about a tenth of its costs over the next three years in a conference...
The “Heated Rivalry” Language Coach Explains How She Taught Connor Storrie Such Good Russian
Storrie, who plays hockey star Ilya Rozanov in the hit miniseries, comes from West Texas and studied Russian only briefly in high school, yet...
A Theater Company Of Ukrainian Veterans Wounded In The Russian War
Some have lost an arm, others their legs, yet others their eyesight or voice. They’ve spent a year rehearsing a parody of Virgil’s Aeneid....
Australia’s Great Theatrical Trilogy Is Being Staged Complete For The First Time In 40...
Playwright Ray Lawler’s most famous work, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1955), was a turning point in Australian theatre history. In the 1970s, Lawler...
The First-Ever Afghan Romcom Is Opening The Berlin Film Festival
“Shahrbanoo Sadat … wrote, directed and stars in the daring, genre-bending film No Good Men, about a budding love affair in a Kabul newsroom on...
Why More Oscar Categories Are Open To Foreign-Language Films Then Ever Before
Yes, of course the fact that the Motion Picture Academy has made a conscious effort to internationalize its membership is part of it. Yet...
The Messy, Sordid Controversy Underlying The Olympic Ice Dancing Competition
Or, how France’s Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry (who’s actually Canadian) ended up paired at all, then became the gold medalists despite having...
Conductor Helmuth Rilling, Last Of The Old-School Bach Specialists, Has Died At 92
With his ensembles Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, he undertook the first complete recording project of Bach’s cantatas and major choral works. As the period-instrument...
Proposed Jersey City Branch Of Pompidou Center Is Officially “Dead”
“After announcing last week that Jersey City is facing a $255 million deficit, Mayor James Solomon removed any doubt about where he stood on Centre Pompidou’s...
Kennedy Center Boss Warns Of Job Cuts During Shutdown
In a Tuesday memo obtained by The Associated Press, Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell told staff that ‘departments will obviously function on a much...
Bud Cort, Star Of “Harold And Maude” And “Brewster Mccloud,” Is Dead At 77
He was discovered by director Robert Altman for the 1970 films M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud; he subsequently featured in Heat (1995), Dogma (1999) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)....
Leonard Slatkin Named Music Director Of Nashville Symphony
The 81-year-old conductor has served the orchestra as “Music Advisor” for the past year, following the departure of Giancarlo Guerrero. (He did the same...
A Choreographer Adapts Flamenco For Ice Dancing
Antonio Najarro, former director of the Ballet Nacional de España and choreographer of several medal-winning routines in ice dancing: “It seemed very difficult to...
Playwright Tracy Letts On Why He Wrote “Bug” (And Why Now’s A Good Time...
“I was studying this issue of conspiracy theories and what makes people susceptible to a conspiracy theory. There’s a real terror of (not conforming)...
You’re About To Release A Novel, And Suddenly A News Event Comes Too Close...
That’s the dilemma that faced Simon & Schuster last fall, when right-wing media star Charlie Kirk was assassinated not long before the scheduled publication...
