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The 40 Years It Took This Actor To Become An Overnight Success
When William Stanford Davis auditioned for Friends, he says, "I thought I knocked it out of the park. But when I called my agent...
The Gay Rights Movement Smashed By The Publicity Surrounding Oscar Wilde
“The burgeoning gay rights movement in Britain was connected to wider late-Victorian movements for reform, part of a larger impulse to find new and...
Those Who Professionally Perform Piano Duets Together, Stay Together
Or at least that’s the hope of duo Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who met at the Moscow State Conservatory and who revived their...
Romance Is Far From Dead
Romantic fiction, that is. With romances propping up the entire publishing industry, how hard could it be to write one? (Turns out writing a...
All Of The Directors Guild Winners From Last Night
In 2023, some DGA wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once seemed to set that film, and its directors, on a path to many...
Britain’s National Gallery Needs To Change Its Cutoff Date From 1900 To, Say, 2000
We’re almost a quarter of the way into the new century, after all, and painting didn’t die off as a great art form before...
Great Movies Don’t Get Their Casts By Magic
Instead, it’s the casting directors’ hard work that makes a great movie - and that will soon be recognized by the Academic of Motion...
What Cities Can Learn From Australia’s 20th Century Art Deco Building Boom
For one thing, stop with the dire warnings about density. "Today’s housing debate may be couched in different terms, but Australia’s first apartment boom...
Warner Bros Apparently Rejected Offers From Paramount, Netflix, And Amazon For An Animated Movie
“It really just seems as if the studio’s leadership simply does not want [ streaming, or in theaters, or really even to be a topic of...
The War-Haunted Choreographer Of City Ballet
Alexei Ratmansky, “vocal in his condemnation of Russian aggression, has seen his name removed from the works he created for Russian companies. He and his Ukrainian wife,...
This Cartoonist Has Cracked The Kid Book Market
Arrowing directly to the heart of the anxious kid, Raina Telgemeier’s books have turned her cartoons into a children’s book empire. - The Atlantic
This Is Why TikTok And Universal Music Are At Loggerheads
"There are repercussions in the real world where people might not even realize—they just know, Oh, an old song is popular again. But if they...
The Book That ‘American Fiction’ Came From Is Still All Too Relevant
"The movie has come at a time when new authors of color are engaging with the same questions posed by Erasure — and publishers...
All Of The Austen Adaptations Coming To The Hallmark Channel
Yes, the Hallmark Channel. After all, some have claimed Jane Austen’s extensive novels of manners (and so much more) as “romance novels,” and after...
When Writers Choose Camp Over Tragedy
Shades of American Fiction, but make it gay: "If you were a young Black writer in America in the 1950s and early ’60s, it...
Ghana’s Contemporary Art Scene, Both Home And Away
"Here was art that felt rooted in the country even as it was being sold abroad." - The New York Times
The New Luddites Will Not Back Down
"The term has come into vogue. It’s also become an explicit rallying cry for some of those taking direct action” - especially against the...
Streaming Is Over Now, And It’s Time We Admit It
We knew it was coming, but whew. It’s rough, and expensive, for those of us who don’t like ads. - Slate
The New Grammy Category For African Music Needs To Look At A Map
Note to the Grammys: Nigeria and South Africa are not the only two countries on the continent of Africa. - NPR
Please Stop Saying This Is The ‘Year Of The Woman’ At The Grammys
What a farce that idea is. "Nearly 25% of the 1,200 most popular songs of the last 12 years were penned primarily by 12...
TikTok’s Golden Era Is Over, And So May Be Its Addictive Joy
“The malaise that has begun to suffuse TikTok feels systemic, market-driven and also potentially existential, suggesting the end of a flourishing era and the...
Carlos Kalmar Sues The Cleveland Institute Of Music
The suit accuses CIM staff of "illegal disclosure of Maestro Kalmar as the target of a federal Title IX investigation, including false and defamatory...
Jennell Jaquays Made Gaming A Richer, Deeper, More Beautiful Experience With Her Art
The artist, who died at 67 after nearly five decades of illustration and creation for D&D and other games, was so influential that “her...
The British Museum Has Decided To Put Some Of Its Stolen Items On Display
Stolen - and recovered, that is. “They are made of stone or glass, variously coloured and tiny - often barely the size of a...
Is This The Future Of Print Media?
The University of Iowa’s independent school newspaper, The Daily Iowan, just bought two nearby small-town weekly papers. The two community papers will keep their...
