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Movie Theatres Are Begging Audiences To Return
Apparently, 70 percent of the moviegoing public - which is, let's note, far higher than the percentage of fully vaccinated people in the U.S....
An Israeli Airstrike Has Destroyed Gaza’s Largest Bookstore
"The beloved Samir Mansour Bookshop was destroyed on Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike. The shop, which was established in 2008, had thousands of books, including the largest...
Italy Wins EuroVision
Congrats to Italy's Måneskin. But yikes to the UK (which, technically, is no longer in Europe anyway?). "The UK's James Newman came last, getting...
What Might Opera Look Like In A Post-Pandemic World?
Let the Long Beach Opera show you. "Guests have the choice of watching this production “tailgate-style” or from inside their automobiles. The action occurs...
Show Our Arts Orgs The Money, Please
U.S. arts organizations are still waiting for that cultural institution money to flow. "Business owners are wary of the promise after weeks of delay...
Lois Lew, The Woman Who Mastered IBM’s 5400-Character Typewriter
"Spinning continuously at a speed of 60 revolutions per minute, or once per second, the drum measured 7 inches in diameter, and 11 inches...
Simon Rattle Asks UK Ministers For Help With Brexit And The London Symphony Orchestra
Brexit regulations are not great for the LSO, which had 99 tour dates booked in Europe before the pandemic canceled them all. "It’s all...
And The Dylan Thomas Prize Goes To
Raven Leilani for Luster, her debut novel (which was also awarded the admiration of former President Barack Obama, but that's a different kind of...
Katherine Barber, Founding Editor Of The Canadian English Dictionary, 61
The woman who entered "jambusters" in the (well, her) dictionary read popular novels and listened to parliamentary debates to find the most Canadian English...
Chicago Had The Most Radical Advice Columnist Of The Roaring ’20s
That is, the '20s that were a century ago. Princess Mysteria's columns in The Defender "presented a stark contrast with other advice writing of...
There’s A Brief Post-Lockdown Window For Britons To See Their Museums Devoid Of Tourist...
And that seems like something to celebrate, and take advantage of, to a lot of museum directors. "We know that all museums’ audiences will...
The Video Game Platform That Spawned Its Own Music Genre
You might this it's Nintendo - the soundtracks to Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong sure can linger in one's brain - but instead...
Emily Blunt Is One Of Vanishingly Few Actors Resisting Superhero Movies
It's rare - incredibly rare - for a Hollywood actor to turn down Marvel or DC. But Blunt said recently, "I don’t know if...
Where Should, Or Could, A Reader Start With Speculative Fiction From Africa?
As speculative fiction from African writers starts to gain mainstream press attention in the U.S. and U.K., readers might wonder where to start. Short...
What Happened To AT&T’s Big Warner Media Plans?
They evaporated in the span of three years. One of those was an extremely weird year, to be sure, but three years. "AT&T found...
The New Joys Of Experiencing Performance Three Different Ways
If you could see a dance performance inside the theatre (with other masked, socially distanced audience members), outside (same, but less distance), or via...
Hollywood Has An Issue With Women Action Heroes
Well, it has issues with women, aging women, of any type, but nevertheless: "40-something actresses rarely lead action films—even though Jolie is 13 years...
WhatsApp’s Weird Privacy Debacle Hints At Deeper Tech Issues
When WhatsApp - for years, owned by Facebook - asked users to agree to a privacy update for something that had been true since...
In Paris, Bookstores Are Essential Landmarks – And Struggling To Survive
Paris has lost 30 percent of its independent bookshops in the last 20 years, despite a lot of government intervention: "Small shops qualify for...
Pervis Staples, Who Moved His Family’s Staple Singers From Gospel To Soul, 85
Staples once compared the Staple Singers' "effect on ecstatic church audiences to 'a miracle or the hand of God.'" Pervis Staples "attended grammar school...
The Shy Performance Poet Who Writes About Everything From Sex To Death
Hollie McNish, who once changed her name to "Hollie Poetry" - what she now calls "a search engine name" - says that sex and...
The Dictatorial Polish Conductor Who Changed The Sound Of American Orchestras
The tale of Artur Rodzinski is not a charming one, and yet, "arguably no man had more of a hand in turning American orchestras...
Artists Protest Plans To Raze Major Art Institutions In Delhi
A massive government redevelopment plan - funded and touted by Prime Minister Narenda Modi - will demand "the demolition and relocation of iconic Indian...
Apple Wants To Upend Podcasts The Way It Did Music Downloads
The company - which was one of the first to jump on the podcasting train, providing podcast sourcing through iTunes in 2005 - is...
Theatre Has Long Been Fatphobic, And Actors Are Speaking Out
An errant sentence in a New York Times article (since reworded) led to a lot of participation from actors via social media. They're fed...
