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The Only Lasting Truth Is Change, Say New Old Musicals
“One of the ways to preserve and expand the musical canon is to let everyone have a shot at it — especially the people...
AI Can’t Truly Make Music, But The Use Of It Still Threatens Musicians
“What is becoming clear now is that the coming war is not really one between human and machine creativity; the two will forever be...
The People Who Rebuilt Notre Dame
“ The devastation was immense. The spire had gone, its collapse having destroyed part of the vaults at the crossing of the transept. ......
The Memeing And Remixing Of Presidential Candidate Harris
Millennials and Gen Z are taking over now. "The KHive has ditched the bee and gone coconuts now that Joe Biden has dropped out of...
How Does Order Emerge From Chaos In Large Systems?
It’s confusing and not fully theorized, but “over the past few years, a community of physicists, computer scientists, and neuroscientists has been working toward...
Long Before The Trial Was Tossed Out, Jurors Had Doubt About Alec Baldwin’s Guilt
One juror: “'Alec Baldwin is an actor, right?’ she said, adding that she would not have expected him to know a lot about gun...
Portland’s Beloved Actor Sam Mowry Has Died At 64
Mowry, in a 40-year career, was an “actor and director known both for his personal gentleness and generosity and for his deep, profoundly captivating...
So What Happened To The Racist, But Very Popular, South African Comedy The Gods...
The movie played until the film broke at cinemas across the world. “Made by a white director with funding from the apartheid government yet...
Esta TerBlanche, Fan Favorite Soap Opera Star, Has Died At 51
Esta TerBlanche was a South African actress whose first language was Afrikaans, so of course she played a Hungarian princess - who ad-libbed a...
How Doing A Comedic Horror Movie Sent Penelope Wilton’s Fame Sky-High
Sure, yes, she’s the prime minister when the Daleks come in Doctor Who, but what really helped her with the Youngs was acting in...
On TikTok, True Crime Survivors Are Owning Their Stories
“True crime podcasts, movies and investigative TV series are wildly popular, often raking in profits for their producers and platforms. Many, though, are made...
Los Angeles’s Westwood Is Losing Two Historic Cinemas This Week
One, “the Village Theatre, is expected to close only temporarily, thanks to a high-profile effort by director Jason Reitman and others to save the once stately 170-foot white...
How Do You Make A Movie About Tornadoes Increasing In Intensity But Never Mention...
Welcome to a scared Hollywood. “'I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like is putting forward...
Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Tries To Recover From Bloody Russian Destruction Of Printing Plant
“Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof...
Why Did Melania Trump Choose Beethoven?
“Serenading an audience fresh from four days of divisive rhetoric, immigrant bashing and attacks on LGBTQ people with music from a sonic icon of Europe’s post-World War II...
Trying To Organize A Music Festival In A War Zone
When the Russians might bomb you out at any second, what’s the point, really? “People need some joy in their lives, even through these...
We Need To Talk About Egypt’s Weirdly Compelling Biennale Exhibit
“The images are indelible: groups of soldiers sway and swoon in perfect synchronicity; top-hatted ambassadors from European powers squat barefoot on a tilted table...
Cheng Pei-pei, Hong Kong’s Queen Of Swords And Star Of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,...
“In a career-spanning six decades, Cheng burst on to the scene in the 1960s, becoming a star for Shaw Brothers Studios, the Hong Kong production...
A Bookshop In New Delhi Explains Why Its Top 100 List Is, Well, Not...
"If a list so devoid of representation from small presses, working class writers, genre-fiction, and poetry is aggregated with contributions from ‘hundreds of novelists,...
London’s Institute Of Contemporary Art May Have Fired Workers Who Support Gaza
And "Berlin-based artist Rheim Alkadhi says she will pull her work out of London’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) if the center does not...
How Writers Can Deal With Online Reviews
“Part of trying to get on quietly and diplomatically in life and not clash with people is keeping up the pretence that fuckwits don’t...
This 82-Year-Old Abstract Painter Is Finally Getting Her Due After Some Rough Australian Times
Lesley Dumbrell "was shocked when the head of the painting department blithely told her that he was happy to have women in his class...
The Creators Of A New Movie Worry Clips Will Be Used To Call The...
“The movie’s writers say they hope it will reinforce the real story of the moon landing. But is that possible in a post-Covid age...
Bill Viola Was One Of Our Most Important Video Artists, But His Muse Was...
“His greatness was not necessarily the way he used sound or even the sound itself, rather why he used sound, where he used sound...
A Writer, Choosing Not To Look Away
Orlaine McDonald, author of No Small Thing: "I’m a painfully slow writer and can find it really hard to commit anything to the page...