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Another Theatrical Shout-Out To The Legendary Peter Brook
"Friends and colleagues who worked with him on this side of the Atlantic, and theater makers who never met him but look reflexively to...
The Fourth Thor Is Doing Well At The Box Office, But Marvel Should Probably...
The worry doesn't come from money, but from audience grades - a B+ for Thor: Love and Thunder follows a B+ for Doctor Strange...
Why Danai Gurira’s Richard III Matters
The actor took a while to decide, but when she said yes, she dug into Richard's words. "Is there a different experience the audience...
Take Control Over Your Marvel Watch Habits
Fans don't have to see everything. Instead, they can follow the series and movies the way they would with comic books - only committing...
The Comeback Of Australia’s Country Pub
It's actually quite pleasing for architects - and fans of community spirit as well. "You can gut it and bring all of this modern...
A Former NFL Defensive Lineman And His East Baltimore Animation Studio
NFL player Trevor Pryce visited 20th Century Fox in 2005 and fell for animation. Now, his Kulipari series - "Kulipari, an Australian Outback aboriginal...
Do Protest Songs Make Any Difference?
Hard to quantify, but a new English-language protest song database that goes back to the 17th century says they can. - - BBC
The Shimmers That Bring Fiction To Light
In Joan Didion's essay about writing to find out what one thinks, she also wrote, "'The arrangement you want can be found in...
Turns Out Our Brains Have A ‘Low Power’ Mode
And when mice are in it - specifically, when they're not getting enough glucose - their brains stop processing details of vision. The study...
The Thrill Of A Great Takedown
Honestly, readers love them. "There’s something a little sexy about a well-executed negative review. ... A great pan does not just point out what’s missing...
Comedy As The Ancient, And Modern, Practice Of Joy
D'Lo is a "self-described queer/transgender Tamil Sri Lankan-American cultural-worker-activist-poet-writer-actor-comic" in L.A. He says, "as comedians we have a lot of power. We can say...
Susie Steiner Helped Reinvent The Crime Novel Even As She Went Blind
The author, who died at 51, only had time to produce three books in her series, but her agent says, "I’ve lost track of...
At Least One United States Court Understands Comedy
Roy Moore, whom history will remember for putting a marble Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building and being banned from a mall...
Bookstores Are Back, Baby
Indie bookstores are positively booming - and they're more diverse than ever. This is a shock (a wonderful shock), considering that in the early...
Making Activist Art A Conduit For Hope In Troubled Times
Andrea Bowers's show opened on June 24, the day that the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe. "When you enter the first...
How The Waterlily Changed Architecture
"When seeds of this amazing plant first made their way to Victorian England from South America, they sparked off a race among the British...
James Caan: An Appreciation
For instance: "He was unforgettably perfect — carnal, wild, exciting. Caan may not be the actor you first think of in relation to The...
You Are Not The Great American (Or British, Or French, And So Forth) Novelist
And the sooner you embrace your essential ordinariness, the better for your writing. - LitHub
The Point Of Pointless Goals
Let us now praise things that bring us joy, like the person who determined to walk across the United States in a cartoon bear...
A New Delhi-Based Queer Arts Group Abandoned Documenta After Racist And Transphobic Harassment
Documenta apparently told the group to rely on a private security firm and German police, both of which organizations proved, the artists say, to...
It’s Never Too Late To Learn Ballet
Or so this ballerina tells the adults taking her classes. - CBC
The Deaf Artist Who Loves Working With Sound
Christine Sun Kim "has become the very rare artist with a public platform that transcends the often insular art world." - The New York...
Capitalizing On Meme Culture, But Very Carefully
How to handle, or how not to handle, memes about your movie: "The difference between the Morbius flop memes and the GentleMinions trend is that Sony...
Harvey Dinnerstein, Who Sketched The Civil Rights Movement, Has Died At 94
When Dinnerstein was 27, "he traveled to Alabama with fellow artist Burton Silverman, a high school classmate, to chronicle the bus boycott in Montgomery."...
A New Study Says Literary Snobs Are Right
In short, reading literary fiction seems to give readers a more complex worldview. - LitHub
