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There’s No Actual Mayor Of Easttown, But Residents Have Some Thoughts On Mare
The chair of the Board of Supervisors of Easttown says the real town isn't much like the show. "'I can’t remember when the last...
Gearing Up For Summer Reading
You ready for 75 nonfiction books in 90 days? (Oddly, LitHub also has recommendations for a mere 38 fiction works in the summer, but...
The 1990s Magazine That Showed, And Gripped, Lesbian Mecca San Francisco
Curve began its life as Deneuve, a lesbian magazine founded by a 23-year-old who gambled all her money on horse races, won, and used...
Restarting The New York Phil, In A Cemetery
Justin Davidson, on the NY Phil's Green-Wood Cemetery "Death of Classical" concert: "That might not seem like the obvious location to stage the revival...
It’s Time To Abolish Museums
Does that sound hyperbolic? It is, a bit. It's time to abolish what musuems have been in order to see what they can be,...
Prizewinning Composer Sara Glojnaric Talks About How Music And Identity Intersect
Sara Glojnarić, who won Berlin’s “Neue Szenen” competition last year, explains that being a woman, being queer, and working against racism all intersect in...
Humans Might Not Be Cut Out For Universal Morality
Are there biological or other scientific causes for our moral beliefs? If so, how does that affect our moral beliefs and choices? It's a...
Blindsiding Movie Talent With Streaming Is Probably The New Normal
Gotta keep those subscriber numbers up with direct to streaming movies! But ... how do agents, producers, directors, and actors feel about this? It's...
Musicians Don’t Make Good Money From Streaming, But Is That Spotify’s Fault?
The amount of money people are spending on music hasn't changed from when we bought albums at the record store or CDs by Sony...
Inside TikTok’s New Incubator For Black Creators
The app - long derided both for squelching LGBTQIA voices and exploiting Black creators - reacted to the George Floyd protests by starting an...
Instagram Is Full Of Perfect Ballet Bodies, But TikTok Offers More Fun And A...
Dancer Jennifer McCloskey first realized her medium was TikTok in 2020, during the shutdown. "On her feed, McCloskey seamlessly blends comedy, criticism of ballet...
That Viral Band The Linda Lindas Gets A Record Contract
The girls went absolutely viral for a video of their performance at the Los Angeles Public Library, especially a clip with their song "Racist...
Former Moonlighting Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron’s Time At CBS Ends After An Investigation
After multiple writers left the show following season five, the show investigated. The writers - who all refused to be named out of fear...
Kathleen Andrews, The Woman Who Helped Bring Us Ziggy, Cathy, And Doonesbury, 84
Kathy Andrews and her husband Jim, "with his best friend, John P. McMeel, concocted a newspaper syndication company from the basement of the Andrewses’...
Adapting A Bestselling Historical Novel For The Stage During A Global Pandemic Isn’t Easy
But, of course, Hilary Mantel isn't really into easy. She and actor Ben Miles had to figure out their newest Thomas Cromwell adaptation: "You...
Don’t Count Print Newspapers Out Yet
Well, not quite yet, anyway. "When futurologist Ross Dawson published his 'newspaper extinction timeline' in 2010, he predicted that newspapers would cease to exist in the...
Should We Call Great Women Artists By Their First Names?
Maybe. It depends entirely on the scholarship, and the artist. And then there's research: "The same artist with different names can be confusing even...
A Japanese Composer, A Burkina Faso Storyteller, And A Congolese Rapper Make Opera
Composer Keiko Fujiie, who moved to Burkina Faso and built a house where the musicians can practice without annoying their neighbors, hopes to tour...
When An Actor Agrees To Take A Subject’s Secrets To The Grave
Actor Diego Boneta could only play famously secretive musician Luis Miguel for Netflix after studying the musician for years - and hiring both an...
Librarian Ruth Freitag, Who Helped Isaac Asimov And Carl Sagan With Research, 96
Freitag, "a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public. But she was, in more...
This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors Are A Breath Of Fresh Air
The five honorees said that the six-month delay, and the loss of so many performance opportunities and spaces during the pandemic, made this weeklong...
How Jane Rogers Took On Britain’s Very Male Literary Establishment In The 80s
Rogers: "When I started work on Mr Wroe’s Virgins I was 35. I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder. Faber had published...
Please Stop The Streaming Wars
It may be time to just quit everything. "My eyeballs are considering taking themselves off the market entirely. They’re sick of being courted, coaxed...
How Colonial Williamsburg Is Producing Progressive Theatre
The truth is, enslaved people formed the majority of the town's population at the time depicted at the site. New interpreters and an urgency...
And Now Tattoos Will Be Sold As NFTs
But the owners won't need to get tatted in real life. "In this new marketplace, customers will be buying the exclusive rights to the...
