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In Los Angeles, People Daringly Put Their Faces On Buildings Asking ICE If They’re...
“Along with projecting portraits of Angelenos, Am I Next? highlights brief stories of people, including US citizens, accosted and snatched out of homes, cars,...
Why I Stopped Reading Print, And Embraced Audiobooks
“Here’s what I love about listening: I can do it all the time, not just while sitting still. I read … while making my...
Romance Fiction Is Booming, And It’s Not Just Because Of Love
“It is possible, with your small candle, to make your way in the darkness. One delight, against all this. The world crumbles, and lipstick...
Wait, The Right-Wing Is Using ‘Theatre Kid’ As An Insult?
This feels very, let’s say, sixth-grade. One actor: “‘Theater kid’ being the bullied party is a tale as old as time. … We’ve always...
This Year’s Best Music Was Inspired By Grief
"Death, collapsed relationships, the passing of youth and the inexorable passage of time: these are sombre themes that fit a quite spectacularly grim year....
How Terrible Does A Christmas Movie Have To Be For It To Disappear Forever?
Bad, really bad. "It’s a mistake to compare this stuff to other films. It is, indeed, a mistake to compare it to any other...
AOL Instant Messenger Taught The Internet To Chat
But it wasn’t supposed to exist at all - and it’s only thanks to a “semi-rogue” group that we all know ROTFL, LOL, and...
Some Pretty Big TikTok Creators Are Worried About New US Ownership
And that’s because of censorship. - Variety
You’re Probably Going To Watch A Movie On, Or Over, Christmas, Right?
How to pick an (Oscar) winner: "The presumptive top five in the Best Picture race includes two auteur-driven blockbusters, one old-school weepie, one timely...
What Directors Have To Say About ‘Wasting’ Money On Their Movie Sets
“You don’t have a right to make your movie, because it costs so much and you need so much help. You do have to...
K-Pop Demon Hunters, But Make It Classical
Does this have rizz? Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins has recorded a classical reinterpretation” of “Golden,” from K-Pop Demon Hunters. - BBC
Literary Authors Are Writing Romances Under Pseudonyms And Never, Ever Talking About Romance In...
Gross. "Every type of writing requires specific attention to detail. For people not to take that seriously (and to ask for your help in...
Rosa Von Praunheim, The Pioneer Of Gay Cinema In Germany, Has Died At 83
“His second feature, entitled It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, premiered at the Berlin film...
Sorry, TrumpKennedyCenter Dot Org Is Not Available
Why? Because a comedian knew what was coming. “Morton isn’t in the game to sell off his domains. ... Instead, he buys them with...
Chicago’s NPR Station Created A ‘Theatre Club’ For Younger Audience Members, And Advertised It...
The first club meetup included “an exclusive Theater Club post-show talkback with artists who worked on the show, and a drink ticket that can...
Bradford Ends Its ‘City Of Culture’ Year
How did it go? “The year-long celebration cost around £51m and generated audiences of three million people.” OK. Also, train traffic from London went...
Sinners Is The Most Culturally Important Film Of 2025
“Hollywood machers were convinced the film would never make money and that Warner Bros’ big gamble ‘could be the end of the studio system.’...
The Secrets Of The Women Of The Frick
The Frick’s new chief curator loves nothing more than researching the women on the walls. "What captured Ng’s attention, though, was Lady Skipwith’s forlorn...
How Some Regional Theatres Are Surviving
One way is by, let’s say, not being intense with their audiences. “My first covenant is with the audience, and I care about what...
Tom Hanks Literally Wrote His Own Script This Time
“I embarked on this endeavor, partly fueled by a desire to bring to life onstage a sense of lives caught between the certainties of...
The Fight For Warner Bros Is Messing Up Some Longtime Hollywood Allies
"Disaster, catastrophe and nightmare. That's how Hollywood's creative workers describe the fall of the once mighty Warner Bros, as Netflix and Paramount battle to...
A Cyberattack Forces An Oregon Library System Offline For Days
No book drops, no events, no audio books, no catalog, no buildings open: That’s what a cyberattack did to the Deschutes County Library system...
Co-Starring With A Dog Is One Thing, But A Bird Of Prey?
“Everything on set revolved around the hawks’ well-being. Filming took place between October and January, to avoid molting season. Everyone in the crew wore...
Sinners Is About Black Creativity Changing Everything
“Ryan Coogler’s supersized supernatural blockbuster fused critical and commercial enthusiasm into a kind of mass obsessive fervor. It became, for a few weeks, the...
The Year-End Book List You’ve Been Waiting For
The 173 best book covers out there. Yes, 173. - LitHub
