Trombones Take Over The Gaming World
Well, the game Trombone Champ, that is. Viral videos of players are driving "a lot of tooting, to songs like the national anthem and...
Novelist Zadie Smith Talks About Discovering Black England
"By 1999 I’d gone through 15 years of formal education, including a three-year English degree, without ever being given a book to study that...
So What If Stalin Hated This Opera?
Stalin called Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensh "muddle instead of music, an ugly flood of confusing sound, ... a pandemonium of creaking, shrieking and...
Marvel Is Never Going To Get The Fantastic Four Right On Screen
The proof is in Alex Ross, artist who paints for the comics. Disney "has not totally eaten Marvel Comics yet, probably because, even if...
This Jazz Saxophonist Was Told Black People Like Him Shouldn’t Go To University
Courtney Pine became a success despite that music teacher. Even his dreams are in sync with his career: "I usually dream about music, about...
No Surprise To Harry Styles Fans, But Gen Z Drove The Box Office Last...
Well yeah: "Women made up 66 percent of the audience, according to Warner Bros., the studio behind the $35 million film, with an unusually...
The Runners And Cyclists Using GPS Mapping To Create Art On City Streets
Why not use the surveillance capabilities of satellites for good instead of evil, right? "Instead of biking on a straight path or in circles...
A Film From Colombia Wins The San Sebastian Film Fest
The film, Los Reyes del Mundo (The Kings of the World in English), "follows five young men from MedellÃn, Colombia’s second-largest city, trying to...
Constance Wu Reveals Sexual Harassment From A Fresh Off The Boat Producer
The unnamed producer controlled what she wore and how she handled business matters. "One evening, she writes, after she and the man attended a...
Art Made By AIs Is Powered By Everything From Execution Videos To Non-Consensual Porn
"With AI it’s all garbage in, garbage out. So who controls this data and is there anything we can do about it?" - Vice
Yes, Controversy Sells Movie Tickets
Did all of the rumors, speculation, reports of on-set arguments, and reports of affairs fuel sales for Don't Worry, Darling? You bet: "It’s been...
A Canadian Went To Maine For A Bargain, And Returned With A 700-Year-Old Music...
"Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal, used in the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and dated to the late 13th century. It...
Joffrey Ballet School Brings Dance Therapy To Uvalde, Texas
Saturday was the four-month anniversary of the school massacre that killed 19 kids and two teachers. At the library where the Joffrey dancers were...
Can It With The Fat Suits, Hollywood
Just hire fat actors. Truly, the easiest solution in the world. - The New York Times
In A Win For Authors, People Can No Longer Read And Return E-Books To...
Of course, it's a win after a long fight. "Amazon has done the right thing for once! In this case, the right thing is closing...
Independent Bookstores Are The Bulwark In The Fight Against Censorship And Bans
"Booksellers are lucky, because we get to sell whatever we want to sell. So we can sell the banned books, but what they're doing...
Hilary Mantel: An Appreciation
"She embodies both the magician and the spell, and part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else...
The Three Thousand Seat Decision Facing Portland’s Civic And Arts Leaders
The Keller Auditorium's "setting and its bones mean that there is great potential here, at a time when downtown needs its cultural landmarks more...
The Artist Turning Junk Into A Queer Church
"At just 34, Yore’s art has become instantly recognisable in its spectacular, colourful vulgarity, taking on gender, sexuality, politics, religion, capitalism and advertising." -...
James Earl Jones Is Stepping Away From Darth Vader
The 91-year-old actor, who has played the voice of the terrifying villain for decades, apparently "signed over the rights to his archival voice work,...
What Book Bans Take From Kids
"Scary books give children the tools to deal with fear off the page. ... Banning books shuts that gateway to the good and the...
Lynn Nottage Is The Playwright Most Produced In The US This Year
And her play Clyde's, a sequel of sorts to Sweat, the most produced play. "On the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights list, she is tied...
Newspaper Comics Pages May Be Nearing Their End
"Bizarro" creator Dan Piraro says, "'Seeing the dominoes begin to fall at such an accelerated pace is scary,' ... noting that he still depends...
The Board Members Of A Toronto Contemporary Arts Center Resign En Masse
Twenty-four board members of Toronto's Power Plant resigned together "in response to their parent organization Harbourfront’s alleged attempt to terminate and replace 12 members...
Documenta Is About To End, Perhaps Forever
"This Documenta, unlike any before it, was not about art, or ideas, but about the friends we made along the way — the friends...
