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What Happens When You Name Your Kid After A Fictional Character Before The Book...
It can go badly — see “Khaleesi” as a name, for instance — or fine, but what a risky idea. - The New York...
Is The Colosseum About To Host Raves And Rock Concerts?
Not really, but there will be “acoustic and jazz” concerts, poetry readings, dance performances and more — including possible “historical reenactments of gladiatorial battles.”...
Francis Ford Coppola Lost So Many Millions On Megalopolis That He’s Paying With...
“At a news conference at Cannes, Coppola discussed the tremendous amount of his own money that he had sunk into the film, saying that...
The Internet’s Favorite Librarian Is All-In On The Reading Rainbow Reboot
Mychal Threets “recalls the joy he felt as a young boy watching Burton on the show, taking viewers anywhere from an underwater world...
Ski Ballet, Long Overshadowed By Snowboarding, May Be Making A Comeback
No, seriously: This is snow dancing, with skis. "In 1988 and 1992, ski ballet featured as a demonstration sport in the Winter Olympics. At a...
In Britain, A Plan To Funnel Money To Small Music Venues Is Gaining Steam
But small venues “should not be valued solely for their role in nurturing future superstars. Live music has an intrinsic value and venues can be part...
Why Did Netflix Buy, Brag About, And Then Suddenly Shutter This Gaming Company?
Boss Fight Entertainment was the studio behind the popular Squid Game: Unleashed, but that didn’t save the company. “Netflix’s next big gaming initiative is...
Benita Valente, Bel Canto Soprano Who Brought Joy To The Met For Decades, Has...
Valente “was acclaimed for the faultless technique and intelligence of her performances in operas, recitals and chamber music, but inexplicably failed to gain...
Paris Investigators Prefer To Let The Mystery Be
The mystery of who that dapper person in the now famous photo might be, that is. The jewel theft, they’re working on. - AP
Police Make Arrests In Louvre Heist
“The arrests were a major breakthrough for French investigators, who are racing to find the thieves before the jewelry is dismantled and the rare...
A Few Moments In The New Julia Roberts Movie Have Transformed Actor Lio Mehiel’s...
“Such a step has been years in the making. Mehiel, who lived in Puerto Rico until they were 5 years old, began their creative...
How A Hardline Evangelical Christian Childhood Can Lead To Mainlining Supernatural Horror As An...
“With his insistence on seeing only god’s will in the Catholic vs. Protestant religious wars of his Europe, Luther reminds me of nothing...
Along With The Entire East Wing, The White House’s Movie Theatre Is Now Destroyed
“The 42-seat luxurious movie theater a place where countless presidents, their families or staff have screened any movie of their choosing, whether the...
It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Take OpenAI Seriously
Curing cancer? Hm, not so fast. “Slop, memes, and sex seem like such a comedown from OpenAI’s carefully cultivated reputation as an ambitious but...
The Administration’s Pressure On Museums Will Soon Be An All-Out Assault
Museums are not ready. “Censorship corrodes trust in complex ways. … Solidarity is mostly lacking in the museum world, where the strategy so far...
The Chinese Artist Who Creates AI Slop By Hand
It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality...
Guillermo Del Toro Says He’d ‘Rather Die’ Than Use Generative AI
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want...
Longing To Watch An Art Heist Movie For Louvre Reasons?
Some of the great ones — minus Ocean’s 8, which, hm, wonder why — are on this long list, for your autumn and winter...
Can Broadway Truly Be Captured On Film?
Good question, one that 1948’s biopic about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart - Words and Music, starring Mickey Rooney as a heterosexual Hart -...
This Year’s Oscar-Winning Documentary Decided It Was Only Ethical To Self-Distribute On Streaming
“The Palestinian-Israeli collective behind the film rejected a deal from Mubi, the company behind hits such as The Substance, after controversy over ties to an investment firm...
The Desperation Of The British Museum
Or, the UK version of the Met Gala: "Eight hundred invited guests each paid £2,000 to party alongside some of the world’s most sensational...
Obama’s Presidential Library – And Basketball Court – Rises On Chicago’s South Side
"Only the museum will require a paid ticket. Nearly a dozen other spaces — meeting rooms, classrooms, parks, an N.B.A.-size basketball court, even a...
How Chicago’s Timeline Theatre Is Building A New Space Despite, Well, Everything
“‘To build a building like this, it required public investment, it required private investment, and it required a lot of belief through those dark...
The Unlikely Juggernaut Of Netflix’s Oscar Desires
Will Netflix ever win Best Picture? It’s been trying - hard - for 10 years. This year? Hm. Not necessarily Best Picture, but “I’d...
In Los Angeles, Updating A Famous Mural To Reflect One Of The Subject’s Trans...
In Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown, the “revision follows more than a year of conversations that included Filipino-led groups, local nonprofits and the muralist, Eliseo...
