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The 23-Year-Old Who Won Two Jazz Grammies By Going Old School
Samara Joy "possesses an innate ability to take an old standard and make it seem like the lyrics were torn from her diary. It's...
SNL Reaches Agreement With Editors Just In Time
"These workers – who help create the show’s music-video parodies and other popular pre-taped segments – had been unrepresented and paid rates far below...
Actors Rehearsing For ‘Room’ Were Gathered In The Middle Of Rehearsal And Laid Off
The show was meant to open on Broadway April 3. Producer Hunter Arnold "told the cast and crew — and soon after, the public...
South Korean Broadcast Edits Out Michelle Yeoh’s Exhortation To Women
Yeoh said, "Ladies, don't let anyone tell you you're past your prime." Inspiration, except on South Korean broadcaster SBS News, where "'ladies' was conspicuously...
This Degas Dancer Is Now Wearing A Ukrainian Dress
Or so says the Metropolitan Museum of Art - which used to call the painting Russian Dancer. This is far from the only label...
Climate Activists Turn To Hollywood For Help
Hollywood is very, very good at pathos - the art of emotional persuasion. The goal of the newly formed Climate Action Network is to...
How Artists And Writers Are Pushing Back Against AI
"Collective campaigns, lawsuits, international rules and IT hacks are all being deployed at speed on behalf of the creative industries in an effort, if...
The Oscars Completely Screwed Up The Naatu Naatu Dance Performance
How? By not hiring a single South Asian dancer for the performance. Dance group artistic director Achinta McDaniel says South Asian dance groups are...
How’s The Manslaughter Case Against Alec Baldwin Going?
Not well, not well at all. For one thing ... "the literal smoking gun — a key piece of evidence for both teams — might not...
We Don’t Need To Be Jerks To Bots In Order To Deal With Our...
"The real reason that the critique has shifted from 'people are too mean to bots' to 'people are too nice to them' is because...
Lance Reddick, Star Of The Wire, Bosch, And The John Wick Series, Has Died...
Reddick "was a distinctive, instantly recognizable presence, even if he was not quite a household name. His voice was distinctive, too, as players of...
The Wins For Everything Everywhere All At Once Proves That The Academy Loves Conventional...
Sure, some of the sequences were a bit zany (and then there are the hot dog finers), but the film "feels more in line...
How Vermeer Made The World Interior, And Modern
Stop thanking Shakespeare and Falstaff, and start looking at Vermeer's women. "Into the mundane and commonplace, this master of stillness and of light manages...
Does Streaming Availability Actually Help Some Of The Oscars Contenders?
"Streaming services are often thought of as a competitor for the movie theatre experience, but some in the industry see streaming as a benefit...
The Days Of Rolling Thunder
Four years of being the "token able-bodied actor" in Canada's Roliing Thunder Theatre Company, which had three actors with cerebral palsy and one who...
The Women Of Ted Lasso
And we don't mean the women Jason Sudeikis is dating, or the ones the fictional coach may date. Instead, it's the deep on and...
The Real Laundromat At The Heart Of Oscar-Winning Everything Everywhere All At Once
Majers Coin Laundry in San Fernando is "tucked between an auto repair shop and a mobile home park, its tall glass windows revealing vending...
As ‘Phantom’ Closes, So Does The Gig Of A Lifetime
The pit orchestra "will disappear along with the show. It holds 27 full-time musicians, 11 of whom have been with Phantom since it opened...
Architecture Is Missing Many Black Practitioners
In Pascale Sablan's second week at the Pratt Institute, "a young white professor asked Sablan and another female student to stand up in a...
Behind A Lot Of Successful Movies Stand Some Pretty Great Books
Here are this year's for the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay (which was won by Sarah Polley, for Women Talking). - The Millions
The Ways Digital Platforms Are Changing Our Musical Memories
"I worry about how moods are being targeted in music by a company’s algorithms. But I know he loves this music, albeit in...
Where Bad Statistics Come From
And why they just keep chugging along. (For the record, no, you don'tlose 80 perncet of your body heat from your head.) - The...
The Hardcore, Non-CGI Way HBO Made ‘The Last Of Us’ So Creepy
"To achieve the specific sense of degradation, ... the team would build sets then wear them down, wreck them, or, as Paino refers to...
Visiting The Grave Of Raymond Carver
"I read her 'Cathedral' while she rested her head in my lap. It was 'really something' as you had said. Your story, I mean,...
A British Survey Finds Workers In The UK’s Public Arts Sector Are Massively Exploited...
The survey "exposes how many artists, especially those from less privileged backgrounds, have to sustain multiple additional jobs to subsidise poorly paid commissions in...
