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Who Won Sundance?
Basically, indies. (And, don't tell the Oscars of 2025, but a lot of women directors crushed it at Sundance too.) In the Summers, the...
Influenced By TikTok, Pop Music Has Reined It In
It's not just TikTok - "The average song length peaked at 4 minutes 21 seconds in 1992," or about 30 years before TikTok came...
The Man Who Set Fire To A Japanese Anime Studio Has Been Sentenced To...
The fire was an "arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more." - BBC
The Accountants Seem To Be Running The Show At Netflix And Other Streamers
"Why would you scrap a movie that is all but finished before anyone except studio suits have had a chance to see it? The...
Why Did The Santa Barbara Museum Of Art Suddenly Cancel A Show And Let...
The show was focused on the legacy of Michael Fried's 1965 show Three American Painters. The new show, Three American Painters: Then and Now, was...
Tiler Peck’s Smooth Move From Prima Ballerina To Company Choreographer
Peck isn't giving up the stage at City Ballet; indeed, she wore pointe shoes as she choreographed her new work. "If they tell me...
The Music Meant To Calm The Anxious, Angry Flying Public At LAX
In LAX's Orchestrina, "he light dims to a soothing cerulean. Swells of ambient music rise to meet passengers as the moving sidewalk whisks them...
Miguel Cervantes’ Eight Year Run As Hamilton Has Come To A Close
Cervantes played Alexander Hamilton for more than two thousand shows, through the early days of the pandemic and much more - including the death...
The Des Moines Art Center Says It Can’t Afford To Keep Up Its Superb...
DMAC says dismantling is cheaper than repairing. Greenwood Pond: Double Site "is considered to be the first urban wetland project in the country. Its...
When Our TVs Disappear
One new TV "makes an image appear on what otherwise looks like a clear piece of glass." Another company has a screen that "looks...
The Problems With ‘Heritage’ Tourism
Heritage tourism isn't new - after WWII, "Europe welcomed America’s tourists, and tried to encourage more to come. Some hosted 'homecomings'—festivals meant to lure...
Poet Lev Rubenstein, A Founder Of Russian Conceptualism And Putin Critic, Has Died At...
Rubenstein was hit by a car and died from his injuries. Rubenstein created "genre-bending 'note card poems,' with each stanza printed on a separate...
The Anchorage Museum Pauses A Program To Allow Native Alaskans Free Entry
"The policy, announced on January 3, allowed Alaska Native visitors to self-identity at the museum’s ticket counter; no proof of tribal enrollment was required to...
A Writer Discovers The Power Of Butcher Paper
As Ashley Elston "approaches the end of her first draft, pulls a six-foot sheet of brown butcher paper from a roll on a...
From Stage To Screen, Misty Copeland Would Like To See Diverse Pointe Shoes
The emoji for ballet slippers is just as pink as the formerly "standard" shoe - and Copeland wants to change the emojis as well....
Time To Retire The Singing Of ‘Rule, Britannia’ From The BBC Proms
Or so says Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who said, "maybe some people don't realise how uncomfortable a song like that can make a lot of people...
Protesters Confront Hollywood At Sundance
With some actors and directors from the festival, around 200 protesters shut down Main Street. "'We are not protesting Sundance,' said the action's first...
One Of The World’s Greatest Music Collections Is Located In A Town Of 12,000...
How did Vermillion, South Dakota, end up with one of the largest collections outside of Belgium and France? A music professor, of course. -...
The Legal Questions At The Heart Of The Case Against Alec Baldwin
""Baldwin has maintained all along that he did not pull the trigger that day as he rehearsed a scene in which he draws a...
The New Novels Of Motherhood
We're talking rage, pain, sleeplessness, psychological dislocation - and, of course, joy. - The Guardian (UK)
Chaotic Press Appearances May Be Just The Thing A Rising Star Needs
Slamming Millennials, talking about Meghan Thee Stallion's posterior - Regina George, a singer and actor who is one of the new Mean Girls movie's...
What Really Happened With The Italian Culture Minister Accused Of Exhibiting Stolen Art?
The trail of evidence sounds strong. "Italy’s art theft police that they believe that the painting reported stolen from the castle in Piedmont and...
France Is Riveted By A Series About The Grooming Of Young Actresses
But this fascination may not be enough to change the industry. Juliet Godrèche, writer and director of the dark autobiographical tale, says, "People who...
Arts Leaders In New York Band Together, Beg Mayor To Reverse Drastic Budget Cuts
"The now-infamous round of cuts drew widespread media attention when libraries were forced to close their doors on Sundays. Despite museum leaders’ outcry, Adams slashed DCLA spending...
We Should All Be Reading Hannah Arendt Now
"The dull gray masses which popular imagination associates with twentieth-century totalitarian rule were never really unified, Arendt tells us. Mass movements were created out...
