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If ‘Doctor Strange’ Isn’t Horror, Well, What Is?
"The most many reviewers could bring themselves to call it was 'horror-adjacent,' 'horror-inspired' or as containing 'horror elements.' Even the CBC's own Eli Glasner suggests...
A Russia-Free Eurovision Is Bringing Euope Together Again
The song contest, which bookes say will undoubtedly go to Ukraine's entry this year, also got a boost from the end of most COVID...
A New Generation Of Rare Book Collectors Joins The Old Scene
The trade group the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America "started a diversity initiative in 2020 to 'encourage and promote the participation of L.G.B.T.Q.+, BIPOC, and...
Star Of Sex Education To Become Next Doctor Who
Ncuti Gatwa will be the first Black man to play the Doctor, taking over from the first woman to play the popular and culturally...
What’s London Doing To The South Bank Now?
Simon Jenkins does not like the plans for a new building. "I could not imagine that London might inflict any more visual damage to...
Why Did The LA Review Of Books Tank A Negative Review By A Black...
"Mary Rambaran-Olm, a literary scholar who focuses on race and early medieval England, accused editors at The Los Angeles Review of Books of 'torpedoing'...
The Irish Language Is Staging A Comeback
And not just on Duolingo, but on film. - Irish Times
A South Dakota School Board Wants To Pulp Alison Bechdel’s And Dave Eggers’ Books
The Rapid City district has decided to destroy books by Eggers, Bechdel, Booker Prize-winning Bernadine Evaristo, Imbolo Mbue, and Stephen Chbosky. Why? Authors...
Angelica In The 21st Century
There's a reason the Tony-winning actor Renée Elise Goldsberry gave Hamilton's Angelica such a punch - she's ambitious and brilliant, and depicts someone even...
Netflix’s Problems Are Causing A Lot Of Existential Crises Among Streamers
The main issue? Streamers are starting to realize that "continuing to try to go get new customers by spending a lot of money on...
Fred Savage Fired From ‘The Wonder Years’ Reboot Over Allegations Of Inappropriate Conduct
Savage, who starred in the original Wonder Years when he was a kid, has been at the center of a few stories about his...
Odesa’s Museum Director Makes A New Life, And Attempts To Preserve Her Heritage, In...
They fled by car and foot when the bombs began to drop. Now Oleksandra Kovalchuk, staying at her parents' house, "using a borrowed laptop,...
A Choreographer Says To Find The Right Way, He First Has To Lose Himself
That might mean collaboration, that might mean mixing forms and traditions - and that might mean rehearsing in silence, with no music for the...
How In The Multiverse Of Movie Ratings Magic Did Doctor Strange Earn A PG-13?
It's a murky science, but "with brutal scenes of people getting cut in half, shocking jump scares, and a sequence that is a terrifying...
Why Are Corners Of The Internet Suddenly Nostalgic For Medieval Peasant Life?
Let's be honest: "Assertions about our glorious history usually don’t quite check out—they tend to be based on misunderstandings, disputed or outdated scholarship, or...
Rom-Coms Are Back On The Big Screen, Sort Of
Only with the biggest names in romantic comedy attached, though - Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, and Julia Roberts, to name three. - The Guardian...
Museum Deaccession Sales Are A Horrible Transfer Of Public Goods To Private Hands
Take the Toledo Museum of Art's new sale: "Almost no museum could afford to buy a $40-million Cézanne or $18-million Matisse. Call it forced...
Reese Witherspoon Represents, Onscreen And Off, The Bumpy Road Of Being An Ambitious Woman
That is, an ambitious woman in a sexist society. "Likable ambitious women are women who don’t appear to be ambitious at all." - LitHub
The Influence Of Islamic Art Is All Over Contemporary Culture
Especially for those in diaspora communities, "artists destabilize the idea of a monolithic culture and instead construct works that are influenced by locations of...
The Music That Has Provided A Lifeline For Seniors In Care Facilities During The...
In Canada, Concerts in Care tried everything from outdoor concerts to concerts from balconies near nursing homes to Zoom concerts to broadcasts of pre-recorded...
As Cases Rise Again In New York, Much Of Broadway Ends Vaccine Checks
Masks are still required, mostly, but "while some patrons welcomed the change, others said they felt uneasy about going into crowded theaters without the...
How A Racist Statue From Iceland Ended Up On A Rocket Ship
Iceland made some questionable decisions about national identity in the early 2000s, including copying a statue from the 1930s called The First White Mother...
The Pandemic-Formed Musical Group That Arose Out Of An Adirondack Love For Folk Dance
No, truly. And, in classic pandemic times fashion, "after several months of working remotely, the band members met one another in the flesh and...
Historic Preservation Is Really Mucking Up Cities, And The People Who’d Like To Live...
The laws have done some good for buildings that truly do need to be preserved. However: "In cities with significant numbers of old buildings...
Why Artisans In Japan Sometimes Choose Hard Physical Work
One wood turner: "Well, you know, tradition is not just something in the past. It’s something that we’re making. ... I hope that I’m...
