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The Thames Quietly Gets Two New, Pretty Great, Pedestrian Bridges
Remember the Garden Bridge imbroglio? These two are far from that. Instead, the results are "faceted and intriguing ... driven by the imaginative response...
Mediocre Movies, Not Only Marvel, Can Save Movie Theatres
What theatres need "are the movies that grease the wheels of the theatrical experience: the friendly bread-and-butter formula films for adults that audiences can...
Who Painted This Portrait Of George Washington?
Turns out that after years of doubt and many studies, "experts are confident they can declare the portrait a true Peale, one of...
Britain’s Most Prolific Female Director
Muriel Box - the first woman to win an Oscar for screenwriting - "directed 13 feature films in the 1950s and early 60s and...
Rena Gluck, Who Brought Modern Dance To Israel
"Israel is now considered a global hotbed of contemporary dance, with Batsheva still at its center. But when Ms. Gluck arrived in 1954 as...
Was Disney’s Purchase Of Fox A Huge Mistake?
One analyst: "Even without Fox, Disney would still be struggling with linear channels and figuring out how to make streaming profitable. ... But they’d...
Native American Activists Ask Miami To Stop Archaeological Dig
The site is - of course - going to become a residential development. "The artifacts found at the site include pottery sherds, stone tools,...
Let Kids Read For Pleasure – And Never Tell Them What They’re Reading Is...
So said the UK children charity Booktrust's new writer in residence, SF Said. Unlike many recent censorship fans in the US, he said, "I...
How To Make A Movie When You Don’t Know Enough About The Topic
Enlist your friends, of course. One of the friends: "Like many other adoptees, I used to victimize myself and isolate. I didn’t want to...
To Open Their Bookshop, All They Had To Do Was Change An Entire City...
To be fair, it's a combination bookshop and wine bar. Therein lay the rub for Bliss Books. - KSHB (Kansas City)
Ireland Is Having A Really Good Film Moment
Another moment, that is. This certainly isn't the first go-round. Best Supporting Actress nominee Kerry Condon: "My friend at home was like, ‘Everybody’s celebrating...
People Really, Really Love Their Libraries
"The library was a haven. It was the one place we could all go and not spend a dime, but be filled with everything...
All Quiet On The Western Front Wins A Record Seven BAFTAs
Never bet against a war movie. The Netflix "adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel about an idealistic German soldier sent to the trenches...
How In The Entire Heck Did The Winnie-The-Pooh Horror Movie Get Made?
Sure, Disney owns the animation rights, but the story and characters came out of copyright on January 1, 2022. And director Rhys Frake-Waterfield "wasted...
Bing Was Nearly Irrelevant – Until Its Chatbot Went Off The Rails
"The company’s previously flatlining Bing app almost surpassed Google in downloads last Saturday, and search interest in Bing is spiking. The astonishing screenshots—as long...
The Energy Crunch In Europe Means Ballet In The Car Factory
"In a converted conference room on Thursday, the dancers honed their pliés and pirouettes, while row upon row of new cars could be...
The Physics Principle That – Perhaps Unfortunately – Inspired New AI
Consider the way ink diffuses into water. "The algorithm first turns complex images in the training data set into simple noise—akin to going from...
Journalist Who Exposed Navalny Poisoning Says He’s ‘Banned’ From The BAFTAs
The Bulgarian journalist, Christo Grozev, says "the ban was down to 'concerns about public safety and security,' he was told, but was given no...
After Nearly 100 Days On Strike, HarperCollins Union Approves New Contract
A union representative said that "the hope is to show publishing employees that they have more options beyond just 'stick it out or leave....
Everything Everywhere All At Once WiBig At Directors Guild
In another potential Oscars signal, the small-budget domestic science fiction movie that could racked up another win for writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan....
An Entire Revamping Of Manchester’s Museum Tries To Meet 21st Century Britain
The museum's director calls museums "empathy machines" and says the mission goes "beyond caring for objects and collections to 'caring for beliefs and ideas...
New Editions Of Roald Dahl’s Books Remove Some Of His Hateful Rhetoric
The man really loved to call people fat, and he also enjoyed calling people - with varying degrees of disgust - "crazy," "Black," and...
The Extraordinary, Art Historical Beauty Of Photos Of The Downed Spy Balloon
The Navy images’ "unusual lighting and dramatic composition ... smooth individual sailors into heroic archetypes and make the calm, pre-dawn Atlantic seawater as lush...
Banksy Mural Messed With Once Again, This Time By The Gallery
First the local council said the freezer that was part of the artwork was a hazard, and now a gallery says they can't figure...
The Girls Who Dance, And Gather Coal
"Before sunset, in the 110-square-mile mining region of Jharia in eastern India, an ensemble of girls dances near an opencast coal mine. Come sunrise,...
