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Michelle Yeoh Wanted To Be A Dancer, Until She Got Injured
Then the actor - a mega-star in the world market - decided to take up martial arts. "I just needed to learn to transfer...
Time’s Up Post-Cuomo Shake Up Continues
Board members including Shonda Rhimes, Eva Longoria, and Jurnee Smollett have resigned, making way for an entirely new board as "the group continues to...
The Path To Becoming Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Preferred Choreographer Wasn’t Simple
But JoAnn Hunter persisted. Hunter is a "longtime Broadway performer and choreographer who has quietly become an important figure in a field that boasts...
How A Canadian Actor’s Movie Got Burdened With Carrying Marvel
The first Asian-led Marvel film "has been transformed into an unwilling test case for the future of box office blockbusters, fans' commitment to the...
Art Museums Must Tell A Richer Story About Afghanistan
What's up with U.S. arts audiences? "We have been at war with and occupied Afghanistan for two decades, yet culturally it has been a...
The Gym-Rat Maestro
Lorenzo Viotti is working on snagging young music fans via his workout, and shirtless, social media posts. - The New York Times
Has The Creepy Insect Trope Had Its Day?
Climate science shows we desperately need insects to keep the planet in any kind of balance. Horror films have disagreed - but it might...
How Netflix Took A Flop And Turned It Into A Global Phenomenon
In its first iteration on Spanish TV, Casa de Papel, known as The Money Heist in English, started strong and then massively flopped. Then...
The Evidence Is Clear For Supporting The Arts To Support Public Health
"The arts can be especially beneficial for public health in five key areas: collective trauma, racism, mental health, social exclusion and isolation, and chronic...
How To Nurture A Classical Music Community During A Pandemic
For violinist Jennifer Koh, the answer crystallized early in 2020: Hire composers, and get on Instagram. - NPR
Nobody Makes Superheroes Like Australia
DC and Marvel got you bored? Hunt down Captain Invincible, Griff the Invisible, or, even better, the TV series Cleverman, told from an Indigenous...
What A Classical Retelling Means To Its Writer, And Its Audience
Madeline Miller's 2011 book The Song of Achilles has, she says, helped readers come out to their parents; has inspired people to earn Ph.D.s...
Jeopardy’s Next Big Headache
What kind of vetting do they have over there at Sony, anyway? - Washington Post
Here Are The Fall’s Award-Bait Films
In theory, four fall film festivals are about to take place, with masked, vaccinated, and tested participants. "Yes, the last Oscars were just four...
Donald Newlove, 93, Author Who Explored The Depths Of Drink
Newlove wrote hundreds of articles, essays, and stories; novels; and several books of advice for writers as well. Once sober, he called his former...
Using Artists – And Art – To Revive A Town In Cornwall
There's a revival in the town of St. Austell, thanks to the history of clay. - The Guardian (UK)
The Outdoor Concerts In Ireland Where Musicians Arrive By Canal And Barge
Sounds gloriously picturesque: "There’s a tall lamp standing on the stone quayside at a lock in rural Co Carlow on a warm and clear...
Let’s Talk About Luma Arles
The art park (project? bioregion?) in France is a bit unclear right now. Luma "is a wonderland of good intentions. They certainly don’t pave...
Is Seeing Live Theatre Worth All Of The COVID Precautions And Stress?
Charles McNulty, in Los Angeles, says yes, but: "Anticipating the stress of the new COVID-19 protocols, I forgot the old stresses, the lunatic driving...
Micki Grant, Composer And Trailblazer, 92
Grant was the first in so many categories. First woman to write the book, lyrics, and music to a Broadway musical. One of the...
Good Thing It Wasn’t Banksy
Or was the graffiti artist after whom the NY Police Department sent a drone, a helicopter, and several cars actually the next potential Banksy...
The Opera Tenor Who Likes To Take His Audience To The Edge
Australian tenor Stuart Skelton on Wagner: "Singers are like athletes doing long-distance competitions. You get to the point where you’ve reached your physical limits....
When The NYT Book Review Minced Few Words
You might call the headlines "brutally honest," if you were being kind. "Novel or Nightmare?" one asks. "Two Pathetic Books," one proclaims. - The...
Artificial Intelligence Can Kind Of Produce New Yorker Cartoons, But Those Captions
"Comics artist Ilan Manouach and AI engineer Ioannis Siglidis developed the Neural Yorker, an artificial intelligence (AI) engine that posts computer-generated cartoons on Twitter." The results...
Ed Asner, Emmy Award Winning Actor And Political Activist, 91
Asner won played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show; his career continued into the 2000s, including Up and Elf, and even the...
