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Discord Is The Latest Site To Revamp Its Policy On Anti-Vaxx Posts
There's more: The updated policy is "designed to target groups or individuals that participate in organized violence, spread harmful anti-vaccination material, or harass other...
Why ‘Cyrano’ Is So Infinitely Adaptable
Why, it's about unrequited love, of course. The newest version shows that "singing can make a character (and an actor) more vulnerable, tapping into...
Nelson Mandela’s Paintings Of Life In Prison Are About To Be Sold
They'll be sold as NFTs, of course. Mandela's daughter: "My dad was all about creating an accessible society. This is a way of democratising...
Carnegie Hall Cancels Pro-Putin Musician, Conductor Appearances
Both conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Denis Matsuev had signed a letter endorsing Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. "Carnegie Hall also canceled two...
Developers Have Known All The Worldle Answers From The Very First Day
Developers have a little thing about looking at source script - "the digital equivalent of popping open the hood to see what’s underneath." -...
For Touring Musicians, Navigating The Pandemic Has Been Very Rough
"Now we're working on a new record, and someone recently asked me what the endgame is, like, 'Oh, you're making a record, what's the...
Watching ‘Slave Play’ With An All-Black Audience Makes For A Qualitatively Different Experience
"The communal understanding that this is our space, our work, our shared awareness is an incomparable feeling. ... Every joke hit. Every cultural reference...
Do College Dance Programs Really Need To Be Ranked?
Honestly, "most ranking systems are focused on academics; they aren’t designed to reflect the quality of artistic education. So do dance program rankings matter...
Jim Broadbent On Being An Anti-Establishment Actor And Turning Down And OBE, An
"When Richard Eyre accepted his knighthood and I asked why, he said 'vanity.' If somebody asks me why I turned down an OBE, I’d say...
Finally, Media Companies Are Starting To Support Latinx Podcasting Ideas
It's not just about music, but "as Latin music’s popularity balloons well beyond the Hispanic community, podcasters see opportunities for additional growth." Podcasts, like...
The Re-Re-Rise Of Pompeii
Pompeii, the city buried by Vesuvius' eruption in the year 79 CE/AD, nearly lost its fame and fortune again in 2010 this time because...
During The Pandemic, We Sometimes Read To Escape
Well, not just sometimes. "The practice provides a valuable form of understimulation, an inoculation against an illness-inducing reality." - Los Angeles Review of Books
A New Food Show Demonstrates How History And Food Teach Us Everything
A new show with veteran journalist Lisa Ling does what Ling's 10-year-old self could only imagine. "Food and travel shows sometimes take an idealistic...
The Hidden Text That Makes The Internet Somewhat Accessible
"In an image-saturated world — over 63 million were uploaded to Instagram alone in a single day in February, according to Internet Live Stats — it...
Actors With Down Syndrome Are Finally Getting Mainstream Roles
Shows like Who Do You Think I Am have "this effect of normalizing disability and showing us that people with Down syndrome are...
Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings Series Has A Diverse Cast, Which Is Freaking Out...
Says expert Dr. Ebony Thomas, "People are used to seeing fantasies and fairytales as all-white, particularly in faux-medieval or magical-medieval settings. ... We’re taking...
Pandemic Fiction Is Booming Right Now, But Have Novelists Had Time To Truly Contemplate...
"Some writers worry a pandemic plot might drive away readers who want to escape our grim reality, but ignoring it might feel jarringly unrealistic....
Netflix Tries Its Hand At Original Short Films
The streamer is always on the hunt for new talent, so an emerging director showcase is logical. One director: "I jokingly say it’s like...
The Joy And Promise Of Used Cookbook Sections
"When you inherit someone else's cookbook, there are stories contained within it beyond the author's words; there are stained pages, dog-eared recipes and notes...
Why Writers Switch From Fiction To Nonfiction, And Back Again
Events can overtake the imagination - and then after some decades, it's time to re-imagine experience and reaction. Basically, "this is how life is;...
Add Victorian Science And Victorian Bigotry, And You Get Dracula
Witness a folk remedy popular in the 19th century: "If the heart of a corpse contained blood, it was believed that it showed it...
What’s Going To Happen At The Oscars?
Only pundits know, and even they don't really know much. "The Academy declared 276 films from 2021 as Oscar-eligible, and much of the responsibility...
A Re-Delayed Reopening On Broadway
The musical Mrs. Doubtfire closed temporarily because of Omicron and will not reopen until April. "The hiatus left the show’s cast, crew and musicians...
Prison Choirs Unite To Sing Beethoven’s Fidelio, An Opera About Unjust Imprisonment
In this production, via recordings, "singers from six prison musical groups — a mix of over 100 men and women who are incarcerated as...
How The French Rococo Inspired Disney’s Look
That's right, if you don't like the look of Disney princesses, not to mention the talking clocks and wardrobes, you can blame Jean-Honoré Fragonard,...