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Paris Is Developing Something It’s Never Had Before: A Lively Comedy Club Scene
"American-style comedy clubs ... barely existed in France before the 21st century. ... At (several) venues ..., all opened within the past three years,...
The Cult Of Offense: We Are Not All Salman Rushdie, And Some Of Us...
"We have conceded moral authority to howling mobs, and the louder the howls, the more we have agreed that the howls were worth heeding....
Bollywood’s Blockbusters Are Having A Bad Time At The Box Office This Summer
In recent months, the marquee releases from the Hindi-language film industry in Mumbai have been earning much less than they cost to make. Why?...
The Magical Power Of House Dance
With its freestyle form and openness to incorporating almost any movement style — from tap to voguing to capoeira to jacking — house dance...
Explaining The Controversy Over The Painted Ancient Greek Statuary At The Met Museum
The argument is not about pristine whiteness or the purity of uncolored marble: scholars have known ancient Greek statuary was originally painted for over...
A Trans Cleveland Orchestra Staffer Is Suing Her Employers For Discrimination. The Issue? Health...
Rem Wransky had completed her transition when she became the orchestra's web developer in April 2021, but she developed some physically painful complications which,...
For Its New Artistic Leadership, Philadelphia Theatre Company Scores A 2-For-1 Deal
Co-artistic directors and spouses Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky are coming from Trinity Rep in Providence, where they were, respectively, associate artistic director and...
It Seems The Prized Galileo Manuscript At U.Mich Is A Forgery
"Now the staff of the Michigan library is considering ways to use the object to examine the methods and motivations behind forgeries, potentially making...
The 1927 Scandal That Made Mae West’s Career
"Before West hit the big-screen, she was prosecuted for staging not one, but two scandalous plays. In this episode of Decoder Ring, we look...
“Soylent Green”, Made 50 Years Ago, Is Set In 2022. Here’s Why It Got...
" Movies like Soylent Green abandon such messiness in favor of predictive certainty as they set out to shock people into action. ... And...
Public Radio’s Efforts To Diversify Its Interviewees Are Working
"Journalists at NPR and Minnesota Public Radio say they are seeing the payoff from a heightened focus on tracking the diversity of their sources,...
Taking Standup Comedy Between Countries And Languages
Edinburgh Fringe comedians from Japan, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Argentina, and Denmark talk to a reporter about establishing connections with a foreign audience, differing...
What Salman Rushdie Has Meant For The South Asian Diaspora
"Rushdie helped change how ... Europe and North America saw desis. He defied stereotypes and resisted all assumptions. He became, through no choice of...
Architectural Digest Airbrushed Cambodian Antiquities Out Of One Of Their Fabulous-Home Photo-Spreads — And...
The feature on the San Francisco mansion of Roger and Sloan Lindemann Barnett includes an image of an interior courtyard with empty pedestals. Those...
Ten Of The World’s Most Ingenious Repurposings Of Buildings
The list ranges from a small watertower in England converted into a home to a steel mill in Shanghai transformed into an eco-park to...
Gina Lollobrigida, 1950s And ’60s Movie Star, Is Running For The Italian Senate At...
"(She) is endeavouring to become a senator with the Sovereign and Popular Italy party (ISP), a new Eurosceptic, anti-Mario-Draghi political alliance that opposes sending...
Are Audiences Really Behaving Worse Than Before COVID? Sure Seems Like It
It especially seems like behavior's gotten worse in Britain, where complaints have soared and one hears and reads stories about groups chatting with each...
Joffrey Ballet Launches The First U.S. Training Program Dedicated To Contemporary Ballet
The new two-year, ten-dancer program will run parallel to the Joffrey’s longstanding Trainee Program in classical ballet, with the primary difference being in the...
More Repairs At Philadelphia’s Grand Old Academy Of Music
The exterior balconies overlooking the main entrance to North America's oldest purpose-built opera house — "still the city's formal parlor for everything from Broadway...
America’s Best Museum Bathrooms, Ranked (Yes, This Is Real)
"A recent poll by the American Alliance of Museums asked museum professionals to submit their nominations for best museum bathrooms, and the results prove...
After Years Of Making Dance About Injustice And Violence, Kyle Abraham Turns To Good...
"You know, I (had) made so many works that look at the injustice that we face as a people," said the gay Black American...
Nicholas Evans, TV Producer And Author Of “The Horse Whisperer”, Dead At 72
He had a thriving career in network TV journalism and some success making films for cable TV until a rough patch in his 40s...
I Walked Into A Pakistani Bookstore And Asked For Salman Rushdie’s Novels
The writer recounting this story lived to tell the tale but feels the need, even now, to remain anonymous. The bookseller's answer was, perhaps,...
Iraqi Police Say They Found A Stolen Picasso During A Drug Raid
An announcement from Iraq's Interior Ministry says that the painting, found in the possession of three suspected narcotics dealers, could be worth "millions of...
Staffers At Mass MoCA Call A One-Day Strike For This Friday
"(A union official) said the museum 'has a very lowball offer on the table in terms of wages.' Two-thirds of the nearly 100 unionized...
