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NPR’s Books Rec App Changes Its Name, Keeps Its Attitude
NPR's beloved books editor Petra Mayer died a few weeks ago, and so "Books We Love" is named and created "in the spirit of...
Land Acknowledgements Are Exhibitionist Pabulum
"A land acknowledgment is what you give when you have no intention of giving land. It is like a receipt provided by a highway...
Are We Truly Ready For The First Pandemic Novels?
It's not over yet, so perhaps not. "In the hospitals, there has been something like a wartime atmosphere of disaster, but for so many...
Broadway Gathers To Mourn Sondheim
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban, members of every Broadway show up right now, and many, many other people gathered "on the red stairs...
The Republicans Who Want To Erase LGBTQ Literature And Authors
They've got a lot in common with Chinese censors, says Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree. "I had...
How Biden’s Antitrust Attitudes May Affect TV Deals
It's almost like a media long-tail development: "The sudden chill in the regulatory climate may fan the flames of another significant business trend. There’s...
Quinnipiac University Closes Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum
The museum had only been open since 2012. Donors are concerned: Where will all of their artifacts end up? - The New York Times
Our Brains Are Prediction Machines
And that's because human brains are so energy hungry that they train hard to be energy-efficient. What happens when actual machines can mimic the...
The Power Of Generating PR
Perhaps the Australian journalist who screwed up his country's only interview with Adele was trying to resist her massive PR team. But the performer...
Should Awards Abandon Male/Female Categories?
The Brit Awards announced they "would do away with gendered awards categories entirely, following in the footsteps of the Grammy Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards...
Not Many Famous Children Grow Up OK, So How Did This One Manage?
Gaby Hoffman's public life began when she was five, and stepmom Cindy Sherman took photos of her dressed as the Devil. She had her...
Keeping The Coronavirus Away From The Nutcracker
At the Washington Ballet, for instance, "Dancers younger than 12 will be wearing custom-designed masks to match their party frocks, clown costumes and mouse...
If Politicians Can’t Fix A City’s Problems, Can Art Do Something?
Manchester intends to find out. - BBC
Man Convicted Of Raping Author Alice Sebold Is Exonerated
The author of The Lovely Bones wrote about her rape in her 1999 memoir, Lucky, which was in the process of being made into...
Corporations Have Started Working With First Nations Artists, And The Artists Say That’s Just...
Yes, it's corporate, and yes, representation is incredibly important. "I'm creating sacred space," one of the artists said - and, from a business point...
Once, Community Housing Architecture Was A Utopian Dream
"When the housing scheme opened in 1938, it offered 3,000 residents modern kitchens with integrated waste disposal, as well as communal nursery and launderette...
The Broadway Actor Arrested For A Role In The January 6 Riot At The...
His non-Broadway role as a Michael Jackson impersonator gave him away - and federal investigators attended LA and San Francisco performances where actor James...
As The Pandemic Ticks Toward A Third Year, The Arts Are More Important To...
"For arts institutions looking to make the changes the public wants to see, the numbers couldn’t be clearer: lowering ticket and entry prices should...
Playwright Dominque Morisseau Pulls Her Play From The Geffen
The entire run of Paradise Blue has been canceled. The playwright wrote on Facebook "that her decision came after she discovered that Black women...
One Way To Enjoy The Harry Potter Universe Again
A Harry Potter universe free of J.K. Rowling's anti-trans commentary! A universe where the fanfiction pairing "Wolfstar" is real. It's 500,000 words long, even...
As Coronavirus Surges Again In Europe, Restrictions On Performance Return
"After months of relative normalcy, Europe’s opera houses, concert halls and theaters are reintroducing measures all too familiar from earlier phases of the pandemic,...
Stephen Sondheim Solved Puzzles Of Theatre, And Much More
"His achievement is Shakespearean. Like Shakespeare, he inherited an art form and theater scene from a previous generation, then pushed the boundaries of what...
Sondheim Fans Gather To Mourn, Together, At Piano Bars Across Manhattan
"It seemed important to hold a space for folks to feel whatever they needed to, to sing and cry and laugh and be with...
Composer And Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Master Of Musical Theatre, 91
Impossible to sum the central figure of American musical theatre up, but: "Sondheim not only bound music, lyrics and book inextricably together, but he...
Pianist Stephen Hough: Music Isn’t Icing On The Cake Of Life, It Is Life
Hough played the first live, streamed concert after shutdown to an empty hall in London. "It was a reminder of how important a cog...