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Past Lives Wins Best Foreign Film, Zone Of Interest Wins Best Film At London...

Best Actor for Andrew Scott, for All of Us Strangers, was impressed by its status at number one in Ireland and the UK. "'For...

We Need To Talk About Theatre Critic Gordon Rogoff

Rogoff, who died last week at 92, was "able to capture in vivid, richly metaphoric language the unique brilliance of a stage performance. Rogoff...

Warming Temperatures Shut Down Minneapolis Art Shanties After One ‘Zany’ Weekend

The story played out after the first gloriously thick ice weekend with increasingly dire warnings on Instagram, over text, and on the Art Shanties’...

Boston’s Theatres Fight For Survival

In Boston as in many other places, "financial struggle has become a grim common denominator among theaters with different aesthetic identities and sense of...

Everything You Need To Know About Tonight’s Grammys

Beyoncé needs three wins to tie - or four to beat - Georg Solti’s total. - The New York Times

Pay Phones Are For The Birds

One old pay phone booth in Maryland is for bird calls, thanks to a musician and audio producer. Of the calls, he says, “Some...

The Theatre Director Who Likes To Go Too Far

“No one like Milo Rau exists in American theater, because commercial producers need to make money, and no government body is willing to match...

Lisa Hunt, Who Transformed Gold Leaf In Her Art, Has Died At 55

Hunt "often marked her works with 24-karat gold leaf, which she attributed to the gilded artworks of the African diaspora, the Art Deco movement,...

The Violinist Fighting For The Rights Of Hollywood’s Musicians

In a suprise to no one, one of the American Federation of Musicians' "biggest concerns is the film and TV industry’s transition to streaming,...

The Young Filmmaker Who Lived A Fairytale At Sundance

Sean Wang, 29-year-old director of Didi, "has been preparing for his Sundance moment since he discovered Spike Jonze’s skater videos as a teenager before heading off...

Issa Rae Might Be A Bit Too Smart For Hollywood

What other conclusion can be drawn from (HBO) Max’s decision to cancel Rap Sh!t? But: "Rae is ... bidding on land in her stomping...

A Man Has Died After Falling From Tate Modern’s 10th Floor

“The Met said the man's death was being treated as 'unexpected but not thought to be suspicious.’" - BBC

Hulu And Disney Are Next On The Great Password Sharing Crackdown

Well, it sure was fun to watch Andor and Love, Victor and Only Murders in the Building, etc., while password-sharing lasted. Cram it all...

Mark Gustafson, Director Of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Dies At 63

Gustafson won an Oscar last year for the stop-motion animation he and Del Toro co-directed. He "upheld a tradition of craftsmanship at a time...

The Bejart Ballet Lausanne Dumps Its Artistic Director For Cause

The artistic director at the prestigious ballet invited a former production director, who had been fired after a massive investigation into harassment, to a...

Why Are Tech Bros Trying To ‘Disrupt’ Books, Which They Don’t Even Like?

Stop with the bullet points, already, dudes! Leave books alone. - LitHub

Adapting Don Quixote For The Stage Means Taking Inspiration From Texas

"You need to pry that book from cold dead fingers and make it yours,” the artistic director of the California Shakespeare Festival told...

Ad-Free Streaming Is Nearing Its End

Why? Advertising makes a lot more money than subscribers can pay. (Hence, you know, the original channels.) - CBC

Alice Mackler, Sculptor Discovered In Her 80s, Has Died At 92

"After taking up art as a teenager at boarding school in the 1940s, Ms. Mackler spent a lifetime supporting herself with low-level office jobs...

The Point Of Writing Is Writing

“A book’s quality is not dispositive—or sometimes even relevant to book sales. The publisher isn’t going to be able to charge more for my...

Universal Music Group Pulls All Its Music From TikTok

Users are now considering Instagram once again. - The New York Times

Hundertwasser’s New Zealand Legacy

The Hundertwasser Art Centre "has had a bumpy start. The centre opened in February 2022, while New Zealand’s international borders were still closed to...

Turns Out That Playing An Instrument Helps Your Brain Age Well

A new study claims that "practising and reading music may help sustain good memory and the ability to solve complex tasks." - BBC

The Dark Art Of Comedy In Ukraine Under Russian Attack

"Before the war, many comedians performed their sets in Russian and eyed major comedy festivals in Russia as the pinnacle of career achievement. ......

One Texas Teacher Features A Secret Shelf Of Banned Books – And Her Students...

She is not having it with the censors. For one of her students, it's changed his life. "Until recently, he says, was not naturally...
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