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They Were Dancing ‘Nutcracker’ When An Earthquake Struck New Zealand
And they kept right on dancing. - Radio New Zealand
When You Have A Multi-Set Show, You Need More Than A Director
Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, on his new series Pluribus: "The concept of the others being in sync telepathically led...
A Passionate Plea To Stop Devaluing Art, And The Future
“For years we’ve been grappling with the collapse of the creative middle class due to corporate greed. … We have more content than ever,...
A Christmas Carol, But Make It Contemporary Britain, And Also A Big Fun Musical
“Gurinder Chadha was wandering through the Charles Dickens Museum in London, trying to commune with the author’s spirit. ‘If you were alive today,’ the film-maker asked...
When Words, And Then Truth, And Then Reality, Fall Apart
“Navigating life in an era of ‘alternative truths’ has proved to be a disorienting experience: How can people live together when truth has become...
Alex Winters On Working With Keanu Reeves Again, This Time On Broadway
“A child actor turned movie star turned director and producer and prolific tech documentarian, Winter’s career has been fitful, searching and unconventional, full of...
Turns Out The Louvre Photo’s ‘Fedora Man’ Is A 15-Year-Old French Teen Who Loves...
The mysterious person “was cast as an old-school detective, an inside man, a Netflix pitch — or not human at all. ... Pedro understood...
Hey, If You’re Addicted To Technology, You Might Do Worse Than Looking At How...
Or at least … that’s an idea? “Using the 17th-century nun Sor Juana as inspiration, lay out five steps to writing an assertive,...
Indigenous Artist Tania Willard Wins Canada’s Largest Contemporary Art Prize
The chair of the jury said, "She harvests berries to make ink drawings, harnesses wind and fire to compose poems and operas, and builds...
Two Top BBC Officials Abruptly Quit Over Editing Of Documentary About January 6
The resignations “came several days after The Daily Telegraph published details of a leaked internal memo arguing that a BBC Panorama documentary had juxtaposed comments by...
Apple TV Has A New, Colorful Logo, Created Fully By Hand In An Old-School...
The design team “gathered in a studio with a blacked-out stage, a giant glass version of the Apple TV logo, and a bevy of...
The National Exhibits That Took Years, Even Decades, To Plan, Are Shuttered And Empty
“At a time when the Trump administration is cutting arts funding and seeking to influence content at the Smithsonian, the shutdown, now the longest in the nation’s history,...
Birmingham, England: The Next Hollywood?
Why not? After all, “the city was once synonymous with groundbreaking television." - BBC
The New York Times’s 10-Minute Painting Focus Challenge Is Changing Its Creators
“Buchanan said he had begun noticing subtle things in his own life, like how cracks zigzag across the sidewalk, or the way light hits...
Why US Companies Actually Might Want TikTok
The e-commerce wing is now as big as EBay, despite all of the news that the app would be banned. Think billions of dollars...
All Roads Lead To Rome, But Make It A Digital Map
OK, cool, especially if you’re a Roman Empire kind of person: “Users can digitally explore nearly 300,000 kilometers of roads laid across the vast...
A Vision Of Mar-A-Lago On The Potomac Is Not, Exactly, The American Ideal
Or is it? “Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., Kennedy, the list goes on: Many presidents have taken turns remodeling one or another part of...
Netflix Is Betting Heavily On Its New Reality TV Slate
Netflix has ordered 34 reality shows this year, way more than ever before. Why? Well: “They’re expanding the universe of big-budget, high-profile, high-concept reality...
Is It Ironic When A Crypto Founder’s Planned Statue Of Prometheus Has Only Raised...
“At 450 feet, Calvin’s proposed monument would stand 150 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty, but it remains far from realization. For now,...
Are We At Some Kind Of Endpoint Of Media Consolidation?
If Skydance Paramount Warner Bros Discovery becomes real, “this is probably the last mega deal we will see. The cable network assets are the...
Where Have All The Indie Hits Gone?
“The days when a buzzy fall movie could be a box-office bonanza are starting to look like a weirdly distant memory.” - Variety
How A Reader Evolves Into Being A Completionist
“I want to know: I want to watch writers grow from book to book, to follow the way their interests shift and their style adapts...
How Strangers Negotiate Sex, Onstage
"Without being clued in to the content of the play, connected with the show’s intimacy director … to go over the show’s simulated...
You Know How, Every Once In A While, A Brutal Review Can Be A...
Ouch, just ouch. “The writing suggests that ChatGPT was asked to emulate Fifty Shades’ E. L. James, and however cringeworthy and brand-name-peppered that sounds, I can promise...
The Oscar Race’s First Villain
“Superficially, at least, Hamnet fits better in the traditional mold of Oscars-friendly fare.” And that’s what scares fans of Sinners and One Battle After Another. -...
