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Carrie Soloway, The Real-Life Person Who Inspired Prime’s ‘Transparent,’ Has Died At 88
“Dr. Soloway went to red carpet events related to the show,” but she didn’t love them. “She was very humble in terms of publicity;...
How The Classical Guitar Becomes One Of The Most Complex Instruments, In A Good...
“What’s distinctive about the classical guitar is its simplicity. Ultimately, it’s basically a wooden box with strings attached and a fretted neck, a bridge,...
What Will This French City Do If Its Famous Comic Book Festival Fails?
Angoulême is where graphic novels and comic books are normally celebrated in a huge festival each year. But maybe not in 2026. “Criticized for...
Fighting To Save Britain’s First Multiplex Movie Theatre From A Housing Development
“As a shot of commercial and architectural adrenaline, it revived British cinema-going, welcoming more than a million visitors in its first year, and impelling...
How Did Tom Stoppard Fund His Playwriting?
Hollywood. “At one point in the early 1990s, Stoppard earned $500,000 for a five-week stretch polishing various projects for Universal Pictures. … He seemed...
Ethan Hawke On Playing The 5-Foot-Tall, Combover-Laden Lorenz Hart
“Hawke shaved his head and stood in a trench to appear shorter than his co-stars. This literally gave him a fresh view on the...
Clueless Colleges Are Preparing To Harm Their Students In The Name Of ‘Preparing’ Them...
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things,...
Video Games Are Feeding A Deep Well Of Conspiracy Theories
“In the fiction of Assassin’s Creed, humanity is descended from ancient aliens; ... world events influenced by a shadow war between two secret societies;...
Daniel Woodrell, The Author Of Winter’s Bone, Has Died At 72
Woodrell was “a novelist known for prose as rugged and elemental as the igneous rock of the Ozark Mountains, his birthplace, which he returned...
The Oxford Word Of The Year Is Probably Something You Experience Every Day
You know what clickbait is, right? Well, the word of the year is its anger-fueled cousin, rage bait, "manipulative tactics used to drive engagement...
There’s A Lot Of History, And Art, Beyond Art Basel Miami Beach
Getting beyond the tent walls means understanding just how much the Cuban diaspora means to the city. - The New York Times
Why Is A 1998 Musical Resonating With Audiences Now?
“We wrote something, you know, with very open hearts and no political agenda. We just wanted to tell this amazing story, and look what...
A Classical Pianist’s Plea To Let Art Be Messy, And Real
"Playing an instrument well is phenomenally difficult. It takes a lifetime of arduous work and can become all-consuming, making it easy to forget that...
In The Miserable Economy For Creative People, What Happens When One Is Successful?
In Alison Bechdel’s newest book, “Communal systems of support and shared resources are positioned against the capitalist drive to isolate, hoard resources, and privatize.”...
Inside The Philly Traveling Museum Where Black Collectors Have The Spotlight
“It got to the point where I had more art than walls. … I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool for a bunch of collectors...
The Super Weird, Remixed Way People Are Watching Old TV Shows
“People are sitting through one-to-two minute, out-of-order clips of TV shows and movies on social media, awkwardly cropped for the vertical format and often...
Nashville Would Like To Bring Back A Pretty Cool Piece Of Red Grooms Visual...
“Grooms’s carousel illustrates the financial challenge of regional museums, which scrounge to raise funds and then have to decide whether to add a wing...
Major Studios Turned Down ‘Stranger Things’
And it’s become, essentially, Netflix’s Star Wars, “that anchor series that drives customer acquisition and helps define the original programming.” - Los Angeles Times...
Tom Stoppard’s Language Blazed With Urgency
“He loved his words to the point of mania and yet fretted over their inadequacy, making the mere act of speech seem somehow both...
With A Phone, A Friend, And Some LEGO, You’re All Set To Understand The...
Sure, people didn’t have phones (or LEGO) 2,000 years ago, but even they knew the Earth was round. - Wired
Whose ‘Time’ Is It, In Oscars Terms?
And what does that mean, anyway? Can an actor, or director, win on vibes alone? - Vulture
How Did These Film Studios Get Approved In A British Greenbelt?
One person on the town council: “This is the direct result of ill-thought-out planning changes and poor decision making, which threaten to destroy our...
Actor Jason Schwartzman Loves The Library
“Everyone else is so calm, and everyone’s working or researching or something. It’s almost like a movie set, and I have to pretend I’m...
In Turbulent Times, An ‘Uneasy Book’ Might Be The Perfect Thing
Tessa Hadley: "Storytelling was the most powerful magic I knew: it got expressed first in the games I played out with my friends. Written...
Do You Miss Angelfire And Geocites?
Then the indie web might be for you. It’s “pushing back against algorithms and AI and calling for a more creative, personal internet.” -...
