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Stagehand And Craft Workers Come Out To Support Writers
"The writers strike on May 2 has created hardships for many in the industry, including IATSE members who have lost scheduled jobs as productions...
The Big World Of Dollhouse Miniature Art
There's "a new generation of miniature makers, following in the footsteps of artists like Laurie Simmons, bringing the genre out from the home, into the...
Please Stop This Foolishness
Shakespeare was Shakespeare. The rest is idiocy. "While to most of us, a poem explicitly mentioning Shakespeare and crediting him with writing 'The Rape...
What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Talent
The conductor, coming to New York in 2026, has many recordings. The NYT says, "he comes off as a very capable musician, but one...
Speaking Of Eurovision, Congrats To Sweden’s Loreen
The singer, "who previously triumphed in 2012 with Euphoria, narrowly beat Finland’s Kaarija after the public and jury votes were combined." She's the first...
Elena Ferrante May Win Eurovision
That is, the Eurovision Book Contest. "In March, the literary festival asked the public to submit their favourite fiction from any of the...
Live Tony Awards Are A Truly Depressing Casualty Of The Writers’ Strike
This isn't great for theatre: "The Tonys have long been a prestigious event for CBS, but the show itself is more important to Broadway producers,...
Samantha Irby Writes About Whatever She Wants To, And She’s Not Sorry
Irby "received hate mail from fans who believed had somehow blasphemed their beloved Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. Her response ... is an...
Hollywood Was Built On The Hard-Typing Fingers Of Underpaid Writers
Raymond Chandler, in 1945, "described Hollywood as a cauldron of 'egos,' 'credit stealing' and 'self-promotion' where scribes were ruthlessly neglected, marginalized and stripped of...
Now That He’s King, Could Charles Please Declare A Truce With Modern Architecture?
"Might they not unite over what they have in common? They all want sustainable communities and good design. Architects and the monarch also have...
A Traditional London Music Venue, Reimagining Everything
"Remixing maypole dancing is just one of the myriad ways that English folk culture is currently having a reboot, thanks to a new wave...
Richard Dreyfuss Says The Academy’s New Diversity Rules For Oscar Movies Make Him Want...
Dreyfuss: "No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what...
Work Has Changed – Can The Office Novel Keep Up?
Sure. Here's a list of "a few unconventional work novels that remind us of the way things once were, offer alternatives to the way...
Netflix Is Making Even More Of A Bet With South Korean TV
Thanks to the massivehit series The Glory and, of course, Squid Game, Netflix's Ted Sarandos has invested a lot of money into developing Korean...
The Rise Of A New Sort Of Mediocre Film
The genre of movie doesn't matter - the point is, this kind of movie is never going to sell at movie theatres. But it...
Why Are Conservatives So Intent On Banning A Book That Fights Childhood Sexual Abuse?
"What is consistently missing in the national conversation about book banning: the voices of those children and teenagers who see their experiences in print...
Do You Remember IBM’s Watson?
This is the future of ChatGPT. "Watson should be bragging in its stilted voice, not fading into irrelevance. But its trajectory is happening all...
A Truly Unforgivable Book For Kids
"Generally, there is something subversive and inspiring about the people Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara chooses to immortalize (RuPaul! David Bowie!), which raises the question,...
Painter Alfredo Arreguin Has Died At 88
ArreguÃn "fused the tools of classical oil painting with Mexican folk traditions, compressing fine art and ancient craft into stretched canvases that often stood...
The Broadway Producer Who Says She Wants To Sharpie Women Into Art History
Jenna Segal is intent on buying art by women from Peggy Guggenheim's 1943 Exhibition of 31 Women. That show contained "names that would later...
Berkeley’s Famed Eastwind Books Closes Up Shop
The Asian American bookstore was never just abou the books - the owners' vision was to create a place "that used books and reading...
How The Bleep Changed Everything
The Jerry Springer show had many iconic sounds, but one of its best-known "was added in post-production:Â the 1,000 hertz censor bleep, which became more...
Los Angeles Chooses A Design Team For Its Memorial To The 1871 Massacre Of...
"The concept was inspired by the banyan trees that guard the entrance to many villages in Guangdong, where many early Chinese immigrants to Los...
Fatimah Asghar Wins The First Carol Shields Prize
Asghar's When We Were Sisters "follows three orphaned Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another in the aftermath of their parents' death. The prize...
It’s Been A While Since A Ham4Ham Crossover Happened Live
But the years melted away in a very special Sweeney Todd and Hamilton mashup on Friday: "The entire cast of the current Sondheim revival...