How A Writer Got Sucked Into The Ranks Of Broadway Superfans
“There was what I would not call lying to my family but obfuscating about where I was and what I was doing, as if I were having an...
Turns Out Movie Director Ben Wheatley Is Also Prolific Musician Dave Wheldon
The director of indies and Meg 2: The Trench says, “Before it might have been playing games or doomscrolling. is a more productive...
National Portrait Gallery Swaps Trump Portraits And Removes Reference To His Two Impeachments
The caption for the previous photo read in part, “Impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked...
Bela Tarr, Hungarian Director Beloved By Cinephiles, Has Died At 70
“Susan Sontag once claimed she would be ‘glad to see’ Béla Tarr’s 1994 masterpiece Sátántangó ‘every year for the rest of my life.’ No small compliment given...
Why Are So Many Writers Dropping Out Of Adelaide’s Famous Writing Festival?
“Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance...
Actor And Director Timothy Busfield Accused Of Child Sex Abuse
A judge in New Mexico issued a warrant for his arrest. "Busfield was charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor...
Adapting A ‘Controversial’ Bestselling Book To The Screen Isn’t Easy
Netflix’s adaptation of Emily Henry’s The People We Meet on Vacation has some issues. “This diminishment of each element almost entirely nukes the book’s...
This Little-Known Museum Has Old Hollywood In Its Very Bones
“Everything we now know as ‘Hollywood,’ ... the global ‘dream machine’ with all its enduring art, complicated mythology and current anxieties, began under a...
Oscar-Winning ‘Crash’ Filmmaker Paul Haggis Civil Case For Rape Settles For Two Million
Haggis, never convicted in a criminal court, was initially ordered to pay a former publicist $7.5 million. - The New York Times
Why Thomas Paine Still Matters, 250 Years Later
“The pamphlet changed the way Americans viewed government. Beginning with an origin story that echoed John Locke’s ‘Second Treatise of Government,’ Paine depicted people...
So X Is Suing Music Publishers, Again
It’s a new lawsuit in a long, long battle, with opponents that are not exactly beloved. “X and the publishers have been in a...
This Oregon Library Is Literally Sinking
It’s probably the busiest building downtown. But the area’s residents have voted down two library bonds. What’s next? - Oregon ArtsWatch
Wagner Moura’s Starring Year
“After his breakout role as Pablo Escobar 10 years ago on Netflix’s Narcos, Moura frustrated his agents by turning down many of the high-profile, lucrative projects...
How An REM Song Helped A Doomsday Cult Member Escape
“As my will to blindly obey crumbled, I began to secretly tune in to the American armed forces radio station that broadcast in Japan....
Orlando Fully Launched Tilda Swinton’s Career
And she pays the book, at least, back with a reread every few years. - The New York Times
Who Will Win Tonight’s Golden Globes?
For one thing, “Warner Bros. will swear there was absolutely no calculation involved in running One Battle After Another as a Comedy at the Globes. If...
The Current Kennedy Center Heads Claim That They Broke Up With The Opera First
No doubt we should believe that leadership just as much as we’d believe any questionable partner. “Opera leaders had said that it was an...
Not an Arts Impact Statement, But Really Great
In the midst of a lot of other news in his first 8 days in office….funding for child care for all, reactions to tragedy,...
Washington National Opera To Leave The Kennedy Center
The resolution calls for the opera to move its performances out of the Kennedy Center’s 2,364-seat Opera House as soon as possible and to...
How Does This Professor Get Students To Read Complete Books? With A Class Called...
The professor is Justin McDaniel, chair of the religious studies department at Penn. The class meets once a week for seven-to-eight hours, reading one...
Could Japan’s Highest-Grossing-Ever Live-Action Film Revive Interest In Kabuki?
In the movie Kokuho, a epic covering five decades in the life of a fictional kabuki actor, we see the traditional theater slowly fade...
Philanthropist Ensures Live Orchestra For San Diego Opera
On Monday, San Diego Opera announced that Jacobs has committed $4.5 million to establish The Joan and Irwin Jacobs San Diego Symphony and San...
The Humanities Crisis Is Over. Uh-Oh.
There is no longer a crisis in the humanities. Our field’s long-running narrative of continuous crisis is over. The bad news: The crisis of...
The Poverty Of Living When Everything Is Ranked
Value capture occurs when you get your values from some external source and let them rule you without adapting them.” Because we live in...
First Designs Released For 2032 Olympic Stadium In Brisbane
The design, by the Australian firms Cox Architecture and Hassell in collaboration with the Japanese practice Azusa Sekkei, is inspired by the wraparound verandas...
