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A Window Into A New Opera Festival
What the Prototype festival brings to audiences: Anything from Biblical translations to "a kind of nostalgic reminder of the loud, messy, nudity-filled, often self-serious,...
Bill O’Reilly Apoplectic At His Own Books Being On A Removal List In Florida...
The former FOX News host who hard-core supported this very book censorship legislation wrote on X/Twitter, "Things are getting crazy with book banning in #Florida."...
Queen Camilla Chooses A Rather Interesting Book For Her Book Club
The author of a book about King Charles and other members of the Royal Family being held hostage says, "the move showed the Queen...
The Portland Opera Is Selling Its Building To Relieve Debt
The company "will be vacating the entire bundle: administrative offices, costume shop, rehearsal space, parking lot and all." Where will it go? That's not...
AI Is Making Mincemeat Out Of Art, And Intellectual Property As Well
"Tech companies scrape the work of artists and writers to their benefit without consent or compensation, turning anyone who has ever had the audacity...
What The World Of Bestselling Celebrity Books Does To Regular Writers
It isn't pretty: "Publishing is competing with other forms of entertainment in an increasingly fragmented media landscape, and an author with existing name recognition...
The Rise And Spectacular Collapse Of Substack
The issues: "The company wanted to have it both ways: to exert the cultural influence of a major media company without shouldering any more...
A Fire In Seattle’s Pioneer Square Damages Work By Rembrandt, Picasso
"The artworks by local and international artists, both contemporary and historical, span a time frame from the 1400s to today and are valued anywhere...
Can The Bloomsbury Group Please Get Its Art Back?
At Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's Charleston, the house and many furnishings have been preserved, but a foundation would very much like the creators'...
How Writer Octavia Butler Foretold The Future
This is a skill many science fiction writers would like to possess - but it wasn't uncomplicated. "Through the noise of late-20th-century America, Butler...
The Hotel That Launched A Million Books
Without a real-life murder mystery at an Indian hotel, Agatha Christie may never have launched Hercule Poirot. - BBC
How Actors Speak In Early Awards Shows Can Determine Whether They Earn An Oscar
While voting is still happening, "Many an Oscar has been won or lost on the basis of a good or bad performance on a...
Indiana University Cancels An 87-Year-Old Artist’s Retrospective
Why cancel Yale School of Art professor Samia Halaby's show? Well, she's Palestinian, and she's vocal in her support of the Gazans under attack...
Willem Dafoe Wants People To Stop Taking Sex So Seriously
At least the sex in Poor Things, his new movie. - Washington Post
In Chicago, Comedy Teachers Settle With Management To Avert A Second City Strike
When unions post "Strikes work" on social media, this is what they mean: "Negotiations had dragged on for almost two years before the union...
Who Will Win The Long-Delayed Emmys?
And who should win? (Hint: Not the third season of Ted Lasso.) - The Hollywood Reporter
So Were The Book Of Kells Illuminator Monks On Mushrooms Or What?
"All the monks who worked on it shared a sense of revelation liberated from verbal meaning." - The Guardian (UK)
The Literary Line A Bot Truly Cannot Cross
Sure, Google Translate can help out with ordering a coffee in another language, but "neural machine-translation models can translate only about 30 percent of...
How The Absolutely Not A Hit Single ‘Insomniac’ Became A Staple Of A Capella...
It's so popular now, still, thanks to hand-transcriptions from the 1990s - and a Best of College A Capella compilation CD. "Many of the...
The Irish Bestselling Author Whose Anxiety Drove Her To The Library – And Then...
Evie Woods's The Lost Bookshop is her fourth novel, and it's outselling nearly everyone else's novels at the moment. But don't ask her to...
The Oscars Couldn’t Handle Having A Popular Film Award
But the Golden Globes could, and the intrigue was great as Taylor Swift faced off against Barbie. The doll won. Can the Academy ever...
Jodie Foster Says She’s No Expert On Movies, Just On Herself
It's been nearly six decades since then-toddler Jodie Foster played her first role. "Even minor celebrity is corrosive, and Foster’s fame is ridiculous. It...
She Helped Bring Some Parity To Theatre
And now, Julia Jordan is stepping down from the Lilly Awards to return to her first love - writing plays. - The New York...
The Questionable Ethics Of The Movie May-December
"What do filmmakers owe the people who inspire the stories they tell, particularly when those stories involve abuse or exploitation?" - Los Angeles Times
The Oscars Could Take Some Notes From Turner Classic Movies
TCM knows how to create a good in memoriam montage, so why doesn't the Academy? - NPR
