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Can It With The Fat Suits, Hollywood
Just hire fat actors. Truly, the easiest solution in the world. - The New York Times
In A Win For Authors, People Can No Longer Read And Return E-Books To...
Of course, it's a win after a long fight. "Amazon has done the right thing for once! In this case, the right thing is closing...
Independent Bookstores Are The Bulwark In The Fight Against Censorship And Bans
"Booksellers are lucky, because we get to sell whatever we want to sell. So we can sell the banned books, but what they're doing...
Hilary Mantel: An Appreciation
"She embodies both the magician and the spell, and part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else...
The Three Thousand Seat Decision Facing Portland’s Civic And Arts Leaders
The Keller Auditorium's "setting and its bones mean that there is great potential here, at a time when downtown needs its cultural landmarks more...
The Artist Turning Junk Into A Queer Church
"At just 34, Yore’s art has become instantly recognisable in its spectacular, colourful vulgarity, taking on gender, sexuality, politics, religion, capitalism and advertising." -...
James Earl Jones Is Stepping Away From Darth Vader
The 91-year-old actor, who has played the voice of the terrifying villain for decades, apparently "signed over the rights to his archival voice work,...
What Book Bans Take From Kids
"Scary books give children the tools to deal with fear off the page. ... Banning books shuts that gateway to the good and the...
Lynn Nottage Is The Playwright Most Produced In The US This Year
And her play Clyde's, a sequel of sorts to Sweat, the most produced play. "On the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights list, she is tied...
Newspaper Comics Pages May Be Nearing Their End
"Bizarro" creator Dan Piraro says, "'Seeing the dominoes begin to fall at such an accelerated pace is scary,' ... noting that he still depends...
The Board Members Of A Toronto Contemporary Arts Center Resign En Masse
Twenty-four board members of Toronto's Power Plant resigned together "in response to their parent organization Harbourfront’s alleged attempt to terminate and replace 12 members...
Documenta Is About To End, Perhaps Forever
"This Documenta, unlike any before it, was not about art, or ideas, but about the friends we made along the way — the friends...
Are We Doomed To Repeat The Mistakes Of Futurism?
"Technological changes may seem inevitable, but they often come down to one person making an arbitrary choice. If Henry Ford had decided to build electric cars...
MoviePass Somehow Still Has Diehard Fans
Sure, the service mostly died in 2019 - but it's being revived now, and a lot of hardcore users still have their MoviePass cards....
Cursive Is A Foreign Language To Gen Z
How will future historians read primary sources if they don't even know what the sources say? - The Atlantic
MoMA’s Photo Curator Returns To France
Clément Chéroux arrived just two years ago, and during his time MoMA "was closed for the coronavirus pandemic and its programming was disrupted." He's...
Why Cameron Mackintosh Is Willing To Let ‘Phantom’ Go, At Very Long Last
"As a veteran of long-running shows, I’ve found there comes a point with the greatest show where the only thing you can do is...
The Grit Under The Glamour At Hollywood’s St. Francis Hotel
In 1975, Penny Wolin took photos of everything at the St. Francis residential hotel, "from an American man in his 70s and his new...
This Postal Clerk By Day Was A Masterful Music Producer At Night
Richie Weeks - aka the Love Magician - lived his working life sorting the mail, but his other working life producing and creating music...
Another Judge Refuses To Let ‘Rust’ Script Supervisor Lawsuit Continue
The judge "decided two of three claims that Mitchell filed against the producers — assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress — could...
Azerbaijan Has Destroyed A Massive Percentage Of Cultural Armenian Heritage Sites
"The new report by the Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) identified 108 medieval and early modern Armenian monasteries, churches, and cemeteries in Nakhichevan that were completely destroyed...
Russia’s Self-Mythologizing About Leningrad Leaves Out A Few Inconvenient Truths
So does every other country's belief in its war history, of course. "Versions told by autocrats and family men trample diary entries and letters....
The Woman King, A War Movie Starring Viola Davis, Surprises Analysts With Its Success
Apparently, some people can't predict when a Black woman-led (and directed) action film might truly perform at the theatre. But "The Woman King received rapturous...
How ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Got A Life
As the musical closes, the production team says they're proud of the work that the musical has done to bring teen mental health forward...
Sacheen Littlefeather Gets An Apology From The Academy
"The Native American activist, who endured decades of harassment after declining Marlon Brando's best actor prize at the 1973 Oscars ceremony, received a formal...
