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A New Movie In A Native Language Leads Its Director To Ask Hollywood For...
Erica Tremblay: "You don’t know if this is just a moment that Hollywood is having that will just go right back. ... What is...
In 1968, Arena Stage’s Leader Needed A ‘Confidential Plan’ In Order To Integrate Both...
Zelda Fichandler, a month before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated: "When I look around, however, beyond our too-perfected technique and … the...
How To Dominate The Thriller List
Cue the sounds of a long search for success: "After a decade of self publishing, McFadden signed a series of deals with Sourcebooks’...
Ann Philbin, Who’s Retiring From UCLA’s Hammer Museum, Has Been A Transformative, Risk-Taking Leader
“It’s impossible to overstate Philbin’s influence on the museum — and the city. She and the Hammer are one.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
The Price Of Sharing Your Couples Therapy With The World
“‘We really need some help, so hey, what do we have to lose?’ India recalled thinking at the time.” - The New York Times
Authors Famously Don’t Have Money, And Now The Publishing World Wants Them To Fund...
Ugh. “The people who run publishing companies consistently value quantity over quality. This is stressful for the workers on the ground, the ones who...
Camille Claudel Had A Lot Going For Her, Until She Started Working With Rodin
"From 1882 to 1892 she was Rodin’s assistant, lover, muse, and, most importantly, co-creator. However, aside from assertions in pop culture, such as Bruno...
A London Cinema Was Set To Premiere A Film Supposedly Written By ChatGPT, But...
The director said, "If screenwriters take the time to watch the movie and read about the process and why we did this film, I...
Ron Simon, Who Left Tech To Act And Produce Black Stories On Broadway, Has...
Simon won four Tonys as a producer, and he balanced producing film and stage works for years as well. He said, "I’ve found that...
Gaming For Culture
For instance, the lead character encounters a blueberry pie on a picnic table. The game reads, “This is the longest word in Anashinaabemowin: Miini-baalashkiminasljigani-blitoosigani-badakiingwesijigani-blitooyiingwesijigani-bakwezhigan:...
Shakespeare Finally Gets A Library Worthy Of His Name
“By opening itself more forthrightly to a wider audience, the library is doing something that Henry Clay Folger could probably never have imagined would...
Parisian Arthouse Cinema To Reopen After A Buyout From Previously Evicted Squatters Collective
“Two years after being evicted by Paris police, a collective of students and film-industry professionals returned to the arthouse cinema they had occupied from 2019 to...
As Wells College Closes, A Beloved Statue Loses Its Head
Minerva, whose feet students had kissed for luck for 150 years, was decapitated by a backhoe. For many, “the accident felt like a final...
Octavia Butler’s Birthday Is A Reminder That We Need Black Women’s Visions For The...
“Octavia E. Butler envisioned with eerie precision: a world of increasing drug addiction and illiteracy, global shifts towards authoritarian populism, vast gaps between...
The De La Torre Brothers Make Maximalist Art On Both Sides Of The Border
“As a young artist, you’re wondering: Are you a craft person? Are you a conceptual artist? Are you Mexicano? Are you Americano? A Chicano?...
Are The Famous Yellow Van Mobile Libraries Being Phased Out In The Scottish Highlands?
A fleet of ten is now seven, of which a majority “carry fewer books and have to be loaded and unloaded. librarian, whose...
How Hard Is It To Film ESports?
It’s not easy, just like a physical sports game. Some so-called observers “will have the ability to jump between player perspectives, seeing exactly what's...
It’s Summer, So The Debate About The Sweatiest Movie Of All Time Is Too...
Recent movies (Hit Man, anyone?), even when set in New Orleans, just aren’t … sweaty. So what wins the title of sweatiest movie of...
A Dance Dream Fulfilled
As Jawole Willa Jo Zollar fully lets go of the reins, 40 years after founding the dance troupe Urban Bush Women, she’s created one...
In Britain, A Judge Rules That A Character In Steve Coogan’s ‘The Lost King’...
This means that “after a preliminary hearing means that the case can proceed to a full trial where Coogan, Baby Cow and Pathe will...
The Short, Amazing Life Of The CD-ROM
Remember Encarta? That was a Microsoft product. But in 1994, even "the oldest-school tech giant of them all, IBM, found the strangest of bedfellows...
What To Read Next, Based On Your Favorite Tony Nominee
If you loved Appropriate? Well, it’s got to be Mat Johnson’s Loving Day. You’re an Outsiders fan? How about you take a look at...
The Recent Person On The Street Interviews That Caught Up Henry Winkler, Baz Luhrmann,...
“Go to any awards show red carpet and you will find teams and teams of people clutching clipboards. You know what’s on those clipboards?...
The Woman Trying To Market A Nobel-Winning Poet
Elizabeth Horan would really like us to know the name - and work - of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, "the first and only great...
Stephen Fry, For One, Is Ready For Britain To Return The Parthenon Marbles
Indeed, he compares the Ottoman Empire giving away anything from Greece to Nazi Germany giving away French monuments. And it’s not the first time...
