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The Black Lesbian Playing The Queen Of England
"It’s a scenario that’s perfect for the gossip-fueled Bridgerton: Golda Rosheuvel, who plays Queen Charlotte on the Netflix series, was once told to keep...
The Venice Biennale Was Surrounded By, And Part Of, This Meaning-Free Surreal Moment
Take the NFTs, for example: "banal, tasteless and pointlessly surreal ... The ambiance was somewhere between that of a particularly bad high school art...
Ady Fidelin Was Man Ray’s Muse, And The First Black Model In Harper’s Bazaar
During WWII, Fidelin also preserved Man Ray's entire studio. "Without her preservation, Strauss said, 'we’d be missing a whole chunk of Dada and Surrealist...
Neil Gaiman Also Experiences The Suck Fairy
The beloved children's (and adult) author on all kinds of books, and the challenges of rereading the Enid Blyton books he loved as a...
Some Movie Sequels Feature Fantastic Characters
Some of them - Harley Quinn, my goodness - even get their own movies. But let's consider possibly the best sequel character ever: Yoda....
Grace And Frankie’s Reign Of Terror Is Coming To An End
Happy International Workers Day to Grace and Frankie's service workers! "At restaurants, at the DMV, at big-box hardware stores, and inside delivery trucks, the...
A Very, Very Cleaned Up Constable Takes Center Stage
It only took 270 to get the yellowed varnish off. Looks like the 19th century wasn't as dark and dreary as one might previously...
An Artist Takes Advantage Of The Bridgerton Moment To Remind Everyone Of The Black...
Glory Samjolly, paints oil portraits of Black business owners, artists, writers, and intellectuals in the styles of the European old masters, but she also...
Benin’s Rights-Teaching Girls Band
Like the US band The Linda Lindas, Star Feminine Band make music both for themselves and for a wider audience - an audience that...
Fantasy Writers Should Be Friends With Historical Fiction Writers
And vice versa. Yet it's not so common. "The best science fiction and fantasy and the best historical fiction, it’s not just a period...
What Rome’s Cinecitta Means To Film History
The legendary studio are hosting, live, the Davids - Italy's Oscars. "There are symbolic elements of various types: the Italian film community is back...
The Goal: Something Broadway’s Never Seen Before
After the play Strange Loop, "I told I’d purchased a refrigerator magnet from the merch table, so that every time I walk by...
Britain Proposes To Regulate Streaming Services
There are two major government claims: The regulations will protect (innocent?) watchers; and also, regulating streaming will "create a 'new golden age' of British...
TV Writers Enter The Metaverse
"A true metaverse — one accessible by a single gateway, in which life persists even in a user's absence — doesn't yet exist. But its depiction...
Is Bob Fosse’s ‘Dancin’ The Most Dangerous Job In Theatre?
Changes have been made; one act is gone. The director, who was in the original Broadway show, says, "We evenly distributed the show so...
Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover Of Twitter Is A Reminder That Platforms Are Temporary
But community, real community, including community found on those platforms, can last a lot longer. - Vice
What Happened To All Those Great Film Soundtracks?
Nothing against the Hamilton cast album - obviously a different animal - but the 1990s were the last great decade of film soundtracks. Why?...
Singer And Country Music Star Naomi Judd Has Died At 76
She died on April 30, one day before she and her daughters Wynonna and Ashley were due to perform at the Country Music Hall...
Russian Troops Looted Art Museums In Mariupol
The Mariupol City Council says that "Russian forces have seized more than 2,000 pieces of artwork from the besieged port city of Mariupol," and...
Cultural Critic Margo Jefferson On TikTok, Fragility, And The Immaturity Of Chris Rock And...
"The incident crystallised several Jeffersonian themes: televised glamour, Black entertainers, and the question of how to behave in public." (In short, Smith and Rock...
The Librarians Fighting Book Censorship
"Libraries, principals, school boards, superintendents are just fending off not only formal complaints that have been filed, which is what ALA was counting, but...
Need A Laugh? Head To The Library Of Congress
That's where you'll find the papers of Neil Simon: "7,700 manuscripts, letters and other material that Simon’s widow, Elaine Joyce, has donated to the...
For An Audiobook To Be Good, It Needs More Than A Good Narrator
While the good narrator (or narrators) is essential, truly good audiobooks also need the right atmosphere - and sometimes the right music. - NPR
Regret Can Be A Positive Feeling
Of course, "there’s a reason we put so much effort into denying regret: The feeling can be corrosive." But instead of regretting lost symphonies,...
Handwriting Has A Power That Computers Can Never Create
"When you’ve written something by hand, the only person who could have done it is you. It’s unmistakable you wrote this, touched it, laid...
