When The Reviewer Isn’t Sure If The Play Is Great Or Terrible
"There is a way to describe this show that will make it seem, at worst, exactly like every cliché of venturing into Brooklyn to...
Millions Of People Are Hooked On ‘Microdramas,’ With Episodes That Last About One Minute
On a K-microdrama set, “filming was moving at breakneck speed. Everything was shot in vertical mode, and nothing was subtle.” - BBC
How The BAFTAs And The BBC Absolutely Bungled Their Response To A Racist Slur
“Black people and people with Tourette’s have been grappling with the ugly language and the fallout from a night that was supposed to be...
The Los Angeles Olympics Logo Needs To Settle Itself Down
“If you're going through all the trouble to create what I assume will be hundreds of logos by the time the games roll around,...
Neil Sedaka, Composer And Songwriter Of So Many Pop Hits, Has Died At 86
Sedaka “went from classical music prodigy to precocious songwriter to teenage idol to pop music fixture in a celebrated career that spanned seven decades.”...
Dear Sony, Please Stop Trying To Make Spider-Man Happen Without The Main Character
“For those fortunate enough to have missed these films, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is, or was, a series of movies about people (mostly villains or antiheroes)...
The Snow Sculptures Of New York’s Latest Storm
“Collaboration was key. What came first? The snow baby sitting on the bench or the lounging mermaid beside him? Did the same person who...
How, And Why, Tracey Emin’s Bed Shocked The Art World
The work “was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize and exhibited in Tate Britain's stately gallery: a dishevelled divan with stained sheets, strewn and...
Bridgerton Has Been Trying To Figure Out What To Call An Orgasm
“It felt like 'orgasm' wasn't a word that was used in that time period. … It needed to be a word that sounded right...
And Just Like That, 144 Year After Construction Began, Sagrada Familia’s Central Tower Is...
“Construction is expected to continue for a decade or so, but The Guardian called it ‘nevertheless a day full of emotion for a city that...
Cambodia Gets Back Dozens Historic Artifacts Allegedly Looted In British Art Dealer’s Scheme
“The artifacts were described as dating from the pre-Angkorian period through the height of the Angkor Empire, including ‘monumental sandstone sculptures, refined bronze works,...
Firefighters Rescue Rare Books From A Library On The Cliff Edge After Landslide
“Firefighters drilled through the wall of a building behind the structure and entering for minutes at a time, strapped the bookcases together and hauled...
The Kentucky Optical Shop Owner Who Was Also One Of The Twentieth Century’s Best,...
“Often dark (literally and figuratively), surreal, sometimes playful and at other times sinister, his pictures stunned and sometimes perplexed viewers with their wild, poetic...
After Internal Consideration And Exterior Pressure, San Francisco Ballet Pulls Out Of Kennedy Center...
A company representative wrote, “SF Ballet looks forward to performing for Washington, D.C. audiences in the future.” - San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo)
Larry Reed, California’s Master Of Shadow Puppetry, Is Dead At 81
He was among the first Americans to study Balinese shadow theater and then perform it back home, which he did for his entire career....
Ode To A Great Editor
During my own editing stint, I came to understand writers as prisoners of their own minds, pressed up against the bars of the words...
“Moral Self-Defense” And The Uses of Public Shaming
“There are plenty of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, morally objectionable reasons for why people participate in public shaming. Nevertheless, the concept of moral self-defence reminds us...
California Attorney General Warns Paramount Buy Of Warner “Not A Done Deal” Yet
Rob Bonta’s cold water on the Paramount-WBD fireworks comes a week after the CA Department of Justice opened a probe into any deal to take over WB...
Non-Professional Actors At The Heart Of Movies
The prominence of movies featuring nonprofessionals is no surprise: directors may make movies what they are, but actors are what viewers see, and these...
Sorry, “Guerilla Teaching” Isn’t Allowed In Smithsonian Galleries
He was at the Portrait Gallery as an educator but also as co-founder of Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, a group that last year...
Jonathan Groff Is Practicing Sonnets To Prepare To Play Rosalind In “As You Like...
“(I wanted to) just start slow, with some Shakespeare that wasn’t the play,” said the Tony-winning actor, who’ll be starring in an all-male staging...
Pompeii Gets a Digital Makeover: Now With Less Ash
Forget the petrified citizens – new 3D renderings show Pompeii as the thriving metropolis it was before Vesuvius crashed the party. Because apparently we...
Woman Sues Meta, YouTube Over Social Media Use
Wearing a pink dress and cardigan, Kaley told the jury that she started watching YouTube videos at age 6 and made an Instagram account...
Congressional Republicans Propose National Book Banning
House Resolution 7661 transforms grassroots library battles into national policy, giving censors sweeping powers to purge school and public collections. Democracy's reading rooms become...
The Choreographer Behind The Ecstatic Shakers Dances In “The Testament Of Ann Lee”
“The night before we started filming, I was sleeping and, literally, the ghost of Ann Lee was over my bed with angels around and...
