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NBCUniversal Loses Half A Billion Dollars On Its New Streaming Service

"Comcast on Thursday reported $230 million in revenue and a $520 million adjusted loss related to NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock in its third-quarter earnings...

George Butler, The Documentarian Who Made Arnold Schwarzenegger Famous, Dead At 78

It was via Butler's 1977 film Pumping Iron that the charismatic Austrian bodybuilder came to the world's attention. Notable among Butler's other docs were...

For The First Time In Over A Decade, The Paris Opera Ballet Has A...

Le Rouge et Le Noir, based on Stendhal's novel, has choreography, costumes and set design by Pierre Lacotte, 89, who's been with the company...

The Real Skill Behind A Great Magician’s Show (It’s Not How The Tricks Are...

Joshua Jay: "In my craft, unlike filmmaking, I have to find the intersection of suspense and surprise, and that's difficult. In a two-hour movie,...

How’s This For Brave? A Complete Wagner ‘Ring’ Cycle, Set In Samoa, Performed With...

That's exactly what the London-based collective Gafa, run by Samoan-British singers, is doing for the next four Saturdays, in a costumed concert staging. The...

Urdu And Hindi Are Basically The Same Language. Why Do Hindu Nationalists So Violently...

It's not as simple as Urdu=Muslim and Hindi=Hindu. Not only did the two languages — which share all their grammar and most of their...

Haunted House Attractions Are Immersive Theater. What Distinguishes The Good Ones?

Really, it's the same things as with any other theater: good actors with good material matter more than special effects. As Halloween approaches, Alexis...

Meet The Great-Grandson Of One Of The Benin Bronze Sculptors, Who Still Runs A...

Monday Aigbe has a statue of his ancestor in the middle of his complex, where craftsmen continue to cast bronzes and carve sculptures and...

This Is The Second Most Popular Talk Radio Show In America (You May Never...

"Like much of talk radio, The Ramsey Show sits in a murky zone between journalism and entertainment. It is not quite a news program,...

In Chicago, Nearly Half Of Small Performing Arts Orgs Can’t Or Won’t Reopen Yet

The Donnelly Foundation surveyed 91 of its grantees (organizations with budgets under $1 million) and found that 44% of them either can't return to...

After A Century, The Last Tsar’s Palace Is Restored And Reopened

The Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg, where Nicholas, Alexandra, and their five children lived before being shipped off to Yekaterinburg to...

So It Continues: Hong Kong Passes China-Style Film Censorship Law

The legislation bans any film deemed against the national security interests of the People's Republic of China, with violators subject to three years in...

Looking To A Play About An Earlier Epidemic To Answer A Key Question About...

In Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, Lily Janiak finds some lines that shed bright, painful light on why some people would refuse a vaccine...

Why Do People Like Blood And Gore In Their Movies And TV So Much?

There are several reasons, say researchers, most of which boil down to "Hey, adrenaline is fun when you're not actually in danger!" And watching...

Another Set Of Looted Treasures Is Being Repatriated To Africa (And These Are Actually...

You know about the Benin Bronzes, looted by the British from what's now Nigeria and some of which are being returned there. These objects,...

Pina Bausch’s Former Company Has A New Artistic Director

Boris Charmatz, a 48-year-old French choreographer, has been appointed to lead Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch as of next September — with a mandate to...

Want To Buy A Villa With Its Own Caravaggio Mural?

"A sprawling villa in Rome containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by Caravaggio is up for sale for almost €500m. The 2.75-metre wide...

Decommissioned Church In Detroit To Become New Arts Complex

Gallerists JJ and Anthony Curis have bought the old Good Shepherd Catholic Church in the East Village neighborhood and will reopen it in 2023...

Afghanistan’s All-Female Orchestra Has Reassembled Itself In Exile

Zohra, a 35-member women's youth orchestra founded in Kabul in 2016, was shut down as the Taliban returned to power, and many of its...

Mort Sahl, Who Created Political Comedy As We Know It, Dead At 94

He became famous for walking to the microphone with a newspaper and riffing on whatever stories he found there. (Time magazine called him "Will...

Lost Novels by Céline Resurface, And Old Arguments Break Out Anew In France

By means he won't disclose, a journalist acquired thousands of manuscript pages by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, revered in France for literary craftsmanship but reviled for...

England’s Arts And Culture Sector To Get An Extra $1 Billion In The Next...

"The culture sector in England will receive £850m in extra funding from the Treasury in the Budget to be announced this week by Chancellor...

France Passes Another Law To Protect Bookstores From Amazon

For years it has been illegal in France to sell new books at a discount, which has kept bookstores from being undersold by the...

How Samuel L. Jackson Got Booted From One Of The Most Prestigious Historically Black...

His brief period at Morehouse College included his acting debut, his involvement in the civil rights movement, and an unorthodox bit of speech therapy....

A Masterpiece By Bernini, Newly Restored, Shines More Brightly Than Ever

"Art and restoration specialists presented the result in the Cornaro Chapel in St. Mary of the Victory Church (in Rome) on Thursday. The chapel's...
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