The Irish Language Is Staging A Comeback
And not just on Duolingo, but on film. - Irish Times
A South Dakota School Board Wants To Pulp Alison Bechdel’s And Dave Eggers’ Books
The Rapid City district has decided to destroy books by Eggers, Bechdel, Booker Prize-winning Bernadine Evaristo, Imbolo Mbue, and Stephen Chbosky. Why? Authors...
Angelica In The 21st Century
There's a reason the Tony-winning actor Renée Elise Goldsberry gave Hamilton's Angelica such a punch - she's ambitious and brilliant, and depicts someone even...
Netflix’s Problems Are Causing A Lot Of Existential Crises Among Streamers
The main issue? Streamers are starting to realize that "continuing to try to go get new customers by spending a lot of money on...
Fred Savage Fired From ‘The Wonder Years’ Reboot Over Allegations Of Inappropriate Conduct
Savage, who starred in the original Wonder Years when he was a kid, has been at the center of a few stories about his...
Odesa’s Museum Director Makes A New Life, And Attempts To Preserve Her Heritage, In...
They fled by car and foot when the bombs began to drop. Now Oleksandra Kovalchuk, staying at her parents' house, "using a borrowed laptop,...
A Choreographer Says To Find The Right Way, He First Has To Lose Himself
That might mean collaboration, that might mean mixing forms and traditions - and that might mean rehearsing in silence, with no music for the...
How In The Multiverse Of Movie Ratings Magic Did Doctor Strange Earn A PG-13?
It's a murky science, but "with brutal scenes of people getting cut in half, shocking jump scares, and a sequence that is a terrifying...
Why Are Corners Of The Internet Suddenly Nostalgic For Medieval Peasant Life?
Let's be honest: "Assertions about our glorious history usually don’t quite check out—they tend to be based on misunderstandings, disputed or outdated scholarship, or...
Rom-Coms Are Back On The Big Screen, Sort Of
Only with the biggest names in romantic comedy attached, though - Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, and Julia Roberts, to name three. - The Guardian...
Museum Deaccession Sales Are A Horrible Transfer Of Public Goods To Private Hands
Take the Toledo Museum of Art's new sale: "Almost no museum could afford to buy a $40-million Cézanne or $18-million Matisse. Call it forced...
Reese Witherspoon Represents, Onscreen And Off, The Bumpy Road Of Being An Ambitious Woman
That is, an ambitious woman in a sexist society. "Likable ambitious women are women who don’t appear to be ambitious at all." - LitHub
The Influence Of Islamic Art Is All Over Contemporary Culture
Especially for those in diaspora communities, "artists destabilize the idea of a monolithic culture and instead construct works that are influenced by locations of...
The Music That Has Provided A Lifeline For Seniors In Care Facilities During The...
In Canada, Concerts in Care tried everything from outdoor concerts to concerts from balconies near nursing homes to Zoom concerts to broadcasts of pre-recorded...
As Cases Rise Again In New York, Much Of Broadway Ends Vaccine Checks
Masks are still required, mostly, but "while some patrons welcomed the change, others said they felt uneasy about going into crowded theaters without the...
How A Racist Statue From Iceland Ended Up On A Rocket Ship
Iceland made some questionable decisions about national identity in the early 2000s, including copying a statue from the 1930s called The First White Mother...
Plato Karayanis, 91 – Led Dallas Opera For 23 Years
An outgoing man whose sonorous baritone betrayed his beginnings as a singer, Karayanis presided over the founding of the opera company’s orchestra and creation...
What The Emmys Could Learn From Comic-Con
Take a page from Comic-Con, D23, Apple and everyone else who has turned to fan events for big reveals and announcements. Make the Emmys the...
Russia Is Selling Art To Fund Its War (Some Of The Art Appears To...
A new Russian website known as Art For Victory, which belongs to an organisation known as Terricon Project, is supporting the Russian war in Ukraine by...
What Ukrainian Theatres Are Doing During The War
Two theatres have converted their stages for people to sleep and for storage of food and medicine. It echoes a narrative happening across Ukraine...
When Did The Middle Ages End (It’s Important To Know)
The Middle Ages are a chimera, a fantasy, all but impossible to define or date, at least at a global level. The conventional chronological...
Directors Guild Report: Diversity Increases
Even as the number of shows fell 36% to 2,691 in the 2020-2021 season from the year before, the number of TV episodes led...
Abdulamir Al-Hamdani, Who Fought To Save Iraq’s Antiquities, Dead At 55
As a working archaeologist, a regional official, and the national Minister for Culture, Hamdani — born and raised very near the ancient Sumerian city...
Are Human Lives Inherently More Valuable?
Can we really justify the idea that some lives carry more ethical weight than others in general, and that human lives carry more ethical...
The Race To Save “The Pinnacle Of Ukrainian Art”
Joshua Hammer traveled to Lviv to look into the history of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis, a 36'-by-42' wall of delicately painted icons in a lavishly...
