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It Took Jordan Peele Five Years To Completely Change What Horror Looks Like
"Peele, who won an Academy Award in 2018 for Get Out's original screenplay, has brought industry prestige to a historically overlooked genre." And his influence...
London Might Actually Have Gotten Its Olympics Architecture Right
The Olympics are hard on cities. But 10 years on, says Rowan Moore, London's site "has achieved at least two things usually thought difficult:...
Ticketmaster Tries To Defend Its Awful ‘Dynamic Pricing’ For Final Springsteen Tour
"Only 11 percent of tickets are involved" and "most tickets are under $200" might not be the ironclad defense the company widely known as...
Please Don’t Banish Russian Culture Along With Putin
"The Putin regime has dealt Russian culture a crushing blow, just as the Russian state has done to its artists, musicians, and writers so...
The Man Who Gave Federal Buildings To Modern Architects Has Died At 75
Edward Feiner, as "the chief architect of the U.S. government, revolutionized the public image of countless federal agencies by hiring renowned architects to design hundreds...
Say You’re Planning To Glue Your Hands To An Artwork In A Climate Protest
You might want to know whether or not it has a protective layer of glass. - BBC
What Exactly Is A ‘Crime’ Novel In A Time Of War, AR-15s And Police...
"You’re seeing a lot less cop novels, a lot less cop procedurals, because I think there’s an inherent disbelief in the goodness of the...
Diana Kennedy, Who Popularized Mexican Cooking In The US With Her Cookbooks, Has Died...
Kennedy was a "British-born cookbook author and expatriate who became one of the world’s leading experts on authentic Mexican cuisine, influencing generations of chefs...
A Sport That Emerged From The Harry Potter Books Changes Its Name And Cuts...
Sure, the players might ride truncated broomsticks, and some of the images will look familiar, but the game played in 40 countries with 600...
The Important Things To Know About Baltimore’s New Music Director
He trained as a cellist, used to skip French to go to the symphony, can dance, and said that "as a young Black man...
Rethinking The Baker’s Wife
Or rather, rethinking who she is, and how we conceptualize her, with the three actors who have played her in Into the Woods on...
Watch Out For Resin Art
Sure, it's popular on TikTok - but "because this is a relatively new explosion in the craft scene, we don't know the implications it...
Why Isn’t Novelist Geling Yan Getting A Credit For This Movie?
She should be - but she's spoken out against the Chinese government. Still, Western film companies could do something. "Yan’s campaign, and the muted...
Is The Idea Of A Smart City Just Too Dumb To Exist?
Sidewalk Labs had big plans for Toronto's Quay, to "transform the neighborhood with everything built on top of the tech. It would be robotaxis,...
Finally, An Adapted Ballroom Competition For Dancers Who Use Chairs
The ballroom competition was also for dancers with prosthetic limbs, and was the first adapted competition in the U.S. One dancer's parent: "It's nice...
One Reason To Start A Publishing Business And Open A Bookstore
And that is to give your kids' kids books that your kids could never find. - Sahan Journal
Tanya Kersey, Who Founded LA’s Black Film Festival, Has Died At 61
Kersey "founded the Hollywood Black Film Festival in 1998, with the goal of spotlighting independent films and filmmakers from the African diaspora." The festival was often...
The Intensity Of Film Censorship In Iran
Panah Panahi, a filmmaker whose filmmaker father Jafar was arrested recently, says, "Who are you doing this for? ... What’s the point of this...
Feminist Zine Author In The 1990s, Canonical Comics Creator Now
How did Julie Doucet become canonical? Part of the reason: "French comics, too, had its #MeToo moment, or #BalanceTonPorc (#DitchYourPig) as the French say." -...
We Love To Connect, But Our Connections Make The Roads Dangerous
Knowledge (including arts administration) workers might improve the world when they work from home. Why? Knowledge workers say they use their phones to make...
San Diego Arts Orgs Assess Their Deep Pandemic Pain
The pandemic "significantly damaged San Diego’s arts and culture organizations last year, costing them more than $77 million in revenue and donations, shrinking their...
Frida Kahlo: The Musical
Actually, just Frida, the Musical, coming soon to regionals, with Broadway in mind for 2024. "The musical’s creators hope the show will offer a...
We’ll Be Hearing Her In All The Old Familiar Places
That is, our earbuds, Air Pods, headphones, etc. - Julia Whelan is an extremely popular audiobook narrator who's writing (and narrating) her own story...
The Green Man Music Festival Isn’t Actually So Green
The government of Wales is under fire for helping the supposedly environmentally concerned music festival buy a farm for the festival to use "as...
The Comics Industry Is Waking Up To A Huge New Trend
That is, comics that read from top to bottom, on smart phones - and whose audience is mostly young women. One author: "We have...
