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A Design Trend That’s Ruining Our Built Environment
Why? Why? "To the unknowing customer, it may just look blandly inoffensive—'so severely inoffensive, you could be anywhere,' is how I would describe this...
What Do Indigenous Viewers Think Of Scorsese’s Latest Epic?
"We have to remember that these were depictions of true, brutal premeditated murders of Indigenous people and so we should get upset and feel deeply uncomfortable"...
Jane Garrett, Editor Of Prizewinners, Has Died At 88
Garrett worked at Knopf, "initially as an editor and special assistant to Alfred Knopf himself, who had a strong devotion to publishing history books....
Movie Production Sues Actor Who Said Another Actor Was ‘Aggressive’ Toward Her
So is Me Too just completely over or what? - Los Angeles Times
So How Much Fiction Is OK For Stand-Up Comics?
One comedian says that comedians exaggerate for laughs all of the time, but "what Minhaj did was different ... because he altered the story...
AI Is Coming For Book Illustrators’ Careers
"Most writers have yet to be directly financially affected by A.I. This is not true for the commercial artists who create their book covers."...
Actors On The Picket Lines Imagine How The Strikes Might Play Out On Screen
"As far as rom-com plotlines go, some picket lines actually did include host singles meetups, so the story might center on lonely screenwriters." -...
Will Hollywood Ever Produce Large-Scale Holiday Classics Again?
The movies Elf and Love, Actually opened in early November of 2003. "Both now seem like relics of a different time — an era...
Scarlett Johansson Sues Over An AI Reproduction
"The 22-second ad, posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, ... used real footage of Johansson to generate a fake image and...
Students Hated ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ So Progressive Teachers Tried To Stop Using It
"In Mukilteo, the progressive teachers who complained about the novel saw themselves as part of an urgent national reckoning with racism." - Washington Post
Climate Protesters At Les Mis Deny Charges In Court
"District Judge Michael Snow told the defendants cancelling the show cost the theatre around £80,000. He said that they could be liable to pay...
Libraries Across Europe Hit By Cyberattacks
It's back to the analog age at the British Library, for instance. "Library users, many of whom include writers with pressing deadlines, are beginning...
Snow White And The Super Depressing Culture War
Can't we have anything nice? (Though - is Snow White actually nice at all?) - The Guardian (UK)
The Complicated Dance Of A Director In Between Films
As Kristen Lovell's The Stroll garners indie attention, she's focused on a new project: "One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the...
In The Fifties, Hollywood Tried Hard To Make Literary Adaptations Big
But it failed. Why? - LitHub
The Sculptures Were Nude, And So Were The Museum Visitors
Nudists should get the chance to appreciate art, too. - Hyperallergic
What Happened To Dawn Powell’s Books, And Her Body?
"A generational talent of New York was buried in its heart, but lost to the world and those who knew her." - NPR
London City Ballet Went Silent In The 1990s, But It’s Back
This is an ambitious time to revive a ballet company, but on the other hand - crucially, when you've already secured the first three...
The New York Times’s First-Ever Mixtaper
"In the age of digital streaming platforms, the act of discovering music ... has become streamlined and anonymized," says Lindsay Zoladz. "I wanted to...
When Collectors Die
The BBC has recovered three missing episodes of shows from the 1960s - episodes it had probably thrown out. Luckily, collectors "saved them from...
There Is No Oppenheimer Without This Austrian Jewish Woman Physicist
But there's no $1 billion-grossing biographic movie about Dr. Lise Meitner. - LitHub
When A Small-Town Story Goes To New York
It's not easy to get one of the slots at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Music, but this countries-spanning musical...
The Lure Of, And Fight Against, Fake Art
"Sometimes it involves millions of dollars. It could be the plot for a series on Netflix. They falsify the certificates, even using real notary...
No, Book Bans Don’t ‘Help’ Authors
One or two banned and censored books doing well on bestseller lists means little to the hundreds of other authors, and topics, that kids...
The Singing Star Finally Getting Her Due
It's been 50 years since Peruvian singer Lucha Reyes - who's now often compared to Piaf - died. But technology, and devoted fans, has...
