Delores Custer, 79, Who Gave Food A Style
Custer, a food stylist for companies like Kraft, General Mills, and Bacardi, was "able to shape the unwieldy, the drab and the formless into...
Michelle Yeoh Wanted To Be A Dancer, Until She Got Injured
Then the actor - a mega-star in the world market - decided to take up martial arts. "I just needed to learn to transfer...
Time’s Up Post-Cuomo Shake Up Continues
Board members including Shonda Rhimes, Eva Longoria, and Jurnee Smollett have resigned, making way for an entirely new board as "the group continues to...
The Path To Becoming Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Preferred Choreographer Wasn’t Simple
But JoAnn Hunter persisted. Hunter is a "longtime Broadway performer and choreographer who has quietly become an important figure in a field that boasts...
How A Canadian Actor’s Movie Got Burdened With Carrying Marvel
The first Asian-led Marvel film "has been transformed into an unwilling test case for the future of box office blockbusters, fans' commitment to the...
Art Museums Must Tell A Richer Story About Afghanistan
What's up with U.S. arts audiences? "We have been at war with and occupied Afghanistan for two decades, yet culturally it has been a...
The Gym-Rat Maestro
Lorenzo Viotti is working on snagging young music fans via his workout, and shirtless, social media posts. - The New York Times
Has The Creepy Insect Trope Had Its Day?
Climate science shows we desperately need insects to keep the planet in any kind of balance. Horror films have disagreed - but it might...
How Netflix Took A Flop And Turned It Into A Global Phenomenon
In its first iteration on Spanish TV, Casa de Papel, known as The Money Heist in English, started strong and then massively flopped. Then...
The Evidence Is Clear For Supporting The Arts To Support Public Health
"The arts can be especially beneficial for public health in five key areas: collective trauma, racism, mental health, social exclusion and isolation, and chronic...
Does The Art World Still Have A Sense Of Humor?
Red tape and regulations have largely put paid to a congenial and very possibly no-less-profitable art world, as has the workload in oppressed, ever-leaner...
Study: Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Is Pretty Accurate
The study found that with a group of just eight laypeople, there was no statistically significant difference between the crowd performance and a given...
Why Big-Name Writers Are Signing On With Substack
Writers flirting with the Substack idea would be better seen in footballing terms: they are probably going out on loan from their existing publishers,...
Judge Sentences Right-Wing Extremist To Read Classics
"Start with Pride And Prejudice and Dickens's A Tale Of Two Cities. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Think about Hardy. Think about Trollope. "On January 4...
China Bans “Effeminate Men” From TV
Previously, the regime has expressed official concerns and cracked down on youth online gaming, boy band culture, gambling, cryptocurrency and sports. The moves are...
At Last, China’s Notorious “Ghost Cities” Are Getting Some Actual Inhabitants
Early in the 2000s. the People's Republic created a string of new mega-developments — building much faster than people were moving in. Images of...
SAG-AfTRA Elects New Leaders
Fran Drescher has been elected president of SAG-AFTRA and, in a split decision, her opponent’s running mate, Joely Fisher, has been elected national secretary-treasurer....
It’s the Met’s First Opening Night Since The Pandemic And First Opera By A...
Justin Davidson profiles Will Livermore, a 33-year-old baritone who'd been specializing in comic parts such as Papageno and Figaro. Now he's taking on the...
NYC To Consider Repealing Cabaret Ban On Dancing
Legislation proposed on Aug. 26 by Adams and New York City Council Members Keith Powers and Mark Levine would “end the city’s zoning laws...
Saleem Kidwai, Scholar Who Revealed India’s Queer Past To The World, Dead At 70
"By translating literature about same-sex love from 15 Indian languages composed over more than 2,000 years," the anthology he co-edited "challenged the modern homophobic...
The Happy, Sad Life Of Painter Bob Ross
The sad end of the Bob Ross story is just not as compelling as its joyful beginning and middle. - The New Republic
As It Gears Back Up, Here’s What American Theater May Have Learned During Its...
"The pride-in-resilience, show-must-go-on attitude has started, at last, to be paired with other questions: Whose show? Why must it go on? Last year's reckoning...
Just How Paranoid Is LA MoCA? (A Lot!)
At the end of the day Wednesday, a museum email arrived in my inbox with the almost-but-not-quite-news — along with a certifiably crazy list...
Meet LA MoCA’s Next Director
Joanna Burton joined the Wexner in early 2019 after its longtime director, Sherri Geldin, retired. In May, she hired Kelly Kivland away from the...
A New Resource We Didn’t Realize We Needed: The Black Film Archive
Maya Cade, by day the audience development strategist at The Criterion Collection, built up a full register, with synopses and links, of about 250...
