How Severance Shows Off The Linguistics Behind The Special Language Of Work
“This unifying means of speaking is as likely to create division between insiders and outsiders as it is to foster workplace cohesion.” - Salon
Leonard Cohen’s Estate Sues Former Attorneys For Fraud And Forgery
Millions of dollars were - and perhaps are - at stake. “The dispute highlights allegations of the vulnerabilities that artists face when they entrust...
As The Breakfast Club Turns Forty, Its Status As Teen Movie Blueprint Remains
“Hughes’ unvarnished take on youth culture, replete with joints and F-bombs, arrived in 1985 to fill a vacuum of movies about young people in...
Lea Salonga Says She’ll Never Tire Of Sondheim
Salonga, longtime Broadway star, is pleased with her newest role. “I’m getting the chance to sing some of the most incredible lyrics ever written....
Lorne Michaels Thinks He Knows A Thing Or Two About Managing Creative People
Fifty years of Saturday Night Live will do that to a person. "Writers don’t just conceive and pen sketches—they also produce and direct them,...
Sing Sing Star Colman Domingo Found Himself In Theatre
As a 19-year-old at Temple University, Domingo says, “just taking an acting class as an elective, it gave me a voice. ... And it...
The Martha Graham Dance Company Is Moving To Times Square And Getting A Lot...
"The company announced on Friday that it would leave its offices in the West Village of Manhattan and relocate to a 30,000-square-foot space in...
Edith Mathis, Soprano Whose Recordings Show Absolute Service To The Text, Has Died At...
“Edith Mathis a light-voiced Swiss soprano who sparkled in Bach, Mozart and Weber and was the agile-voiced favorite of several of the conducting...
Will Tonight’s BAFTAs Be A Good Predictor Of The Oscar Winners?
Maybe - things can be very different when Britain has a homegrown movie, like this year’s Conclave, to award. - Variety
The Stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald Statue Is Recovered, But In Pieces
Maybe trying to sell a famously stolen statue from St. Paul at a local Twin Cities metal recycling business isn’t the best idea? -...
Netflix Responds, Sort Of, To The Fallout Over Emilia Perez Star’s Social Media Posts
Chief content officer Bela Bajaria: “I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie. … And...
The Not So Secret Gay History Of Saturday Night Live
“It all started when a drag performer named Connie Chutzpah sent Lorne Michaels a bouquet of flowers.” - Washington Post
Ken Wydro, Who Helped Create An Enduring Staple Of Off-Broadway Theatre, Has Died At...
Wydro was "a playwright, director and producer who with his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured their life savings into the Off Broadway gospel musical Mama,...
What Canada Thinks About The New Kennedy Center Guy
Author Louise Penny of the Inspector Gamache series: “I was supposed to launch The Black Wolf at the Kennedy Center in DC, but in the wake...
The Tiny British Publisher That Took A Big Risk – And That Is Now...
“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning...
The Cleveland Museum Will Finally Send A Statue Back To Turkey
After years of lawsuits that included information about just how the statue was trafficked into the United States from a site in Turkey that...
What Fernanda Torres’s Oscar Run Means For Brazil
“In January, Torres made history as the first Brazilian actor to win a Golden Globe. Brazilian fans have been euphoric ever since, exalting every...
Kennicott: Can Trump Destroy The Kennedy Center?
Or will he use it in the usual way that authoritarians have used the arts in the past, as a vehicle for Trumpian...
The Industrial Revolution Completely Changed Valentine’s Day
Turns out that the mass production of cards led, in effect, to the manufacturing of emotions (not only affection) in and for the people...
Anne Midgette: The Kennedy Center Putsch
Even a president as attuned to the details of Kennedy Center programming as Nixon didn’t try to directly take a hand in running the...
The Fiercely Competitive Race To Decipher Cuneiform
"At stake: the immortality conferred on those who make a once-in-a-century intellectual breakthrough. Three men — driven by boundless curiosity, a love of risk,...
How To bridge Humanities And Science? Try Math
We must recognise that the natural and the mental order of things go hand in hand. Neither can be fully understood without the other....
Australia’s Venice Biennale Scandal
Events have moved quickly since Thursday night when Creative Australia sensationally dumped the Sydney-based multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation’s representative for the 2026 edition...
This Little Three-Letter Verb May Be The Most Complicated Word In The English Language
The word "run" has 645 definitions just as a verb (plus others as a noun), and it took an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer nine...
The Trump Threat To Academic Research and Publication
Pressures from the Trump administration threaten an already beleaguered research enterprise that historically has thrived on doing basic research with minimal influence from partisan politics and...
