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Canada Gets Its Own Romance-Only Bookstore
Why? "Having a romance-only bookstore, says, has helped fans feel a little better about their passion for these stories. Readers tell Pool how...
The Venue Where Rushdie Was Stabbed Usually Reflects Calmly On A Century Plus Of...
"Documentarian Ken Burns has called the institution an embodiment of the 'pursuit of happiness.' 'Happiness with a capital ‘H’ is about lifelong learning and...
Denzel Washington Honors Playwright August Wilson At The Opening Of The Wilson House
"The August Wilson House is not a museum. Instead, the restored space is a community center that will offer artist residencies, gathering spaces, fellowships...
An Edinburgh Fringe Venue Canceled A Comedian For What It Calls Extreme Racism And...
The venue said that on the first night of Jerry Sadowitz's performance, many walked out and the venue "became immediately aware of content that...
Poet And Novelist Elana Dykewomon Has Died At 75
Her career started with a book that was originally aimed as pornography for bored housewives. But "when ultimately published, Riverfinger Women 'was the first...
Australia’s Rural Churches Are Being Snapped Up For Housing
Those who buy the churches, for housing or co-working spaces or workshops or galleries, sometimes find it hard to get work done as all...
Rushdie Off Ventilator, Cracking Jokes
But he still has severe and "life changing injuries," said his son. - The Hollywood Reporter (AP)
Why Did Canada’s Luminato Festival Abruptly Cancel A Highly Anticipated Indigenous Work?
"Two months after cancellation, the collective calls what happened at Luminato 'disrespectful and unethical.' The artists describe a difficult rehearsal process marred by poor...
The Murder Of Salman Rushdie’s Japanese Translator Remains Unsolved, More Than 30 Years On
"The translator , Hitoshi Igarashi, was stabbed to death at age 44 at Tsukuba University, northeast of Tokyo, where he had been teaching comparative...
Emma Thompson Has No Time For Sean Bean’s Freakout About Intimacy Coordinators
Thompson: "Intimacy coordinators are the most fantastic introduction in our work. And no, you can’t just ‘let it flow’. ... There’s a camera there...
Ukrainian Children Bring A Play From A Bomb Shelter To Brooklyn
The show is Mom on Skype, and "is a series of seven monologues about family separation told from the perspective of children." - The...
Musician Who Was Against The COVID Vaccine Sues Los Angeles Times For Reporting That...
Joseph Arthur says that the article left him "shunned and avoided," and says that the headline calling him "anti-vax" was wrong because he hadn't...
Peter Beagle Finally Regains Control Of His Work
A lengthy court battle concludes with the author of The Last Unicorn wresting control of his finances and his work back from a manager....
Tatiana Maslany Is Nobody’s Token Superhero
True, she is playing a woman who accidentally joins Bruce Banner in Hulkdom. But the idea of a strong female lead doesn't do it...
How Digital Content Leads Artists To Endless Tinkering
Some might call it endless fixing, but whatever it is, digital copies mean the art can be changed or deleted at will. "If you...
How Did The TikTok-Based ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Get So Big, And Then So Cancelled?
The creators of songs about the books (and TV show) won a Grammy, the author said she was humming their songs in the shower,...
The Most Compelling Thing In Literature Isn’t Certainty Or Self-Improvement
It's engagement, the uncertainty of not knowing what will happen next - and it's not about becoming a better person, says author and critic...
The Great Partnership Of Filmmaker Hiyao Miyazaki And Composer Joe Hisaishi
For concerts, Hisaishi takes portions of his scores from films like My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso, turning them into entirely new symphonic experiences...
Teacher Quits After His Bulletin Board Featuring The Pledge Of Allegiance Is Taken Down
Of course, the Pledge isn't what got the teacher's bulletin board torn down by a co-worker. No - it was the people saying the...
Lost Banksy Reappears In A Tel Aviv Art Gallery
"Slingshot Rat, a stencil painting, appeared on a concrete block at an abandoned Israeli army position in Bethlehem next to a section of the...
On The Violent Attack On Salman Rushdie
"Writers represent the part of our culture that engages with humanity through ideas, whose passion is expressed through sentences and paragraphs and pages. It’s...
The Joyful Bicycles Of Jean-Jacques Sempe
Sempé, who died on Thursday at 89, had a whimsical style. "His ink cartoons were often set in a mythical mid-century Paris or millennial...
The Lucerne Festival Finally Wants To Diversify
But can its audience deal with the changes? - The New York Times
For Canada’s Indigenous Filmmakers, A Shift In Representation
An Indigenous crew member "remains cautiously optimistic about the future of Indigenous inclusion in the film industry," and actor Michelle Thrush says that "well-thought-out...
A Ukrainian Orchestra, Far From Home
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra "coalesced quickly around a mission to stage, as the Met news release put it, 'artistic defense' of its homeland. Its...
