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The Conservative Fifth Circuit Lets Texas End Social Media Moderation
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, "Oral arguments were held on Monday this week, and the judges 'seemed to struggle with basic tech concepts.'" The tech companies will...
David E. Kelley Is Back, Everywhere, On TV, But Quietly
If you were watching TV in the late 1990s, the name should strike a very familiar chord. "Kelley, the creator of The Practice, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Boston...
When Eighth Grade Doodles Become A Career Path
Jessie Sima always loved to doodle horses, or one might honor that art with the word sketch, even. In eighth grade, another kid told...
Streaming Is About To Get Ads
To be fair, if you have Roku or Tubi or Freevee, you already know that very well. But now the big players are getting...
What It’s Like To Start Life In Hollywood With No Industry Connections
Haley Lu Richardson was a dancer when she and her mom moved from Phoenix to L.A. Her success has been a slow burn. "I’d...
What The Venice Biennale Means To This Year’s Winner
Sonia Boyce "greets the trophy with a mix of gratitude and circumspection. 'It seems almost ridiculous that it takes into the 21st century for...
Building A New World Of Poetic Voices
"Much like the painstaking process of recording cassettes for one another in the pre-playlist age, editing an anthology is intimate, a gesture towards the...
The Organization That Runs The Golden Globes Is Up For Sale
Its interim CEO wants to bid on it, and there may be one other bidder. "The HFPA’s move comes after more than a year...
Finding Asian American Representation In Opera Beyond Butterfly
Nina Yoshida Nelsen took stock of her career after the Atlanta shootings. "She had performed in Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly more than 150 times, but had...
Ukraine Wins Eurovision
In a real shocker that literally everyone predicted, rap/folk Kalush Orchestra won, with a song (originally written for the frontman's mother) that includes lyrics...
Why An American Media That Can’t Say More Than Shma-Shmortion Helped Predict This Moment
Look at 2007's Knocked Up. It's "a self-consciously edgy movie that declines, again and again, to say the word abortion out loud. It has much to...
Netflix, But Live Streamed
That "opens up the potential to order a whole new raft of unscripted series to use the technology, bringing it in to line with...
Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza, A Renowned Carmen, Has Died At 89
Berganza won fame in Rossini and Mozart, and of course in Carmen, but her "vast repertoire as a recitalist included German lieder, French and...
Yes, The Marcos Family Still Has That ‘Lost’ Picasso
And glimpses of it in Imelda Marcos' apartment after Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s (shocking, for those who remember the 1980s) presidential win "has added to...
How’s It Going, Headline Writers?
This is not an easy job in 2022. Let's find out just how not easy. - Slate
A Strange Loop Leads The 2022 Tony Awards Nominees
For best play, The Lehman Trilogy has the most nominations, and Company is in the mix for best musical revival. The ceremony was delayed...
What’s The Deal With Comedy Posters And Their Huge Red Lettering?
There's no research; it's just the bus stop thing. "A producer I used to work with would constantly tell me: 'If I’m driving down...
George Perez, Who Helped Define The Wonder Woman We Know Today, Has Died At...
Pérez had a comic book career that spanned four decades. His "meticulous pencil was behind some of the biggest comic book heroes," including New...
A Constellation Of Unlikely Events Leads To A Real Breakout Off-Broadway Season
Marjan Neshat, a 45-year-old Iranian American actor, is having a real one, with three critically acclaimed performances in one season. Says playwright Sanaz Toossi,...
How Debbie Allen And Shonda Rhimes Combined Forces To Build A Performing Arts Center
It's big for L.A.: "Five dance studios, a 200-seat performance area and classrooms for the Debbie Allen Middle School of the Performing Arts. The...
The Tension Between The Work Of Being A Mother And The Work Of Being...
Happy day after Mother's Day in the U.S.: "The kingdoms are at odds. The baby cannot care for itself, the art cannot create itself,...
Ric Parnell, The Actual Musician Amid ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ Actors, Has Died At...
"Parnell had been in several bands, including the British prog-rock outfit Atomic Rooster, when he auditioned for This Is Spinal Tap, a deadpan sendup...
Collectors Say They Try To Bring Order To The Chaos Of Reality
Sometimes, collectors of physical objects also make a transition to "curating" those objects in digital forms for social media or other online exhibits. But...
Should Portland Tear Down And Replace Its Largest Downtown Performing Arts Building?
The Keller, where the Portland Opera and Oregon Ballet Theatre perform, isn't seismic safe, a report says. (That's not even addressing the myriad of...
What To Do With Theatre’s Classic Canon
Director Awoye Timpo and dramaturg Arminda Thomas: "We were thinking about this notion of what what does it mean to expand the canon? .....
