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How One Young Photographer Changed The Game For Herself And Her Peers

When editors said they couldn't find Black photographers during the George Floyd protests, journalist and photographer Polly Irungu transformed her social media and networking...

Barbara Bosson, Who Took A Brief Cameo And Turned It Into A Vital Hill...

"Bosson received five Emmy Award nominations in as many years for her supporting role, as she portrayed a character who reinvents herself to help...

What Is Fixer-Upper Empire Builder Chip Gaines Doing With Larry McMurtry’s Last Bookstore?

This is a twist. "The Archer City store was the last remaining shopfront, and had become a pilgrimage of sorts for devotees of McMurtry’s...

The Puppetry Group From Manchester That Brought Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio To Life

It wasn't easy: "Creating the models for Pinocchio took 62 people tens of thousands of hours over four years." - BBC

Even In Canada, The Right-Wing Is Coming For Drag Performances

Not great! "It has become quite aggressive online and our drag queen performer has also been personally harassed," says the Kings Playhouse interim director....

Hey Big Tech, And Everyone, Let’s Keeping Online Options Open

It's completely fine not to meet in real life - and look, virtual relationships of all kinds are "real." (Performance art spaces need to...

A French Documentary Wins Big At Berlin

A real surprise: "The festival’s top award is rarely given to a documentary, and in his acceptance speech, a clearly surprised asked the...

Turns Out Students Don’t Actually Want An ‘All-Digital’ Library

Make that 'library.' Faculty and students at Vermont State University were not having it when the financially strapped institution announced last week that everything...

Alvin Ailey Dance Turns 65

The troupe's third artistic director says it's been a real challenge during the past few years, and now is a time for joy and...

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...
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