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Love Is Blind, But Make It Books
“The first thing customers see when they walk into the Strand Book Store in Manhattan is a table of anonymous books with covers wrapped...
How Archie Moore’s Family Tree Led Him To The Golden Lion At The Venice...
“As the artist has described it, it’s ‘a memorial to everything that has ever lived.’” - The New York Times
A Booker Shortlist Author On The Ways Language Fails
Anne Michaels, author of the spare, gorgeous Held says, "You can use brutal language to describe brutality, but that’s a lie; language can’t represent...
That Time When Bill Nighy Liberated Shakespeare And Shaw From The Library
It was all to impress a young woman at drama school auditions. - BBC
The Motion Picture Academy Just Laid Off A Whole Lot Of People
Who cares about the history of film, right? You might think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But hey, it’s time to...
A New Smell-O-Vision, This Time For Museums
“The human sense of smell, which has powerful connections to memory and emotion, has been deployed in art and historical displays and museums around...
Patricia Johanson, Groundbreaking Environmental Artist, Has Died At 84
Johanson “made nature her medium, transforming highway underpasses, sewage treatment plants and other grimly functional public spaces into sweeping artworks.” - The New York...
How A Grad Student Found A Hidden Mayan City From His Computer
“I just started poking around on the internet and eventually got the right combination of search terms and number of Google pages results in...
John Williams, From Jazz Pianist To Blockbuster Composer
“Williams is undoubtedly the greatest ‘whistle test’ composer of his age – a purveyor of instantly memorable tunes that both capture and breathe life into the...
The Woman Who Negotiated For Management During The 2023 Hollywood Strikes Is Stepping Down
“She was a lightning rod for criticism by Hollywood workers, particularly during last year’s walkouts. A parody account portraying Lombardini as a cartoonish corporate...
Where, Oh Where, Is Clint Eastwood’s Latest, And Probably Last, Movie?
"Eastwood fans in the UK will have no problem seeing Juror #2, where it’s enjoying a wide release in more than 300 cinemas nationwide....
Philly Gets A Golden Statue Of Trump Making A Grab ‘Em By The Genitalia...
Is this effigy, with a plaque that reads, “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault,” by the same artist who commemorated the dump...
What Should You Do If You Make Money From A Film Whose Topic You...
Looks like Anna Kendrick, director and star of the Netflix film Woman of the Hour, which is about a serial abuser and killer, thinks...
Good Night, Sweet Bay Area Theatres
“After the loss of so many theatres here, the closure of Cutting Ball and Cal Shakes, both leaders in their respective genres, feels like...
British Police Send Russell Brand’s File To Prosecutors
More than a year after allegations of abuse emerged, the Metropolitan Police are sending their evidence out. "The allegations against Brand come from a seven-year...
Here’s How To Get Cheaper Broadway Tickets, Even At The Holidays
That’s right, tourists (and New Yorkers), there are some ways to find those deals - though not, perhaps, if you want to see Robert...
Empty New York Office Buildings Have Been Essential For This Dance Company
In the midst of the pandemic, one real estate management firm “said they needed tenants who would show up to work.” So the Paul Taylor...
The Biggest Problem With Le Corbusier
"Le Corbusier’s dream was of vast blocks of buildings as 'machines for living.' His bare modernism took hold of architecture schools and town-planning departments”...
Susanna Clarke Changed The Literary World, And Then She Disappeared
Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell blurred the lines - long-listed for the Booker, won a Hugo - but the author herself, not too...
Facebook, But For The Dead
And possibly even creepier, on a privacy scale, than FB: “It is jarring when you just had a loved one pass away and you...
Decoding Post-Screening Hype Tweets
For instance: "'I’m buzzing': The movie is better than Madame Web.” - Vulture
Navigating The Internet In 2024
Can a theory of “dark forests” (and how we can’t reside in them forever) help all of us? - Hyperallergic
California’s Governor Says He Wants To Save Hollywood
Gavin Newsom "declared his intent to expand the annual tax credit to $750 million, up from its current total of $330 million, which would...
Can Music Play A Role In Physical Healing?
Perhaps not healing so much as facing pain, illness, and death. “‘Ten minutes of Schubert is the equivalent of five milligrams of oxy,' the...
Let’s Face It, Charlotte’s Web Is Emotionally Abusive
“Of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in my opinion was the moment when, during Wilbur the Pig’s hour...
