The Fight Between Dialect And ‘Proper’ Italian Lies At The Heart Of This Ferrante...
Linguistic assimilation was meant to unify Italy as a country. "Even by the 50s, though, Italian remained a made-up language, manufactured and largely spoken...
How Hollywood’s Backlots Stayed Full Even During The First Year Of The Pandemic
How? Safety, actually: "Producers sought out more controlled environments for outdoor shooting. Even with a 87-day shutdown, the number of shoot days on backlots...
What If Shakespeare Had A Sister – Or If Anne Hathaway Wrote Plays?
The novel Brother of the More Famous Jack has just been reissued - and "The title alone deserves a party. It puts its finger...
Fabio’s Legacy Is Controversial
A new movie revives the (surprisingly intense) discussion. "Isabelle Popp ... proposed a 'words to Fabio' standard for mainstream romance coverage that boils...
Margaret McGowan Invented The History Of Early Dance
McGowan, who has died at 90, "created a new international area of academic study, now known as early dance, and received national honors in...
Stephen Sondheim, Movie Artist
The composer changed musicals, yes, and he was generous with his work, allowing others to adapt it to the screen. Sometimes that worked well...
This Verified Twitter User’s Name Is Will Smith
But he's not actor Will Smith. After the slap, "Will Smith — a podcaster, gamer and PR guy for indie game studio Stray Bombay who lives...
A 19-Year-Old Wins Britain’s National Poetry Competition
Eric Yip is the youngest winner ever - and he's an engineering student. And "Yip, who cites Ocean Vuong as a writer who made...
How Amazon Workers In New York Won Their Union Election
The lead organizer started a new union from scratch, and raised money through GoFundMe. "It looked like a quixotic venture," to vastly undersell the...
Turns Out The SAT Might Not Be The Problem In College Admissions
The test is still a problem, but not having it as a factor in admissions only harmed lower-income students in college admissions. How? "The...
The Grammys Were Supposed To Be A Return To Normal
But then the Oscars happened. - Los Angeles Times
The Ballet That Almost Didn’t Happen
Music rights were the issue for Christopher Bruce's Rooster, a ballet set to the music of the Rolling Stones. They were cool with the...
Production Companies Have Paused Some Will Smith Projects, But What About His Family?
This seems transparently foolish. After all, it wasn't Jada Pinkett Smith or their adult children up there smacking Chris Rock. Yet: "Public relations specialists...
The Shocking Costs, And Deep Censorship, Of Trying To Read Books While In Prison
First, physical books get banned for transparently hysterical "reasons." Then e-readers might be provided for free - with content that is outrageously expensive. But...
The Past Can Sometimes Be The Past
That is, if you do enough digging - and enough reckoning, as Maud Newton, author of the memoir Ancestor Trouble, well knows. - The...
A Producer Whose Broadway Empire Imploded Seeks A Successful Return
Producer Garth Drabinsky not only lost his company but was jailed in Canada for fraud. He's not involved in the new show financially, but...
Letting Public Art Degrade Is A Mental Health Issue
Seriously, communities need to maintain public art - at least public art that's not intended to fall apart. - Hyperallergic
TikTok Investigates (Or Its Users Do, And It Isn’t Pretty)
In just the past half year, TikTok mobs have dived headlong into engagement-baiting investigations of recent murders, online “pedophile rings,” and the legitimacy of popular...
Are You Stuck In “Goblin Mode”?
“Goblin mode” is taking the current pandemic-ridden world by storm. This state of being is defined by behaviours that feel reminiscent of deep lockdown days –...
How To Stop DoomScrolling
“Doomscrolling is essentially an avoidance technique used to cope with anxiety, so wherever you are vulnerable to anxiety, doomscrolling can become an unhealthy coping...
Scientist Proposes That Information Might Be The “Fifth State Of Matter”
The mass-energy-information equivalence principle Melvin Vopson proposed in his 2019 AIP Advances paper assumes that a digital information bit—used for digital data storage today—is not just physical, but...
Why Australia Needs A Ministry Of Culture
There is abundant evidence to show the government’s financial support for the arts and culture has been significantly reduced over many years. Today the arts don’t...
Time For Hollywood To Rethink Its China Strategy?
In 2021, just 20 revenue-sharing U.S. titles were released in Chinese cinemas, compared with 31 U.S. tentpole releases before the pandemic, in 2019. -...
Charo Is Not A Ditzy Cuchi-Cuchi Woman, She Only Plays One. She Is A...
She studied with Andrés Segovia and is a virtuoso in classical and flamenco styles. "At her shows, after she sings and gyrates to a...
Conservative Media Groups Says It Will Spend $100 Million On Kids Programming (To Counter...
“Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them,” said Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing in a statement. - Axios
