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The Sphere May Be The Horrifying Future Of Entertainment For All Of Us
“There is no escape in the Sphere. The walls are screens. The ceilings are screens. The floor, swooping underneath you at an impossible angle,...
Mad Men’s Special Effects Foreman Has Some Things To Say About The Events Of...
Such events being HBO’s Mad Men remaster that showed a little too much. “We always tried to camouflage ourselves as much as possible, but...
Performance Professionals Are Learning From Toddlers
“Some artists are … making very young children a part of the choreographic process, or creating music designed to get them moving. They’re...
Four European Countries Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have all withdrawn from the 2026 competition. The Dutch broadcaster: "After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under...
What Changed About Hamnet Between Page And Screen
The book is not only made up of words but also concerns words. The author, who co-wrote the screenplay: "To make a 400-page novel...
This Oscar Winner Has Been In The Business For More Than Six Decades
Youn Yuh-jung, Oscar winner for Minari, doesn’t want to be seen as an icon, however. “In Korea, they usually say, ‘Is there any message...
According To The BBC, These Are The Ten Most Iconic Gehry Buildings
From Spain to France to the Czech Republic and, well, Spain again, here are the BBC’s faves. - BBC
And We Know It’s Good For Netflix
The deal with Warner Bros. “gives the streaming giant an identity it didn’t have before and a back catalog that will rival that of...
Hey, Hang On, Netflix Might Be Great For Warner Bros.
Well, good, anyway. “Staffers at the company are taking comfort in what Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said about HBO on a...
Carrie Soloway, The Real-Life Person Who Inspired Prime’s ‘Transparent,’ Has Died At 88
“Dr. Soloway went to red carpet events related to the show,” but she didn’t love them. “She was very humble in terms of publicity;...
How The Classical Guitar Becomes One Of The Most Complex Instruments, In A Good...
“What’s distinctive about the classical guitar is its simplicity. Ultimately, it’s basically a wooden box with strings attached and a fretted neck, a bridge,...
What Will This French City Do If Its Famous Comic Book Festival Fails?
Angoulême is where graphic novels and comic books are normally celebrated in a huge festival each year. But maybe not in 2026. “Criticized for...
Fighting To Save Britain’s First Multiplex Movie Theatre From A Housing Development
“As a shot of commercial and architectural adrenaline, it revived British cinema-going, welcoming more than a million visitors in its first year, and impelling...
How Did Tom Stoppard Fund His Playwriting?
Hollywood. “At one point in the early 1990s, Stoppard earned $500,000 for a five-week stretch polishing various projects for Universal Pictures. … He seemed...
Ethan Hawke On Playing The 5-Foot-Tall, Combover-Laden Lorenz Hart
“Hawke shaved his head and stood in a trench to appear shorter than his co-stars. This literally gave him a fresh view on the...
Clueless Colleges Are Preparing To Harm Their Students In The Name Of ‘Preparing’ Them...
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things,...
Video Games Are Feeding A Deep Well Of Conspiracy Theories
“In the fiction of Assassin’s Creed, humanity is descended from ancient aliens; ... world events influenced by a shadow war between two secret societies;...
Daniel Woodrell, The Author Of Winter’s Bone, Has Died At 72
Woodrell was “a novelist known for prose as rugged and elemental as the igneous rock of the Ozark Mountains, his birthplace, which he returned...
The Oxford Word Of The Year Is Probably Something You Experience Every Day
You know what clickbait is, right? Well, the word of the year is its anger-fueled cousin, rage bait, "manipulative tactics used to drive engagement...
There’s A Lot Of History, And Art, Beyond Art Basel Miami Beach
Getting beyond the tent walls means understanding just how much the Cuban diaspora means to the city. - The New York Times
Why Is A 1998 Musical Resonating With Audiences Now?
“We wrote something, you know, with very open hearts and no political agenda. We just wanted to tell this amazing story, and look what...
A Classical Pianist’s Plea To Let Art Be Messy, And Real
"Playing an instrument well is phenomenally difficult. It takes a lifetime of arduous work and can become all-consuming, making it easy to forget that...
In The Miserable Economy For Creative People, What Happens When One Is Successful?
In Alison Bechdel’s newest book, “Communal systems of support and shared resources are positioned against the capitalist drive to isolate, hoard resources, and privatize.”...
Inside The Philly Traveling Museum Where Black Collectors Have The Spotlight
“It got to the point where I had more art than walls. … I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool for a bunch of collectors...
The Super Weird, Remixed Way People Are Watching Old TV Shows
“People are sitting through one-to-two minute, out-of-order clips of TV shows and movies on social media, awkwardly cropped for the vertical format and often...
