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If You Want More Olympics, There Are Years And Years Of Documentaries To Stream
“Some of them are startlingly cinematic, far beyond the workmanlike coverage we expect from seeing the same action on television.” - The New York...
There’s Only One Bed, Or, How Tropes Took Over Romance Discourse
“You can reduce anything down to tropes – grumpy v sunshine, pride v prejudice – but should we? What does it mean for the...
What Minnesota’s Indie Bookstores Are Doing During The ICE Surge
“There are two types of requests: books to help people understand what’s happening in the country and books to provide a momentary escape.” - Minnesota Public Radio
University Of North Texas Can’t Handle An Art Show With Anti-ICE Content
“Victor Quiñonez, the artist behind the exhibition, said he learned about the university’s decision when students messaged him on social media to say the...
Catalan Cinema, Moving Beyond The Art House
“The region’s new generation of filmmakers is no longer bound by the intimate, place-specific arthouse mode that often defined the late 2010s New Catalan...
Orhan Pamuk Finally Goes Netflix
But only on the Turkish novelist's own terms, which is one reason it’s taken a while. - The New York Times
The Ur-Conspiracy Theory, And How To Fight Them In General
“The fundamental problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that discovering...
Since We’re Talking About Wuthering Heights, Let’s Talk Kate Bush
Not just Kate Bush - but other top songs inspired by literature, including Rosaliá, Kendrick Lamar, and, yes, The Rolling Stones. - The Guardian...
How Does The New York Times Decide Which TV Series To Recap?
Is it all about popularity? What about when a network drops every episode at once? Does a series need to have characters who might...
If You Want To Keep Full Access To Discord, You’ll Have To Give Them...
The (very) popular social media and community site will now require a facial scan or government ID scan for age verification. After an incident...
Music Agents Demand Casey Wasserman Leave His Agency Over His Epstein Ties, Or They...
In addition, Chappell Roan (“Pink Pony Club”) is said to be leaving the agency whether he steps down or not. And "pressure against Wasserman...
Large Software Analysis Says Turin And Philly Paintings Aren’t Actually By Van Eyck
The AI-supported “findings supported scholars who had suggested that both versions were studio paintings – produced in the artist’s workshop but not necessarily by...
Experiments With Deliberately Drunk Music Making, Wagner Edition
“Conservatory-trained musicians are expected to execute written texts flawlessly while sounding convincingly fluid and expressive. Loosening inhibition can seem like a solution to both...
It’s Not Easy Being The One Charged With Creating New Stained Glass Windows For...
Tabouret: “It’s not very French to change stuff, so I thought that interesting as well as brave and fresh. They specifically wanted figurative painting,...
Wallace Shawn May Be The Only Playwright To Be Recognized And Shouted Out Across...
Of course, that’s usually because of his acting career (especially his iconic role in The Princess Bride). - The New York Times
How The Town Of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Created The Sounds Of A Generation
Alabama had no professional recording studios before a man named Rick Hall created FAME. Then the town became songwriting and recording central. “They were...
Directors Guild Anoints Paul Thomas Anderson
Other Directors Guild winners: Amanda Marsalis for an episode of The Pitt, and the guy who directed Game 7 of the World Series. -...
How Bach Helped This Abuse Victim Stay Alive
“Every night, I would sit in my room listening to recordings of Bach, then Horowitz and Ashkenazy, pretending to play along. It was pure escape,...
The Bad Bunny Halftime Show Didn’t Say ‘ICE Out,’ But The Music, Full Of...
“After Bad Bunny said ‘God bless America’ in English, he added in Spanish, ‘Be it Chile, Argentina … ' and the countries of Latin...
Author Elly Griffiths Says Magic And Mystery Novels Share A Big Similarity
The author of nearly 30 crime novels explains a few things about misdirection - and big reveals. - Irish Times (Archive Today)
The Wooster Group Actress Who Disappeared
Libby Howes, who was central to the group’s avant-garde breakthrough Rumstick Road, left the theatre during a psychotic breakdown. “For decades, Howes’s location has...
Director Jafar Panahi Calls Iran ‘A Failed State’ After The Arrest Of His Co-Writer
Panahi: "It is a failed state politically, ideologically, economically, culturally and environmentally. And it is not going to be able to last. The only...
The Year Young Black Comedians Stole The Super Bowl’s Thunder, And Thence Created The...
“The final ratings were the big headline. Altogether, 22 million people switched from CBS to Fox for the In Living Color alt-cast, outdrawing Winter...
This Year’s Super Bowl Ads Were Bleak For The Future Of Creativity
This Super Bowl was “the first with A.I. taking center stage—a revealing gametime moment for the tech as it confronts investor anxiety, broader fatigue,...
What Happens When Artists Lose Their Archives
“It was the loss of authorship, sequencing, and context. Works that were never meant to exist independently were broken apart and reintroduced to the...
