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Bob Ross’s Happy Little Trees, In The Museum Spotlight At Last
“His bushy-haired, denim-wearing image has inspired all kinds of merch, from bobbleheads and boxer briefs to wigs and waffle makers. Yet said the...
The Massive Run Of The Original, Non-Blockbuster Sinners Continues In Its Second Week
Ryan Coogler’s film has box office followers’ eyes popping with its unheard-of second weekend take. It dropped a mere 6 percent from its opening...
Patrick Adiarte, Of Broadway And The TV Series MASH, Has Died At 82
As a baby, Adiarte was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII. After his family moved to the U.S., he played a little prince and,...
The Song That Has Dominated One Chart For Ten Years
You didn’t know that a cover of The Sound of Silence was the most popular hard rock song of the last decade, did you?...
Maybe ‘There’s A Netflix For’ Just About Everything
That is to say, one person has figured out how to monetize videos of what he calls “grassroots motorsports.” - Wired
The Next Life Of The Brideshead Revisited And Bridgerton Mansion
Housing crisis, whatever: The mansion is set to become a (rather exclusive) AirBnB. “It’s not a museum. And if you’re going to call it...
The Guerrilla Girls Are Back
Even though they never left - nor did the need for them, sadly, ever leave. - The New York Times
The Emmys Race To Take Down The ‘Big Four’ Comedies
Forgive us, but Hacks and The Bear are “veteran shows”? Apparently so. Add in Only Murders in the Building and Abbott Elementary, and you...
Changing Outlooks Make Museums Full Indoor-Outdoor Experiences
“A turning point was a project with the artist Cecile Abish, who uses a wheelchair: ‘To get to the garden we needed to take...
When The Pandemic Shut Down The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Longtime Actors Turned To A...
The space near the OSF campus “featured a raised stage area, intimate seating in-the-round on folding chairs, and ample shade from the surrounding trees....
Charlotte Bronte Knew When She Was A Young Teen That She’d Be A Writer
“The poems in Brontë’s Book of Rhymes were written in tiny script to fit on scraps of paper no larger than playing cards...
The Folks Who Make Broadway Orchestras Work
"You can’t start orchestrating much before the rehearsals begin because things haven’t settled. Until you get into rehearsals, you may not know what key...
Oscars Voters Are Now Supposed To Actually Watch The Movies They Vote On
Wild requirement, hunh? "It's not a sea change, but it's something.” - NPR
Andrea Nevins, Whose Documentaries Covered Everything From Punk Dads To Barbie, Has Died At...
“Her most recent film, The Cowboy and the Queen (2023), examined the unlikely friendship that blossomed between a Texas cowboy and Queen Elizabeth II after she...
A Century Ago, This Magazine Was Crushed By U.S. Government Censorship
Might it be time to reread The Masses? "2025 isn’t the first time our neighbors have delighted in violence against a minority, it’s not...
Should We Be Freaking Out So Much About Hollywood’s Potential Death Spiral?
Maybe! “What happens to a region when the thing you’re best known for four out of five times is done somewhere else?” - The...
What Women Like About Acting In Almodovar’s Films
Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In): “Pedro speaks about the characters as if they were people he has already lived with for years,...
How ‘Free’ Is The Press In The United States?
Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there...
Hollywood Asks For Government Help
“The lobbying effort has led to unusual alliances, particularly in the wake of the strikes, with both studios and Hollywood unions rallying on the...
Minnesota’s Hmong Community Uses Textiles To Tell All Of The Backstory
But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: "In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere,...
Amazon Claims It Unintentionally Set A Massive Sale On Indie Bookstore Day
Zero humans believe that claim, of course. One bookstore owner: “I just rolled my eyes and thought, Of course they did. We can’t even have one...
Benin Wanted Its Bronzes Back From Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts. Instead, The Collector...
The MFA’s director, Matthew Teitelbaum: "This was not the outcome anyone wanted.” - The New York Times
We’re All Living In ‘The Studio’ Now
“Barbie was self-aware and auteur-driven, and demonstrated that there was a way to slightly elevate miserable brand properties. So now we live in a...
Folk Music Of The 19th Century Is Being Pressed Into Service For Oppressed Folk...
“Everything feels so precarious, … and suddenly there’s these songs that put you in dialogue with people going back over hundreds of years. That’s...
In Canada, First Nations Peoples Asked A Judge Not To Let Hudson Bay Company...
But the judge seems OK with it, with a caveat. “Osborne ordered Hudson's Bay to provide him and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs with...
