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How Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre Became A Launching Pad For New Musicals
“Something that always has to be true is: Will this story make the world a better place in some way? It’s a big question—but why tell...
Bunheads Walked So The New Series Etoile Could Leap
Or at least, that’s what creator Amy Sherman-Palladino (the force behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) wants to see. “Ballet isn’t something for someone else....
What You Learned About Jane Austen Was Completely Incomplete
No, she wasn’t “the first great woman novelist.” There were so many great ones before her - but somehow they’re missing in our general...
Will Ryan Coogler’s Movie ‘Sinners’ End The Studio System?
“Directors owning their own movies is the opposite of business as usual — and to studios, cause for freaking out. According to senior executives...
Are Blockbusters A ‘Fascist’ Turn For Hollywood?
This author thinks so: “When you stop making middle-class movies — movies with a moderate budget, as opposed to ones made on a shoestring...
The Book That Transformed How We See Ballet
Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet gets an 80th anniversary reprint. He "intended to foreground shape, blur, contrast, gesture and motion — the atmosphere of dance —...
British Authors Protest Zuckerberg’s Taking Of Their Books For Generative AI
"Earlier this month, a group of protesters gathered outside the London headquarters of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They were demonstrating over...
Van Gogh’s Final Painting Is Causing Trouble In This Idyllic French Village
“The continued fight over Van Gogh’s tree roots has cast a pall over what is usually a celebratory season in Auvers, population 7,000, where...
Why New York’s Parking Lots Are Stuffed To The Brim And Beyond
It’s the food trucks. Their owners or renters are gone, or in hiding, never opening their doors. In this version of the Big Apple,...
The Naval Academy Was Supposed To Host A Lecture On Idea Censorship And Reading...
Then the Academy, apparently not fearless, censored the lecture. "I did not want to cause them trouble. I did, however, feel it was essential...
The US Knew It Needed Public Housing, But The People Building It Often Didn’t...
Despite the decades of neglect, when a new “Chicago museum’s leadership was pursuing oral histories of public housing, they found other narratives as well...
Buying A Book, Novelist Kiley Reid Says, Isn’t Going To Fix Racism
“Theme always comes last. I never say, I want to write about capitalism or women. What gets me into writing is always this tiny...
An Updated Timeline Of The Harvey Weinstein Trials
As jury selection begins in the newest trial, here’s a timeline of all of the trials and appeals so far. - NPR
David Cronenberg Found His Will To Live By Making A Movie About Death
“During the pandemic, when I was watching a lot of old movies, it occurred to me that every person who worked on this movie...
Turns Out UK Taxpayers Gave Nearly Ninety Million Pounds Toward A Recent Jurassic Park...
It’s easier to make a profit when the people of the country where you film underwrite the whole thing, no? At least it’s transparent:...
Podcasts Mostly Have To Turn Into Brands To Make Money
That means podcast-themed backpacks, toys - and cruises. Indeed, one “chief content officer” says, “We’re trying to take a Hollywood-style approach to IP-building and...
Artists In The United States Survived A Rabidly Anti-Art Government Before
And here’s how to do it again. - The Conversation
Helping Cinemas Survive Might Mean Moving TV Series To The Big Screen
For instance, this TV series about the life of Jesus is doing numbers, as in, big numbers. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Should Gaudi Be Seen As A Saint?
Even if you’re not a believer, the answer is probably a yes. “Gaudí’s mission was to find spiritual meaning in a world transformed by...
Medieval Monks Did What?
In the Ireland of a thousand years ago, monks fleeing the Vikings spread their beautifully decorated version of Christianity to Europe. Some of those...
The Thing About ‘Black Mirror’ Is, It’s Not So Fictiony Anymore
“Every episode serves in part as a warning about how technological advancement run rampant will lead us, often willingly, toward a lonely, disorienting and...
When Hobbies Like Knitting And Fishing Become Too Expensive, We All Lose
When hobby inflation takes over, we lose community across all kinds of lines: “Hobbies can produce communities where, because the hobby itself takes top...
How One Talk Show Absolutely Nails It On TikTok
“Before taking the stage, guests make their way down a hallway as members of the show’s staff serenade them with a complicated, customized hype...
Once You’ve Begun Writing, When Do You Stop?
Poet and memoirist Maggie Smith says, “You have to enjoy the process more than you enjoy patting yourself on the back about having a...
After A Movie That Lionized Him, The Guy Who Popularized Tetris Wants To Tell...
The movie, described by one outlet as The Big Short meets The Bridge of Spies, was a bit, let’s say, intensified. But the real...
