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What It Takes To Light Up The Hollywood Sign
It's a surprisingly rare event, and it takes a lot of moxie, permits, projectors, and work. - Los Angeles Times
Want To Have A Nervous Breakdown?
Designing an exhibition is "truly a collaborative process, drawing upon content specialists, community representatives, professional designers, donors, partner institutions and others. It really does...
Unpave A Parking Lot, Make Paradise
Or at least that was Milan's approach, even before the pandemic, when the city started turning 250,000 square feet of parking lots into playgrounds,...
Which White British Guy’s Vision Of A Nightmare Society Are We Trapped In?
Aldous Huxley or George Orwell? Well, we thought it was Orwell. But now? "We are back to the future. Back to the Brave New World narcotic...
Some States Aren’t Stopping With Censoring School Libraries
States like Kentucky, with conservative legislatures, are taking control over what books can be in public libraries as well. Doesn't sound fascist at all,...
Tony Award-Winner Myles Frost Got To MJ From YT
The star accidentally found his way into the musical. "As a high schooler at Thomas Wootton in Rockville, he sang and danced to Jackson’s...
Culture As A Weapon Of War, Or Division, Around The World
"Culture really does become a matter of life and death, then, when a society is under pressure. This can be for good or for...
How A Curator, A Librarian, And The FBI Tracked Down Paintings That Were Stolen...
Do art auction houses have a responsibility not to sell stolen goods? This case would seem to say there's no such responsibility. And the...
What Will TV Watching Be Like In 15 Years?
Streaming could go a lot of different ways, but how will it go? "Streaming broke our TV-watching culture. ... It's totally fractured now, we...
The Royal Shakespeare Company Finally Casts A Disabled Actor To Play Richard III
"The days of 'cripping up' - a term disabled actors regularly use to describe those with no physical impairment playing disabled characters - appear...
Slow Fashion Is Coming Back Into Style
Or rather, the fashion of re-fashioning old things into new, what one might call the "use it up, wear it out, make it do"...
An Animated Movie’s Fake Boy Band Gets Its Own Breakout Success Manga
The boy band 4*Town (with five members) from Turning Red is so popular on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and the music charts (with music...
An Experiment In Being Seen
Can Los Angeles media ever represent the entire city - or even some of Black L.A.? "I remember begging news outlets to come and...
Please Spare Us Any More Art World Spaces Made In Excellent Taste
Or, how the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery's remodel wants to go the way that facelifts usually go. - The Observer (UK)
Ukraine Bans Russian Music In Public Places
The ban doesn't apply to composers who wrote music before the fall of the USSR. - BBC
The 92nd Street Y Is Getting A New Everything, Including A New Name
92NY's CEO: "The 92nd Street Y is a lot like New York City. ... Amazing things happen here. But, like New York City, for...
The Right-Wing Religious Website Telling Its People To Ruin Library Pride Month Displays
"This right wing strategy of attacking visibility isn’t limited to LGBQT+ books. According to Ginny Wehrli-Hemmeter, director of events and marketing at Anderson’s Bookshop,...
The Truth About Screaming Teenage Fans
"We have seen so many screaming girls. Every time we see them, we’re like, 'They’re screaming.' And that’s it. Yet the screaming fan doesn’t...
How Ghostwriting Affects A Writer’s Own Novels
Daniel Paisner: Ghostwriting has "helped me see what it takes to succeed at the very highest level—or, at least, they’ve left me thinking about...
Director Of Crash Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges In Italy
Paul Haggis "is accused of sexually assaulting the woman over the course of two days while in for an entertainment industry event." -...
Brits Drop Music Subscriptions As Cost Of Living Goes Up
More than one million subscriptions to Apple, Spotify, and other services have been cancelled - with a large percentage of people saying that's to...
Yo-Yo Ma Plays A Surprise Pop-Up Concert To Benefit An Arts School In Boston
"At the pop-up concert outside the cafe, wind threatened to blow sheet music away, and buses pulled in and out of the nearby terminal,...
The Cliburn Competition Awards Musicians From South Korea, Russia, And Ukraine
The competition was overshadowed by Russia's attacks on Ukraine; silver medal winner Anna Geniushene fled Russia for Lithuania and has been critical of the...
To Understand A Person’s Heart, Look At How They Organize Their Books
"The arrangement seems to have been made entirely at random, unless you know the quirk by which it was conceived. Books are placed next...
Sarah Hall On Writing While Single-Parenting And Homeschooling During Lockdown
Hall wrote by hand in the mornings: "I go into, as I call it, Sarah Connor mode from The Terminator: out there, here’s my child, what...
