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The Artist Who Reveals Los Angeles’ Tongva Heritage
Mercedes Dorame's work, "in quiet ways, illuminates how Indigenous life and thought remain present in Los Angeles and its landscapes." - Los Angeles Times
Best Director Winner Thinks Netflix, Losing Subscribers, Will Be More Picky About Funding
Jane Campion, who directed the artsy Power of the Dog and won Best Director for it at the 2022 Academy Awards, is worried. "I...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Doghouse
"The Civic Center will now be the permanent home of Wright’s smallest structure, a doghouse he drew on the back of an envelope...
Nevada Artists Join Forces To Get A Mountain Range Labeled A National Monument
Artists might more normally be working in the studio, but "though artist-as-intersectional-avatar is not an unusual circumstance, the curators’ efforts go above and beyond...
An Ode To Bookstores, And To Promiscuous Reading
"Bookstores, like wines, have different notes, different flavors, each one distinct. There are the musty, quirky ones with haphazard piles and dusty rows, usually...
Are Those Identification Apps Good For Anything But Music – And Big Databases?
Well, they're also good for stealing a sense of wonder, or any sense of self-reliance in the wild. But hey, also, "Do not eat...
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...
