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South Texas Has A Huge Mariachi Community, And ICE Is Destroying Some Of It
“‘For McAllen, mariachi is like the Friday Night Lights of high school,’ said Anthony Medrano, a prominent San Antonio mariachi musician. ‘There’s pride in...
The Best Actor Race Is Weirdly Up For Grabs
“‘When there’s not unanimity in the lead acting races, it can get really weird.’ In that situation, voters stop gaming out front-runners and simply...
Romance And Romantasy Fans Are Driving A Potential Literary Shift
“Readers’ increasingly vocal partiality for first-person perspective over third person amounts to a profound shift in taste. Even while publishing is in dire straits elsewhere, the romance...
Amazon Tried To Sponsor A Book Festival In France, And That Went About As...
Many - most, even - of France's booksellers pulled out of . Then the organizers got Amazon to “mutually agree” to end its sponsorship....
It’s Such A Brutal Time For Both Theatre And Arts Journalism
So what’s an NYT theatre critic to do? “There are so many things beyond our control ... but somewhere amid all the hubbub, someone...
The Man In Charge Of Pixar Cuts Any Content He Sees As Therapy
Especially if that content is, you know, gay. Surely that will fix the fabled studio! - Wall Street Journal (MSN)
Federal Judge Rules Appointment Of Kari Lake Invalid, Voiding Mass Layoffs At The Voice...
“If upheld by higher courts, Judge Lamberth’s ruling would allow more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members at the news group to return...
For Dublin’s Arts Council, Meetings With Property Developers Are Always On The Schedule
“Our job is to ‘opportunity-make’ a space.’ … A lot of people think cultural development shouldn’t exist. There should be housing development, factory development...
The Met Is The Largest Performing Arts Company In The US, And It’s Desperate...
“The core problem has been ticket revenues, which were weakening even before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its theater with a devastating financial impact. Box-office...
How The Musical Suffs Emerged From The 2016 Election
“To me, a great protagonist for a musical is somebody who wants something so desperately, who is going to be relentless to the point...
Tatjana Wood, A Skilled Comic Colorist Who Worked On Famous Teams For DC, Has...
“Anyone who laid eyes on a DC Comics cover from 1973 to 1983 was likely seeing an example of Ms. Wood’s work. She colored...
The Cosplayers Taking Emerald City Comic Con To Task For Its Deep Connections To...
“The problem lies in a rotten, corporate family tree,” and the self-described nerds aren’t going to let anyone forget it. For instance, in one...
After An Indigenous Filmmaker’s Speech Is Cut For Broadcast, The Toronto Film Critics Association...
“Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position.” - The Hollywood Reporter
Does This Musician’s Nostalgic Performance Prove The Brits Are Becoming More Conservative Again?
“For all that the audience are loving it, the enthusiastic self-infantilisation feels depressing to me. Is Middle England so deprived of communal singing –...
Remaking The Art Of The Fugue As A Ballet, In Denmark, After Fleeing The...
“When the tanks entered Ukraine, Ratmansky gathered his artistic team and left for New York, severing ties with the Bolshoi and with Russia.” -...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Firing Of Nelsons Provides Conductors With A Cautionary Tale
“Nelsons, 47, has become one of the most unfortunate symbols of all that is irresponsible about the overstretched, overtired, overindulged modern music director. It...
Grammarly Openly Steals The Work Of Writers Living And Dead
Gross: “Using Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ allows an approximation of Stephen King and Neil deGrasse Tyson to nitpick your work. While Tyson has the opportunity...
Whether He Had A Point Or Not, Opera (And Ballet) Are Clapping Back At...
The Seattle Opera offered a deal on tickets to Carmen using the code Timothee, and LA Opera “posted a photo from the opera Akhnaten ......
OK, What He Said Was Foolish, But Did Chalamet Have A Point About Ballet?
“This is the frustration of working in the fine arts. The people who care about ballet, for example, care deeply. And most of those...
Why Are Twins Or Doppelgangers Everywhere Right Now?
“From spyware as standard to the conspiracy theorists who insist that Melania Trump has been replaced by an impersonator, we are in a deeply...
The Actor Awards Showed That An Awards Presentation Could Actually Be Kind Of Fun
“Because it streamed on Netflix, there was no bleeping of F-bombs. Winners were not played off by an orchestra. The banter was not as...
A Conspiracy Theory That A Jim Carrey Doppelganger Picked Up His Honorary Cesar Is...
This is where we are with the internet now: The man in charge of the Césars (the “French Oscars”) had to say, "“From the...
SNL Took A Great Moment, Tossed In Some Athletes, And Made It All Intensely...
"It does not take a communications professional, though I am one, to recognize this for what it is.” - Slate (Yahoo!)
Why Did Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Suddenly Appear On Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy?
Turns out the youth are going to be putting on this play for … pretty much ever? “Our Town just sort of felt like...
Dakota And Elle Fanning Started Out As Child Stars In Hollywood
But the sisters are following in the footsteps of leaders like Reese Weatherspoon and Viola Davis, becoming producers who have more control over their...
