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Don’t Let Leisure Time Disappear
Alert, four-day work week advocates: "Leisure is doing things for their own sake, to pursue what one wants. We should fight the urge to...
What’s Getting People Back To The Cinema?
One Alamo Drafthouse audience member: "“I love movies and I have to be in the theater to see a movie. Like, to me, that’s...
Looking For Culture To Lead The Reopening Of New York
The arts are "a major industry that employed some 93,500 people before the pandemic and paid them $7.4 billion in wages" - and are...
The Ethics of Using AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice In A Documentary
Another documentary filmmaker wonders, "Why borrow trouble, as my parents used to say, by re-creating Anthony Bourdain’s voice that way?" - Chicago Tribune
Who, And What, Will Be Nominated For An Emmy?
Let the predictions - and snub predictions: Small Axe and WandaVision, perhaps? - begin. - Los Angeles Times
Where Are All Of The Great Black Concert Films?
Though parts of Summer of Soul were on YouTube for years, most of the recordings languished in a basement. In those decades, white filmmakers...
Broadway Is So Ready To Open Back Up
Wow: "Just two months ago, only one Broadway show had plans to open in the new 2021-2022 season. Now there are 43." - Washington Post
An Oral History Of The Weird Movie That Became A Feminist Classic
That's right: Legally Blonde. - The New York Times
The Attacca Quartet Made It Through The Pandemic
They even recorded, while collaborating over Zoom and using other tools, a new album. "This whole record is sort of like poster child of...
Turns Out Everything We ‘Knew’ About Kids And Reading Was Wrong
For instance, boys like fiction just as much as girls do. And developing brains need stories - that is, fiction - in order to...
The UK Suddenly Has A Lack Of Filming Space
Disney and Netflix need the UK, but they're not alone, according to a new report that says it's time to build more studios and...
Vinyl Is A Perfect Medium For Discovering Classical Music
Why? "The rough edges of a medium are what allows us to get a grip on it. When I hold a record in my...
Why Netflix Movies Look So Weird
It's technical: The company "requires narrative feature films made for Netflix be shot on cameras with a 'true 4K UHD sensor.'" - Fast Company
An Investigation Into Sony Music Australia Yields Hordes Of Complaints
More than 40 former employees have contacted the investigating law firm "since allegations of a toxic workplace culture first aired and its Australian chief...
At Last, Bringing A Native Perspective To The Met
Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) lives to "show you how a 19th-century ceramic, textile, carving or painting is made and how it is connected to...
Anti-History Is On The Rise
History needs context - but not according to a certain faction on the American right-wing political spectrum. - The Atlantic
Creating An Opera About The Ugly Side Of Desire
Composer Amanda Feery got a range of advice about composing her first opera, and she decided to ignore almost all of it. - Irish...
The New TV Series ‘Schmigadoon’ Tries To Sing Away Problems Of American Musicals
And that only works because its musical-theatre-loving creator writes all of its songs - every single one. - American Theatre
The Language That Poetry Shares With Comic Books
Eve Ewing, multihyphenate creative person (and sociology prof), calls writing poetry and writing comic books her most meaningful "cross-pollination." - The New York Times
An Indigenous Perspective On Frida Kahlo
Basically: "Kahlo, born to an affluent German father and mestiza mother (Spanish and Purépecha), adopted the popular fetishization and sanitization of the Tehuana favored...
Men Still Don’t Read Women
This remains true, with big financial and other consequences: "Why does this matter? For a start, it narrows men’s experiences of the world." -...
Is This 51,000-Year-Old Giant Deer Bone Carving Art?
Depends on whom you ask. "Dr. Terberger prefers to call it a complex decoration, perhaps a precursor to art." - The New York Times
Chekhov, Munro, And Endings That Change It All
If you want to be surprised, to have everything recast for you in light of new information, read Alice Munro's stories to their ends....
Thomas Cleary, Who Translated Classic Works Of Eastern Philosophy, 72
Cleary "translated scores of Buddhist, Taoist, ancient Chinese and other texts into English, greatly broadening access to these works in the West." - The...
Will Indie Films Survive The Pandemic?
Independent film producers don't have studios' deep pockets - and "a loss of insurance coverage and a surge in production costs have created a...
