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The ‘Glass Church’ In LA, Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright’s Son, Shuts Amid Landslide...
The Wayfarers Chapel "sits on the Palos Verdes peninsula, which is prone to landslides. Cracks had begun to appear in the structure, and several panes...
Turns Out Live TV Isn’t Dead
And it can thank streaming for that: "With streamers raising prices and adding commercials, maybe the urgency of watching something as it’s happening has...
Choreographer Fatima Robinson Says The Dance World Has Changed Dramatically In Her Time
That includes, in recent years, TikTok trends. “I find it so much fun. It’s an inspiring place to go to find out how young...
A White Singer Rejects A State Honor For Her Grammy Because The Legislature Chose...
"Paramore singer Hayley Williams decried a Tennessee House of Representatives dustup this week where a Republican lawmaker blocked a resolution honoring the Grammy win of Black...
Queer Literature Is On The Rise Across The Continent Of Africa
One Nigerian author: “I knew I wanted to write characters who are queer. That’s the only way I am going to show up on...
Sure, The New J-Lo Movie Is A Celebrity Vanity Project
But why aren’t more celebrities using their money for this kind of baffling, joyous, wacky creative venture? “It is genuinely exciting to see an...
School District Near Minneapolis Accedes To Somali Families’ Anti-LGBTQIA Books Request
"St. Louis Park Public Schools will allow opt-outs for families who don’t want their children to read books with LGBTQ+ characters, after six Somali...
Alexei Navalny’s Last Laugh
"I will always remember the words written on a piece of paper that Navalny held at one of his court hearings: 'I am not...
How Novels Can Crack The Tightest Belief System
When George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison let some light in. - The Guardian (UK)
Please, Please Quit It With Overperformed Audiobooks
“Please just read me a story without distraction. I don’t need to hear a variety of voices from a single narrator if a full-cast...
The BAFTAs Have Never Awarded A Black Woman With The Best Actress Award
That seems unlikely to change this year either, despite the nominations of Vivian Oparah for the charming Rye Lane and Fantasia Barrino in the...
For These Major Awards, Some Authors Were Unaccountably Declared Ineligible
Then Hugo Awards rumors started; now leaked emails confirm that “one of the Hugo administrators had advised other members to vet the finalists and...
MoMA Returned A Nazi-Looted Chagall To Its Heirs, And Garnered A Large Fee
"MoMA, which acquired in 1949, received $4 million in compensation for giving it back under an arrangement negotiated by a restitution company that...
The Monologues Of Oscar Season
Joining, say, Sally Field in Norma Rae or Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, "actors in current Oscar-season movies enjoyed ample opportunity to...
PEN America Has A Whole Bunch Of Writers Quite Furious At It
More than 600 writers have signed a letter that "condemns PEN’s relative silence on the unfolding genocide in Gaza ... on the heels of two...
Was It The Strikes, Or Sexual Harassment Allegations, That Is Shutting This Talent Agency...
Or are the harassment allegations part of an ownership argument? In any case, the A3 Artists Agency is shutting down today. - Los Angeles...
Why Won’t The ‘Toxic’ Ballet World Change?
“Who’s really motivated to change the system if it’s working for some people?” - MSN (The Telegraph UK)
Theatre Leaders In Kansas City Vow To Rebuild After Fire Guts Historic Building
This year was the Metropolitan Theater Ensemble’s fifth year in the Warwick Theatre building, which "originally opened on Sept. 26, 1914, and seated 1,200.”...
After Bell Canada Announces Massive Layoffs, Justin Trudeau Calls The Company Out
The prime minister said the media company that runs CTV and many radio stations had made “a garbage decision.” He added “that media layoffs...
The Art World Excludes Most Of Us
A journalist who got immersed as a security guard and gallery assistant says, "I became initiated into the way that the art world wields...
How To Create A Musical With A Deaf Main Character
Never forget Deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members; audio signals must be matched with visual cues. And “finding the right actor to enlist as Jones...
Ralph Fiennes Wants Theatre To Be More Affordable, And More Surprising
That he, he’s so very finished with content warnings for something like the Scottish play, which he and Indira Varma star in. He said...
Director Wim Wenders Says All Of His Films Are About How To Live
Wenders, the German director whose latest film is nominated for an Oscar, but from Japan, says “For a long time I did not know...
The Lunar New Year’s Lion Dance Draws D.C.’s Chinese Residents Back To Chinatown
The dance unites a disparate group. "Unlike cities like New York and Toronto, D.C.’s Chinatown no longer feels particularly Chinese Chinese architectural motifs still...
What Is To Become Of Opera?
Can any opera company withstand the blows of the 21st century? “The ongoing crisis in opera parallels a current 'free fall' … in American...
