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Allegations Of Child Exploitation Keep Director Of ‘Sparta’ Away From Spanish Film Festival
"Austrian director Ulrich Seidl has cancelled his visit to San Sebastian for the Sept. 18 world premiere of Sparta, amid allegations of impropriety and child exploitation...
How Did A Fictional Bear From Peru Become The Queen Of England’s Psychopomp?
"For all the madness on display, there are, however, reasons to cautiously celebrate what has become of Paddington. ... Paddington is nearly as old...
The Vicious, Accelerating Attacks On Books From The Right Wing
"Public libraries have been threatened by politicians and community members with a loss of funding for their refusal to remove books. Members of the...
The Industrial Visions Of Artists Who Lived A Century Ago
The artists believed factories were the future. "Diagonal lines hint at stained glass—and at the notion, widespread at the time, ... that industrial structures...
Independent Radio Stations Are Under Threat In Britain
Why? Energy bills. "Autumn has arrived with stark warnings from industry bodies, including UK Music and the Music Venue Trust (MVT), that live venues,...
Copyright Is Disgustingly Broken
"The People’s Joker is ... an extremely loose retelling of the Batman villain’s origin story, reinterpreting the Joker as a trans woman trying to break...
The Married Couple Who Writes (Dozens Of Bestsellers) Together, Stays Together?
How do the people making up the Ilona Andrews brand do it? Gordon Andrews: "We have argued about the fate of certain characters. Who...
How German Playwrights And Writers Gave Us All A Sense Of Self
The modern idea of the self emerged "in a quiet university town called Jena, some 150 miles southwest of Berlin. It was there that,...
The Lawsuit That Is Threatening The Entire Internet Archive
Early in the pandemic, "the Internet Archive made a decision that pissed off a lot of writers—and embroiled it in a lawsuit that many...
Let’s Talk About That NC-17 Rating For The Netflix Marilyn Monroe Biopic
The history of the rating is, one might say, fraught. But Netflix isn't a movie theatre; why does it have an NC-17 rating on...
The Not So Comfortable Discussions About Sidney Poitier
Poitier was "a man who both aspired and inspired just as much as he frustrated and disappointed. We rarely ever really talk about that...
Winnie The Pooh Stars In A New Horror Movie
Thanks, public domain! No, but truly, thank you for expiring, copyright. We now have everything from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to "all-time classic"...
France’s Anonymous Street Artist Fills The Cracks With Colorful Mosaics
Ememem "has made a speciality of filling divots and potholes with multicoloured mosaics made from tiles of different sizes and different hues, arranged in...
YouTube’s Chaos Led To Its Massive Rise
Why doesn't its history with a content provider who had zillions of subscribers - but was a favorite of the neo-Nazis - get the...
Peak TV Is Making The Emmys A Lot Weirder
There are so, so many series out there - 500 or more, and "the crush of programming means that even worthy shows struggle for...
Judging The Sometimes Violent Art Of Video Games
MoMA makes a case for including games in the permanent collection - and a case that says humans respond the same way to video...
Why Did Instagram Ban This Livestreamed French Play?
No one (associated with the play) knows. "In early 2021, a few months into the production’s run, Instagram started cutting off these live streams,...
Why So Many Book Bans? Facebook
"It’s absolutely beyond creepy—and therefore totally in keeping with Facebook’s general vibe—that adults are spending time avidly thumbing through children’s books to look for...
The Flamenco Singer Who Defies Tradition To Reinvent The Music
Rosália won Latin Grammys for her album El Mal Querer - a flamenco-pop fusion that also became her thesis project at the Catalonia School...
Some Teenage Girls In Afghanistan Meet In Secret To Read The Diary Of Anne...
One 17-year-old in the secret book club: "Anne Frank is, like, as a friend for me. ... I mean, Anne Frank is suffering from...
What It’s Like To Chair The National Endowment For The Humanities During A Pandemic
Shelly Lowe, the first Native American chair of the NEH, wants to make some changes: "More small organizations that haven’t had NEH funding will...
Russia’s War On Wikipedia Editors Ramps Up
Editors have been doxxed, threatened, and arrested. "Doronina of the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees said that Russia’s state agencies could target one of...
When ABT Tried To Break Ballet Out Of The 18th Century
"Audience members generally rustle their programs and shift in their seats when performers are onstage. But on that late October evening inside Lincoln Center...
Marsha Hunt, Who Confronted The Blacklist And Paid For It, Has Died At 104
The actress spent the seven decades after her Hollywood career ended as a result of the 1950s-era hysterical anti-Communism as an impassioned activist for...
Will British Audiences Ever Fall Back In Love With Going To The Cinema?
"Pandemic-induced production delays, jittery Hollywood studios continuing to postpone blockbuster release dates, and a wider lack of mid-budget fare – from rom-coms and buddy movies...
