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Morgan Spurlock, Who Made Documentaries “Super Size Me” And “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,”...
After Super Size Me, in which he ate only at McDonald's for a month (and suffered for it), Spurlock was for a time as...
Law Enforcement Is Now Investigating Attempt To Foreclose On And Auction Off Graceland, Elvis...
Once Presley's granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, filed suit and provided evidence that the organization attempting to foreclose doesn't actually exist, the apparently fraudulent attempt...
Brooke Shields Elected President Of Actors’ Equity
"Shields got 2794 votes, vs. 1940 votes for stage manager Erin Maureen Koster and 834 for Chicago-based actress Wydetta Carter, according to a tally...
Where Are The Movies That Can Earn $100 Million On Opening Weekends?
"For the first time in over a decade — excluding the worst of the COVID-19 crisis — no movie opening during the first six...
Stolen $5.4 Million Portrait By Francis Bacon Recovered
"Spanish police have recovered a painting by the late artist Francis Bacon that was stolen from a banker's Madrid home in 2015. The €5m...
How A Gifted Black Musician Lost Tenure At The Kansas City Symphony, And How...
Principal percussionist Josh Jones was told over and over that his audition was the best people had ever heard, and he regularly got high...
Oh, Great, They’re Using Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers To Feed ChatGPT
The deal between OpenAI and News Corp. means that ChatGPT will be drawing text and info from The Wall Street Journal and Britain's The...
Well, Here’s This Week’s British Royal Family Portrait For People To Freak Out Over
This one is a formal painting of HRH The Princess of Wales (that's Kate Middleton to you and me) by Zambian-British artist Hannah Uzor...
Is The Voynich Manuscript, Undeciphered For 600 Years, Actually About Gynecology?
"Macquarie University research fellow Keagan Brewer and his co-author Michelle L. Lewis seek to corroborate previous suspicions that the enigmatic illustrated text served as...
Michelle Terry On The Vicious Abuse She Faced For Casting Herself As Richard III
"The misogyny has far outweighed the disability discourse. There was potential for ... a vital discussion around disability justice – which as an organisation...
A Slave Narrative Full Of Righteous Fury Reappears, Un-Bowdlerized, After 169 Years
John S. Jacobs escaped his master in 1839, joined a whaling crew and eventually landed in Australia, where he published The United States Governed...
Director Matthew Warchus Announces His Departure From London’s Old Vic
The seven-time Tony and five-time Olivier nominee (he's won one of each) will step down in September of 2026, concluding an 11-year tenure that...
Former Office Manager Of Florida’s Naples Ballet Charged With Stealing Over $100,000
"Nicole Christine Saunders, 54, faces charges of scheme to defraud, grand theft over $100,000 and criminal use of personal identification information. … Police said...
Pixar Is Being Restructured By Disney, With Major Layoffs
"Approximately 14 percent of Pixar’s workforce, or around 175 employees, will be let go. … The layoffs are part of Disney chief Bob Iger’s...
Conductor François-Xavier Roth Accused Of Unsolicited Sexting
The accusations against the 52-year-old Frenchman — currently music director of the orchestra and opera in Cologne as well as founder/director of the widely-hailed...
WGBH, Boston Public Radio/TV Outlet, Lays Off 31 Staffers And Suspends Three TV Programs
"In addition to laying off staff across 13 departments," including 11 people from the newsroom, "GBH will also stop producing (the shows) Greater Boston,...
Gov. Newsom’s Proposed Budget Would Cut California State Arts Funding By Well Over One-Third
Funding to the California Arts Council would fall by 38%, and the state would rescind $12.5 million previously promised to the Equitable Payroll Fund,...
Memphis Judge Puts Hold On Auction Of Graceland To Pay Debt That May Not...
"Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins issued a temporary injunction against the proposed auction that had been scheduled for Thursday in Memphis, where the king...
Confessions Of A Genuine Scrabble Addict
"People attempting to recover from unhealthy obsessions unanimously report a tendency to overthink to the point of debility. Riding the subway uptown to the...
Here’s The Guy Who’s Made His Career Orchestrating, Then Re-Orchestrating, Stephen Sondheim’s Musicals
Jonathan Tunick began his career in the 1960s, when Broadway pit bands were big, and orchestrated all of Sondheim's Broadway shows of the '70s....
Meet The Only Breakdancing Competitor At This Summer’s Olympics With A PhD In The...
"Dr. Rachael Gunn, … the 36-year-old B-girl known as 'Raygun', a portmanteau of her name, completed a thesis in 2017 on the intersection of...
Does Pay-What-You-Can Pricing Really Increase Ticket Sales?
Well, yes and no — depending on what exactly one means by "increase" and "ticket sales." - ArtsHub (Australia)
How The Disassembling Of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel Will Actually Work
It's not just that the job is delicate; it has to be done quickly, because the site is undergoing a slow-motion landslide due to...
China Is Using AI-Generated News Anchors To Spread Disinformation In Taiwan And Elsewhere
"The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is...
Philadelphia’s Wilma Wins 2024 Tony Award For Regional Theatre
"Founded in 1973 as an avant-garde theater project committed to local actors, the Wilma has been renowned for its experimental, boundary-pushing work. ... It...
