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Kabuki Is, Amazingly, The Subject Of Japan’s Latest Megahit Movie
“Kokuho, which means ‘national treasure,’ has already grossed more than 10 billion yen ($68 million), making it the second-highest grossing Japanese live-action film of...
James Patterson’s Latest Plan To Give Away His Riches: The “Go Finish Your Book”...
“After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors:...
The Surprising Thing About The New LACMA’s Concrete Walls
Turns out the walls are easier to drill into, and to accurately level the art being hung, than drywall. What’s more, they can be...
USA Today Visits Five Smithsonian Museums To See If They’re Really Too “Woke”
The Nation’s Newspaper checks out the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History,...
A Canadian Province Banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” From Schools. So Margaret Atwood Wrote A...
“In a social media post, Atwood wrote that since her famed work was no longer permissible in Alberta schools, she had written a ‘suitable’...
Climate-Protesting Architecture Vandals Throw Paint On Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia
“Two activists, representing the campaign group Futuro Vegetal, targeted the basilica on Sunday, August 31, spraying the colored powder over a column while shouting...
The Dances Are A Big Revenue Driver For The Game “Fortnite.” Do The Choreographers...
Hundreds of these dances, known as emotes, have been released on Fortnite, where players can buy them for a few dollars each. Epic Games,...
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Names John Storgårds Its Next Music Director
The 61-year-old Finn, currently Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, takes up his post in...
Creative Folks May Not Like It, But It’s Sports That’s Propping Up Entertainment TV
“Sports is defying ratings gravity, exerting even more influence with each passing season as by far the dominant genre that people prefer to watch...
Why Media Coverage Of School Shootings Is Dwindling
“Our attention span — or patience — for enduring these far-too-frequent tragedies appears to be shrinking. The horror persists, but the novelty is fading,...
Postmodern Irish Step-Dancing — With Beyoncé’s Seal Of Approval
Kaitlyn Sardin, a twentysomething African-American from Orlando who won her first junior world championship in 2009, now mixes up traditional Irish dance with hip-hop,...
Is Or Isn’t This A Genuine Vermeer? Compare And Decide For Yourself
The Guitar Player, housed at Kenwood in London, is signed by Vermeer and accepted as authentic. There’s a slightly different version in the Philadelphia...
Italy Struggles With All The Damage Caused By Tourists Behaving Badly
People carving their initials into the Coliseum, trashing Bernini’s fountain in Rome, driving a car down the Spanish Steps, mounting and humping a nude...
Audiences For Met Opera’s Cinemacasts Are Down By Half, Says Peter Gelb
“Our audience globally is about 55% of what it was before the pandemic. We still have a significant audience. We reached countries across eleven...
Anna Wintour Names Her Long-Awaited Successor As Editor of Vogue
“Wintour ended weeks of fashion-world speculation Tuesday when she named Chloé Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue. — Wintour, 75,...
Another Gérard Depardieu Rape Case Will Proceed To Trial
“French movie star Gérard Depardieu was summoned to trial before a criminal court in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actor Charlotte Arnould....
Layoffs At SoCal Classical Station KUSC Following Federal Cuts
Classical California, the umbrella organization which operates both KUSC and KDFC in San Francisco, lost $1.1 million in the Trump administration’s rescission of public...
Graham Greene, Oscar Nominee And Pioneering Indigenous Actor In Hollywood, Is Dead At 73
He began acting in his native Canada circa 1980; his big break came with Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves, for which Greene was nominated...
Esa-Pekka Salonen Takes Newly-Created Positions In Paris And Los Angeles
“The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that Salonen would be its first creative director, starting in fall 2026. Simultaneously, the Philharmonie de Paris announced that...
The Weather Gods Have Not Blessed Burning Man This Year
“The desert festival … began Sunday, following a weekend of brutal storms that battered camps, tore down art installations and caused dozens of injuries.”...
One Opera Company In Florida Is Thriving Despite All The Federal And State Funding...
“Opera Naples has seen a 71 percent increase in ticket sales over the past two years, and a 310 percent jump in corporate sponsorships.”...
Why NFL Cheerleading, And Its Dance Moves, Have Become A Battleground In The Culture...
It’s because there are cis men doing the cheerleading alongside the women — and the Minnesota Vikings squad has become the primary target, despite...
Kristin Chenoweth Befriends The Real-Life “Queen Of Versailles” She’s About To Play On Broadway
“Broadway musicals overwhelmingly focus on historical or fictional events; it’s exceptionally rare for an actress to cultivate a long relationship with a subject that...
“Pragmatics,” The Linguists’ Term For The Words That Make Chatbots Sound Human
You may not recognize the term, but you use pragmatics all the time; we all do. John McWhorter explains what exactly they are, and...
The Flood Of AI Slop Online May Make People Turn Back To Established Media...
“Even as the subjects reported trusting online content less after the quiz, they still ranked (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest circulation broadsheet daily) highly and...
