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Alfred Molina On Playing A Lawyer In The Scopes Monkey Trial
"We've had a lot of excited conversations after the play with members of the audience who are responding very energetically to the questions that...
The Challenges Of Describing Dance
Making ballet accessible to those with low vision or those who are blind isn't simple. It's so much more than just the movement -...
That Freshman Year Class Where You Learn To Make A ‘Selfie’ Quilt
"At the end of the first week, I hand out needles and thread." - Inside Higher Ed
Joan Armatrading Has Entered The Classical Music Chat
"Armatrading’s creative life is built on asking questions." - The New York Times
This Finnegan’s Wake Reading Group Has Finished The Book, 28 Years On
There's a reason Finnegan's Wake often has reading "gropes" instead. "Fialka leans into that visionary aspect, describing his group as 'more a performance art...
Who Is Blocking Latinx Representation In Hollywood?
"Every culture, country or ethnic group is a fragile project held together by duct tape and shared myths. In the most literal sense, we...
The Secret Life Of A Times Square Busker
"A stream of passengers walked by, searching for anything to look at other than the 32-year-old man struggling to fit an egg-shaped cardboard headpiece...
In Portugal, A DJ Priest Spins Up Electronica For His Parishioners
To be fair, he also caters to non-parishioners, and even non-believers, at the dance hall. - MSN (AP)
Director Michael Winterbottom On Finding His Passion
"In my teens, I went to ... fortnightly foreign-language film screenings religiously. I was always desperate to escape, and these films briefly transported me...
Making A Hugely Popular Dance Game Accessible
Just Dance has more than 500 choreographed routines from around the world - and has now added dance routines for people using wheelchairs....
Who Won The National Translation Awards?
"In the title poem, 'one long-serving intellectual screamed at his friend / When I’m talking about democracy / you shut the hell up.'" - LitHub
Artists Rally In NYT Headquarters To Call Out The Newspaper’s Gaza Coverage
"About 150 artists and cultural workers including photographer Nan Goldin and poet Eileen Myles flooded the lobby of the New York Times headquarters in midtown Manhattan."...
Want To Know The Roots Of Inequality?
Look no farther than the art of Europe in the Middle Ages. - Fast Company
Face It, Prestige TV Is Over
"It’s a story of dizzying success, followed by hubristic overreach and cautious retreat." - The Observer (UK)
Can We Please Not Resurrect The First-Person-Industrial-Media-Complex?
Just stop (again) with the personal essay craze. - Out of Your League
Prince Harry’s Lawsuit Against The Daily Mail Publisher Is Allowed To Continue
"As well as Prince Harry, the newspaper group faces multiple claims of 'gross breaches of privacy' from Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley,...
First They Took ‘Sex’ Out Of The Title, Then They Shut Down The Whole...
Why did G/O shut down Jezebel when millions of readers click every day? You can blame AI - and "brand safety." - 404 Media
When The Final Curtain Is Only The Beginning Of The Evening
New York theatres are finally starting to take advantage of relaxed laws around alcohol so they can be their own theatre bars. It's a...
Why Do So Many People In The U.S. Love To Forge Viking Artifacts?
Turns out you don't have to feel bad about stolen land if it was your country's land to begin with. - Slate
The Countess Who Brought Us Pasolini And Zeffirelli Has Died At 89
Marina Cicogna was Italy's first woman producer - and despite her family name and heritage, her path was far from simple. - The New...
Can Creativity Inspire And Transform Medicine?
"Medicine has a 'creativity problem,' ... and too many people working in health care are resigned to the status quo, the dehumanizing bureaucracy." Call...
How Film Shaped Sondheim’s Work
Sondheim loved film. "Sondheim told Secrest, 'During my formative years, movies really molded my entire view of the world.'" - American Theatre
The Frick Pittsburgh Apologizes For Postponing Islamic Art Show
The museum's executive director also apologized for the way she discussed the postponement: "There are no excuses for what I said, regardless of my...
Hey Nintendo, Play Our Recessional Hymn
There's nothing like programming a GameBoy to play the local church organ. - BBC
Lara Parker, Who Brought Humanity To Her Undead Character, Has Died At 84
Parker "helped expand the two-dimensional portrayals of vampires and witches seen in old Hollywood B-movies" on Dark Shadows, a popular Gothic soap opera. -...
