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Some Of The Creepiest Locations In Britain
Not even counting the numerous Doctor Who locations (to be fair, many are in Wales), “England's historic buildings and landscapes ‘provide an essential ingredient...
Pour One Out For The Zune, Which Somehow Never Threatened The IPod
Microsoft really tried. “It had a bunch of interface design ideas that are still very present in our lives today. The universe in which the...
British Teens, And Adults, Are In Love With Literary Angst
For instance: “Turkish author Sabahattin Ali’s 1943 novel Madonna in a Fur Coat, first published by Penguin in 2016, has rocketed this year, selling almost 30,000 copies in...
The Box Office Had A Record-Smashing (Bad) October
"Overall revenues for the month were tragic, with $425 million across all titles, the worst collective haul since October 1997.” - Variety
Honestly, The Architecture Of The White House Was Simply An Honor System
Yes, you can blame the man who destroyed that honor system, but it could have been set up quite a bit differently. - The...
How Did This Tiny Theatre Become Such A Powerhouse Los Angeles Destination?
“In a city where the so-called Theater Row has more ‘For Lease’ signs than marquees, New Theater Hollywood feels improbable. Yet since opening in...
What’s Up With Our Fixation On Disability As A Marker For Horror?
“While physical beauty is often conflated with a character’s moral goodness, villains have historically been associated with disability or disfigurement: facial scarring, wheelchair use, limb difference.” - The Guardian...
The Making Of A New Hedda
“Joking that she had probably watched Robert Altman’s Gosford Park too many times, DaCosta said that she set the action in 1950s England because of...
The Three Musicians Who Make Up This Wildly Popular Band Hadn’t Even Met Before...
The three solo artists who make up Huntr/x recorded their now-platinum album alone. Then they went on The Tonight Show and got asked to...
The Politically Trenchant Movies Of An African Animation Pioneer
Alassane Moustapha, a filmmaker from Niger, was “as much a multimedia artist as a cineaste, he took an idiosyncratic approach to folkloric storytelling.”...
The Past Is Never Dead, Despite Attempts To Devalue Historical Fiction
While some in the literary world are snobs, one author says she considers the best of historical fiction “a lens forged from the experience...
South African Author Zoe Wicomb, Who Wrote From Self-Exile, Has Died At 76
Wicomb, who was born just after apartheid was formalized, said, “I was transported from the vulgarity of apartheid by books — books opened up...
The French, With A Wonderful Pun, Establish A New Prize For Lesbian Literature
“Lauriane Nicol threw herself wholeheartedly into the creation of the Prix Gouincourt (gouine is a slang term for lesbian), an ironic hat tip to France's...
Emma Thompson Would Like To Strangle Microsoft’s AI So-Called Helper
The actor, who is also a talented and award-winning screenwriter, told Stephen Colbert, “I end up just going, ‘I don’t need you to fucking...
The Classic Art Of The Movie Poster
Renato Casaro and Drew Struzan, both of whom died this autumn, "somehow combined realistic, often borderline photographic, representation of marquee movie stars with outsize,...
How Scotland Shaped Frankenstein, The Book, Not To Mention The New Movie
Sure, Geneva played a famous part, but a bleak part of Scotland was where it all began in young Mary Shelley’s imagination. - BBC
Steve Coogan Doubles Down On The Last King And Its Accuracy
Coogan: “I noticed the University of Leicester’s website carries Richard Taylor’s statement in full, but not any of my statements. I’m sure that’s just...
The Weirdly Applicable 1980s Musical Coming To La Jolla
Cyndi Lauper isn’t thrilled, actually, about Working Girl. "Unfortunately, this story is just as relevant for women as it was when it came out...
If You Want To Know How The Economy Is Doing, Check The Lavish Dinner...
Watch the duck. Seriously, watch. The. Duck. - Salon
In The This Almost Didn’t Happen World, Count Itzhak Perlman Nearly Opting Out Of...
Talk about an alternate reality: Perlman told John Williams he’d consider it. “Toby, my wife, said, ‘Are you out of your mind? You’re going...
Will Audiences Who Love Animation Be Able To Save It?
As animation studios wither, one indie animator, whose fan-supported series has now been picked up by Amazon Prime: “I’ve been online since, like, late...
The Widower Of Suzanne Somers Says He’s Made An ‘AI Twin’ Of Her
Ethical experts have some questions, and some worries - though Somers’s widower claims she knew all about it, and approved, before she died. -...
What’s Up With Woody Allen And Spanish City Names?
Madrid wants to join Vicky Cristina Barcelona with … who knows? “Regional authorities are confident” - to the tune of €1.5 million - “the...
Painting History In Houston’s Graveyards
Cemetery artist Arthur “Deatly works with slow-drying acrylic paints, whose extended drying time gives flexibility outdoors. This allows him to take his time to...
Fluxus Artist Alison Knowles, Who Made Art From A Tuna Sandwich, Has Died At...
“She invited friends — and later hungry museumgoers — to join her for the ordinary-seeming meal, and she documented some of the feasts in journals and...
