SNL Crew Says Everyone’s Ready To Strike In A Couple Of Weeks
What do they want? Health care! When do they want it? In the contract for the future. And pay: "By offering annual increases that...
New York’s Mayor Wants To Cut Library Funding, But Three New Libraries Show Their...
"With the pandemic seemingly in the rearview mirror but the city still seeking its new normal, New York’s recovery depends on fortifying, not diminishing,...
As Fraudulent Indigenous Art Floods The Market, Actual Indigenous Artists Suffer
Fake Indigenous art is a global market, and stamping it out "is like playing Whack-a-Mole." - CBC
How Hollywood Tried To Erase Anna May Wong, Its First Asian American Star
"She continued to be typecast as dragon ladies and China dolls ... always envisioned an alternative future for herself: 'Some day someone will...
Meta Mehta On His Sound, Mahler, And More
"Shortly after becoming music director of the L.A. Phil and not long before her death in 1964, Mehta visited Alma Mahler, the composer’s widow...
Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Writer Suzy McKee Charnas, 83
"In an epic that began with Walk to the End of the World (1974) and concluded 25 years later, ... Charnas conceived a...
Oh No, Chris Rock, Why?
"He and his peers have achieved immense success, but still don’t know how to cope with the cultural shifts that naturally occur over a...
Now Even Going To The Movies Is A Test Of Your Paycheck
Everything is about class, including where we sit in the cinema. "One of the last truly democratic public institutions where everyone paid the same...
A Stranger Things Actor Steps Back From Movies Thanks To A Producer’s Sexual Advances...
So, #MeStillFreakinToo. Grace Van Dien is "looking for more agency after a producer on 'one of the last movies I did' allegedly asked for...
The Hay Book Festival Is Going Eurovision
It's real: "The Eurovision book contest will culminate in an event at this year’s literary festival in June, where a panel will discuss the...
How Jamie Lee Curtis Emerged As ‘The Most Unhinged’ But Fun Nominee Of 2023
You can blame (or be grateful to) the visual flood known as meme culture (and the actress herself). - Slate
When Will Argentina’s 1980s Military Dictatorship Finally Face A Reckoning?
The events of the Oscar-nominated Argentina,1985 aren't much fictionalized. "With more than 300 open investigations and 14 trials, the process is 'permanently alive,' said...
Giving The English National Ballet Body Type A Makeover
"The new boss of English National Ballet wants to ditch the stereotypical image of super-skinny dancers and see 'all' body types on stage." -...
The Techno Club In Berlin Where Classical Music Composers Find Inspiration
One composer "felt at home in this genre, somewhere between abstract contemporary opera and sound art, but like many composers she had to reconcile...
What Reason Is There For Not Letting Former Guantanamo Prisoners Take Their Art With...
"We had nothing, so we made art out of nothing. We drew with tea powder on toilet paper. We painted our walls with soap,...
The View Of The Oscars, But From The Tuxedo Shops Of LA
"Tuxedo vendors say that awards season drives huge sales on top of their usual income from weddings and proms, on the order of 20%...
It’s The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year, For Some Movies, Anyway
How to watch the Oscars red carpet (this year, the red will be more beige) and the show itself, and here are also a...
An Indiana University Wants To Sell Its Valuable Museum Art To Pay For Renovating...
Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools, is planning to sell several works from the...
Protect Children From Books? How Does That Make Sense?
The anxiety about what kids are reading inevitably bleeds into fear about what else they’re doing—the trope of the sexy librarian, ever about to...
Canada Looking At Canadian Content Rules For Streaming
Algorithms are not neutral: they train us as much as we train them. Using them to promote local music or Canadian music may inspire a...
Scottish Government Steps In To Save Youth Orchestras
To combat the councils decisions, four MSPs wrote to the Scottish government, asking them to intervene and save the music programmes. Over the weekend,...
Report: Where Black American Millennials Get Their News
Social media plays a large role in the news habits of all Millennials and Gen Z, as shown in our first report on these generations....
YouTube Has Created A Huge Foreign-Language-Dubbing Industry
“If you take the top 10,000 YouTube videos by performance and dub them in 20-plus languages, you could easily unlock an additional half a...
Kouri-Vini: The Creole Language Of Acadian Louisiana Sees The Dawn Of A Revival
Roughly a French Louisiana equivalent of Gullah, the African-English hybrid of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, Kouri-Vini developed among the region's Black...
Peeling Back The Curtain Of The Happiness-Industrial Complex
Whatever is being sold by the happiness experts, we imagine, cannot really be happiness, but can only bear a relationship to it even more...
