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The Sandy Hook Memorial Is Unnervingly Gorgeous
"Suddenly, the project reveals itself: a gentle arc of gravel, loping around the perimeter of the site and wrung with native plantings, including dogwoods,...
Why Some HarperCollins Authors Won’t Cross The Picket Line
"Nobody goes into publishing for the money; it’s a vocation for people who believe in the power of the written word to evoke empathy...
Liverpool Looks To Eurovision To Revive The Town
"Thousands of visitors are expected in the city when it hosts the 2023 song contest in May after 2022 winner Ukraine was unable to host it...
Indigenous Elders Who Get To Play Indigenous Elders
It's a relief for Tantoo Cardinal and Wes Studi, two Native actors who have starred in movies together for three decades but never shared...
Can Bob Iger Bring Joy Back To The Disneyland?
"More than its streaming services, movies or television series, the Walt Disney Co. matters because of its theme parks, and it is at institutions such...
How Two Women From New York’s Avant-Garde Theatre Changed Omaha
"Decades before today’s movement for gender parity in the theatre, Terry and Schidman produced their own original work and that of others,...
Irene Cara, Singer Of Fame And Flashdance, Has Died At 63
Cara was a child dancer and singer who found young fame on Electric Company (and in its band) and then became iconic for singing...
Casablanca Is Looking Pretty Good, At 80
"It was merely warmly received and successful, but not a sensation – but it won best picture, along with awards for its peerless screenplay...
Ending A Theatrical Tradition Means Space To Innovate
Or that's the idea, anyway, at the Prince Edward Island theatre festival that won't perform Anne of Green Gables every year anymore. The artistic...
Why Streamers Are Cashing In On True Crime
"Streamers are doubling down on the genre, tapping into the huge appetite for true crime by developing scripted limited series based on actual stories...
The Minnesota Rest Stop That May Join The National Register Of Historic Places
There are only 10 on the Register - nine in South Dakota, one in Arkansas - but the 50+-year-old brick rest stop near Alexandria...
NPR’s Book Recommender Is Back
And it features 402 books this year. - NPR
Hollywood Has Classically Failed Arab Women
A new movie wants to change that. - The Guardian (UK)
The Dark History Of The Nutcracker
Sure, it's become the classic holiday ballet (and moneymaker), but "if you look at some of the forces giving rise to it, and that...
MFA Students Whose Work Was Stolen From Yale Art Show Speak Out
"Naturally, the theft has shaken the Yale School of Art, but it has opened up a conversation about frustrations with the university’s policies as...
Australia Recreates The Parthenon
The Temple of Boom "is made of glass-reinforced concrete and rises from the NGV gardens like a piece of sumptuous Meccano. It invites the...
The Choreographer With Two Shows Opening On Broadway, Plus A National Tour
Plus, Jennifer Weber choreographed a Disney+ movie. "Dancers appreciate how Weber runs rehearsals — her clear authority, her directorial eye — but also how...
Let’s Talk About GBBO’s Issues
Look, The Great British Baking Show's issues go far beyond the cringe-inducing racism of Mexican Week. "These issues have reached a tipping point in...
Trinity College Is Asked To Return Skulls To Irish Island
A British anthropologist and his photographer assistant stole 13 skulls from the ruins of an Irish monastery in 1890, and gave them to Trinity...
British Jazz Musicians Talk About Making A Living Out Of Their Passion
Post-COVID, "There’s a real demand for this music now. ... I’m really enjoying it, but I’m also finding it hard. We’ve had these two...
Even Jane Austen Almost Gave Up
"Money is the problem. It usually is, in Austen’s world." - LitHub
How ‘The Walking Dead’ Transformed TV
Prestige TV was already happening, but fantasy TV was new - and The Walking Dead was perfectly timed for "the convergence of television and...
Michael Butler, The So-Called ‘Hippie Millionaire’ Behind Hair, Has Died At 95
"Butler was from a moneyed Chicago family ... and he was comfortable in the world of polo and debutantes and expensive clothes." Then, "he...
A Small Studio Powers New Netflix Animation Joy
When two Pixar art directors worked together on an independent short, they decided to found their own company. "We had a very similar ambitions...
Working More Does Not Equal Being More Successful
Studies on the four-day work week prove it, too. "Instead of seeing time as a vacuum that needs to be filled, what might it...
