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Is British Columbia Doing Enough To Help Musicians – And Music Venues – Survive?
Musicians say they and their venues are being priced out of Vancouver, and Victoria as well. - CBC
The Off-Broadway, And Nonprofit Theatre In General, Strikes May Be Just Beginning
The first wave is a so-far monthslong strike at Atlantic Theater. “After stagehands at the Atlantic began organizing, the union tried reaching out to...
Can An Artist Truly ‘Collaborate’ With Another Species?
"The majority of this art is still based on human manipulations of or interventions into natural processes — some of the ‘aid’ here feels,...
Has Hollywood Become Too Afraid To Touch Hot-Button Documentaries?
Ahead of the Oscars, the West Bank-set documentary No Other Land was tipped to win - but it still has no U.S. distributor. It's...
This Year’s Oscar Nominee Characters Might Be Reading These Books
For instance, “Florence Pugh’s Princess Irulan is the best read of the crew—she’s using her position in the Empire to get a ton of...
The BBC Is Accused Of An Anti-Israel Bias As The Fallout Over A Gaza...
“The corporation apologized and removed Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, about the lives of three children caught in the Israel-Gaza war, from its streaming service BBC iPlayer” after...
Oscars 2025 Live Coverage
Including red carpet coverage, and, eventually, awards as well. If you would prefer something slightly different, here are the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter...
How Daniel Blumberg Made The Brutalist’s Disorienting Score
With hammers and screws, of course. Composer Daniel Blumberg, tipped to win tonight, “found himself in the novel position of actually having to write...
Why Isn’t This Japanese Oscar Contender Being Shown In Japan?
Its director thinks Black Box Diaries is having a hard time “because it shines a light on a topic normally kept in the shadows:...
What Writers Owe To Historical Fiction
Andrea Barrett: Some writers will change facts. “But that makes me queasy. I think my own sketchy, early education made me realize that for...
The Oscars Are Actually Streaming This Year
At long last! Hulu is the spot (no shocker, since Disney owns both ABC and Hulu). - Wired
Don’t Should A Reader
In stressful times, “the shoulds creep up. ... I should be reading more! I should be reading better books! I am making terrible choices...
Christian Holder, Longtime Joffrey Star, Has Died At 75
Holder was "a standout dancer ... who made his name in the 1960s and early ’70s in pointedly topical works like Astarte, a groundbreaking psychedelic ballet,...
The Mumbai Cooperative Subverting Cellphone Videos And Surveillance Footage Into Art
The CAMP founders: “You had 100 hours of footage for a 60-minute film. That was really the reason for building a non-state archive, and...
Should A Fashion Company Produce Movies?
If Emilia Pérez doesn’t win much tonight, at least it looks good: "Saint Laurent clothes played pivotal roles in the wardrobes of various characters,...
Please Stop It With The ‘They Were Due’ Oscars Narrative
“Does it bother me that Saoirse Ronan doesn’t have an Oscar? Yes. ... She should have won for Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women, all...
Merle Oberon Was Very Far Ahead Of Her Time
“Through her work, she was an early—if accidental—proponent of so-called color-blind casting, in which a performer’s race does not limit the parts available to...
Antonine Maillet, Writer Who Brought Attention To Canada’s Acadian Population, Has Died At 95
Maillet “shaped a new literary language for an isolated French-speaking minority, becoming the first non-European to win France’s most prestigious literary prize.” - The...
Macron Brings Attention To Plight Of French-Algerian Writer
“French president Emmanuel Macron has said he is concerned about the 'arbitrary detention’ and health of Boualem Sansal, days after the French-Algerian author began a...
There Is No Obit That Can Successfully Convey How Much Peter Elbow, Who Died...
“Professor Elbow contended that indoctrinating freshmen to think and write in an inflexible, formulaic style — with the teacher as the only audience member...
The Golden Globes Drop Into Oscars Weekend With A Surprising Annoucement
Suddenly, voting members learned, they “will no longer be paid salaries as does away with a controversial element of how its voting body...
The Next Big Architecture Movie?
Baroque-Back Mountain, anyone? - The New York Times
Reading Books As A Bulwark Against Grief
“I wanted to gather my physical books into a wall – or better yet, a cave – around me that would both protect me...
The Year When The Oscars Narrative Ate The Oscars
“In the past, there were two basic species of Oscar narrative.” Now? Anything can happen. - Variety
Remembering The Halcyon Days Of Skype
Microsoft is shutting the app down in May. “But although Skype will be gone, the memories it evokes — not to mention the sound...
