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Which Author Better Predicted, Or Can Help Us Deal With, The Fires In Los...
What did Octavia Butler, who died nearly two decades ago, know “about the future that the Fonz now finds himself in after many, many...
Sundance Documentary About The Vietnam War’s Most Famous Photograph Arrives Under A Cloud Of...
Did Nick Ut take the famous photo Napalm Girl? "Ten days before the premiere of the documentary The Stringer at the Sundance Film Festival...
Theatre Critics, Tear Down That Wall
A regular rotation of theatre articles and criticism from daily papers (whatever those are) isn’t coming back. So it’s up to theatre makers to...
Jessie Grimes Has Been A Successful Classical Musician For Years, And At Last She...
The artist in residence in Dublin says, “The fact that I wore a dress for all those years now boggles my mind. I was...
Netflix Is Becoming Cable, And Other Streamers Aren’t Even Close
And oh, how we’re all going to pay for that. - The Verge
Pittsburgh Symphony, Despite Rising Revenues, Has A Seven Million Dollar Deficit
But there’s a plan to manage the deficit - and to raise more funds, despite historically low audiences for core “classical” concerts (unless Yo-Yo...
There’s No One Better Than Jane Austen
That’s the claim of novelist Gill Hornby, anyway, who has written three books "set in the extended Austen family.” - The Guardian (UK)
This Actor Would Like For The Next Season Of The Traitors To Star, Well,...
Tamara Lawrence, star of Get Millie Black, says, "I want to be a traitor so bad." - The New York Times
Hugh Grant Urges British Police To Open A Criminal Investigation Into Tabloid Owners
“Grant also argued a new investigation was needed because people who were at the paper at the time that private investigators who carried out...
How The Von Trapps Actually Got To America Wasn’t Like The Movie
They climbed no mountains, and were aided directly in getting visas by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. But, to be fair, Maria did arrive from...
Slow Horses Author Wins Lifetime Award
Diamond Dagger winner Mick Herron “is the quintessential writers’ writer and his Slough House novels have, by general consensus, reinvented the spy thriller, going...
The Death Of The Commons
What does Starbucks’ new bathroom policy have to do with an ability to gather in public, and the forces destroying that ability? - The...
Chinese Author Fang Fang On Her Covid-19 Diaries, Being Censored, And The Power Of...
"I still believe that we can forgive those who have forgotten, be more tolerant of those who have forgotten history, and admire those who...
The National Gallery Of Art Ends Its DEI Program
“The museum has removed any language referring to DEI from its website. On a page outlining the institution’s mission and values, the words 'diversity,...
Thieves Blow Up Dutch Museum Door To Steal A Golden Helmet
“The video is grainy but ominous: three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum...
In Athens, The Long-Lost Painting Prometheus Unbound Is Drawing Mesmerized Crowds
The 19th-century Danish painting is about freedom from long oppression, but "for many, the power of the painting also lies in its extraordinary history....
The Reading Gender Gap Isn’t Big, But Also, Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not...
“Novels can’t be a one-size-fits-all solution, nor are books the only way to get closer to humanity, or imagine a better world, or to...
Why The Brutalist’s Use Of Several Kinds Of AI Has Hollywood Awards Folks Deeply...
“Everyone agrees that The Brutalist is particularly vulnerable to any association with AI. The film was shot on a rarely used format called VistaVision, and throughout...
As In The Eighties, Japan May Come To Dominate The Art Market Again
“Those were the days when Japanese corporations regularly bought European treasures, helping transform the art market from a rich person’s hobby into an investment vehicle”...
Nobody But The Oscars Likes Emilia Perez, But Why?
“‘It's incredible because somehow the film has united Mexico — everyone hates it,’ explained Mexican film critic Ricardo Gallegos Ramos. ‘Everyone is inviting...
Graphic Novel Publisher Drops Neil Gaiman’s Books
Following sexual abuse allegations against the author, Dark Horse Comics, which "was set to publish more works in the Anansi Boys series, a spin-off...
A Broadway Actor On Her Rare Sunday Off
It’s the freedom to go to other people’s shows for Kara Young. “When I’m between shows, I go to town! I’ll see a matinee,...
What’s The Wrong Way To Listen To An Audiobook?
Can anyone actually comprehend the words - much less the emotional connection - when they’re listening at 3 times the speed at which the...
What Happens When A Theatre Critic Physically Can’t Sit Down
It’s edifyiing, truly: "Gazing over hundreds of heads and shifting my weight around in the dark, I was reminded time and again that theaters...
The Director Claims His Movie About The Munich Olympics Isn’t Political
But not everyone agrees. “Workers at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema collected just over 1,000 signatures in an ongoing petition requesting the theatre chain pull the...
