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What It’s Like To Be A Filmmaker, Artist, And Activist
Kate Levy says she loves "to tear into hypocritical institutions or political actors who rely on oppressive yet hokey, family-first, nice people, I’m-just-doing-my-job narratives....
Why Does ‘Boheme’ Never Seem To Get Old?
"I love Puccini’s auspicious score, its bustling crowd of little melodies that converge and mature into themes that seem to hold a whole life. I...
What Are All Of Those Skyscrapers Doing To New York?
Sinking it. "The researchers estimated the weight of all of New York City’s buildings to be around 842 million tons," and there's some soil...
Stuffy, Stereotypical, And Stunningly Time-Saving
That's what Google's new chatbot can be, at least according to one author, who let it write some wedding-related emails. And it's really, really...
What Will Happen To Fall TV With The Writers Strike
For one thing, "sports will lead the TV marketplace this year, especially if advertisers can’t get the audiences they want in a strike-hampered prime...
What It Feels Like To Write A Book In A Language Your Parents Can...
"Wanting to write ... made me unintelligible to my mother. I couldn’t explain how I would survive on a career in words, and she...
The Future Of Movie Theatres
A former top lobbyist says that he thinks the future for cinemas is actually kind of bright. "I think the existential challenges — the...
British Novelist Martin Amis Has Died At 73
Amis "was among the celebrated group of novelists including Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes, whose works defined the British literary scene in...
Cannes Ready For Stars, But Braces For Protests
"The CGT union has vowed to make its presence felt -- threatening last month that it would cut power during the festival and announcing...
How, And Why, R. F. Kuang’s Satirical New Novel Came About
Kuang, author of bestseller Babel, says her new novel came to her almost fully formed. "Publishing was going through what seems like all these...
Cities Are Still Misusing Classical Music To Harass The Unhoused
This is twisted. A variety of cities and governmental departments "are using an art form once thought to carry humanity’s highest ideals to hide...
When The BBC’s Classical Station Went Eurovision
"It was so good to mine the musical riches of Cyprus, Moldova, Albania and Australia, ... and it seems that on a Venn diagram...
To The Stress Of Being A Ballerina, Add The Whole Single Mom Thing
"If I have a rehearsal and she’s on spring break from school, for example, the dancers sit in the lobby and have lunch with...
An Eight-Year-Old Girl Found A Neolithic Dagger On A Norwegian Playground
"Because flint isn’t a resource native to Norway, researchers suspect the roughly 3,700-year-old dagger originated elsewhere, perhaps in Denmark. An excavation of the school’s...
Hollywood Is So Addicted To Peter Pan
Isn't that just a little weird? "Nearly every single thing you learn about the origins of Peter Pan, Wendy, the lost boys, and Neverland...
What Happened To Great Streaming Documentaries?
The algorithm. The almighty, disgusting, algorithm, which prizes popularity above all things. So, for Netflix, the race to the bottom started with the success...
What We Lost When We Lost MTV News
"Imagine you have no and that you were just as interested in music and pop culture as young people have always been and...
Yet Another Cinerama Saved
The Seattle International Film Festival announced that it had bought the theatre, which has been closed since February of 2020, from the estate of...
Pema Tseden, Tibetan Filmmaker Who Walked A Fine Line With China, Has Died At...
"Pema Tseden rarely depicted Tibet’s Chinese population, which swelled after the Red Army seized Tibet in 1951. To elude Chinese censors, he eschewed references to...
An Honest, Anonymous Account Of Life On The Writers’ Picket Line
"The rampant and vocal factions of dissent among the WGA ranks that we saw during the last strike are functionally nonexistent. The unity within...
Can Romance Novels Please Get Rid Of The Struggling Single Mom Trope?
The protagonists are cut from the same cookie cutter mold. "Readers, let us all take a moment to silently contemplate her self-sacrifice, the definitive...
Making A Michael J. Fox Movie From Old Michael J. Fox Movies
The mashup of clips, interviews, and what the director called "a wild ride" is "genre-defying hybrid that uses Fox’s own film and TV...
The Writing Collaborators Who Help Keep Celebrities Grounded
"Behind the hubbub that surrounds performers such as Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran or Little Simz, hides a small group of hitmakers, co-writing hugely commercial songs and...
Britain Tries To Figure Out Why Its EuroVision Entry Didn’t Work Out As Hoped
How could Britain host (for Ukraine) with a smart, cheeky song and yet score so low? Mae Muller "kept up the UK's momentum of...
Ken Loach Says This Is His Last Film
"I can’t see getting round the course again. This was quite a tough one to do. My short-term memory is fading and my eyesight...
