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Ingrid Haebler, Splendid Interpreter Of Mozart, Has Died At 96
Haebler was a pianist who "drew particular acclaim for her performances and recordings of the works of Mozart, impressing critics while still in her...
NPR’s Biggest Gaffe Turns Forty
That's right, this is four decades on from the time the national radio network let a six-year-old entirely spoil Return of the Jedi. -...
A French Murder Mystery Wins The Palme D’Or At Cannes
Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet is the third woman ever to win the prize. The courtroom drama, which stars German actress Sandra...
It’s A Grave Mistake To Cede The Humanities To Artificial Intelligence
Maureen Down isn't having it. "Without humanities, humanity and humaneness, we won’t be imbuing society with wisdom, just creating owner’s manuals. That would be...
Celine Dion Cancels Tour Dates For The Foreseeable Future
Dion has not performed since before the pandemic because of her condition. "Stiff Person Syndrome is a progressive neurological and autoimmune disorder that affects...
Turns Out The Glasgow Subway Is Just Like Conservative Florida Schools
No full-body imagery of Michelangelo's David here, the Scots say: "The designs commissioned by the Barolo restaurant were rejected from spaces in the subway...
Making Art – And It Doesn’t Need To Be ‘Good’ Art – Is Superb...
OK, and this is possibly unexpected, "Coloring within the lines — of an intricate pattern, for example — appears to be especially effective" at...
Social Media And Emojis Are Fueling The Return Of An Ancient Filipino Writing System
"One glance at Filipino social media and you will find a recurrent set of waves, twists and inverted heart shapes. They’re more than just...
Steve McQueen’s New Documentary About Occupied Amsterdam Is Supposed To Be Challenging
"The weight of what happened was so heavy you can’t hold it in your head forever. If you forget things that’s OK because of...
In Order To Save Downtowns, We Need To Destroy Them
At least the way they're configured now. The issue: "What to do with office buildings when we don’t need offices anymore?" - Wired
Students Chant In Support Of Hollywood Writers As Head Of Warner Bros. Speaks
"Picketers and audience members broke out in chants, including, 'pay your writers!' as Zaslav spoke about his career experience" at Boston University. - Washington...
A Spider-Man Mask-Wearing, Hammer-And-Chisel Wielding Guy Attacks BBC Sculpture
This comes after the BBC decided to start restoring the sculpture by pedophile artist Eric Gill, which was also attacked in January of 2022....
The Person Who Wrote Your Favorite TV Show Is Eating Ramen, Not Caviar
Essayist - and TV writer - Samantha Irby: "Some guy commented on my Instagram that I was destroying the American family, and I was...
The 1980s Were A Formative Decade For Asian American Cinema
"You have people who are imagining what ‘Asian American’ can be in wildly different ways, that might not adhere perfectly to that sense of...
An Artist On The Rise Who Wants To Slow Everything Down
Njideka Akunyili Crosby will go to many lengths in order to do the research for her paintings. "She spent hours looking through pictures of...
Who Owns This Statue? It’s A Mystery
How did The Wounded Indian, long thought to have been destroyed in the 1930s, end up in Norfolk? And who owns it now? -...
The Writers Strike Is Opening Some Barely Healed Wounds
To be honest, "as Hollywood has transformed since the 1950s, workers and their unions have contended with endemic insecurity". - Los Angeles Review of...
Upending A Sacred Broadway Tradition Brought One Musical To A Much Wider Audience
That is to say, fan videos of Six made it a megahit. The closing number was "written specifically to be recorded and shared on...
Nobel Prize Winners Demand The Release Of Belorussian Peace Laureate
"More than 100 Nobel laureates, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee, have called for the release of Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and...
Why Does Voicemail Refuse To Die?
What? "If its full storage capacity was purposed for music, a modern iPhone or Samsung Galaxy could hold hundreds of thousands of downloaded songs,...
The Landscape In Hollywood Had To Shift For ‘American Born Chinese’ To Get Made
"When I was growing up, it was a few networks trying to appeal to tens of millions of viewers, but ... look at...
The New Little Mermaid Has Responsibilities
Halle Bailey says she would have liked having a Black little mermaid when she was a kid. "That would have changed my whole perspective,...
It’s The People You Meet Along The Way
That is, along the way of your quest to succeed at Zelda games, of course. "For me, it's been a way to begin to...
City Ballet Finally Has An Asian American Woman Principal
Mira Nadon, who's 21: "That's exciting for me to have some responsibility and feel like I can do something to help ... the culture...
Stage Fright? Check Out What Katharine Hepburn Felt Like
The actress was basically terrified of audiences. "Now and again she’d puke in the wastebasket, because she was so wired and scared and 'Oh...
