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Perhaps You Need Some Help This Week Recognizing Right-Wing Iconography And Dog Whistles
Here's a crash course in the iconographies of hate groups that have coalesced around the current president of the United States. - Hyperallergic
Why Do Some Of This Era’s Photos Look So Much Like Renaissance Paintings?
It's not an accident. Ask Reddit. "These comparisons, while often funny, also come across as shockingly honest. They push aside the veneer of the...
Helga Weyhe, Germany’s Oldest Bookseller, 98
The store, which has endured through the creation of Germany, two world wars, Communism, and reunification, not to mention Amazon, was a family affair....
Why Do Some Mock Romance So Very Hard When It Sells Better Than Hotcakes...
In the UK, for instance, publishing company Mills & Boon (the company that just landed Fergie as an author) publishes 700 books a year...
The Gatsby Glut
Hurrah for copyright expiration: There are many new editions, with introductions and critical essays by voices that haven't been heard enough in the American...
Hollywood, Like Many Americans, Has Been Looking For Villains In All The Wrong Places
And casting villains, that is to say law enforcement and others deeply committed to white supremacy, as heroes. But the new documentary MLK/FBI isn't...
Artist Kim Tschang-Yuel, 91, Painter Of Water – And The Trauma Of War
"Kim’s drops can seem to sit miraculously atop his raw canvases or be in the midst of gliding down them, leaving a trail of...
A Black Dance Company In Los Angeles Gets Serious Funding
Black arts groups are "historically passed over for foundation funding of this magnitude," but the Lula Washington Dance Theatre won over its grantors. The...
The Inaugural Poet, 22 Years Old, Is Probably The Youngest In US History
Amanda Gorman will read a poem called "The Hill We Climb" at the inaugural ceremony on Wednesday (assuming it goes according to plan). "Unlike...
What A New Video Game Teaches Us About The Ancient Greeks And Masculinity
For one thing, "we need to reorient our understanding of gender and beauty to talk about hotness in antiquity." - Wired
The Biggest Mystery Of Bridgerton Is About That News Pamphlet
What's Lady Whistledown's business model? Seriously: To produce and print enough scandal sheets to feed the appetite of the ton, surely Lady Whistledown owns...
The Musical Fantasy World Created By Teens That Has Spawned Three Concept Albums For...
Yes, it's partly because of TikTok and the world of duets, collaborations, and free-flowing (but in this case, very directed) creativity. But it's so...
Hey America, Our To-Do Lists Will Never Get Shorter
Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway, unless we can accept some "okayist" awards instead of trying to be number one all of the...
Coventry Rebuilt Itself After WWII, But Now Town Planners Want To Knock Those Buildings...
Coventry is the UK 2021 city of culture. But ... yikes. "Much of the city’s pioneering postwar urban fabric is under threat. A gargantuan...
Can TV Writers Help Curb The Pandemic?
TV writers have helped changed public opinion on drunk driving, cigarette smoking, and - in the opposite direction - marriage equality. Why not mask-wearing,...
Dancers Are Still Trying To Break Down Gender Stereotypes In Ballet
Ashton Edwards, an 18-year-old student at the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Professional Division, got tired of studying for and dancing "male roles." Last year, the...
Mary Catherine Bateson, Author Of ‘Composing A Life’ And Daughter Of Margaret Mead, 81
Bateson, an anthropologist like her famous parents Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, had a busy and famously documented life. "Still, it wasn’t her babyhood, her...
The True Events That Inspired The Movie One Night In Miami
The film is based on a one-act play by Kemp Powers (a long one-act play), and the playwright calls it "a work of fiction...
An Author And Editor Says To Stop Thinking Books Have Meaning For Everyone
Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning: "I grew up middle class and I went to school, and from the school bus you’d see kids...
The Movie Soul Is About A Black Man, But In Some Countries, He’s Voiced...
Europe, excuse us, but what are you doing? "Asta Selloane Sekamane, one of the activists who criticized the casting ... said in an interview...
The Stagehands Union Says It’s Time To Let Them Run Mass Vaccine Sites In...
This seems almost too obvious when one considers it. The people who know how to set up almost any kind of venue, run crowd...
Sign Of The Times: Choir Rehearsals And Concerts Via Car
The founder and conductor of Canada's Luminous Voices, which now uses the cars' FM transmitters, a mixer, and wireless mics for rehearsal and, crucially,...
On Hearing The Music While You Read
Writers have to listen as well as read. "As I read The Waves, I started to 'hear' language as if for the first time....
Writer Jenny Offill On What Can Be Done During The Pandemic
If you have elderly parents and kids to care for, not much. "The pandemic has been through all these different stages and you’re constantly...
Kansas City Ballet Took A Long Time, But Finally Canceled The Rest Of The...
The ballet joins Kansas City's other major performing arts organizations, which will certainly have an economic impact on KC's central performing arts center. -...