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As Wells College Closes, A Beloved Statue Loses Its Head
Minerva, whose feet students had kissed for luck for 150 years, was decapitated by a backhoe. For many, “the accident felt like a final...
Octavia Butler’s Birthday Is A Reminder That We Need Black Women’s Visions For The...
“Octavia E. Butler envisioned with eerie precision: a world of increasing drug addiction and illiteracy, global shifts towards authoritarian populism, vast gaps between...
The De La Torre Brothers Make Maximalist Art On Both Sides Of The Border
“As a young artist, you’re wondering: Are you a craft person? Are you a conceptual artist? Are you Mexicano? Are you Americano? A Chicano?...
Are The Famous Yellow Van Mobile Libraries Being Phased Out In The Scottish Highlands?
A fleet of ten is now seven, of which a majority “carry fewer books and have to be loaded and unloaded. librarian, whose...
How Hard Is It To Film ESports?
It’s not easy, just like a physical sports game. Some so-called observers “will have the ability to jump between player perspectives, seeing exactly what's...
It’s Summer, So The Debate About The Sweatiest Movie Of All Time Is Too...
Recent movies (Hit Man, anyone?), even when set in New Orleans, just aren’t … sweaty. So what wins the title of sweatiest movie of...
A Dance Dream Fulfilled
As Jawole Willa Jo Zollar fully lets go of the reins, 40 years after founding the dance troupe Urban Bush Women, she’s created one...
In Britain, A Judge Rules That A Character In Steve Coogan’s ‘The Lost King’...
This means that “after a preliminary hearing means that the case can proceed to a full trial where Coogan, Baby Cow and Pathe will...
The Short, Amazing Life Of The CD-ROM
Remember Encarta? That was a Microsoft product. But in 1994, even "the oldest-school tech giant of them all, IBM, found the strangest of bedfellows...
What To Read Next, Based On Your Favorite Tony Nominee
If you loved Appropriate? Well, it’s got to be Mat Johnson’s Loving Day. You’re an Outsiders fan? How about you take a look at...
The Recent Person On The Street Interviews That Caught Up Henry Winkler, Baz Luhrmann,...
“Go to any awards show red carpet and you will find teams and teams of people clutching clipboards. You know what’s on those clipboards?...
The Woman Trying To Market A Nobel-Winning Poet
Elizabeth Horan would really like us to know the name - and work - of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, "the first and only great...
Stephen Fry, For One, Is Ready For Britain To Return The Parthenon Marbles
Indeed, he compares the Ottoman Empire giving away anything from Greece to Nazi Germany giving away French monuments. And it’s not the first time...
The Near-Miraculous Rehabilitation Of Merrily We Roll Along
The arc of storied flop to Tony winner was long. How did it happen? - The New York Times
Portland’s Prose Before Bros Book Club Started With Seven Members
Now the book club - for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color - has more than 1300 members, and it’s about way more...
Blame Books For All Of The Sexy Fairy Baby Names
That’s right: Parents who love Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR for those in the know) series haven’t learn from...
Everyone, Calm Down – Inside Out 2 Is Here To Keep Your Box Office...
Don’t give into Hollywood ennui: “Inside Out 2 had a staggering, and record-breaking, $295 million global debut." - Los Angeles Times
Who Tried To Steal Graceland?
The story “began with a brazen plot that made international headlines in May: Naussany Investments, a company that did not seem to exist, run by...
The Tonys, With Some Surprises, Finish With Twelve Different Winning Shows
One of the biggest surprises of the night came near the end of the show, with The Outsiders winning four categories, including Best New...
If You Can Hear The Lyrics On Broadway, Thank The Sound Mixers
“It used to be that Broadway didn’t use microphones. Actors simply projected. … But now actors and musicians have microphones, and speakers are everywhere....
Artists Rally At The Hammer Museum After Attempts To Build Another Encampment At UCLA...
Their letter: “We refuse to be placated by images and objects while artists in Gaza, like Heba Zagout, are murdered everyday. … We refuse...
This Professionally Trained Ballerina And Scientist Uses Dance To Teach
To teach … about food safety, that is. “Science and art have several things in common,” says Eleonora Moratto, “and specifically ballet and science...
Has Broadway Finally Reconciled With Pop Music?
Maybe! There’s “the sense that the theater has so fully reconciled with pop, rock, R&B and country — you know, the music that’s been...
Why Did The Washington Post Hire A Publisher And Incoming Editor At The Center...
Both, “when they worked as journalists in London two decades ago, used fraudulently obtained phone and company records in newspaper articles, according to a...
Swiss Museum Removes Monet, Van Gogh After Facing Up To Their Possibly Nazi Looted...
Kunsthaus Zurich is finally facing up to the issue, that is: “There have long been suspicions about the provenance of works in the Emil...
