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The Effort In Indonesia To Install Beautiful Microlibraries Everywhere

“The structures are built using a range of materials and passive cooling principles. The facade of the Bima microlibrary in Bandung was built in...

The Newest Hint That There’s Strong Interest In Off-Broadway Shows

“There are a lot of really beautiful shows that just are never going to attract the audience, and/or support the budget, that you increasingly...

Reality TV, You May Not Be Surprised To Know, Distorts Our View Of Who...

A professor of political science writes that there's “extensive research finding correlations between one’s tendency to believe in the bootstraps version of the American...

Los Angeles Opera Names Its New Music Director

"When Domingo Hindoyan, the Venezuelan chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, made his debut with L.A. Opera last November with Roméo et Juliette, Times...

Renee Victor, Voice Of Abuelita In Coco, Has Died At 88

“Victor appeared in a number of television series through her decades-long career, including as Lupita on the comedy Weeds” - but most people younger...

Playing A Regal, Demanding Musician Doesn’t Make One Regal Or Demanding

Natalie Venitia Belcon "insists that in her downtime, offstage, away from journalists, she is an everyday sort of woman who prefers oversize T-shirts and...

What’s Going To Happen When We Can Translate Animal Languages?

“Speaking whale would expand our sense of space and time into a planetary song. I imagine we’d think very differently about polluting the ocean...

How The National Poet For Wales Got From Public Housing To The Big Stage

Hanan Issa: “Growing up, she said she never saw writing as a viable career: ‘I'm working class, raised in a council house and to...

A New Book Aims To Help Drag Performers When They’re Under Attack

The - sadly necessary - new handbook “contains best practices for dealing with everything from online doxing to bomb attacks.” - NPR

The Man Who Brings Celebs To Broadway

Director Jamie Lloyd, who’s brought Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway, says, “It’s about creating an event rather than just a theater...

After Years Of Work, California Was Ready To Fund The Performing Arts

“The Equitable Payroll Fund is designed to support arts programs in dozens of small nonprofit organizations, from live theatre to orchestras, operas, chorus, and...

What Taylor Swift’s Latest Victory For Musicians And The Whole Industry

Swift knows why: "Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this...

The Billion Ways Fans Love The Pride And Prejudice Soundtrack

At the 20th anniversary party’s live soundtrack piano performance, “a hush swept through the room, and people held up their phones to record. Two...

What Makes For A Good Summer Movie?

“A great summer movie is really like going on vacation.” - NPR

The Artists Keeping Burned-Out Altadena’s Black Arts Community Alive

“Six months after the blaze, more people have returned to their homes, or to the land where their homes once stood, and are assessing...

Recipe Writers May Be Frustrating The Life Out Of Home Cooks Purely For The...

“In the cutthroat world of food social media, recipe photos need to look not just good but incredible. People eat with their eyes, and that...

As Joann Closes, A Lament For Real Life Craft Shops

Chains, including Joann, killed many a small local craft shop. What about online? “Crafting is an intensely tactile experience, and when you can’t see...

The Emmys Can’t Improve Unless This One Big Thing Changes

“The utopia I seek mostly just involves voters checking out shows they’re not already watching. This seems achievable!” - Vulture (MSN)

This Virtual Book Club Is Fighting Back Against The Administration’s Attempts To Erase LGBTQIA...

Hugh Ryan says the book club isn’t just about learning history, but “they had to get people connecting to one another. ‘We're bringing a...

What A Show Day Is Like For A Tony-Nominated Performer

The physical preparation is truly its own full-time job. Red light therapy, vocal therapy, physical therapy, a trainer, two hours of warm-up, three people...

Vienna Sends Strauss To Space

“Operators aimed the dish at Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away. Traveling at the...

South By Southwest, Except Make It British

“Launching in London is a risk. When SXSW is in the Texas capital, it takes over the city’s downtown area – a feat that’s...

The Final Piece Of This Sprawling, Three-Island, Ten-Museum Art Installation Is Now Open

The Naoshima New Museum of Art “is likely to provide more fuel for global art pilgrims — some six million of them since 2004...

Imagining An R-Rated Star Wars

Maybe - but no sarcasm, please. "We already have umpteen animated takedowns – Robot Chicken’s fever-dream dismemberments, Family Guy’s fart-laced remakes – and they’re fine,...

Patti LuPone Apologizes To Audra McDonald, Kecia Lewis

But will anyone on Broadway believe her? - The New York Times
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