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New York’s Bessie Awards Honor Performances And Grieve For A Slain Friend
"'How is it possible that in 2023 someone was brutally murdered for dancing?' Manchildblack said." - The New York Times
In Vancouver, ‘Hollywood North’ Has Been Hit Hard By The Strikes
"Foreign film and TV shoots in Canada have ground to a halt. While domestic production continues, union leaders say that eventually many of the concerns driving...
When An NHL Player And His Wife Asked Readers To Stop Sexually Harassing Him
Hockey romance fans "gravitate to players who remind them of their favorite book boyfriends, and one popular choice is Seattle Kraken center Alex Wennberg....
The Unspoken, But Specific, Language Of Crosswords
"The rules of crosswords ... are intimately related to the grammar of language in general. Just as toddlers develop a deep knowledge of different...
Julia Scully, Influential Editor Of Modern Photography, Has Died At 94
Modern Photography "was as devoted to the technical side of photography as it was to its aesthetics. Ms. Scully focused on the latter, and...
Greta Gerwig Is About To Be The First Woman Director With A Billion Dollar...
"Barbie’s astounding success puts in a new category, which, until now, had been dominated by the likes of James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, and...
The Recent Spider-Verse Movies Have Made All Of Animation Better
Why is the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie so much better than the 2007 version? "Since Into the Spider-Verse became a box office...
Is TikTok Driving A Rise In Truly Terrible Concert Behavior?
"Harry Styles was hit in the eye with a sweet in Vienna, Bebe Rexha received stitches after she was hit in the face with...
Crime Fiction Is Perfect For Adding In Social Commentary, Author Says
Laura Lippman: "The through line in almost every book that I write is that no one is more capable of bad acts than someone...
Florida’s Anti-Gay Laws Have Stopped Its Students From Studying AP Psychology
"'To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either Florida law or college requirements,' the College Board said." Then Florida's...
Countertenor David Daniels Pleads Guilty In Sexual Assault Case
The plea deal avoids jail time. Daniels, "who appeared on some of the world’s leading stages, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and...
Why We’re Awash In Nostalgic Movies, Ads, And So Much More
"It’s not hard to understand why nostalgia is everywhere. ... It feels as though the world is spiralling towards fascism in the midst of...
Writers, Producers Meet With Absolutely Nothing To Show For It
In a note to members after the so-called meeting, "WGA leaders dampened expectations of a resolution to the strike and expressed skepticism over the...
A Stolen Van Equals A Canceled Run For A British Show In Development For...
"The play 5 Years, which took about two years to produce and features unique hologram technology, was set to be staged in Nottingham and...
Inanna, The World’s First Literary Hero
You might also know her as Ishtar. In either case, she was a hero before that upstart Gilgamesh came on the scene. - The...
Digital Replicas Already Fill Our Screens
Can the actors' unions negotiate protections against things that have already happened? "It’s not a question of technology. ... It’s a question of who...
Norway Takes On Meta’s Ads And Wins
How to defeat Zuckerberg? Well, money talks. - Wired
Dancers Across The Country Vogue At Gas Stations In Resistance After A Murder
"The protests centered on vogue as resistance. The dance style, born out of the ballroom scene in Harlem in the 1980s as a source...
Anna Netrebko Sues The Met For Lost Wages
Netrebko, fired by the opera house for her support of Vladimir Putin, "accuses the Met of discriminating against her because she is Russian; of...
Honoring The Handwritten Word, By The Thousands, On The Champs-Elysees
Traffic was blocked and 1,700 desks set up by the Arc de Triomphe, for "a public dictée. Anyone who's studied French knows the importance...
What Michael Chabon Did During The Early Days Of COVID
In those quiet, terrifying times, lo these long three years ago, Chabon did what any nerd might do: He built a replica of the...
Where Have All The Villains Gone?
"Hollywood’s sudden hostility to hostility is even playing out in cinemas now. One of the few traits shared by both Barbie and Oppenheimer is...
Why Are The Big Studios Risking Everything?
They don't exactly have a history of making great decisions: "Hollywood has a history of treating evolving consumer habits first as a threat to...
Why Aren’t More Women Playing The Trombone?
Hillary Simms, the first woman in the American Brass Quintet, would like to solve that by inspiring more girls and women - which involves...
His Left Foot On The French Horn
Felix Klieser, who was born without arms, at the Proms: "When I see myself it looks very interesting and very spectacular. But when I...
