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The Eerie Experience Of Visiting Peru’s Terrorism Museum As A Constitutional Crisis Unfolds
Part of the problem lies in the rhetoric of "terrorism" - something that Lima's political elite seems to use whenever any other part of...
Director Alice Diop’s Film Was Overlooked For The Oscars, But She’s Moving On
A documentary filmmaker for years, she feels ambivalent about the attention her film Saint-Omer has already had - she's the first Black woman to...
The Design Transformation Of Playgrounds
"Urban planners, architects and designers around the world are looking to make cities spongier—using nature-based solutions to better absorb water," and that's where playgrounds come...
Actor Annie Wersching Of 24, Runaways And This Is Us Has Died At 45
The actor was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, but kept it quiet. "She wanted to get better so she could continue working. And honestly,...
Marie Kondo Never Told People To Give Everything Up
But when the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up revealed that with kids, she's let go of trying to be so tidy,...
With ‘Hollywood Shuffle,’ Robert Townsend Transformed The Business, And Himself
As Hollywood Shuffle joins the Criterion Collection (making him one of the very rare Black directors on the list), Townsend is also coming off...
The Case Of The Vermont Law School’s Covered Murals Goes To Federal Court
"sdf"The Vermont Law and Graduate School wants to take down a mural that some consider outdated and racist. But a law protecting artistic expression...
A Director Who Hates The Phrase Boys Will Be Boys
Oscar-nominated director Lukas Dhont of Close says, "I believe we can learn many things from listening to 13-year-olds, because they are still so closely...
How Jane Austen Wins Over New Fans In 2023
She's on TikTok, of course - or at least, her new fans are, and they're heading to Bath in droves. One academic even suggests...
Microsoft Asks Federal Court To Toss The Lawsuit Over AI
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI claimed the anonymous plaintiffs didn't have standing, and that "GitHub's Copilot system, which suggests lines of code for programmers, made...
Alan Cumming Hands Back His OBE
The actor, who received the honor in 2009, has had it with "the toxicity of empire." - BBC
Wait ‘Til The Construction Dust Settles To Believe This One
The proposed architectural overhaul for London's Liverpool Street Station has some issues. "The new work was represented as a white substance impervious to weather...
Coaching Balanchine And Robbins In New York
Kyra Nichols returns to help City Ballet figure some things out: "How can a dancer replace force with something more free? How can she...
Let’s Talk About The Alec Baldwin Charges
Will the actor really face jail time? Should he? Thing is, "it is in the common understanding that guns are dangerous and are in...
How Bad Is Ticketmaster?
Even when it doesn't break under hordes of Taylor Swift fans, it's intensely, ridiculously, unbelievably bad. "In the best-case scenario, customers would feed money...
A Return To Sundance Nets Joy, And Some Standout Films In A ‘Very Solid’...
"It’s always dubious to draw zeitgeist-y conclusions amid all the variables. ... Yet that has rarely stopped any critic and I can confidently assert...
Quit It With The Mummy
The term is now "mummified person." Museums in the UK and some in the US "have rewritten their display labels and online resources with...
Sylvia Syms, Prolific British Film Star, Has Died At 89
Syms, nominated for two BAFTAs, was a hit with her first major role in 1956, playing a young delinquent in My Teenage Daughter. Nominated...
Joan Didion’s Archives Are Going To The New York Public Library
The personal literary archives of Didion and her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, contain 240 linear feet of material - including her research for...
This Viral Star Can’t Read – But Now He’s Found BookTok
Oliver James, a 34-year-old TikTok star, was functionally illiterate - until he joined forces with TikTok's book-loving community, BookTok. Now he's got a plan...
What Do German Critics Think Of This Year’s British And American War Movie Darling?
The new All Quiet on the Western Front "has been at the receiving end of a critical drubbing, with critics complaining that it turns...
The New Poet Hero Of Young Chileans
Garbriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, "is being reclaimed by a new generation of feminist and L.G.B.T. activists as...
Drew Barrymore Says Nominating A Child Actor For A Razzie Award Is Bullying
Barrymore and an wider backlash on the internet led to permanent changes: "Razzies organisers have apologised and introduced an age limit for the awards."...
The Many Performers Who Are One Measly Award Away From An EGOT
Kate Winslet, for example, needs a Tony. Dame Maggie Smith could use a Grammy. And, of course, Dick Van Dyke could use an Oscar....
Eight Ways, Aside From Scrapping Ticketmaster, To Make Ticket Buying Better
There's the obvious - cap the prices, end hidden fees - and then some less-obvious, but useful, ideas, like upgrading ticket-buying software to eliminate...
