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An Oral History Of Napoleon Dynamite
“The thing with the cow really happened. My mom was a hobby farmer raising a beef cow and it just got too aggressive, so...
The Entire Hallmark Channel Staff Could Not Have Dreamed This One Up
But thanks to what looks like reality, art will imitate life: There will be a Hallmark Christmas movie about a Kansas City Chiefs player...
Ukraine Passed A New Law Directly Supporting Bookstores
The bill "provides subsidies for renting space to open bookstores and the introduction of book certificates (worth 908 hryvnia, or about $22) for 18-year-olds...
When Mikhail Baryshnikov Left Everything He’d Ever Known
“I remember feeling a sense of comfort and security after seeing some very friendly faces in the getaway car. But I also felt fear...
The Joys Of Reading Books That You Don’t Fully Understand
Molly Templeton’s desire is “for us to have the time, the space, the mental bandwidth to welcome uncertainty, to crank up our curiosity and...
Seattle Libraries Are Still Months Away From Full Service After Ransomware Attack
Just a portion of the issues: “The library’s public computers have been unavailable for a month. So have its public Wi-Fi networks. Books are being...
We All Speak Phone Now
We’re in a language crisis. "The discourse that produces new slang is not only publicly available online, but also amplified based on its ability...
For Writer Tomi Adeyemi, Getting To Book Three Was A Long, Fraught Journey
Finishing a trilogy or a series isn’t easy for most writers, but Adeyemi faced physical challenges along the way. She says, "I like that...
With Rents Soaring And Property Developers Circling, Can Artists Afford Studios Anymore?
British artists are suffering: “Nearly one in three artists doubted that they would be able to continue working professionally in five years’ time, and...
The Internet Archive Shrank Last Week By Half A Million Books
Thanks, publishers, we love that you removed access to 500,000 titles from public access. - Ars Technica
The French Horn Teacher Who Works In Music To Support His Hobby
Andrew Westberg says his wife is "happy it's not tractors. … Pencils are so much easier to store.” - MPR
Suffice It To Say Stephen Sondheim’s Auctioneer Did Not Understand Theatre Kids
“There was a customer on the phone who said something along the lines of 'Just throw out $20,000,' and reported to our staff member...
The Washington Post Is Burning Through Its One Asset
And that is its credibility. "The reputation of the Post newsroom has been built upon readers’ trust that reporters do not pay sources, much less steal...
A Little Money Can Benefit An Aspiring Writer With A Buffer
Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Prize, remembers when he had a little cushion of money from selling art and a lot...
Online Trolls Tried To Bully A 20-Year-Old Actress Out Of Playing Kate Middleton
Not that this is unusual, sadly: Meg Bellamy “described the comments from internet trolls as ‘a glimpse into being a woman in this industry.’”...
They Tracked This Musician’s Heartbeats During Her Marathon Rachmaninoff Performance
“These five pieces include two-and-a-half hours of music, 621 pages of score, and more than 97,000 piano notes.” - Open Culture
Top Dealers Of Old Masters Accused Of Bigotry, Sexual Harassment, And Other Workplace Violations
"Previously a curator at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, where she led the European paintings department, Brilliant claims that Voena and...
Sheryl Crow Says Using AI For Musicians’ Voices Is Hateful
She’s not having it. “It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us,” the singer-songwriter says. - BBC
Chinatown Is Fifty Years Old
And no, “there has been no greater original screenplay in the last 50 years than the one Robert Towne wrote for Chinatown.” - The Guardian...
Just Who, In An Artistic Relationship, Is Whose Muse?
"The truest artist-muse relationship may be that in which the former works with the latter because no other individual talent will bring the art...
What Happened To People Magazine?
“The excavation of the political from the personal is always worth studying, which is part of the reason People has always been such a rich text. But...
This New Ballet Company Features Women Lifting Other Women – Literally
“'It’s an amazing experience,’ Annia Hidalgo, one of the Queer the Ballet dancers, . ‘We all speak the same language. It’s movement, it’s art,...
Is Shogun Spamming The Emmys?
“Being calculated isn’t easy. Networks and executive producers have to consider the politics of choosing one writer’s or director’s episode over another, and individual...
When A Game Is All About Defeating The Player, Players Band Together To Form...
Players of Elden Ring died so often when the game first came out that live streams of other players dying over and over became...
Listening Through The Entire 21-Volume Catalog Of Composer George Crumb
Crumb’s “scores — created by hand and themselves works of art — are rife with exacting instructions to performers: how to thread paper between the strings...
