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Marlena Shaw, Nightclub Singer Who Wowed Audiences For Decades, Has Died At 84
Shaw sang with Count Basie's big band and with Sammy Davis Jr., and moved from singing at church to jazz performances with an edge...
Can Immersive Art Help Save The UK’s Legendary, Lost High Streets?
"The visual art world is at a tipping point where traditional museums and galleries will have to begin involving immersive art in their offering...
Reminder: Amazon Prime Video Gets Ads Starting Today
Unless customers pay more, of course - $36 more a year, which, surveys show, people are not interested in paying. - The Verge
When Ghostwriters Have A Conference
Ghostwriters work "in a vacuum, sitting alone in our underwear in our offices," one says. "We don’t get out much. So I think it’s...
If Tom Hanks And Stephen Spielberg Keep Going Down The WWII Path, They Should...
"It took so much more than U.S. battlefield heroism to win this war. Indeed, only an estimated 16% of the U.S. Army ever saw...
The One Kind Of Movie You Should Watch On A Plane
The grand unified theory of plane watching includes love stories, action stories, fun stories, and anything that includes a happy ending on a plane...
David J. Skal, A Scholar Who Took Horror Seriously, Has Died At 71
"Skal was an author with encyclopedic knowledge of a subject not always taken seriously — movies meant to scare the bejesus out of people...
Sundance, In Its 40th Year, Returns To Form
No, it didn't have blockbuster deals, and no, it might not have had the shine of some previous celebrity-laden fests, but boy did it...
How To Dice And Strategize Your Way To Learning History
Can a board game be anti-colonial? Hm. "There is something dramatic about a board game. ... They’re theater exercises where the players are writing...
Bleak News About The Baltimore Sun Drives A Surge In Subscriptions To Competitors
"The news organization best positioned to take on the mantle is The Baltimore Banner, the bustling nonprofit digital newsroom described from launch as the Sun’s crosstown...
British Theatre Is Stuffed With Performances, But Not Revenue
"Words like 'challenging,' 'volatile' and 'unsustainable' feature in some theatres' annual accounts, which have been filed in recent weeks. Some have changed their programming...
Does A New Actor On White Lotus Support Putin’s War On Ukraine?
Ukraine says so, and has footage of Milos Bikovic accepting an award from the Russian president in 2018. But "the day after the invasion...
Climate Protesters Throw Soup At The Mona Lisa
"'What’s the most important thing?' they shouted. 'Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?' They added: 'Our farming system is sick. Our...
Netflix Has Changed, And There’s No Return To The Old Ways
It's all about the advertisements - and live pro wrestling, which never has an off-season. - The Verge
And Now, The Obie Award Winners
In the latest Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway awards, Ryan J. Haddad's Dark Disabled Stories won best new play and a host of other awards, while...
The Art Shanties Of Winters In Minnesota
It started small, but now, "the frozen lake becomes a temporary arts community with about 20 shanties, each with a different theme, which host...
Stephen Sondheim Is Gone, But His Musicals Are Forever – And Especially For Now
"Heading into 2024, one of the most noticeable things about the ties that unite the live theater-scape, from the Great White Way through to...
Taylor Swift Can Inspire Anything, Even The Potential Regulation Of AI Deepfake Images
Wow: "U.S. politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images, after explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift were viewed...
What, Specifically, Makes For A ‘Very Los Angeles’ Ring Cycle?
Hollywood, of course. But also, an understanding of the supernatural: "In L.A., bizarre gods have tended to operate more in realms of grand fantasy....
Who Won Sundance?
Basically, indies. (And, don't tell the Oscars of 2025, but a lot of women directors crushed it at Sundance too.) In the Summers, the...
Influenced By TikTok, Pop Music Has Reined It In
It's not just TikTok - "The average song length peaked at 4 minutes 21 seconds in 1992," or about 30 years before TikTok came...
The Man Who Set Fire To A Japanese Anime Studio Has Been Sentenced To...
The fire was an "arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more." - BBC
The Accountants Seem To Be Running The Show At Netflix And Other Streamers
"Why would you scrap a movie that is all but finished before anyone except studio suits have had a chance to see it? The...
Why Did The Santa Barbara Museum Of Art Suddenly Cancel A Show And Let...
The show was focused on the legacy of Michael Fried's 1965 show Three American Painters. The new show, Three American Painters: Then and Now, was...
Tiler Peck’s Smooth Move From Prima Ballerina To Company Choreographer
Peck isn't giving up the stage at City Ballet; indeed, she wore pointe shoes as she choreographed her new work. "If they tell me...
