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Lashana Lynch Talks About The Challenges Of Life Before Being 007
As an actor from a working-class background, Lynch says, "You’ve gotta decide: am I buying eggs, or putting money on my Oyster card? And...
A British Ballet Dancer Died In The US Thanks To Peanuts In An Unlabeled...
Órla Baxendale, 25, was "an exquisite ballet, contemporary, and Irish step dancer" who was incredibly cautious, knowing her peanut allergy was severe - but...
Joni Mitchell Will Perform At The Grammys For The First Time Ever
Sure, the 80-year-oldCanadian singer-songwriter has been nominated 18 times and has nine wins, and is nominated again this year for best folk album, but...
George Carlin’s Estate Sues Around Hour-Long ‘Comedy Special’ Starring AI-Generated Carlin
"'This case is not just about AI,' Josh Schiller, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. 'It’s about the humans that use...
What Can AI Do For Art History?
"In more straightforward cases of known attribution and singular styles, AI can sort images efficiently. But can it interpret art?" - Hyperallergic
Often, The ‘Voiceless’ Just Need A Better Mode Of Communication
Non-verbal autistic people aren't non-thinking. Why, then, has it "taken so long for society to question the deeply ingrained fallacy equating speech fluency with...
Marlena Shaw, Nightclub Singer Who Wowed Audiences For Decades, Has Died At 84
Shaw sang with Count Basie's big band and with Sammy Davis Jr., and moved from singing at church to jazz performances with an edge...
Can Immersive Art Help Save The UK’s Legendary, Lost High Streets?
"The visual art world is at a tipping point where traditional museums and galleries will have to begin involving immersive art in their offering...
Reminder: Amazon Prime Video Gets Ads Starting Today
Unless customers pay more, of course - $36 more a year, which, surveys show, people are not interested in paying. - The Verge
When Ghostwriters Have A Conference
Ghostwriters work "in a vacuum, sitting alone in our underwear in our offices," one says. "We don’t get out much. So I think it’s...
If Tom Hanks And Stephen Spielberg Keep Going Down The WWII Path, They Should...
"It took so much more than U.S. battlefield heroism to win this war. Indeed, only an estimated 16% of the U.S. Army ever saw...
The One Kind Of Movie You Should Watch On A Plane
The grand unified theory of plane watching includes love stories, action stories, fun stories, and anything that includes a happy ending on a plane...
David J. Skal, A Scholar Who Took Horror Seriously, Has Died At 71
"Skal was an author with encyclopedic knowledge of a subject not always taken seriously — movies meant to scare the bejesus out of people...
Sundance, In Its 40th Year, Returns To Form
No, it didn't have blockbuster deals, and no, it might not have had the shine of some previous celebrity-laden fests, but boy did it...
How To Dice And Strategize Your Way To Learning History
Can a board game be anti-colonial? Hm. "There is something dramatic about a board game. ... They’re theater exercises where the players are writing...
Bleak News About The Baltimore Sun Drives A Surge In Subscriptions To Competitors
"The news organization best positioned to take on the mantle is The Baltimore Banner, the bustling nonprofit digital newsroom described from launch as the Sun’s crosstown...
British Theatre Is Stuffed With Performances, But Not Revenue
"Words like 'challenging,' 'volatile' and 'unsustainable' feature in some theatres' annual accounts, which have been filed in recent weeks. Some have changed their programming...
Does A New Actor On White Lotus Support Putin’s War On Ukraine?
Ukraine says so, and has footage of Milos Bikovic accepting an award from the Russian president in 2018. But "the day after the invasion...
Climate Protesters Throw Soup At The Mona Lisa
"'What’s the most important thing?' they shouted. 'Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?' They added: 'Our farming system is sick. Our...
Netflix Has Changed, And There’s No Return To The Old Ways
It's all about the advertisements - and live pro wrestling, which never has an off-season. - The Verge
And Now, The Obie Award Winners
In the latest Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway awards, Ryan J. Haddad's Dark Disabled Stories won best new play and a host of other awards, while...
The Art Shanties Of Winters In Minnesota
It started small, but now, "the frozen lake becomes a temporary arts community with about 20 shanties, each with a different theme, which host...
Stephen Sondheim Is Gone, But His Musicals Are Forever – And Especially For Now
"Heading into 2024, one of the most noticeable things about the ties that unite the live theater-scape, from the Great White Way through to...
Taylor Swift Can Inspire Anything, Even The Potential Regulation Of AI Deepfake Images
Wow: "U.S. politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images, after explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift were viewed...
What, Specifically, Makes For A ‘Very Los Angeles’ Ring Cycle?
Hollywood, of course. But also, an understanding of the supernatural: "In L.A., bizarre gods have tended to operate more in realms of grand fantasy....
