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The Brownstone In Brooklyn Where Sitting Bull’s Grandson Advised Rodgers And Hammerstein On Annie...

A real NY story: "The theater director Muriel Miguel grew up there, and lives there still. When she was a child, in the 1930s and...

The Historical Inaccuracies Of Netflix’s New Hot Viking Show

For one thing, "Valhalla definitely takes place in a universe where Game of Thrones exists." - Slate

Sackler Family Makes New Concessions In Settlement Talks

For museums in the U.S., a big new agreement is that institutions can remove the Sackler name with no penalty. - Artnet

How A Long Despair Led To Karen Joy Fowler’s New Book

After the 2016 election, Fowler couldn't see the point in writing her book about John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln. "I knew pockets of the...

Westerns Have Been Dealing With ‘Male Intimacy’ For A Very Long Time

Dear Sam Elliott: As a fan of Westerns, maybe you should check out Zachariah, which "shot back at the genre's fatalistic masculinity by celebrating...

How The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Retrofitted A 1930s Theatre For Sound

First of all, "the Warner Grand Theater building was originally designed for film screenings, not live performances, so the depth of the stage had...

China’s Formerly Intense Appetite For Anything Hollywood Has Disappeared

"In the last few years, as China’s diplomatic relations with the west – and in particular the US – plummeted, the preferences of Chinese...

The Crown’s Jewels (And Other Props) Were Stolen

"The props are collectively valued at roughly $200,000, and include a replica of a Fabergé egg, several sets of silver and gold candelabra, a...

Possible New Info In Gardner Museum Theft

At least, new info to the public. Investigators have been looking at links between the 1990 art heist and a 1991 execution-style murder for...

Sure, Music Can Heal – But Can It Heal Bones?

A new study says maybe it can. - Salon

Wait, What Film Just Won At The SAG Awards?

That's right: CODA. And though it was the biggest surprise, it wasn't the only one in an unpredictable evening. - CBC (AP)

Ireland’s Film Business Is Booming

It's so intense right now that "Screen Ireland ... is to open five film academies, including one specialising in animation, to keep up with...

That Time Mies Van Der Rohe Designed A Frat House

The frat house didn't get built, but the design did - as a building for Indiana University's art, architecture, and design department. - Hyperallergic

Often, The Show Did Not Ever Go On After Pandemic Restrictions Eased

For instance, among the dozens of hard stories, "at the shutdown’s outset, Signature Theatre in Arlington had to scratch the world premiere of Camille...

The SAG Awards, As They Happened

If you missed them yesterday, they're getting rebroadcast on HBO, but as usual, the Oscars discussion heats up as American awards start to roll...

The Pretty Cool Rise Of New Places To Make And Promote Documentaries

A real shocker this year, leaving the way open for newbies like Paramount Plus and Showtime: "Like fellow top docu distributors including Amazon, National...

The Lone Screenplay Phenomenon

When the Academy snubs every actor, the director, and the movie - but just can't bring itself to leave the movie off the nominations...

How To Respect The Animals You’re Filming In Up Intimate Moments

Start with cows: "Every cow has a passport and paperwork affiliated with it, and when it moves to a new spot it is required...

A Green Alternative To CDs And Vinyl

Composer Fabian Almazan, who uses a sense of place to inspire his writing, started Biophilia Records as a way to get other enviro musicians...

The Met Says It Will Cut Ties With Pro-Putin Artists

Peter Gelb: "We believe strongly in the warm friendship and cultural exchange that has long existed between the artists and artistic institutions of Russia...

We Need To Talk About Those Oscars Ceremony Changes

Hey Oscar, why did you boot those categories? "What I'm doing, see, is making sure everyone who gets the spotlight at my party can...

What Better Time To Found ‘A Journal Of Ideas’ Than During The Pandemic?

OK, sure, there might be better times, but The Drift has done pretty well for itself, oddly. With "a penchant for publishing lengthy essays...

The Power Of Movie Critics Hasn’t Fully Waned

Look, there's just no way Drive My Car, which had earned less than $1 million in the U.S. by the time of the nominations,...

Iranian Director And Oscar Winner Asghar Farhadi Has A Rule

The director says he has no interest in making movies about the rich. "It is very valuable for me to always focus on ordinary...

The Lockdown Project That Brought Traditional Irish Music Back To Life

In the 1840s, before and during the Famine, William Fforde "undertook a gargantuan task of collecting over 2,000 airs from across the country." Now...
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