And why not? "Composer Ellen Fishman t”The musicians play traditional quartet instruments - two violins, a viola and a cello - but Fishman wanted one more instrument” - the double-bass, so yoga students could feel it through the floor. - NPR
Spanish language factchecker Laura Zommer says, “Far from censoring, fact-checkers add context. ...We never advocate for removing content. We want citizens to have better information to make their own decisions.” - Wired
"All of this is sadly familiar, as both the 2021 and 2022 Grammy Awards — executive producer Ben Winston’s first shows at the helm — had a similar charitable focus due to the coronavirus pandemic.” - Variety
“As the film’s popularity grows in Brazil, more and more people are reckoning with the country’s brutal history, and seeing parallels with the far-right there today.” - Time Magazine
The strike may have deep impacts for the entirety of the Off-Broadway ecosystem, as stagehands start to unionize across the nonprofit and smaller theatres. - The New York Times
“This is not a new story. Ernest Hemingway would not have had the time to write were it not for the rich women he was involved with. Marcel Proust would never have written In Search of Lost Time without generational wealth.” - Irish Times
As the conductor turns 70, he says, “In Britain, I see how hard it is. The country has been used to making do with so little, and doing extraordinary things. But there is a tipping point, a crisis point, where you can’t go beyond. You simply cannot do more with less.” - The Observer (UK)
Tussling with history and mythology, the film "goes all in on the idea that we still desperately need the old dyad of genius and modernist progress, that great minds, great thoughts, great works of human creativity can still transform us spiritually and materially.” - Washington Post
Terry Gilliam: “While we were still faffing around, he had run all the way down the mountain, forded the river, run up the other side, into the camera truck, grabbed the right lens and here it was. We stuck it on the camera and got the shot.” - Variety
Nnedi Okorafor, with her Death of the Author coming out this week, was "worried about exposing so much of herself in the novel: her early, life-defining accident, her sometimes tense relationships with her parents and siblings, … even her experiences as a successful author.” - The New York Times
“The wildfires added anxiety to filmmakers, performers, crew members and others in the industry who have already been worried about Hollywood productions leaving Los Angeles.” - NPR
Especially when they’re Black. Why? Diversity syndrome, "a cultural condition where the ‘otherness’ of an author is elevated over the impact of their work, to the detriment of the author, their work, and their audiences.” - LitHub
We won’t see the Academy’s official nominations until January 19 to give voters more time amid the fires in Los Angeles, but if it were up to The Observer’s critics, Nickel Boys, Anora, The Substance, and even Dev Patel’s Monkey Man would be top contenders. - The Observer (UK)
Unwelcome back, bad old days: “Several works by photographer Sally Mann displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth were reportedly removed following Texas Republican officials’ calls for an investigation into her artworks.” - Hyperallergic
