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Lessons From A Week On Los Angeles’s Newest Infrastructure Project
The 6th Street Viaduct, which has been reviled in its three weeks of life, gets a full design diary by Carolina Miranda. "The police...
What Really Happens Where Our Electronics Get Recycled
The e-waste workers of India, taking apart our discarded cellphones to make new machines: "No doubt we are at constant risk here, but what...
Mary Ellin Barrett, Daughter Who Fiercely Defended Irving Berlin’s Image, Has Died
In the 1980s, "Barrett offered a new portrait of her father: droll, self-effacing, with an unspoken perfectionism that would doom him to bitterness in...
Hitler’s Favorite Play Has, At Very Long Last, Lost Its Antisemitism
For decades after WWII, Oberammergau "resisted calls from prominent American and European intellectuals to tone down the play’s classic anti-Semitism. The Jewish people continued...
Straight People In Michigan Are So Homophobic That They Completely Defunded Their Library
Normal country; everything is fine: "Residents of Jamestown Township voted to defund the Patmos Library by a 25-point margin, after a local conservative group led a...
Well, That Didn’t Last Long
"Five years almost to the day after it began, Hollywood’s evangelistic fervor for streaming has been extinguished this week by the Batgirl imbroglio." - Variety
Carlos Acosta Says The Pandemic Caused A ‘Dip’ In Ballet Talent
The director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet says it's because dancers leaving the academy haven't spent as much time training with each other as...
The Ukraine Artist Collective That Met In Secret And Hid Their Work From Putin’s...
The six artists in Kherson wanted to tell the truth about life under Russian occupation - and to continue making art. "The results, which...
Artists, Access, And Authority
Who gets to tell a region's story? - Hyperallergic
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
