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Where Did The EGOT Thing Come From, Anyway?

"Many people who first heard of an EGOT assume it originated on the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock. ... It turns out the term...

What The Writers’ Guild Is Demanding In The Hollywood Strike

"The Guild (wants) a TV staffing minimum, which would range from six to 12 writers per show, based on the number of episodes, ......

An Advance Look At Madrid’s €162 Million Museum Of Royal Collections, Opening This Summer

"Overseen by Spain's national heritage institution, Patrimonio Nacional, the gallery's aim is to share hundreds of items drawn from the 19 royal palaces and...

2023 Tony Nominations Led By “Some Like It Hot,” “& Juliet,” “Shucked,” “A Doll’s...

Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were...

Maybe This Man, Not John James Audubon, Is The Painter Of Birds We Should...

"Born in 1869, (Rex) Brasher left an enormous body of paintings, almost 900 large-scale watercolors documenting American bird life and habitat, that became the...

The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Is On

"Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for...

What’s Going To Change During The Hollywood Writers’ Strike: An Explainer

How the walkout will affect talk shows and scripted shows in the near term, and what the stakes are for each side. - AP

Gordon Lightfoot, Hit-Spinning Singer-Songwriter Of The 1970s, Is Dead At 84

A major presence on the US charts and an even bigger star in his native Canada, he's remembered for "Sundown," "If You Could Read...

The Joys Of Berlinglish

An editor at Exberliner, the English-language monthly magazine for expats in Germany's capital, considers the quirky ways in which Deutsch and English mix in...

Carlos Acosta’s Heavy Metal Ballet Is Ready To Storm The Stage

"Black Sabbath: the Ballet, due to open in September in the band's home city, … is the vision of Birmingham Royal Ballet's artistic director,...

Spokane Symphony Faces A $1 Million Deficit

"Expiring pandemic-related government funds, a scuttling stock market and the increasing cost of doing business have left the 78-year-old arts organization seeking some help....

Beatrix Potter: Biological Illustrator, Entomologist, Mycologist, Sheep Farmer

The creator of Peter Rabbit was more than a writer of children's tales about fuzzy animals. She did professional-quality zoological illustration, carried out serious...

The New Glossy Magazines Joining Ukraine’s Fight Against The Russian Invasion

Two Kiev-based publications, Solomiya and Telegraf, and a dissident magazine from inside Russia, BL8D (pronounced "blood"), are using visual art, fashion photography, interviews and...

Is This Humiliating? Or A Hoot? Italian Tourism Campaign Features Botticelli’s Venus As An...

""In one image, she takes a selfie at Piazza San Marco in Venice, while elsewhere on her travels she eats a pizza on Lake...

Why Epistolary Drama Can Work So Well On Stage

"It's an inherently dramatic device — because a letter is both a vessel for self-expression and a catalyst for a response. Suspense swirls around...

Paper Magazine Lays Off Its Entire Staff

"The staff of Paper Magazine, the pop culture publisher made famous by the 2014 'Break the Internet' photo shoot with Kim Kardashian, was laid...

BBC’s Chairman Resigns Over Boris Johnson Loan Scandal

"(Richard Sharp) quit Friday after a report found he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging ... a...

London’s Tate Modern Gets Its Next Director From Norway’s National Museum

"Karin Hindsbo, who oversaw the consolidation of four Norwegian art institutions into the National Museum in Oslo, will take up her new post in...

The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Back, This Time At The National Gallery In DC

"Protesters smeared black and red paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas's Little Dancer Aged Fourteen sculpture at the National Gallery of...

Locals Complain About “Pornographic” Books In High School Library; Librarian Sues Them For Defamation

"A longtime librarian at Roxbury High School in Morris County (New Jersey) has sued a group of residents she says defamed her by falsely...

Making Contemporary Dance, With Ordinary Local People, In England’s De-Industrialized Northeast

Choreographer Liv Lorent settled in Newcastle 30 years ago; Esther Huss moved to a nearby former mining village more recently. Both see real advantages...

Twice-Exiled: The Life Of A Young Correspondent For Russia’s Only Independent TV Network

Valeria Ratnikova started at TV Rain at age 20; by 23, she was a network star. When Putin's government shut TV Rain down after...

Jerry Springer, Host Of America’s Most Notorious TV Talk Show, Is Dead At 79

The former Cincinnati mayor, who once said that he didn't mind being called the "grandfather of trash TV," hosted a "tabloid talk show known...

Consider The Poetry Slam

"Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a 'language game'. ... t is a place to play with words, and...

More Theaters Experiment With Collective Leadership And Term Limits

Several companies in the Bay Area have been finding real advantages in these models: without a single, well-paid executive, the remaining staffers can be...
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