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If You Missed Broadway Musicals Last Year, Don’t Worry; Listen
Almost every show, even ones that closed relatively quickly, created a cast album. And "some improve on the shows they preserve merely by jettisoning...
British Artist Rachel Whiteread Says It’s Time To Hit Pause On Fourth Plinth Sculptures
Why would Whiteread say that? Well, the Trafalgar Square program has led to a lot of large-scale sculptures with no place to go. "Three-quarters...
This Year’s Book Resolution Is To Stop Worrying About Books You’ll Never Read
That's one writer's resolution, anyway: "After a lifetime of climbing, I’m happy to stop and just enjoy the view. For so long, I, like...
Watch Out, New York Times, The Dictionary Just Bought Quordle
The Wordle knockoff - though perhaps harder, since it has four five-letter words to guess at once, with only nine guesses - "now redirects...
When The Closed Captioning Device Failed, Sundance Jurors Walked Out
The problem illustrated a much larger issue: "According to multiple sources, the jury has repeatedly expressed concerns to both Sundance and filmmakers that movies...
English Museum Finally Removes Skeleton Of Man Called Irish Giant
Before Charles Byrne "died by the time he "died at in 1783, at the age of 22, he had told his friends to bury...
Science Fiction May Come Into Its Own This Awards Season
For instance: "It is not often that a movie featuring alternate universes, kung fu and a Chinese-American owned laundromat is in the running for...
Good Book News From Florida
That is to say, some libraries are still doing their darnedest to serve their communities - including creating a library on wheels, with mobile...
Why We Need Civics
"We are not tied together by a single religion, race, or ethnicity. Instead, America is organized around a set of ideas that needs to...
African Music Stars Say They Are Routinely Denied Visas For Europe
Performers have to meet all kinds of requirements for visas, ranging from the precise addresses where they're staying to financial statements to tickets home...
Betty Lee Sung Brought Serious Study Of The Asian American Diaspora To The US
The scholar, teacher, and language lover died at 98. She wrote scripts for the Voice of America, founded the first Asian Studies program in...
Regal Is Closing Many Movie Theatres Across The US, Including In NY’s Union Square
The plan is to reject the nearly 40 theatres' leases after a bankruptcy filing. "The Chapter 11 process makes it easier for companies to...
What We Can Learn From The Letters Of Poets
"You might be desperate to find a grant ... to allow you to write for two weeks. Or you might have all the money...
Kimmel Center Follows Through, Evicts Philly Pops
The arts presenter removed the Philly Pops as a resident company, "shutting the group out of Verizon Hall and removing customers’ ability to buy...
The Olympics Have A Detailed Plan For How To Score Breakdancing
"Officials compare each battle dancer’s moves and style to their opponent’s, with special scrutiny paid to categories called 'body' (physical moves), 'mind' (creativity in...
With The Alec Baldwin Charges, What Will Happen To The Set Of Rust?
"Producers and Hutchins’ family members have been eager for the film production to resume," but that was before the charges were revealed. -...
Everyone’s Missing The Point About Art History
Inside the story about Hamline University is a much deeper, truer piece of information: It's impossible to teach art history well without pissing people...
Evaluating, And Reevaluating, The Legacy Of Nikki Finke
The feared Hollywood journalist's "ambitions were sometimes thwarted by a slew of factors that, depending on whom you ask, included her being too tough,...
Lupe Serrano, ABT’s Former Prima Ballerina Of Stunning Power, Has Died At 92
"During a tour in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, one audience showered Ms. Serrano with rapturous applause during a dozen curtain calls....
Netflix Appears To Be Bouncing Back
Subscriber numbers are "providing an early sign that its shift to include ads in a cheaper version of its video streaming service is helping...
A String Of Lawsuits Tries To Slow Down Generative AI
Maybe. But, says one intellectual property lawyer, "Copyright law is the right to stop people making copies, right? ... It’s not the right to...
Expats In Paris Wish Emily Would Go The Heck Home Already
American expatriates know the French don't like Emily in Paris. Nor do they: They "complain that they have spent years perfecting understated elegance and...
Emma Straub Swore Online While Protesting For Freedom, So She Was Disinvited From Texas...
"This is just so monumentally dumb, though not entirely surprising in a state run by theocrats who’ve already banned the catch-all bogeyman of 'Critical...
Will Iran Release Jailed Filmmaker Jafar Panahi?
"Panahi, 62, who has won a number of awards at European film festivals, was arrested on 11 July last year and sent to jail...
Predictably, Perhaps, The Online Backlash To The Embrace Is Vicious
"From one angle, the limbs form a heart, representing the couple’s love. But much as Chicago’s landmark 'Cloud Gate' sculpture quickly became known as...
