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Idea: Stitch A Divided Country Back Together Through National Service
This seems almost hopelessly idealistic. But given a country that seems to be nearing some forms of civil war, "it’s tragic that no politician...
In Los Angeles, A Dance Program For Low Income Kids Continues To Thrive
Everybody Dance LA! is "an almost-too-good-to-be-true program founded more than 20 years ago by a grieving mother who believed that things should not remain unequal —...
Mozart’s Requiem, Amid Medical Supplies And Air Raid Sirens, In Lviv
Orchestra director Iolanta Pryshlyak, who also coordinates a flow of medical and humanitarian supplies, said, "War makes your heart like a stone. ... But...
The Art Of, And By, Whimsy
A Russian artist now based in London says using clotheslines and clothing - and deliberately framing them in landscapes - may help us "slow...
Bolshoi Star Olga Smirnova, Now In The Netherlands, Fears For Her Former Co-Workers
"Even at the height of the Cold War, ballet tours were seen as a bridge between the USSR and the West. But after the Russian...
An Actor From JAWS Is About To Become Police Chief
And not just of any town, but of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, where the movie was filmed. "Decades ago, a young Searle played one...
Summer Reading, Part II – Vacation Books
What are they good for, and what do we want from them? - The New York Times
Cannes Bumped Up Its Number Of Women Filmmakers This Year
It's a record number! Er ... of five. Five out of 21 directors. One said, "We feel a lot of pressure, as if we...
Viewers Are Watching Ad-Full TV Again, With No Complaints
Perhaps it's the higher cost of living and inflation, but as Netflix's subscriber base drops, the ad-supported streamers rise. Streamer Tubi's chief: "The business...
Summer Reading, Part I
Leila Mottley "started working on Nightcrawling shortly before her 17th birthday, and finished the first draft in a few months." - The New York...
A Ukrainian Director Killed In April Had A Documentary Premiere At Cannes
"A few days after the city itself fell to invading Russian forces, Kvedaravičius’ fiancée Hanna Bilobrova fought back tears as she introduced the film,...
Agnieska Holland Is Furious That Cannes Accepted A Film From Russia
Holland is the European Film Academy president. "The Polish-born director – who fled to France in 1981 when Communist authorities imposed martial law –...
Why Art Prices Are Shooting Toward The Stratosphere
To be blunt, the rich have gotten richer during the pandemic, and continue to do so. - The Guardian (UK)
Legendary New Yorker Writer Roger Angell Has Died At 101
Angell's baseball writing - his gorgeous sentences, his attention to detail, his belief that being a fan was a worthwhile endeavor - earned him...
Netflix Explicitly Tells Employees They’ll Just Have To Deal With Content They Find Offensive
In what looks like a reaction - some might call it an over-reaction - to the employee walkouts over Dave Chapelle's transphobic jokes, the...
David Marcuse, Who Provided Progressives With Books And Gathering Places, Has Died At 73
Marcuse ran several bookstores, but Common Concerns, in Dupont Circle during the Reagan and (H.W.) Bush years, was the most important for a community...
Katsumoto Saotome Preserved The Stories Of Firebombing Survivors
Saotome, a novelist who has died at 90, compiled six books of survivors' testimony and founded a museum as well. - The New York...
Toronto Gets A Horror Bookstore
Why an entire bookstore and café devoted to scary things? "Imagine your problems were a ghost, a monster, a serial killer — that the...
The Musician Making New Words In Hmong
Twin Cities spoken word artist and musician "SUNAH hopes to replace negative language some in the Hmong community use to describe LGBTQ people. There...
Chicago’s Alt-Weekly May Have Finally Saved Itself
After the sale of the Chicago Reader "was nearly derailed over a co-owner’s column opposing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for children," and after a lot...
Disney Hasn’t Had This Much Trouble With Its Public Image Since The Early Days...
"The characters in the showdown were as colorful as any drawn on the studio's animation cels: union activists, gangsters, communists and anti-communists, and, not...
The Heartbreak And Necessity Of Ending A Feminist Magazine Right Now
Co-founder of Bitch Magazine Andi Ziesler says that "the thing that made us stand out in an increasingly digital marketplace was the fact that...
Guess Where You Can Get The Best Free E-Books, Music, And Movies On The...
This should not surprise you, because it's also the best place to get free physical books, music, and movies. - Fast Company
Why Black Cinema Had A Kung Fu Explosion In The 1970s
"If the very essence of Blaxploitation films to challenge the world order, the creative marriage between Kung Fu and Blaxploitation offered global imagery...
The Painting From The Credits Of The Show ‘Good Times’ Sells For A Huge...
Look, this wouldn't really be a news story, but the energy trader who bought it said, "I’m walking away with the treasure while everybody...
