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The Creative Emmys Are This Weekend, And Here Are A Few You Might Care...
For instance, “Outstanding Narrator: A refreshingly succinct category name for such a prestigious award. The winner this year will succeed the man who has...
Last Week, NaNoWriMo Dove Off An AI-Created Cliff
Turns out that punting on the use of generative AI to “win” a contest of writing 50,000 words in a month, while having a...
Almodovar Finally, Finally Wins The Golden Lion At Venice
Pedro Almodóvar says in his 44 years of filmmaking, “We went from an atrocious dictatorship to the breadth of all the freedoms that were...
If You Don’t Know Whether Someone Is Really A Theatre Kid, Check This List
For one thing (guilty over here at AJ), "Do they spell it t-h-e-a-t-r-e instead of t-h-e-a-t-e-r? That’s a good one. Only a true theatre...
Animated Movies Might Just Have Their Strongest Year In Film History
“We’re already at seven major animated contenders for Best Animated Feature, all of which could have been considered frontrunners in a vacuum. And that’s...
We Don’t Know Why You’d Want To Smell The Pre-Raphaelites, But This Gallery Is...
“The scents will be released by individual visitors when they press a button on a nearby diffuser. Those who prefer just to look at...
Acclaimed Jazz Guitarist Russell Malone Has Died, On Tour In Japan, At 60
Malone, who played with Harry Connick Jr. and Diana Krall, "was highly regarded for his versatility: He was able to support a variety of...
So The Disney Snow White Remake Is Going Great
Aside from the price tag, stars Rachel Zegler, who plays Snow White, “is an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights and Gal Gadot, who plays the...
How To Wrangle A Big Band, Especially When It’s Playing Your Music
“I don’t have to just write the arrangements. I do, in fact, have to be able to conduct it in front of the band.”...
Human Bodies Sync Up At Symphony Concerts, Study Finds
“Concert music moves audiences bodily. … Music reaches not just the minds (the cognition and experiences of people), but also their bodies such as...
After A Series Of Spendy Movies That Got Meh Returns, Apple Rethinks Its Film...
When its movies don’t do well, Apple’s psychology suffers. “Apple’s brand is quality, cutting-edge, sleek, refined, forward-looking, and so now you’re tarnishing that brand...
Less Painful Ballet Shoes Are Available, At Last
But some ballet dancers, or more likely companies, refuse to use them. Says one consultant, “The classical ballet world has a resistance to change...
Rapping About Adverbs Made This Teacher Go Viral
“Under the name of his alter ego, MC Grammar, Mitchell has become a wildly popular performer whose rhymes have made reading and grammar all...
Hollywood Is Missing Jobs Because Reality TV Shows, Too, Are Moving Overseas
“As streaming platforms and increasingly vast multinational companies seek to raise their global profile and take advantage of cheaper labor markets, runaway production has...
Ted Lasso May Get Its Fourth Season After All
At least, “the studio picked up the options on three main cast members represented by U.K. performers union Equity: Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Walton), Jeremy...
Is This Ancient Stone Carving In Turkey The World’s Oldest Calendar?
“Sweatman believes illustrations of snakes coming out of the bodies of birds and foxes on the pillars represent a meteor shower.” - Hyperallergic
Laguna Beach’s Legendary Pageant Of The Masters Is About So Much More Than Arrested...
Art, theatre, spectacle: "As we watched life-sized replicas of Alfred Hitchcock movie posters, and actors recreating a scene from The Birds, the narrator invoked...
In Mexico City, Women Feature Behind And On Stage
“At Hera, women were not only performing on stage but working behind the scenes as producers, engineers and more. It’s something Itzel González, festival...
Why We Love A Movie Star In A White T-Shirt
“As a costume designer, I see the white T-shirt as the ultimate blank canvas. I’ve cut up white tees to define a character’s unique...
Congrats, Your Film Has Been Accepted To The Venice Film Festival
Now all you have to do is that little detail of finishing the film before its festival premiere. “It’s all a normal part of...
Alert, That Victorian-Era Book You’re Holding May Be Poisoning You
Wait, don’t lick that bright green cover - which probably contains arsenic. “Since the project launched five years ago, Tedone's team has cataloged...
Wooing Young Festival-Goers With A TikTok Stage
More than TikTok, the stage at the Reading Festival in Britain celebrates podcast stars, YouTube stars, and more. One 20-something: “Everybody watches TikTok …...
The Dangers In Making A Subversive Movie In Saudi Arabia
“Saudi Arabian director Ali Kalthami was born in 1983, the year the country’s cinemas were shut down. Growing up a committed cinephile and guerrilla...
What Emmy-Nominated Actor Anna Sawai Gained From Being In Season One Of Shogun
Sawai says that while filming, “I didn’t understand the intensity of what I was mentally going through, and how much it had affected me,...
Surrendering To The Surprises Of The Criterion Channel’s New Live Stream
“The summer setting is a great vibe for my viewing experiment. The plot plays out slowly, and the warm setting is calming. Of course,...
