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Leslie Odom Jr Almost Passed On Playing Sam Cooke
Those who have seen One Night in Miami will appreciate that the actor, singer, and star of Hamilton made a different choice, especially with...
The Most Valuable Award In British Poetry Goes To Bhanu Kapil
Poet Lavinia Greenlaw, who chaired the committee for the T.S. Eliot prize, said of Kapil's How to Wash a Heart, "This is a unique...
Judi Dench Is A Bit Bored In Lockdown
Someone hire her, quickly. "Lockdown, I fear, is not the life Dench was born to. She used to practically eat and drink on the...
Bob Avian, Broadway Choreographer, 83
Avian co-choreographed A Chorus Line with Michael Bennett, and choreographed Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. He "directed a 2006 revival of A Chorus Line...
The Lonely Struggle Of The Street Artists Of Paris
The artists of the Place du Tetre are feeling squeezed out by restaurants, and then there's the emptiness. One of the artists: "It’s a...
The Indie Bookstore That Categorizes Books By Emotion
There are shelves about "On the Troubles of Growing Up and Moving On" and "For Escaping Your Life," among many others. "Oh Hello Again...
What Did CBS Do With, And In, Its Supposedly Thorough Investigation Into A Racist,...
Some things have changed. But the news affiliates? Oof. The details of CBS Television Stations President Peter Dunn's racism - saying of an anchor,...
Despite The Pandemic, Honolulu’s Bishop Museum Is Taking Visitors Through The Experience Of Surfing
The designer of the exhibit: "Duke Kahanamoku, on a wooden board with no fins, surfed a wave that was over 25 feet tall on...
During Pandemic Lockdowns, Thousands Turn To Online Nude Drawing Classes For Solace
Online drawing classes are, for many people in lockdown in Britain, a lifeline to the outside world. And there's a plus: "Individual sessions can...
Making Film That’s Both Political And Personal
Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, who directed and wrote the new film Identifying Features, "don’t believe Mexican storytellers have the luxury of creating apolitically....
Why The Art World Needs Populism
Because we can't trust the art world to the elites. For instance, in recent years, "Major art collectors (mostly white) were benefitting from the...
Can Virtual Reality Deliver The Benefits Of Nature?
It's an urgent question for many in lockdown - and in the UK, "whether we are in lockdown or not, four fifths of the...
Defining Southern Literature Is A Troubled, Troubling Task
For white Southern writers, especially, "the deconstruction and demolition of so many of the myths about Southern culture and identity has been ongoing in...
Walter Bernstein, Blacklisted And Celebrated Filmmaker, 101
Bernstein's "career as a top film and television screenwriter was derailed by the McCarthy-era blacklist, and decades later turned that experience into one...
Spike Lee Gives Fiery Speech Comparing Trump To Hitler
Lee's speech for the New York Film Critics Circle Awards was filmed on January 6 - the day when insurrectionists broke into the U.S....
Totally Reimagining The Sundance Festival For Its Pandemic Year
Director Tabitha Jackson was lucky in 2020 - her hiring was big news at last year's Sundance Film Festival. Then, of course, a global...
Junior Mance, ‘One Of The Most Swinging And Utterly Delightful Pianists In Jazz,’ 92
Mance was "a buoyant, bluesy jazz pianist who worked with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley and Dinah...
What We Expect From Revenge Fantasies
And what Emerald Fennell delivers - which is something different - in Promising Young Woman. "How do you write a revenge movie that feels...
The San Francisco Art Institute Is Facing Budget Issues Again, And Its Chairwoman Has...
The chair, Pam Rorke Levy, says that despite controversy over the attempted sale of a Diego Rivera mural, among other things, "she has acted...
Iconic Architecture Is Urban (And Insta) Clickbait
And, because of social media and marketing, it's making a serious comeback. The projects "are magnified again by technology, by the software that enables...
The Creativity, Therapy, And Writing Skill It Takes To Co-Create Celebrity Memoirs
Michelle Burford has co-written, or really, written after many hours of absorbing interviews, quite a few celebrity memoirs. She calls herself a "story architect,"...
Dungeons And Dragons, And Other Gaming Too, Must Find A Way To Rid Itself...
It's not going to be easy: "Genetic determinism is a fantasy tradition. ... As both a ruleset and a fantasy backdrop, D&D is in...
The Internet Is Shaping, ANd Changing, The Novel
Can a novel be, or feel, contemporary without references to doomscrolling or at least brushing up against social media? "While the internet and mobile...
AMC’s CEO Thinks He Can Save Movie Theatres
Or at least AMC, despite its debt load and the damage from the coronavirus shutdowns. Adam Aron: "Some of my competitors, the ones caught...
The Biden Administration Gives Hope, And Attention, To The Arts
Despite the fact that the previous president was, himself, the product of show business, the arts seemed to mean nothing to him. "If artists...
