Riz Ahmed Explains How His Character In ‘Sound Of Metal’ Paralleled Life During The...
His character is a heavy-metal drummer who becomes deaf - very quickly. "You've got a character who is very focused on his daily grind....
Why Are Digital Ads So Obnoxious While Digital News Sites Keep Failing?
Like the so-called "pivot to video," a lot of the industry was built on a house of cards that one might, with some justification,...
Buildings That Claim To Be ‘Fossil Fuel Free’ Are Anything But
Glass, concrete and steel are far from carbon neutral, says a leading architect working on climate change. "The production of these materials entails burning...
Indoor Events Like Movies And Theatre May Return To California This Month
Restrictions both from public health officials and venues will be in place. "Venues can also choose to separate people into sections based on their...
The Pleasure Of Writing Actual Letters In The Era Of Email And Social Media
"A precise feeling of fondness accompanies the receipt of a letter from someone you care about. There are as many shades of this feeling as...
What Of Our Radically Reimagined Cities Will Remain Transformed, Post-Pandemic?
Public space is different now than it was 15 months ago. Streets have been turned to outdoor eateries and pedestrian malls; Paris removed tons...
Visitors To A South Korea Gallery Defaced A Graffiti Piece
Of course, they didn't mean to harm it - they believed it was participatory. Extra "Do Not Touch" signs have now been added. -...
This Year’s Oscars Might Be The Most Diverse Ever, Thanks To The Pandemic
The diversity is a silver lining of the awards season's weirdness. "A deeper, post-Covid existential crisis is on the cards. What is the point...
Composer Constance Demby Has Died At 81
Demby was a composer of electronica and New Age music. Her 1986 album Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate sold more than 200,000 copies. "Pulse...
Ovation Awards Snafu In Los Angeles Sparks Exodus Of Theatres From LA Stage Alliance
The list of things that went wrong at the Ovation Awards is too long to list - though the venerable East West Players did...
Myanmar’s Latest Internet Shutdown Will Damage Everyone In The Country, Not Just Pro-Democracy Activists
The internet is as much part of our utilities as water and electricity. The shutdown in this globally linked economy is destructive, and only...
Regular British People Got A Slight Lockdown Escape Through Writing Music
One 53-year-old paramedic said, "I'd never written a song before. ... But I came home from work and said: 'I need to write this...
Nike Wins A Restraining Order Against Artist Collective Selling Satan Shoes
Hello, freedom of artistic expression? Nope. Trademark protection - for both Satan and, perhaps, Jesus shoes: "MSCHF asserts that just like an earlier...
Just When We’re Tired Of The Whole Panini, Theatre On Camera Is Improving
Sort of. "Still, how these works fare on practical levels — such as WiFi reliability and technical mastery of a visual medium — reveals...
She Never Planned To Be An Actor, And Now She Has An Oscar Nomination
Yuh-Jung Youn didn't have acting on her life plan. "The self-taught thespian never envisioned a life in the performing arts. Her international breakthrough seems...
We Invented NFTs To Help Artists. It Hasn’t Worked Out That Way
"The idea behind NFTs was, and is, profound. Technology should be enabling artists to exercise control over their work, to more easily sell it,...
Theatres Leave LA Theatre Alliance After Awards Show Mis-identifies Asian Award-Winner
"More than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, have revoked their memberships...
AI Pioneer: People Are Mistaking What Ai Is
“People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that...
Music Of The Millennia: Sound And Music In Evolution
Pitch is an abstraction: any given note doesn’t have a real-world referent. The existence of flutes that produce a family of fixed notes, however,...
Authenticity As An Ideal? Really?
Is authenticity fading away as a personal ethic or is it something everyone wants to be? In fact, both are true – because the...
Canadian Theatres Use Lockdown To Upgrade
Venue operators are using their enforced downtime to scrub, buff and do major reconfigurations. In some cases, the work was commissioned and started before...
You’re Teaching Dance To Incarcerated Men. COVID Locks Everything Down. How Do You Keep...
Good old-fashioned letters, it turns out. Choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman has been running her Dancing Through Prison Walls project with inmates of the...
Reckoning: The Treatment Of Women In Ballet
Ballet is often seen as the glorification of women -but, wherever it stands now, it condoned and encouraged the sexual trafficking of women for...
Museums’ Secret Weapon For COVID Safety: Really Good HVAC
The standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning at North American and European museums tend to be quite high: minimizing airborne dust and maintaining...
A Find In The Middle Of The Kalahari Desert Shows A Remarkably Innovative Culture...
The conclusion from these finds is that people in the African interior weren’t lagging behind coastal cultures at all. Some of the most important...
