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The Shakers Created A Musical Culture, And Composer Daniel Blumberg Wanted A New Movie...
“The entire tapestry of this film is musicalized — from the emphatic breathing, chest thumping and floor stomping that make up the worshipers’ rituals,...
Kennedy Center Says It Will Sue Chuck Redd For Canceling Christmas Eve Concert After...
The spokesperson at the Kennedy Center told NPR, "Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or...
The London Eye’s Architect Has Designed A Renewable Energy AI Source
The tidal power station "would curve from Minehead to Watchet and use 125 underwater turbines to harness the power of the second-highest tidal range...
There’s A Rule Broadway Insiders Follow
It’s called the two-block rule, as in, if you need to trash the show, wait until you’re two blocks away. “You wouldn’t go to...
Why It Matters That We Can Interpret Symbols In Art And Literature
“Something profound is lost when we reject the symbolic, that well-spring of human communication since an Australopithecus some three-million years ago found a pebble...
Designing A Mostly Happy, Hippie Sci-Fi Apolcalypse
For instance, in Pluribus, “the music was designed to explore the tension between the pain of individuality and the comfort of surrender.” - Fast...
Heated Rivalry Is Not Just That Gay Hockey Show, It Also Can Teach You...
“Streaming numbers have reflected the craze, with multiple tracks from featured Canadian artists ‘jumping tens of thousands of per cent in streams and thousands of...
The Guardian’s Twelve Worst Films Of The Year
Worth a read just for the pans: “This listless and supercilious musical – ostensibly on the theme of heartwarming home town values – ......
The Ukrainian City Where ‘Carol Of The Bells’ Was Born Has Been Destroyed By...
Pokrovsk’s displaced choir had to distill “the complex choral melody for just three singers this Christmas, down from the usual 30. Hearing the arrangement...
Turns Out Organ-Tuning Books In English Churches Are A Record Of Global Warming
“Organ tuners make brief records of their visits and often jot down observations, including the temperature and humidity inside the building. Materials within organs...
The Artists We Lost In 2025
In their own words: Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Rob Reiner, Frank Gehry, and many more. - The New York Times
The White House Is Still Trying To Threaten The Smithsonian’s Funds
The Trump administration threatened “to withhold federal funds if it does not submit extensive documentation for a sweeping content review. … It was not immediately...
Blame Our Loneliness On Our Land Use Plans
Here’s the reality for people in the U.S.: “Life in a single-occupant vehicle has its perks, like singing along to music or listening to...
A Theatre Tries To Answer The Perennial Question
Not ‘To be or not to be,’ but, obviously at this time of year, “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” - NPR
Hollywood May Finally Be Ready For Nancy Meyers Again
In 2023, “Meyers had written a semi-autobiographical rom-com called Paris Paramount. She’d originally written it for Netflix, but they did not want to give her the...
When Tragedy Strikes Near An Entertainment Venue, Should The Show Go On?
“We didn’t have a lot of information before the show started, and the local authorities were telling our team that the best and safest...
What Does Realism Even Mean?
And, more importantly, how can creative people destroy the very word? - Happy Dancing
CBS News Yanks ‘60 Minutes’ Story On Brutal El Salvador Prison
Bari Weiss is said to have spiked the show a few hours before it was supposed to run. "The report … was to have...
Museums Are, Understandably, Freaking Out After The Louvre Heist
In short, they all want to make sure they’re guarding the perimeter. - The New York Times
Moviegoing Is Split Into Two Equally Miserable Experiences, But You Never Hear About The...
Hell is other people in a cinema, sure, but Hell - especially for a movie that needs an audience - is also no other...
Popular British Children’s Author Is Dropped By Publisher After Allegations Of Harassment
David Walliams, “one of Britain’s most successful children’s authors, was reportedly the subject of complaints that he had ‘harassed’ junior female staff at HarperCollins...
This One Little Word Can Make Or Break A Film
You know the word - the f-word. “A single use of the F-word requires at least a PG-13, while additional uses will elevate it...
A British Museum Asks Its Visitors To Help Uncover The History Of Its Looted...
“The museum holds more than 40,000 items from across Africa, many of which were traded, collected, looted or preserved during the era of the British...
James Ransone, Actor Who Played Ziggy On ‘The Wire,’ Has Died At 46
“Ransone was born in 1979 in Baltimore, an advantage in the early 2000s when The Wire, then a little-watched drama on HBO, was looking...
The Future Of Film Never Arrived, And Never Will
“I covered the 3-D boom from the start, and even early on one could see that the golden goose was cooked. It was clear that the...
