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The Writers Trying To Save The World Through Fiction
The novelists hope: "As long as we continue to think and to tell stories, we are not necessarily doomed." Perhaps. - The Guardian (UK)
No Mass Outbreaks From The UK’s Test Events
Great, 58,000 people and only 28 positives - but at the time of the test events, "virus levels were low and testing before and...
Halo Wines, Eminence Of Washington-Area Theatre Scene, 81
Wines was an actress and director who was enrolled as a child in acting lessons to help her overcome shyness. She "brought consummate artistry...
William Randolph Hearst Bought A Medieval Spanish Monastery And Shipped It To California
But then the 1175 monastery of Santa MarÃa de Óvila wasted away some time in crates on a San Francisco pier. - El Pais...
Violinist Jeanne Lamon, Who Led Tafelmusik For 33 Years, Has Died At 71
In Canada, she brought Baroque music played on period instruments into the modern era. "Under her guidance — and with her often leading from...
The Longstanding, Fascist Focused, Whitewashing Of Rome
Rome was hardly white, whether in architecture or demographics. But historically, Europeans and white Americans - and especially Mussolini and his followers - have...
What University Theatre Programs Need To Do For Their Students And Educators Of Color
There are issues: "Many educators of color find themselves entering or working at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) with little guidance on how to push...
The Author Who Wanted To Write A New King Lear
Anne Enright on The Green Road on having a plan for her plot, her idea to write a new King Lear: "The children had...
Gaming May Actually Benefit Your Brain
For one thing, "action games in particular—games where reflexes, reaction time, and hand-eye coordination are challenged, like in the now-retro classics Doom and Team Fortress Classic—provided tangible...
Alone In Rome, Before The Tourists Return
Italy was the first to lock down, and one of the hardest lockdowns. "Now most of Italy is in a 'white zone,' and museums...
A Keith Haring Mural In Barcelona Is Under Threat
Haring painted the mural inside a nightclub in 1989. The nightclub turned into a billiards hall, and the mural was preserved, but now the...
The Cinque Gallery Gives Us Another Chapter Of Black Art History
Cinque, founded by Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, and Norman Lewis in 1969, showed more than 450 artists of color during its 35-year existence. "The...
Author Naomi Wolf Spreads So Many Anti-Vaccine Myths That She’s Banned From Twitter
One might even call them all lies. "The author variously claimed that vaccines were a 'software platform that can receive uploads' and that 'the...
A Choreographer Learns To Rest, To Improvise, And To Feel Joy
During what we might call "the long 2020," choreographer Kyle Marshall experienced quite a bit of change. "In this next step of his career,...
The Moomintrolls’ Essence Came From Tove Jansson’s Island
Author and illustrator Jansson found her dream island when she was in her '50s. "Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000...
The Creator Economy Owes A Lot To Gaming Site Twitch
When Twitch entered the picture 10 years ago, most creators - writers, artists, makers, eaters of food on YouTube - weren't yet earning...
Conductor And Soundmaker Yoshi Wada, Of Fluxus Art Collective, Has Died At 77
Wada wrote and performed music that "was characterized by dense, sustained sounds that could create mind-bending acoustic effects. He borrowed widely from different musical...
The BAFTA TV Awards Didn’t Pick Faves This Year
Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You did win two awards - best mini-series and leading actress, which Coel dedicated to the production's intimacy director:...
Pose Showed How To Tell Great Trans Stories
The show, whose third season, and run, ended on Sunday night, was set at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the gay and...
The Motion Picture Museum’s Timing Was Unlucky – And Very Lucky
Though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's new L.A. museum was delayed, and delayed and delayed again - the last delay coming...
Jeanette Winterson Is Literally Burning Her Own Books
Happy Pride Month! Um: The author of the groundbreaking Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and many other experimental, daring works wrote on Twitter,...
How Academic Freedom Ends
Just look to Hong Kong, where by the time a group of University of Hong Kong academics gathered in a town hall meeting in...
Publishing Is So Easy To Spoof
Or so says Zakiya Dalila Harris, the author of The Other Black Girl. The book is a combined thriller and social satire that was...
Why ‘In The Heights’ Took So Long To Become A Movie
The movie has been in development since 2008. "The project stalled for many years between different directors and studios, because executives wanted more well-known...
How Lin-Manuel Miranda And Friends Made The Drama Book Shop New
From the 140-foot long sculpture of scripts and songbooks to replicas of armchairs from Hamilton, the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan will be reborn...
