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Perhaps In A Reaction To Quarantines And Lockdowns, New Movies Are Super Horny
Hot vax summer is real. (On the silver screen, anyway.) - Slate
The Descendants Of Those The Madisons Enslaved Will Now Have Input In The Madison...
One descendant: "Everything that are and were essentially derived from their relationship to their community, and that's from their intellectual achievements to their...
History, And Democracy, On The Brink Of Erasure
"A nation’s archive ... is a living testament to the many facets of national identity and history." India's opaque plan for its national archives...
Why Won’t The Standing Ovations End At Cannes?
At the film festival, it's not just Americans standing, clapping, clapping, clapping, and clapping some more. - The Atlantic
The Authors And Magazines Shaping Africa’s Literary Culture
"Across Africa, literary journals managed by young writers and artists are emerging with the aim of publishing both new and established voices, collaborating across...
The Author Of Podcast-Length Poems Says Poetry Isn’t Seen As Masculine
Another wordsmith adds, "Satire, acting or any kind of putting yourself out there isn’t viewed as the most macho thing." - The Guardian (UK)
How One Broadway Dancer Survived The Loss Of All Of His Income
He danced on his rooftop - and, after losing his health insurance and all his gigs, opened a flower business. - BBC
The US Wants To Return A Statue Said To Have Been Stolen From Cambodia
U.S. prosecutors want to return "a 10th-century Khmer sandstone statue said to have been plundered more than 20 years ago from a temple." -...
Writing Songs Over Zoom For An Animated Series
Whew, this time has been weird. "It was a fun challenge, and also, it just hit differently because we were in lockdown living in...
This Year’s Cannes Festival, Giddy Journalists Say, Was Top-Notch
Why? Perhaps because it was concentrated: "With Cannes 2020 called off, Cannes 2021 reaped the benefits of not one but two years’ worth of...
Spike Lee Reveals Palme D’Or Winner Early
Oops at Cannes: "When the jury president, Spike Lee, was asked to announce the first prize of the night, he misunderstood and read off the...
In Britain, Tory Councillors Censor A Public Art Exhibit
The exhibit, which used plaques on benches and Cold War rosebushes to convey info about Britain's nuclear past, was threatened with a lawsuit. -...
Don’t Let Leisure Time Disappear
Alert, four-day work week advocates: "Leisure is doing things for their own sake, to pursue what one wants. We should fight the urge to...
What’s Getting People Back To The Cinema?
One Alamo Drafthouse audience member: "“I love movies and I have to be in the theater to see a movie. Like, to me, that’s...
Looking For Culture To Lead The Reopening Of New York
The arts are "a major industry that employed some 93,500 people before the pandemic and paid them $7.4 billion in wages" - and are...
The Ethics of Using AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice In A Documentary
Another documentary filmmaker wonders, "Why borrow trouble, as my parents used to say, by re-creating Anthony Bourdain’s voice that way?" - Chicago Tribune
Who, And What, Will Be Nominated For An Emmy?
Let the predictions - and snub predictions: Small Axe and WandaVision, perhaps? - begin. - Los Angeles Times
Where Are All Of The Great Black Concert Films?
Though parts of Summer of Soul were on YouTube for years, most of the recordings languished in a basement. In those decades, white filmmakers...
Broadway Is So Ready To Open Back Up
Wow: "Just two months ago, only one Broadway show had plans to open in the new 2021-2022 season. Now there are 43." - Washington Post
An Oral History Of The Weird Movie That Became A Feminist Classic
That's right: Legally Blonde. - The New York Times
The Attacca Quartet Made It Through The Pandemic
They even recorded, while collaborating over Zoom and using other tools, a new album. "This whole record is sort of like poster child of...
Turns Out Everything We ‘Knew’ About Kids And Reading Was Wrong
For instance, boys like fiction just as much as girls do. And developing brains need stories - that is, fiction - in order to...
The UK Suddenly Has A Lack Of Filming Space
Disney and Netflix need the UK, but they're not alone, according to a new report that says it's time to build more studios and...
Vinyl Is A Perfect Medium For Discovering Classical Music
Why? "The rough edges of a medium are what allows us to get a grip on it. When I hold a record in my...
Why Netflix Movies Look So Weird
It's technical: The company "requires narrative feature films made for Netflix be shot on cameras with a 'true 4K UHD sensor.'" - Fast Company
