"Not every adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been frank about Celie's sexual orientation. And (the) new movie musical version of the story … has reignited a decades-long debate over whether Hollywood and Broadway can ever do its most transformative romance justice." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
When “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” debuted on CBS in the fall of 1967 it was an immediate hit, to the surprise of many who had assumed the network’s expectations were so low it positioned their show opposite the top-rated “Bonanza.” - AP
In countryside near Vancouver, on the studio backlots where many of the holiday romances are filmed, a Christmas-skeptical journalist went to the cable channel's first Hallmark Fan Experience, where visitors got to wander sets and enjoy hot cocoa with some of the network's acting stalwarts. - Salon
One of the reasons why “Maestro” comes across as pretty good, or maybe even a little better than that, is because it is not really about music. - Los Angeles Times
"In a world that grows increasingly dark, the ability to slip free of its grim logic and into a realm of uncharted delight, even for a little while, becomes less a luxury and more a necessity. … (It's not "just" escapism) when escape is more than just hiding." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
It’s not only that dance has been everywhere recently; it’s that dance is cool. Our lives are full of words — and words and words. Dance can say what words often can’t. It can be watched, it can be felt through the watching, and it can be a physical part of anyone’s life. - The New York Times
"Left without the use of his arms and legs, the award-winning writer of The Buddha of Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette has charted his experience in brutally-honest blog posts. He credits his sense of purpose to his relationship with his responsive readers." - BBC
"Certain names carry with them the whiff of brimstone. In the world of bibliophiles and booksellers, perhaps no name is more sulphurous than that of Thomas James Wise." - Literary Review (UK)
"Lito Masters has partnered with several major museums to carry out detailed scans of paintings by artists including Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky. It then uses 3D-printing technology to create textured, stroke-for-stroke reproductions on canvas or paper, complete with the originals’ cracks, ridges and imperfections." - CNN
The old windows in six side-chapels were designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc for the cathedral's 19th-century renovation and were undamaged by the 2019 fire. The president and the prelate want to replace them with six new panels chosen in a design competition, an option that a petition describes as "vandalism." - The Guardian
When she started there in 1977, it was in a little bungalow in Santa Monica with the oldest radio transmitter west of the Mississippi. When she left in 2010 after 30 years as GM, "KCRW had become a cultural and intellectual trendsetter ... for public radio listeners across America." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
"There’s a legitimacy that comes with having a space in Dallas," says the managing director of one company currently remodeling an old warehouse into its home, "If you don’t, you’re not a theater. You’re just some group who does shows on the side for fun." - The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
Conductor David Lockington, a Christian Scientist, had been music director of the Pasadena Symphony in Los Angeles County since 2013; he was forced out in 2021 after orchestra management denied his request for religious and medical exemptions from vaccination requirements because he was an independent contractor. - Pasadena Now
They routinely go viral before being debunked. They even occasionally win prestigious photography prizes. All of which has reignited a two-century-old debate: What exactly qualifies as a photograph? - The New York Times
