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Who Will Win The BAFTAs?

Succession, Happy Valley, and The Crown all came to an end last TV season, and they’ve been rewarded with large numbers of nominations. -...

A Secret List Of Abusers Is Set To Go Public At This Year’s Cannes...

“Rumours have been widespread … of the existence of a secret list of 10 men in the industry, including leading actors and directors, who...

Eurovision Shockingly Disqualifies Dutch Finalist Mere Hours Before The Final

Police said they're "investigating a man ‘suspected of unlawful threats’ toward a Eurovision employee and had passed a file to prosecutors to consider...

Workers At Glenstone Museum In Maryland Have Decided To Unionize

“According to the letter, … the workers want living wages for all workers, healthcare for every employee, including part-time workers, a safer work environment,...

Thousands Protest For Palestine In The Lead-Up To The EuroVision Final

“Some chanted ‘Eurovision, united by genocide,’ reflecting the strength of feeling over the humanitarian toll of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, which was triggered...

What Phylicia Rashad Brought To Howard University

It’s still “newsworthy that a veteran artist — one who’s still working steadily as a stage actress and is increasingly one of the go-to...

Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra

“It is a piece of sage advice, a writer’s mantra, that I have made good use of through the years and that I now...

Vice Is, Sort Of, Saved

“Vice Media and Nashville-based Savage Ventures announced Thursday the formation of a joint venture and strategic partnership to “relaunch and grow” properties including Vice.com, Munchies, Motherboard...

The Choreographer Of Bridgerton

"I’d rather take people to a place where they have to be very brave through a terminology that they’re used to, rather than a...

The 500-Year History Of English Dictionaries

The earliest were Renaissance glossaries. “These forerunners did not set out to define every known word. Instead, they set a narrower goal of annotating...

Some Members Of The Bauhaus Were Nazis – And One Designed The Auschwitz Crematoriums

"The Bauhaus, in its American imagining, became a place of heroism, even martyrdom. Nazism was, by definition, something done to the school, not by...

The Musicians Suspended From The NY Phil After That Article About Sexual Assault Have...

"Matthew Muckey, associate principal trumpet, and Liang Wang, principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic, have filed federal lawsuits against both the orchestra and the...

The Supposedly Centuries Old Society Seeking To Refocus Our Attention Spans

That’s “the Order of the Third Bird—supposedly a secret international fellowship, going back centuries, of artists, authors, booksellers, professors, and avant-gardists. Participants in the...

Chicago’s Improv Theatre Scene Is Expanding

The Revival returns "with the opening of a new theater in the South Loop. And The Home Comedy Theater, conceived by a collective of iO and...

The Power Of Student Protest Art

Those dismissing the protests as incoherent "should stand back and consider the iconography. … The students may be making inconvenient or even irrational requests...

Why Seattle’s Bellevue Art Museum Is Emergency Fundraising Again

Interviews show that “dogged by debt, over-optimistic financial forecasting, leadership turnover and overreliance on a small group of funders, the museum patched holes by...

Don’t Blame Screens For The Steep Decline In Kid Reading Joy

OK, blame screens a little, but also the loss of peer hangout time during the pandemic; the right-wing campaign against school libraries and librarians...

Why Warner Bros Discovery Stock Took A Steep Hit

It’s not because David Zaslav is a grasping media tycoon who made a zillion dollars while trying to tell writers and actors to accept...

How Frank Stella Kept Abstract Expressionism Alive

"Today, in our era of figuration and socially conscious painting, Stella’s 60-year devotion to abstract art might sound academic or even antediluvian. By his...

UCLA Faculty Protest At The Hammer Museum Gala

The faculty "protested Saturday night outside the UCLA Hammer Museum’s celebrity-heavy gala, calling for amnesty to be granted to pro-Palestinian students arrested on campus...

In Britain, Bristol’s Floating Music Venue Turns 40

The Thekla "started life as a cargo ship transporting timber around the Baltic Sea,” but now it’s had four decades of hosting music -...

When Kim Godwin Was Hired To Head Up ABC News, She – And Disney...

But that history has ended. Godwin, in her goodbye note to her staff: “I understood and appreciated the profound significance of being the first...

What One Author Thinks About The Way A Movie Changed The Ending Of Her...

This may not shock you, but The Idea of You author Robinne Lee agrees that the movie of her book fundamentally alters the ending....

The Issues With Translation Technology

In short: A human is better, but live translation programs are already pretty great (if the world you want is machine learning, “universal” translations...

Meet The Boston Symphony’s Newish President, A Guy With A Plan For Transformation

Chad Smith: "The critical decisions we’re going to make will set us up for the next 50 years.” - Boston Globe (MSN)
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