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Joanne Shenandoah Looked Out Her Office Window, Then Transformed Indigenous Music
Shenandoah saw a tree being cut down and decided to leave office work. Good decision: The singer, who died at 64, recorded many albums...
A Black Artist Was Swarmed By Police During His Performance At Miami Art Fair
Not only artist Xxavier Carter but the curator and the fair were threatened with fines and long jail sentences. Ironically, perhaps, Carter's piece "reimagines...
The Canadian Man Behind So Many Christmas Movies
Ron Oliver's joke tweets get calls from Hallmark executives, and his philosophy is omnipresent across streamers' and networks' Christmas fare: "Make it beautiful, make...
Making Theatre That Reflects A Contemporary Obsession With Film
Ivo van Hove's passion for movies has affected everything about his direction, from the use of video on stage to the themes he pursues....
Was This Comedian Fired From His Set Or Not?
No, according to Jeff Garlin, he was definitely not fired from The Goldbergs. He called the reporter to explain, well, everything "Okay. There has...
The New York City Kids Who Wrote A History Of Black Composer Florence Price
A middle-school class at NY's Special School discovered there was no Price biography aimed at children - so "this beautiful book emerged that they...
Attempting To Turn Around A Troubled Theatre In Berlin
The Volksbühne kept an East German spirit alive in a reunified Germany, until its longtime director was fired in 2017. Since then, there have...
What Do We Want To Do With The Rest Of Our Lives?
Such are the questions that a global, murderous pandemic will make most of us ask. And we might wonder: "What work is actually valuable?...
Art Basel Miami Beach Has A Different, Much More Diverse, Line-Up
In the online iteration of 2020, no African American galleries were included. But "over the past year, Art Basel changed its admission requirements and...
Sondheim Also Revolutionized Crosswords
"Sondheim is particularly remembered among connoisseurs of word puzzles for his role in introducing Americans to British-style cryptic crosswords. ... The crosswords that he...
Let’s Look At The Logic Of Netflix’s Christmas Movies
"Netflix’s Christmas rom-coms are not meant to be judged on a spectrum of 'good' to 'bad.' They are only to be understood on a...
Almudena Grandes Started Her Writing Career With An Acclaimed Erotic Novel
Before her death at 61, she had become one of Spain's most ambitious, and certainly most progressive and feminist, novelists. Spain's prime minister wrote,...
Theatre Freelancers Have Had A Hard Time During The Pandemic
Gigantic surprise, right? On the other hand, a study found that in Britain, "Freelancers have also been networking and organising and built up a...
What’s The Future For Musicians Who Work On Streaming Shows?
In terms of payment, it's a huge mess - thanks to the failure to win residuals from reruns in the 1960s, plus streamers' legendary...
Will Theatres In Ireland And Britain Make It Through Panto Season?
Maybe, but without kids onstage: "We would usually have four teams of 10 children under 12, and four teams of four teenagers rotating through...
In 2021, We Were Still Cry-Laughing, Or Laugh-Crying, A Whole Lot
At least, according to our collective emoji use. The "face with tears of joy" accounted for five percent of all emojis sent online last...
How John Coltrane Became A Literal Saint
A church founder says hearing Coltrane turned him into "born-again believer in that anointed sound that leaped down from the tone of heaven out...
Turns Out It’s Not So Easy To Bridge The Gap Between Scotland And Northern...
Boris Johnson wanted a span crossing a 300-m trench filled with munitions, but his bridge game is off after "a government feasibility study by a team...
Sondheim Placed The Musical Firmly At The Heart Of American Culture
Before the pandemic, his songs permeated U.S. media. "His primacy within wider culture came from the widest possible acknowledgement that not only had Sondheim...
Duolingo’s Weird Sentences Show Us How Our Brains Work
It's all about "reward prediction errors" and "the sweet spot between rote and nonsensical." Once you've learned the Swedish for "a clean reindeer" or...
When Non-Horror Movies Feel A Lot Like Horror
"How do you know if you’re watching a horror movie when there’s no killer or monster, exorcism or blood? It’s a decades-old question that’s...
Good Thing Library Fines Are Out Of Style
A sequel to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was checked out in 1910 and returned, anonymously, to the Garden City library near Boise, Idaho. -...
Developers In Britain Are Challenged To Stop Destroying And Start Retrofitting
That's in order to save the world - no, really. "Our throwaway building culture is one of the key reasons that UK construction has...
Virgil Abloh, A Barrier-Breaking Designer Who Was Compared To Warhol And Koons, Has Died...
Abloh was a theorist with sometimes controversial opinions on fashion. "For him clothes were not garments but fungible totems of identity that sat at...
Netflix May Dominate The First Awards Of The Season
The Gotham Awards sees Netflix's Passing and The Lost Daughter square off on the movie side, and let's not even get into what may...
