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Can This Violent, Funny, Queer Comedy Break Through Summer’s Doldrums?
Possibly, Bottoms - being released in a post-Barbie world - can win through where Joy Ride (equally raunchy, but not violent) and No Hard...
The Deep Thrill Of Watching A Film That Is Streaming Exactly Nowhere
"We often let ourselves believe that everything, now, is available to us — that nothing is lost and every experience can be accessed and repeated."...
Why Would Writers Destroy Their Own Work?
Ask Sylvia Plath - or French writer Barbara Molinard, who ripped her finished stories into shreds and fed them to the fire before rewriting...
When You’re At A Music Festival, You Often Need A Cell Signal
And yet, none is to be found. Why? - The Guardian (UK)
Gimmick Or Not, National Cinema Day Returns
Sure, multiplexes and art houses are already crammed with people seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer, but for one day next week, it'll be a cheaper...
Need An Antidote To Hopelessness?
Try these films, music, books, and art. - The Guardian (UK)
Readers Want Comfort Fiction, It Appears
And Colleen Hoover is on the bestseller lists because that's what she provides, in every single book she writes, no matter the genre. -...
Where Have Theatre Audiences Gone?
One expert says theatres have to invest in kids to inculcate a cultural habit "they might enjoy as they get older" - but, she...
The Musicians In Love With Obscure Instruments
Paul Rogers plays "a hybrid of the baroque-period viola da gamba, double bass and Indian sitar, seven rather than four playing strings, as well...
AI Generated Work Is Not Copyrightable, Judge Rules
If there's one thing Hollywood moguls love more than cheap, AI-generated work, it's copyright. - The Hollywood Reporter
Actors With Dwarfism Aren’t Pleased With Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa
And those actors also point out that if Hollywood can go digital to make Grant small, Hollywood can use digital tools to make them...
A Teacher Read Her Fifth-Graders A Book About A Fish’s Shadow
And then she was fired. - Washington Post
How Actor Lea Salonga Relaxes Between Performances Of Here Lies Love
Her PlayStation 5 is key, she says - and the K-Pop stars BTS. - The New York Times
Professors Are Using AI To Cheat Academic Journals
That's only if you consider AI cheating, of course - which apparently many scientific journals do not? - Wired
Bradley Cooper Didn’t Need To Mess With His Nose At All
"Sling in the right sort of suit and those who knew what Bernstein looked like would surely think the actor close enough. There...
Is Balzac’s House In Paris Worth A Visit?
Perhaps. "The house is strikingly modest—a low, almost defensive-looking structure, huddled on the hillside like a barnacle." - The Paris Review
Several Men Are Convicted In A Multinational Art Theft Sting Operation
A Chinese Min dynasty vase, valued at more than £2 million, was stolen in Geneva in 2019 by an international art theft ring that...
Get Rid Of Your Physical Books
There's just no need to have the dust-collectors cluttering up your house. - Slate
Studios And Writers Will Continue Talks This Week
Are things changing? Reports say Disney's and Netflix's CEOS pressured the studios for a deal- "an offer that reportedly included ensuring human beings would...
This Dancer Challenged South African Apartheid In Ballet – And Then Fled To England
Johaar Mosaval has died at 95. Mosaval, who had South Asian ancestry, "was prohibited from touching White dancers with his bare hands" - but...
It’s Time To Embrace ‘Bad’ Audience Behavior
After all, they're live. That's what we want - energy. - The Guardian (UK)
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Authorize Strike
The musicians voted just before the season begins. The union local's president said, "Management has shown that musicians are a cost to be contained,...
With This Tech, Human Can Truly Feel The Music
New haptic suits take individual notes, and turn them into specific spinal, ankle, and other vibrations. Cool??: "Wearing one of them feels a little...
We Don’t Understand Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees
In the 19th century, those trees were like hooded skeletons - harbingers of darkness and death. - Hyperallergic
Looking For ‘The Next Adele,’ England Puts A Performing Arts School Up North
In nearly direct opposition to the UK's recent lack of support for the arts, "the school will offer 500 places and will be free...
