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A Japanese Composer, A Burkina Faso Storyteller, And A Congolese Rapper Make Opera
Composer Keiko Fujiie, who moved to Burkina Faso and built a house where the musicians can practice without annoying their neighbors, hopes to tour...
When An Actor Agrees To Take A Subject’s Secrets To The Grave
Actor Diego Boneta could only play famously secretive musician Luis Miguel for Netflix after studying the musician for years - and hiring both an...
Librarian Ruth Freitag, Who Helped Isaac Asimov And Carl Sagan With Research, 96
Freitag, "a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public. But she was, in more...
This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors Are A Breath Of Fresh Air
The five honorees said that the six-month delay, and the loss of so many performance opportunities and spaces during the pandemic, made this weeklong...
How Jane Rogers Took On Britain’s Very Male Literary Establishment In The 80s
Rogers: "When I started work on Mr Wroe’s Virgins I was 35. I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder. Faber had published...
Please Stop The Streaming Wars
It may be time to just quit everything. "My eyeballs are considering taking themselves off the market entirely. They’re sick of being courted, coaxed...
How Colonial Williamsburg Is Producing Progressive Theatre
The truth is, enslaved people formed the majority of the town's population at the time depicted at the site. New interpreters and an urgency...
And Now Tattoos Will Be Sold As NFTs
But the owners won't need to get tatted in real life. "In this new marketplace, customers will be buying the exclusive rights to the...
Movie Theatres Are Begging Audiences To Return
Apparently, 70 percent of the moviegoing public - which is, let's note, far higher than the percentage of fully vaccinated people in the U.S....
An Israeli Airstrike Has Destroyed Gaza’s Largest Bookstore
"The beloved Samir Mansour Bookshop was destroyed on Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike. The shop, which was established in 2008, had thousands of books, including the largest...
Italy Wins EuroVision
Congrats to Italy's Måneskin. But yikes to the UK (which, technically, is no longer in Europe anyway?). "The UK's James Newman came last, getting...
What Might Opera Look Like In A Post-Pandemic World?
Let the Long Beach Opera show you. "Guests have the choice of watching this production “tailgate-style” or from inside their automobiles. The action occurs...
Show Our Arts Orgs The Money, Please
U.S. arts organizations are still waiting for that cultural institution money to flow. "Business owners are wary of the promise after weeks of delay...
Lois Lew, The Woman Who Mastered IBM’s 5400-Character Typewriter
"Spinning continuously at a speed of 60 revolutions per minute, or once per second, the drum measured 7 inches in diameter, and 11 inches...
Simon Rattle Asks UK Ministers For Help With Brexit And The London Symphony Orchestra
Brexit regulations are not great for the LSO, which had 99 tour dates booked in Europe before the pandemic canceled them all. "It’s all...
And The Dylan Thomas Prize Goes To
Raven Leilani for Luster, her debut novel (which was also awarded the admiration of former President Barack Obama, but that's a different kind of...
Katherine Barber, Founding Editor Of The Canadian English Dictionary, 61
The woman who entered "jambusters" in the (well, her) dictionary read popular novels and listened to parliamentary debates to find the most Canadian English...
Chicago Had The Most Radical Advice Columnist Of The Roaring ’20s
That is, the '20s that were a century ago. Princess Mysteria's columns in The Defender "presented a stark contrast with other advice writing of...
There’s A Brief Post-Lockdown Window For Britons To See Their Museums Devoid Of Tourist...
And that seems like something to celebrate, and take advantage of, to a lot of museum directors. "We know that all museums’ audiences will...
The Video Game Platform That Spawned Its Own Music Genre
You might this it's Nintendo - the soundtracks to Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong sure can linger in one's brain - but instead...
Emily Blunt Is One Of Vanishingly Few Actors Resisting Superhero Movies
It's rare - incredibly rare - for a Hollywood actor to turn down Marvel or DC. But Blunt said recently, "I don’t know if...
Where Should, Or Could, A Reader Start With Speculative Fiction From Africa?
As speculative fiction from African writers starts to gain mainstream press attention in the U.S. and U.K., readers might wonder where to start. Short...
What Happened To AT&T’s Big Warner Media Plans?
They evaporated in the span of three years. One of those was an extremely weird year, to be sure, but three years. "AT&T found...
The New Joys Of Experiencing Performance Three Different Ways
If you could see a dance performance inside the theatre (with other masked, socially distanced audience members), outside (same, but less distance), or via...
Hollywood Has An Issue With Women Action Heroes
Well, it has issues with women, aging women, of any type, but nevertheless: "40-something actresses rarely lead action films—even though Jolie is 13 years...
