What The California Legislature Just Did For Hollywood
As lawmakers race to finish the budget, a deal has been struck: "Hollywood studios will get a lucrative tax benefit they have long sought...
Boots Riley Says His New Series Is Connected To The Writers Strike
Riley, on parts of I'm a Virgo: Writers are "showing the world that, hey; this is where your power can come because it's not...
John Williams On Some Of His Favorite, Famous Film Scores
"Under the name Johnny Williams, he gradually transitioned, as he put it, 'from the piano bench to the writing desk,' composing several light, jazzy...
Hollywood, Please Stop Ruining TV Shows And Movies With Too-Obvious Music Choices
But ... "why are so many blockbuster films and some of television’s most adventurous shows addicted to cringey song choices? The unlikely answer might...
The Experience Of Eating A 120,000 Dollar Banana
After I finished, I placed the banana skin under the tape on the wall. Then, a guard said, 'excuse me,' but didn’t try to...
The Pope Invites Artists To The Sistine Chapel, Speaks About Social Justice
"Francis told the group that 'neither art nor faith can leave things simply as they are: They change, transform, move and convert them. Art...
Animation Artists Say Making The Spider-Man Films Is Simply Torture
"Why don’t more animated movies look this good? According to people who worked on the sequel , Across the Spider-Verse, it’s because the working conditions required...
How The Heck Can Poetry Journals Survive?
"Commercially, it simply doesn’t stack up. ... Most survive and subsist largely either on unpaid labour or grant funding" - or both. And that...
How Editor Robert Gottlieb Helped Shape Dance
"He brought a galaxy of dance luminaries into his list of authors when he was editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf. ... He...
Warner Bros Is Reportedly Looking To Offload Half Of Its Film And TV Music
What is going on at the behemoth? (And could regulators perhaps have foreseen some issues?) "The catalog is believed to include music from such...
Film Critic Monica Castillo On Why We Really Must Save TCM
In a furious and impassioned plea, Castillo writes, "I'm tired of hearing how much David Zaslav loves classic movies when his action scream otherwise....
Experiments In Sustainable Theatre Design
The structure consists of a 26-metre-long timber frame, shaped roughly like the number six with one long wall clad in mycelium – a biomaterial grown from...
Behold: The Mighty “Sonic Sphere”
The Sonic Sphere, a realization of a modernist dream by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, aims for a new kind of listening experience: surrounding the...
The Marvel Movie AI Credits: No Artists Were Replaced
"It is crucial to emphasize that while the AI component provided optimal results, AI is just one tool among the array of toolsets our...
Dani Filth: Streaming Is Killing Us
"Spotify are the biggest criminals in the world. I think we had 25, 26 million plays last year, and I think personally I got...
The 257 Recordings Of Claudio Abbado
If Abbado’s life had a theme, it was this question of power: of what power means in music, where it comes from, and to...
Was This Man America’s First Published Black Composer?
Occramer Marycoo, abducted from the Gold Coast of West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island in 1764 and renamed by his enslaver as Newport Gardner,...
Might HBO License Its Content To Netflix?
Talk of such a move was a surprise, largely given the frostiness between the two rivals, which have been battling it out on the...
What Belgians Are Doing With All The Beautiful Old Churches Nobody’s Worshiping In Anymore
"On average, each of the 300 towns in Flanders has about six churches and often not enough faithful to fill a single one. Some...
The Long Slow Decline Of Pixar
In retrospect, it seems clear that “Inside Out” was when Pixar’s Silicon Valley brain trust began to peel off from the universe and float...
What Do You Get When You Cross Hip-Hop With Ballet?
Hiplet, of course. (That's pronounced "hip-lay.") "The dance style — a captivating fusion of hip hop and ballet, with some jazz and modern thrown...
The Academic Right — Obligation — To Cancel
The whole point about academic freedom: the freedom to exercise academic expertise in order to discriminate between good and bad ideas, valid and invalid...
We Are Living Through The End Of The Useful Internet. Just Look At What’s...
"Gradually over the last decade, Reddit went from merely-embarrassing-but-occasionally-amusing, to actively harmful, to — mainly by accident — essential. … The internet's best resources...
Book Bans Are Only Part Of The Assault On Reading
A precious domain of imaginative and intellectual freedom is menaced by crude authoritarian politics. Exposure to the wrong words is corrupting our children, who...
Sheldon Harnick, Lyricist For “Fiddler On the Roof,” Is Dead At 99
"Starting in the late 1950s, Harnick and Jerry Bock spent a dozen years at the summit of Broadway songwriting teams. They collaborated on five...
