Playwright Sarah Ruhl On Writing A Memoir, And The Medical Trauma Behind That Memoir
"While I don’t think of myself as someone who would have judged by appearances much before Bell’s palsy, it has given me a greater...
Allegations Of Child Exploitation Keep Director Of ‘Sparta’ Away From Spanish Film Festival
"Austrian director Ulrich Seidl has cancelled his visit to San Sebastian for the Sept. 18 world premiere of Sparta, amid allegations of impropriety and child exploitation...
How Did A Fictional Bear From Peru Become The Queen Of England’s Psychopomp?
"For all the madness on display, there are, however, reasons to cautiously celebrate what has become of Paddington. ... Paddington is nearly as old...
The Vicious, Accelerating Attacks On Books From The Right Wing
"Public libraries have been threatened by politicians and community members with a loss of funding for their refusal to remove books. Members of the...
The Industrial Visions Of Artists Who Lived A Century Ago
The artists believed factories were the future. "Diagonal lines hint at stained glass—and at the notion, widespread at the time, ... that industrial structures...
Independent Radio Stations Are Under Threat In Britain
Why? Energy bills. "Autumn has arrived with stark warnings from industry bodies, including UK Music and the Music Venue Trust (MVT), that live venues,...
Copyright Is Disgustingly Broken
"The People’s Joker is ... an extremely loose retelling of the Batman villain’s origin story, reinterpreting the Joker as a trans woman trying to break...
The Married Couple Who Writes (Dozens Of Bestsellers) Together, Stays Together?
How do the people making up the Ilona Andrews brand do it? Gordon Andrews: "We have argued about the fate of certain characters. Who...
Saudi Arabia Is Bulldozing The Ancient City Of Jeddah
Fly into Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second and most charming city, and vast empty patches scar the landscape. Most of its southern districts and much...
Good Luck With That: Poland Asks Russia To Return Looted WWII Art
Poland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings now in a leading Moscow museum that were looted during World War II by the...
Legendary Public Radio Producer Jim Russell, Creator Of “Marketplace,” 76
Russell told Business Media News he envisioned it as a business news show that would appeal to a mass audience, not just executives and investors. The...
Lang Lang’s New Serious Album: A Case For Disney Songs
The pianist has spent the last four years commissioning new arrangements of the Disney songbook, turning the company’s vast library of show tunes —...
In A Hyper-Polarized World, How Do We Have Civil Public Debates?
I knew that if I merely retreated to my “side,” I would only contribute to the problem. With some trepidation, then, I set out...
Remembering Architect James Stewart Polshek
Polshek rarely worked for private clients. He devoted himself to public buildings, ranging from the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Museum...
This Little Architectural Gem Was Built To Be An Italian Fascist Utopia
In the mid-1930s, Mussolini's minister of agriculture(!), Edmondo Rossoni, worked to turn his home village, marooned in the marshes of Emilia-Romagna, into a model...
The Importance Of Ritual In Success
Rituals are highly structured. They require rigidity (they must always be performed the “correct” way), repetition (the same actions performed again and again) and...
Catherine de’ Medici — Was She Really “The Serpent Queen”?
She was certainly a canny operator, but she was working to maintain safety and authority for herself and her sons (all three of whom...
New Architecture Projects Built Around Values
The best architecture can transform our ways of thinking, our work, our connections to local community. - The New York Times
The Granddaddy Of Topical TV Dramedies: M*A*S*H At 50
"M*A*S*H is in some ways the most contemporary of its contemporaries. Its blend of madcap comedy and pitch-dark drama — the laughs amplifying the...
Alan Alda, Who Directed And Wrote As Well As Starring, Talks About M*A*S*H At...
"I was looking for stories, each in a different way, that showed how everybody left the war with a wound of some kind. ......
Prominent Writer Advises Readers Not To Read His Biography Of Brett Favre
"I wrote a biography of the man that was largely glowing. Football heroics, overcoming obstacles, practical joker, etc. And, looking at it now, if...
From “Groomer” All The Way Back To “Miscegenation”, American Politicians Have Turned Words Into...
"Where groomer has a pedigree as a legitimate term of opprobrium, ... miscegenation was invented out of whole cloth, intended as a bludgeon to...
An Inflection Point For Creating Images With Artificial Intelligence
Although momentum behind AI-generated art has been building for a while, the release of Stable Diffusion might be the moment the technology really takes...
The Real-Life Female Army Depicted In “The Woman King”
The story enacted by Viola Davis and her colleagues is fictional, but the Agojie did actually exist: a troop of women warriors, founded in...
A Ukrainian Baritone Took Five Russian Bullets, One In His Lungs. Amazingly, He Is...
Back in March, early in the invasion, Sergiy Ivanchuk was driving escaping civilians from the besieged city of Kharkiv when his car came under...
