Beverly Cleary Taught Kids Vital Life Lessons Through Ramona, The Grubby Little Pest
Ramona is messy, makes extremely normal kid mistakes, is impulsive, and always, always demands that her parents love her - not anyway, but as...
New York Theatres Are Dark, But Their Windows Aren’t
While the interior is idle (or getting a revamp, in some cases), the windows to the street have a thing or two to say...
Hint To BAFTA: You Can’t Fix A Diversity Problem With Racist Casting Directors
Yikes: "India Eva Rae, who joined Bafta’s Elevate programme in 2019, told the BBC that a casting director told her she was an 'exotic talent,' and...
Now We Truly Have Everything, Including A Playlist Of Jane Austen’s Favorite Music
Music was inextricably linked to Austen's creativity - she practiced, when she had access to a piano, every day, and copied friends' sheet music...
Even As Life Shifted Dramatically Thanks To The Virus, Mariachi Bands Played On
How? With weddings, quinceñeras, and life's joyful moments generally canceled, mariachi bands' calendars have filled with funerals for friends, family members, and even fellow...
With More Than 7000 Languages In The World, Google Translate Is Next To Useless
That is, for most of them, because Google Translate (and Bing) relies on written translations - which works well for French, Spanish, English, German,...
Hollywood Stylists Want Their Zoom Oscars Back
Some of the fashion world is really not happy with the guidelines for the in-person Oscars. One fashion writer, echoing many stylists who enjoyed...
Craig muMs Grant, Actor And Poet, Dies Suddenly At Age 52
The actor and poet, also a playwright, had his most visible recurring role on the HBO series Oz. He once told an Indianapolis paper,...
In Isolated, Dark, Solitary Times, Lighthouse Keepers Know How To Survive
Truly. Well, except for the occasional disappearance, murder, and the like. But in pandemic times, we might feel like we understand them. "All they...
Hollywood Has Failed Asian American Women For Decades
And, they say, it's past time for a change. Netflix has been particularly good at offering changing depictions this year, but the history of...
The Boom And Bust Of The TikTok Artist Life
The app is garnering millions of views, and some artists earn thousands (or more) for each short video they post. Some young artists are...
Some Artists Actually Made Money During The Pandemic
To be fair, not that many. But a few found real success while every other vehicle for their work was shut down. For instance,...
The Globe Will Reopen This Summer, With Strict Protocols Including No Intermissions
Arrival times will be staggered, drinks and snacks must be pre-ordered, and the audience can go to the bathroom when it needs to -...
Leon Black Won’t Run For Re-Election As Chair For, But Will Remain On, MoMA’s...
Black, who is also stepping down both as CEO and chair of his private equity firm the Apollo Group, was facing "mounting pressure from...
Here Are The Winners Of This Year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards
The organization’s annual awards, which it typically gives out in the spring to works published the previous year, are unusual in that book critics,...
Regal Theatres Owner Cineworld Posts $3 Billion Loss
The U.K.-based company also said it has secured binding commitments for $213 million in additional cash via a bond to boost its financial flexibility...
Cancel Philip Johnson? MoMA Tries
Opened 27 February and running through to the end of May, a new exhibition, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, challenges and seeks to...
Director James Darrah: You Can’t Design Yourself Out of Something That Doesn’t Work
The new director of Long Beach Opera talks about making more with less. "There are people who are really comfortable with being very elite...
More Fun With NFTs: Virtual House Sells For $500k
Mars House—which is staged on Mars in the promotional video—was designed in May 2020 using what is called “Meditative Design” principles. Jeff Schroeder, guitarist...
We Need To Stop Treating Literature As Self-Improvement Projects
"We experience art as a repository of our humanity, a representation that tries to capture the meaning we seek in our lives. Treating art...
How Playwriting Competitions Help The Entire Field Of Theatre
Despite the fact that they can sometimes feel like (as one literary manager put it) "the Hunger Games of playwriting," prizes do help bring...
Tony-Award-Winning Lighting Designer Pat Collins Dies
"She was brilliant, funny, warm, and sometimes quite daunting. I have a memory of Mark Lamos and John Conklin hiding from her at one...
Restored Ghent Altarpiece Is Finally Back Home — In A $6 Million Bulletproof Display...
The van Eyck masterpiece is the most stolen individual artwork we know of (one panel is still missing after 87 years), and its Flemish...
Dream Big, Sure. But It Can Paralyze You
Sure, audacious goals can be energizing. But a fixation on them can lead to big disappointments. Worse, when your eyes are constantly on the...
Google Podcasts Has An Extremism Problem
"Even in the world of podcasting, Google Podcasts … stands alone among major platforms in its tolerance of hate speech and other extremist content....
