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A Quick Cure For Writer’s Block
Author Catherine Ryan Howard says the best cure, in her experience, is having to pay the rent. - Irish Times (Internet Archive)
The Naval Academy Library Dumps Maya Angelou But Keeps Hitler
Clearly, it’s so much more dangerous to read about a young woman coming of age than to read Mein Kampf. - The New York...
William Morris Designs Are Literally Everywhere Now
"His legacy, like his life, is one of contradictions: he was a radical socialist and hugely successful businessman, who made wallpaper for Queen Victoria; a...
How Should Opera Deal With AI?
Royal Opera assistant director Netia Jones: “As artists, we must explore technology in all its guises because we are trained to create rather than...
An Australian Town Decided To Remake Jurassic Park
“This is Jurassic Park: Castlemaine Redux, a shot-for-shot remake (if you squint) of Jurassic Park.” The film's director, with a $3,000 budget, has classic...
Pasadena Playhouse Makes A Stunning Announcement
But this surprise is of the good, even great sort: The theatre “has paid $9.5 million to buy back the campus it lost in...
Reenacting Weimar Cabaret As Some Attitudes Toward Gender And Sex Go Retrograde
"Weimar cabaret has a kind of punk, dirty, gritty, raw, social commentary energy about it. … It flares up in times when there’s a...
Madison Ballet Is Riding An Artistic High, But That Doesn’t Fill The Seats
“Dance has always been more fragile as an audience draw; we are so keenly aware of that and are always trying to build bridges...
A Grassroots Campaign Tries To Keep Hollywood Close To Home
“We’re competing against are taking our business, our assets, our storytelling and hiring their crews instead of our crews, and that’s not good...
Behind The Scenes At Disney World
As with any large-scale production - though this one also involves a lot of mechanics around the rides - there’s an army of creative...
Artist Lambasted By Trump Says Her Business Has Been Harmed
Sarah Boardman: “President Trump is entitled to comment freely, as we all are, but the additional allegations that I 'purposefully distorted' the portrait, and...
Color Is A Math Nightmare
Also: “We technically could create a ‘universal’ solution, but every color space is made for different purposes, and they impact how everything is displayed, from the...
The Oliviers Award Fiddler On The Roof, Benjamin Button, And A Play About Roald...
John Lithgow, who won best actor, “thanked the audience for ‘welcoming me to England’ and said ‘it’s not always easy when you welcome an...
The Upper West Side May Get Its Art Deco Cinema Back, Two Decades Later
A nonprofit, the Upper West Side Cinema Center, bought the building with state and local funds. "It plans to revitalize the building, on Broadway...
After Winning An Olivier, Lesley Manville Calls For Funding For The UK’s Regional Theatres
“Repertory theatres are not funded properly any more. ... I’d love to see regional theatres given more funding. When I was starting out, it...
What Happens When The Entire SNL Audience Swears On Live TV?
We’re about to find out. - Vulture
Looks Like Scientists Might Finally Be Defining The Forever Known Unknowns
“Undecidability means that certain questions simply cannot be answered.” - Wired
Marcia Marcus, Popular 1960s Artist Rediscovered In Her Final Decade, Has Died At 97
“Marcus was everywhere that mattered to a young, determined and very talented artist in the late 1950s and ’60s. In Provincetown, Mass., on Cape...
A Documentary About Art Hustler Thomas Kinkade Lionizes, And Extends, The Whole Scam
At least, that’s what Philip Kennicott thinks: “What will become of the one-man Kinkade business model if there is no Thomas Kinkade, or people...
Even Gamers Are Furious About New Tariffs
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been delayed. Why not move production to the US? "Nintendo would need to spend billions to open a factory...
Pierce Brosnan Is So Much More Than Bond
But he’s OK if you’re stuck on that era of his long, and continuing, career. Meanwhile, he’s also a painter, which is why The...
Director’s Ex-Assistant Says He Assaulted Her And Then Backed Out Of Settlement Deal
Writer and director Paul Schrader "has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, firing her when she wouldn’t acquiesce...
Why Is An Oregon Employment Lawyer Composing And Producing Neo-Romantic Music?
Andrew Lewinter: “What things do I want to incorporate from that music into my own music, to make something that’s both intellectually satisfying and...
How Betty Boop Made It To Broadway
“Betty, who arrived just a decade after American women won the right to vote, was always working, and she often had jobs that were...
As An Irish Literary Festival Turns Forty, There’s An ‘Explosion’ Of Irish Lit Worldwide
“Cúirt is the time when all of us grassroots people get to celebrate literature and writing in our own city. ... Writers are very...
