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Who Won Big At The BET Awards
And who flipped off the Supreme Court on live TV, too. - The Hollywood Reporter
Cuba Sentences An Artist To Five Years In Prison
"Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara will serve five years in prison for 'contempt, defamation, and public disorder,' charges human rights organizations have condemned." Otero Alcántara's...
How Los Angeles’ Fountain Theatre Is Responding To The End Of Roe
"Performer Christina Hall reminded the crowd that all three of the justices appointed by former President Trump had promised at their confirmation hearings that...
Queer Desire And Pakistani Life
Novelist Taymour Soomro: "It was important to me to write about queerness in Pakistan for so many reasons, including making visible experiences like my...
Google’s AI Issue Shows Us A Human Logical Fallacy
We hear fluent speech, we think "fluent thought." But wait: "The human brain is hardwired to infer intentions behind words" - even where there...
A Long Island Library Board Has Reversed Its Ban On Pride Displays
Way to not entirely buckle under to homophobes, Smithtown Library Board. - LitHub
The Disney Board Gathers To Discuss Bob Chapek’s Future
Why does this matter? Stocks are down though subscriptions to Disney Plus are up, and interest in Disney-owned properties is strong. But, one analyst...
What Makes For A Good Group Biography?
"The questions that make these biographies sing—what makes this group of people actually interesting, not just noteworthy? Why, of all the relationships in a...
Stylish Trans Elder Gloria Allen Was An Icon Who Taught History And Style To...
Allen, who has died at 76, inspired filmmakers and playwrights. She ran a charm school for young trans people in Chicago, usually from the...
White Women In Media Keep Hypersexualizing Asian Women
Of course, white men do it too. But the point: "Inherent in the 'hypersexual woman' trope is the belief that Asian women aren’t simply...
Documenta Was Going Great Until The Organizers Forgot To Account For Fascism
Or, at the very least, someone should have clocked the antisemitic imagery in one artist's piece. Then there's the question of Palestinian artists and...
Marcel The Shell, YouTube, And Internet Fame
Marcel the Shell was "one of YouTube’s earliest sensations—'Gangnam Style' was still two years away, after all—and now, more than a decade later, its...
What Theatre Can Do In The Face Of A Country Removing Rights From Its...
And what 1776 looks like now. "In the aftermath of the striking down of Roe v. Wade, I was forced to rethink. Were the words...
Take A Look At Wagner’s Early Operas
His earliest operas show "an impressionable composer who, before finding a voice of his own, knew how to expertly draw on those he admired;...
If We’re Truly Living In A Simulation, The Beings Running It Are, To Put...
"Suppose we are now willing to regard it as a live possibility that we really are living in a simulation. How much would it...
How Paris Theatres Are Dealing With Moliere At 400
"Does Molière, the 17th-century comedy master and doyen of French playwrights, really still have the power to surprise? As France celebrates the 400th anniversary...
Shooting WWII In Color
In part to counteract the skills of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who wasted her great talents on supporting fascism and the Nazis, Hollywood filmmaker George...
A Chance Find, A Storied Past, A Relaunch
How does a writer like Bette Howland fall into obscurity - and then get rediscovered? Thank the sale rack at Housing Works Bookstore in...
Dora Maar’s Photos Show An Artist Who Knew Her Worth Before She Met Picasso
It's unfortunate (in the extreme) that writers and artists let their relationship overshadow her own work, which not only documents the Surrealists but also...
Hollywood Companies Vow To Pay Employees’ Travel And Other Abortion Costs
Many Hollywood companies, and the unions SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild, say they will pay for employees' costs if they need to travel from...
What’s The Labor Of A Social Media Moderator Worth?
Nothing, but also millions of dollars - at least on Reddit, where moderators are volunteers whose contributions are estimated to be worth $3.4 million....
Only One Broadway Show Is Keeping Its Mask Requirement
Circle in the Square's American Buffalo will require masks through the end of its run. It's the only Broadway theatre left "not operated by...
Peak TV Is Overwhelming, But Emmy Voters Need To Watch It Anyway
Some of these shows and people won't win, but they deserve to be nominated; and the categories deeply need to change to keep up...
The Mind-Boggling Logistical Challenge Of This Theatre Company’s New Plays
The same 14 cast members in three plays at three different theatres, all running at exactly the same time. Happy 50th, Crucible Theatre in...
Why The Inventor Of The Shopping Mall Denounced His Design
Victor Gruen "set his sights on bringing a dose of Viennese urbanity to what he saw as the car-dominated 'avenues of horror' of American...
