While Ballet Companies Do “Nutcracker,” Indie Theater Companies Do Parodies Of Hallmark Christmas Movies
"Love ‘em or hate ’em, formulaic meet-cute holiday flicks have become as tied to the yuletide as ugly sweaters and hot chocolate. Theater directors...
British Columbia, Losing Film Production, Increases Tax Subsidies
Premier David Eby said the Production Services Tax Credit — which goes to international productions — will increase from 28% to 36%. The domestic credit will...
Screwball Tragedy: Considering Kafka’s Funniest Story
"'Investigations of a Dog' presents a brilliant and sometimes hilarious parody of the world of knowledge production, what the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan called...
Ross Douthat: I’m Worried About Pop Culture
I’m worried about pop culture — worried that the relationship between art and commerce isn’t working as it should, worried that even if the...
What The Ubiquitous Marketing Of “Wicked” Says About Our Culture
“Wicked” went even bigger, teaming up with over 400 brands to ensure a saturation that would be, in the words of Universal Pictures’ chief marketing officer,...
How YouTube Is Overtaking TV
YouTube’s increasing incursion into the living room highlights just how ubiquitous the platform has become. After all, it is the world’s second-biggest search engine,...
This Year’s Remarkable Discoveries In Archaeology And Art History
"A construction worker turning up a nude marble deity hidden some 1,600 years ago, an art historian spotting a missing painting on his social...
Critics Say Italy’s Government Is “Interfering” In The Arts
Since Meloni came to power more than two years ago, there has been debate in Italy over whether her government is meddling in the...
Muti Opines: Didn’t Know Who Klaus Mäkelä Is
“I have my opinions, but I will not tell you. I didn’t want to take part in the search, so I was completely out...
If Reading Helps Shape Our Brains What Happens When We Stop?
Will people's preference for video over text affect our brains or our evolution as a species? What kind of brain structure do good readers...
Composer Margaret Brouwer, Still Busy As She Approaches 85
"Eighty-five is a milestone, no matter one’s field. That, though, isn’t what Brouwer is celebrating. No, all she’s really thinking about are the commissions...
Why The Art World Has Been Taking Another Look At Rococo
So what is Neo-Rococo, really? It’s a contemporary movement that merges the delicate pastels, ornamental elegance, and sensuality of 18th-century Rococo with modernist abstraction...
Peter Schjeldahl’s Death Marked The End Of An Era
Schjeldahl’s death was not just the death of a person but of a whole approach to writing about art. It was an approach that...
Nicole Ritchie And Paris Hilton’s Excellent Opera?
It’s an enlightening moment, one of many it turns out, in “Paris & Nicole,” a three-episode lark about Hilton and Richie reuniting to write...
I Worked For Ozy Right Through Its Collapse. Here’s What I Saw From The...
"The story I saw coming to a grim conclusion in that courtroom was about more than a failed media company. … Carlos Watson may...
What It’s Like To See Your Sexual Assault Be Made Into An Episode Of...
"Being violated and brought close to death is (a) psychological abyss, but living with the belief that actors and producers have exploited your rape...
For Wage Theft At Disneyland, Disney Co. Agrees To California’s Largest-Ever Settlement
"The Walt Disney Co. has reached a California-record $233 million settlement with Disneyland workers over a 2019 class-action wage theft lawsuit. The settlement will...
Zakir Hussain, 73, Master Of Indian Classical Drumming And World-Music Fusion
Son of legendary tabla player Alla Rakha, who was drummer of choice for Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Hussain grew up playing alongside...
Martial Solal, Perhaps France’s Greatest Jazz Pianist, Has Died At 97
Best-known to the wider public for his score to Godard's film Breathless, he was one of the first European jazz musicians to get enthusiastic...
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Officially Loses Funding From City
The decision by the city council — to redistribute the $248,000 previously allocated for DBDT to other organizations — comes just a few days...
A Game Company Now Must Pay For Manipulating Players To Buy Shiny In-Game Items
Fortnite “customers could ultimately receive $245 million for what the agency called Epic’s use of ‘dark patterns’ to trick millions of players into unwanted...
How Pointe Shoes Became Such A Big Business
Dancers at City Ballet go through about 7,000 pairs of pointe shoes every year. - Business Insider
That Time An Advertising Copywriter Wanted To Write The Great American Novel, But Ended...
At Montgomery Ward, Robert L. May’s “boss tapped him to write the children’s story and suggested it have an animal protagonist because Ferdinand the Bull,...
The Movie Version Of Maria Callas Isn’t Quite Accurate, But That’s Normal
“While we can’t claim to know what was going through Callas’ mind as she neared the end, we can nevertheless examine how much the...
What Do We Want From Writers We Admire?
And why is it so exhausting to find out that, for instance, Cormac McCarthy was a total creep? - LitHub
