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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? .....
The Marvel Cinematic Universe Exploits The Heck Out Of Marvel Comics Artists
Not shocking, perhaps, but still pretty monstrous: "The increasing pride with which the studio uses exact replicas of artists’ work leads one to wonder...
The Moral Of This Story Is Always Barter With Young Artists
Sometimes, a painting traded for a grilled cheese sandwich ends up being worth thousands of dollars years later. - The Observer (UK)
Ada Limon Is A Unicorn
That is, Limón is a poet who makes her living from ... poetry. How does that even work? - The New York Times
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'...
