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How The Town Of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Created The Sounds Of A Generation
Alabama had no professional recording studios before a man named Rick Hall created FAME. Then the town became songwriting and recording central. “They were...
Directors Guild Anoints Paul Thomas Anderson
Other Directors Guild winners: Amanda Marsalis for an episode of The Pitt, and the guy who directed Game 7 of the World Series. -...
How Bach Helped This Abuse Victim Stay Alive
“Every night, I would sit in my room listening to recordings of Bach, then Horowitz and Ashkenazy, pretending to play along. It was pure escape,...
The Bad Bunny Halftime Show Didn’t Say ‘ICE Out,’ But The Music, Full Of...
“After Bad Bunny said ‘God bless America’ in English, he added in Spanish, ‘Be it Chile, Argentina … ' and the countries of Latin...
Author Elly Griffiths Says Magic And Mystery Novels Share A Big Similarity
The author of nearly 30 crime novels explains a few things about misdirection - and big reveals. - Irish Times (Archive Today)
The Wooster Group Actress Who Disappeared
Libby Howes, who was central to the group’s avant-garde breakthrough Rumstick Road, left the theatre during a psychotic breakdown. “For decades, Howes’s location has...
Director Jafar Panahi Calls Iran ‘A Failed State’ After The Arrest Of His Co-Writer
Panahi: "It is a failed state politically, ideologically, economically, culturally and environmentally. And it is not going to be able to last. The only...
The Year Young Black Comedians Stole The Super Bowl’s Thunder, And Thence Created The...
“The final ratings were the big headline. Altogether, 22 million people switched from CBS to Fox for the In Living Color alt-cast, outdrawing Winter...
This Year’s Super Bowl Ads Were Bleak For The Future Of Creativity
This Super Bowl was “the first with A.I. taking center stage—a revealing gametime moment for the tech as it confronts investor anxiety, broader fatigue,...
What Happens When Artists Lose Their Archives
“It was the loss of authorship, sequencing, and context. Works that were never meant to exist independently were broken apart and reintroduced to the...
The Ice Dancers With Possibly The Olympics’ Biggest Challenge
“The most decorated ice dance pair in U.S. figure skating history wants more than a team medal in Milan — they want the ice...
The Comic Artists Responding To The Moment With Art
One comic “states: ‘Someday you’ll know that there were so many people thinking and worrying about you even though you don’t know us.’ Other...
Maybe We’ve Been Getting Bosch All Wrong
“We are supposed to read triptychs from left to right: Adam and Eve → sexy fruit playground of jubilant behavior → decay and hell....
Days After Gutting The Washington Post, Murdoch Media Veteran Will Lewis Abruptly Steps Down
“‘Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution,’ said the union representing most...
The Academy Held A ‘Bake-Off’ For Ten Shortlisted Casting Directors To Explain What Casting...
“Only members of the casting branch vote on the nominations, but the bake-off is open to members from across the Academy, since they’ll be...
For The Director And Star Of This Brazilian Film, There Was A Cost For...
Wagner Moura, Oscar-nominated star of Oscar-nominated movie The Secret Agent says of the movie: It “is a result of something that we both...
Behind The Two Oscar-Nominated Songs From Documentaries This Year
“One of them is an aria performed an opera star … from an obscure documentary titled Viva Verdi!.” - Variety
Where Has Hollywood’s Production Money Gone?
Quite a bit went to Great Britain last year, actually. - The Guardian (UK)
How Did Milan’s Olympics Opening Ceremony Measure Up, Artistically Speaking?
“Do you know what’s more tubular than snowboarding? Giant tubes of paint descending from the ceiling! More sweeping than curling? A beautiful recital of a poem...
Yorkshire Takes A Weary Breath, Prepares For Another Onslaught Of Wuthering Heights Fans
One hotel owner: “It could all be a flash in the pan, and that’s fine. If it sticks, that’s also great. What I do...
Those ‘Self-Driving’ Cars Are Often Piloted By Humans 8,000 Miles From San Francisco
Yes, Soylent Green is people, and … so is Waymo? “The autonomous vehicle company uses remote workers in the Philippines to assist its self-driving...
Anthropic Wasn’t Just Taking Electronic Books To Feed The AI Maw, But Scanning And...
Well, at least they bought those books? “This program raised red flags for some inside Anthropic, who knew that tearing books apart to feed...
Woodie King, Who Died In January At 88, Was A Major Figure Steering Black...
“Woodie, as artistic director and producer, understood and respected the sanctity of the director. … Woodie, even faced with the challenges of inequitable funding...
The Louvre Will Restore The Crown Of Empress Eugenie And Put It Back On...
It was, of course, badly damaged when thieves dropped it in October. - ARTnews
Suddenly, The Michelle Obama Documentary Is Incredibly Popular On Streaming
Surely it’s a coincidence that as a movie named about the current First Lady opens in the UK, people start watching a movie about...
