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Shirley Jackson’s Horror Fiction As Grief Therapy
"A common trope in horror is that the character being haunted, possessed, or hunted is going through a personal agony — one that either...
A Never-Before-Published Interview With Gabriel García Márquez
"What would be great is to collect all the myths that exist about me, because maybe they’re more interesting than my life!" Q: "Could...
The Tiny Village Radio Station In India That’s Helping Fight The Patriarchy
"Meet 'Alfaz-e-Mewat,' a community radio station that offers a mix of group therapy, education, women’s empowerment and entertainment. … In this region — which...
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Proposes Requiring All Ticket Sellers To State Service Fees Up...
"The rule would not set a limit on the fees, but rather would require broader disclosures, including the purpose of the fees and whether...
A New Alabama Sculpture Park Aims To Tell The Story Of Slavery In The...
"When the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park opens in Montgomery, Ala., in early 2024, on a bluff flanked by railroad tracks overlooking the Alabama River,...
Princeton Art Museum Decides It Has A Rubens
"The work in question appears to be The Death of Adonis, an oil sketch on a wood panel depicting the hunter laid flat as...
Winnipeg Symphony Posts $1.3 Million Deficit, But Things Aren’t Desperate Yet, Says Board
A COVID stabilization reserve fund set up by the orchestra's board has covered that budget hole, but with government pandemic aid over and attendance...
John Waters Is Organized And Disciplined. Yes, Really.
"He wakes up every day at 6 a.m., … checks his emails, and reads (several) newspapers before beginning his writing at 8 a.m. on...
Standup Comedy Is In A Weird, Fragmented State. How Did It, And We, Get...
"On the one hand, there’s never been more of it — more specials, podcasts, comedy-generated discussions and debate and cultural flare-ups. … On the...
Bandcamp Has Been Sold Again, And Employees Were Locked Out Of The Site Without...
Epic Games (maker of Fortnite) purchased the streaming site for independent musicians 18 months ago. In late September, Epic announced the sale of Bandcamp...
UK’s National Lottery Will Spend $245 Million To Rehab Clusters Of Heritage Sites In...
"An oddly simple new £200m scheme will, for the first time," rather than funding only individual projects, "focus on clusters of heritage sites, including...
Chinese Porcelain Worth Millions Has Been Stolen From A Museum In Cologne
"The suspects ... broke into (the city's Museum of East Asian Art) on the night of September 12 and stole nine Chinese porcelain objects...
Cleveland Orchestra’s Tour Of Israel Is Canceled
The orchestra, with conductor Daniel Harding filling in for Franz Welser-Möst, was to have performed in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem during the last...
Changes At The National Museum of Women In The Arts
"Following several years of planning, a pandemic closure, a temporary reopening and a $67.5m makeover, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington,...
The American Library System Is Under Attack, And Not Just By Right-Wing Censors
"Book bans are at record levels, and libraries across the country are facing catastrophic budget cuts. … In a separate line of attack, library...
As Breakdancing Becomes An Olympic Sport, Some Worry About A Drift From Its Hip-Hop...
"Now breaking is preparing for its biggest international spotlight yet when it bows as an Olympic sport at the Paris Games in 2024. …...
Writers Guild Members Officially Approve The Agreement That Ended The Hollywood Strike
"Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months,...
U.S. Theater Is In Crisis? Not In Branson, Missouri. Maybe There’s A Lesson To...
"Approximately eight times a week, 40 weeks a year, Broadway-sized crowds watch (the musical) Queen Esther in a town of 12,000 people in the...
How Lisa Simone Made Peace With Brilliant, Tormented (And Tormenting) Mother Nina
"Sometimes she despised the woman who bullied, rubbished, physically abused and neglected her. At other times she adored the woman who could be fun,...
American Tourist Attacks Two Ancient Roman Statues In Jerusalem
"Police identified the suspect as a radical 40-year-old Jewish American tourist and said initial questioning suggested he smashed the statues (at the Israel Museum)...
Revisiting The First Book Banned In The United States
Okay, strictly speaking, it wasn't the United States yet, but the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony suppressed Thomas Morton's book The New...
The Gay Neo-Hula Master Of San Francisco Who Just Won A MacArthur “Genius Grant”
The MacArthur Foundation's citation for Patrick Makuakāne called him a "cultural preservationist," but it's not that simple. "I don’t take traditional dance elements and...
Meet One Of Hollywood’s Most Revered, Most Ingenious, And Most Obsessive Set Designers
Jack Fisk is also one of the most difficult to recruit, going years (and, at one point, two decades) between films. And once a...
UNESCO Is Developing A Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
"Developed with Interpol, whose database of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections and archeological sites worldwide lists more than 52,000 artefacts, the $2,5 million...
Dallas Theater Center’s “Rocky Horror Show” Is Now Part Of The Resistance
Intentionally or not, the stage version of the polymorphously perverse cult classic, produced by North Texas's flagship theater company, has become a standard-bearer of...
