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When You Want A Dragon, Sometimes You Have To Just Do The Job Yourself
Christopher Paolini really wanted to be a dragon-rider, but that wasn't a job opportunity. So the then-15-year-old wrote a book instead. - The New...
Spotify Cutting Nearly One-Fifth Of Its Staff
It's the third round of cuts for Spotify, and "equates to about 1,500 jobs." - NPR
A New Literary Prize Won’t Be Judged By The Usual Suspects
For the Inside Literary Prize, inspired by a similar prize in France, "a jury of inmates in prisons across six states will be able...
The Movies That Truly Moved People
Sometimes, the scenery really does work - for instance, many people dropped everything and moved to New Zealand after seeing The Lord of the...
Chicago’s Siskel Film Center Isn’t Complete Without Roger Ebert’s Name
"It wasn’t until they teamed up in 1976 to take their film criticism to an even wider audience through the medium of television that...
Broadway Singers And Senior Living Facilities Are Clearly A Match Made In NY
One of the Broadway kids performing in front of an audience of Broadway aficionados said, "I was expecting to have the best show ever...
The British Independent Film Awards Really Liked A Supernatural Gay Drama
The film All of Us Strangers won best film, best screenplay, best director, best supporting actor and several craft awards. - Variety
Using Virginia Woolf As A Survival Strategy
When, 95 years ago, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando: A Biography, she didn't know that her satirical, clever, sweeping love letter to an aristocrat would...
Who Should Win The UK’s Big Turner Prize?
Four finalists contend, but "I don’t believe anyone cares who wins any more. The artists successfully derailed the system themselves in 2019." - The...
Trying To Defend ‘The Humanities’ Isn’t Working – Not At All
"An atmosphere of urgency and calls for immediate action are hostile to fields of study like literature and philosophy that require a contemplative mood,...
Oregon’s Sleepy Capital City Connects Its Musical Youth To Classical Stars
The program brings students from rival high schools together in a non-competitive environment to work and play with pros. Project Chamber Music's "secret sauce...
A Play In France Reflects Life, Which Then Intrudes On The Play
After a play about Black Frenchwomen's experiences premiered in the summer in southern France, a series of racist attacks followed - and one actress...
Today’s Most Bankable Actors All, Suddenly, Seem To Be Irish
"So, what’s the craic with this Irish invasion?" - Slate
Cookbooks Are On A Mission
Some of them are, anyway, trying to help their readers cook for the planet. - Wired
Hold On, Merriam Webster, Oxford Has Picked A Different Word Of The Year
And it's the slightly iffy-sounding, if not meaning, "rizz" (chaRIZZma, get it?). The word even beat out "situationship" and "Swiftie." Why? Because the Gen-Alphas...
Sundays With Singer Andrea Bocelli
Except for church, around the corner from his place in Tuscany, it isn't that different from other days. "When you’re a singer, what night...
Susan Sarandon Apologizes For Her Remarks About Jews
Sarandon, whose agents dropped her after her remarks at a Nov. 17 rally in support of a cease-fire in Gaza, wrote on Instagram that...
Saudi Arabia’s Architectural Mega-Projects Are For Whom, Or What, Exactly?
"It will take to the limit the proposition that art can change the world for the better." Er, indeed. - The Observer (UK)
How A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Teaches Theatre To Her Students
Lynn Nottage: "American Spectacle has always begun with a field trip to the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. ... We also go to vogue...
Do Poor And Lower-Middle Class Kids Deserve Access To The Humanities?
West Virginia says no. "For most students, their state’s main public university remains their best hope of breaching the walls of class difference. As...
Booker Winner Paul Lynch On His Dystopian Novel
Lynch has been incessantly (after the prize) "asked for his views on far right movements in Western Europe and about the recent riots in Dublin that...
Bologna Decides To Repair Its 12-Century Leaning Tower
"The city’s mayor, Matteo Lepore, noted in a debate earlier this month that the Garisenda tower had leaned since it was built 'and has...
How To Get The Best Black Friday, Cyber Monday, And Every Other Day Deals...
For that matter, the best deal on books, streaming, magazines, newspapers, and a lot more - yes, yes, you already know: A library card....
John Nichols, Author Of The Milagro Beanfield War, Has Died At 83
The author, who moved from New York to New Mexico, fell for the state. His publisher: "A lot of his work might be characterized...
The David Hockney-Keith Haring-Jean-Michel-Basquiat Amusement Park Is Reopening
That's right, people will soon be able to see (but not ride) a Keith Haring carousel at the long-neglected, now revived amusement park Luna...