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When The BBC’s Classical Station Went Eurovision
"It was so good to mine the musical riches of Cyprus, Moldova, Albania and Australia, ... and it seems that on a Venn diagram...
To The Stress Of Being A Ballerina, Add The Whole Single Mom Thing
"If I have a rehearsal and she’s on spring break from school, for example, the dancers sit in the lobby and have lunch with...
An Eight-Year-Old Girl Found A Neolithic Dagger On A Norwegian Playground
"Because flint isn’t a resource native to Norway, researchers suspect the roughly 3,700-year-old dagger originated elsewhere, perhaps in Denmark. An excavation of the school’s...
Hollywood Is So Addicted To Peter Pan
Isn't that just a little weird? "Nearly every single thing you learn about the origins of Peter Pan, Wendy, the lost boys, and Neverland...
What Happened To Great Streaming Documentaries?
The algorithm. The almighty, disgusting, algorithm, which prizes popularity above all things. So, for Netflix, the race to the bottom started with the success...
What We Lost When We Lost MTV News
"Imagine you have no and that you were just as interested in music and pop culture as young people have always been and...
Yet Another Cinerama Saved
The Seattle International Film Festival announced that it had bought the theatre, which has been closed since February of 2020, from the estate of...
Pema Tseden, Tibetan Filmmaker Who Walked A Fine Line With China, Has Died At...
"Pema Tseden rarely depicted Tibet’s Chinese population, which swelled after the Red Army seized Tibet in 1951. To elude Chinese censors, he eschewed references to...
An Honest, Anonymous Account Of Life On The Writers’ Picket Line
"The rampant and vocal factions of dissent among the WGA ranks that we saw during the last strike are functionally nonexistent. The unity within...
Can Romance Novels Please Get Rid Of The Struggling Single Mom Trope?
The protagonists are cut from the same cookie cutter mold. "Readers, let us all take a moment to silently contemplate her self-sacrifice, the definitive...
Making A Michael J. Fox Movie From Old Michael J. Fox Movies
The mashup of clips, interviews, and what the director called "a wild ride" is "genre-defying hybrid that uses Fox’s own film and TV...
The Writing Collaborators Who Help Keep Celebrities Grounded
"Behind the hubbub that surrounds performers such as Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran or Little Simz, hides a small group of hitmakers, co-writing hugely commercial songs and...
Britain Tries To Figure Out Why Its EuroVision Entry Didn’t Work Out As Hoped
How could Britain host (for Ukraine) with a smart, cheeky song and yet score so low? Mae Muller "kept up the UK's momentum of...
Ken Loach Says This Is His Last Film
"I can’t see getting round the course again. This was quite a tough one to do. My short-term memory is fading and my eyesight...
The Hottest Thing In Streaming
It's not Disney Plus, Netflix, or any of the other "majors." Instead it's Fox's Tubi, which is free (and has ads). Is this the...
Author Whose Books Freak People Out Says That’s Not Her Plan
Ottessa Moshfegh: "My God, the world is violent. Why should fiction pretend it’s not?" - The Guardian (UK)
Google’s AI Is Truly The Offspring Of Clippy
"Google’s Duet is surely in a different league, both in terms of its reading comprehension and the quality of the text that the generative...
For Indigenous Artists, It’s All About Survivance
The concept addresses Indigenous artists "with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation." - Hyperallergic
Is This Installation Artist Perfect For The Information Age?
Sarah Sze, who is about to take over a huge unused railway station waiting room in London, is thinking abotu AI. "We’ve created a...
Romance On The Picket Line
One of the writers at the event "Strike Up a Romance" said, "This would be the perfect time to write a romcom, though, of,...
The Fiery Teamster Who’s Giving The WGA Priceless Rhetoric And Solidarity
Lindsay Dougherty: "If we all want to get what's ours, we are going to have to fight for it tooth and nail. ... If...
The Father And Son Duo Who Just Won A Pulitzer
"Watching your kid go into journalism is like hearing he wants to rappel into a volcano to rescue a puppy." - The Atlantic
Pop-Up Rembrandt Tattoos Are Now A Thing That Exists
"In one of the more extreme attempts to attract a younger audience post-Covid, the newly renovated museum in Amsterdam is launching a 'poor man’s Rembrandt project.'"...
Stagehand And Craft Workers Come Out To Support Writers
"The writers strike on May 2 has created hardships for many in the industry, including IATSE members who have lost scheduled jobs as productions...
The Big World Of Dollhouse Miniature Art
There's "a new generation of miniature makers, following in the footsteps of artists like Laurie Simmons, bringing the genre out from the home, into the...
