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Playing The Violin Takes A Huge Toll On The Body
How huge? “About 60 per cent of professional violinists and violists experience some form of playing-related musculoskeletal disorder (known as ‘PRMDs’) that prevents them...
As A Campaign For Portland’s Parks Kicks Off, Arts Supporters Worry About A Backlash...
The levy includes funding to maintain three arts centers, which offer dance, art, and music classes - and in one case, valuable studio space...
Entering The Multiple Worlds Of This Year’s Turner Prize Nominees
If you live in Bradford, Britain’s City of Culture for 2025, it will be especially easy - including a “floating fantasy kingdom” where you...
It’s Time For Cultural Snobbery To Make A Comeback
“What if cultural snobbery, so effectively cast off over the past decade, wasn’t a waste of time? What if it did actually uphold certain...
Rocky Horror Is Turning Fifty, But It Still Brings So-Called Misfits Together
“It’s nearly impossible to imagine anyone successfully producing such a comprehensively transgressive and resolutely silly movie today. It’s even more unlikely to imagine any...
Which Horse Will Netflix Ride To The Oscars, And Other Important Awards-Watch Considerations
“The air is getting chilly, the leaves are starting to turn, and Oscar geeks are analyzing the buzz out of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto...
Marc Maron, Other Comedians Rebuke Those Who Are Part Of Saudi Arabia’s So-Called Comedy...
The fest is “a state-sponsored event in Saudi Arabia that Human Rights Watch said was designed to deflect attention from the country’s ‘brutal repression...
How Nexstar And Sinclair Lost Their Game Of Chicken
“Sinclair and Nexstar may be potent media players, but they would have run into serious problems if they had preempted Kimmel’s show for an...
You Thought The Emmys Were Over?
Heck no. Meet the International Emmys, where - no surprise - Netflix leads all contenders in number of nominations. - Variety
Why It’s Good For Smaller Touring Acts In The UK To Perform In Clubs
The truth is that only performing in larger cities like Glasgow, Manchester, London, and Cardiff risks losing your audience over time. - The Guardian...
There’s No Such Thing As A Free TV
Telly’s 10-inch wide “smart display” runs “while you watch shows, movies, YouTube videos, and play video games. Even when you turn off the TV...
Playwright Carys D Coburn On The Family Secrets That Blow Everything Apart
“Can we be real to one another and be family? … One of the things the play is charting is how often the answer...
Rebuilding Cultural Identity, Through Film And Words, In Zimbabwe
Tstisi Dangarembga, novelist and filmmaker: “We are never completely free; we have moments of freedom. Freedom is a desire. Achieving it requires us to...
Robert Barnett, Master Of The High-Profile, High-Money Book Deal, Has Died At 79
“Barnett wielded enormous influence in the market for political memoirs and helped to usher in the era of megadeals. He got eye-popping advances for...
A New Virginia Woolf Book Is Coming Out, Merely 84 Years After Her Death
Hurray for research! “The archivist led her into a reading room and handed her a cream-coloured box. She lifted the lid, hands shaking, and...
Some Science Fiction Writers Want To Return To An Earlier Era
How about this one, from 1929? “In Out of the Void, Stone didn’t imagine the future so much as she imagined a different present. Imagine, she asked...
Ballet Helped This Olympics Star Win Her First World Championship
Valerie Allman: "I grew up dancing. That was my first love and I never expected that there would be such a parallel between dance...
Why Marilynne Robinson Writes About Beauty, And Faith
“The beauty, the moral authority, of high Christian tradition is just very persuasive. The beauty of it all seems right. It seems as if...
Why Is Horror Having Such A Moment? Ask The Authors
“We have been living in a moment of constant crisis and existential dread for years now. Many use this as the reason horror is...
The Seven Steps To Being A Good Literary Citizen
Those who love books in this rough time should probably do a little more to keep the literary community going. For instance: “Give yourself...
A Statue Of Trump And Epstein Won’t Get A Permit For Reinstallation On The...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, “The National Park Service denied a second permit to reinstall the controversial statue, which featured a plaque reading, ‘We celebrate the long-lasting...
How John Leguizamo Gets Ready For His Nights At The Theatre
“I try to write at least two hours every day, if not longer. Writing is my favorite part of the day. It’s my creativity...
A Judge In Britain Throws Out Terrorism Case Against Irish Rap Group Kneecap’s Mo...
“'The charge is unlawful and null and this court has no jurisdiction to try the charge,’ the judge said to cheers from the...
What The Heck Is ‘VistaVision,’ And Why Should Moviegoers Care?
VistaVision is a selling point of the new Leonardo DiCaprio One Battle After Another, or at least that’s the public relations push. “A TV set...
Restoring The Sound Of William Faulkner’s Piano
The musician who rescued the piano says, "The irony is we want in their original state. … But to keep them in their...
