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The Joys Of The Baghdad Book Fair
"Patrons savor the chance to browse aisles of paperbacks and hardcovers stacked on tables in pavilions from different countries. ... To revel in what...
Building A Tutu That Can Stand Up To ‘Nutcracker’ Demands Takes A Long Time
Ask a wardrobe supervisor: "To build a singular tutu it’s 80-100 hours. ... There’s 15 yards of tulle, and 10-14 layers, depending on the...
The Dramatic Trust Fall Of Going To Theatre In 2021
"We have to trust that most people no longer venture out while sick, that they are not manufacturing fake proof of vaccination, that they...
Richard Rogers, Who Turned Architecture Inside Out And Altered The Skylines Of Paris And...
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed the Pompidou (with Renzo Piano), the Millennium Dome, and Lloyd's of London, has died at 88. He had...
The Wildest Parties Of Art History
As our holiday parties go on yet another COVID-19 hiatus, might as well look at parties painted by the greats. - The Guardian (UK)
Inside The First Manhattan Bookstore Owned By An Asian American Woman
Owner Lucy Yu made the decision "to embark on this journey—now, in the midst of a pandemic, on the heels of so much anti-Asian...
YouTube TV Loses Disney, ESPN, ABC Content Over Dispute
It's about money, of course, but subscribers - especially sports fans - may not care about the reasons. "The outage came during an ESPN...
The Wide-Angle Vision And Broad Legacy Of bell hooks
Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how hooks's books and other writing worked: "Sometimes people say things, or write things, that so capture your experience that you...
Why Is Such A Great Actor Such A Not-Great Director?
"As a movie star, George Clooney is a happy warrior, always ready with a thoughtful quote or charming anecdote, and he’s the rare celebrity...
How A Sculpture Became A God Again
You can thank the FBI - and also the people of Nepal, who restored the temple and convinced others that the deity had not...
Chris Noth Accused By Third Woman Of Sexual Assault
A now-30-year-old tech executive has texts and other evidence from the alleged assault in 2010, by the then-35-year-old The Sex and the City star....
Los Angeles’s Iconic Cinerama Dome To Reopen Under New Ownership
"The Cinerama Dome first opened in 1963. The venue survived a demolition scare in 1998, when a proposal by Pacific Theatres would have stripped...
The Rockettes Are Canceled For The Season
The COVID-caused cancellation comes at an terrible time for the performers and staff. Many other shows are canceling for the weekend or week as...
Bridgerton Plus TikTok Stars Equals A Grammy Nomination
There is no Bridgerton musical, and yet ... the pandemic lack of Broadway "left room for voters to be more adventurous, opening the door...
A Dance Collective Formed In The Pandemic Decides To Go Big
The pandemic hit dancers hard. The president of a new dance network: "We all feel the rhythm in our hearts and we move, and...
What Actually Makes People Smarter Isn’t Doing A Bunch Of Brain Booster Puzzles
Sorry to the Sudoku fans (not that it hurts to do Sudoku, or crosswords, for that matter) - but what makes people smarter is...
Banksy Is Selling T-Shirts To Help Four Protesters Accused Of Harming A Statue
The statue, in Bristol, was of a man who made the area rich through the triangle trade - "which kidnapped Africans and transported them...
What’s Going To Happen To Democracy?
No one really knows. "I have many ideas for how we might improve democracy in the United States, but it is genuinely difficult for...
Pour One Out For The Smallest Target In The World
It was performance art, a performance piece that stood for years, crumbling in the Texas desert and sun. - Glasstire
Yay, Winning A Pulitzer Price For Drama, But Yikes, Winning It In April 2020
The absolute worst time to win, perhaps, but Michael R. Jackson's Strange Loop somehow persisted through every theatre in the world being dark and...
Chente Has Left The Rancho
Vincente Fernández was a "debonair Mexican crooner with the buttery baritone whose romantic rancheras and timeless folk anthems defined the grit and romance of...
A Virus Outbreak Has Delayed The La Scala Ballet Opening
The venue "has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks, just days after the famed Milan theater staged its...
Live Music Is Collapsing Again In The UK
At least, live pop music is seeing its attendance take another dive; some artists estimate that as many as 40 percent of those who...
The Issues With West Side Story Can’t Be Solved By Untranslated Spanish
Indeed, the Spanish "obscures the fact that the entire film and its depiction of Puerto Rican communities are still inherently mediated through the story’s...
Weren’t The Golden Globes Supposed To Just Go Away?
Why are they still here? "Hollywood as a whole called on the HFPA to exit stage left, take a beat and come back stronger...