The Bawdy, Self-Aware Wife Of Bath As First Modern Character Of English Literature
"Unlike the queens and witches who preceded her in English literature, Alison is not a flat allegorical figure. Her ordinariness makes her radical." -...
What Minnie Driver Had To Do To Get Her Start In Entertainment
The Oscar-nominated actress says, "In the early 90s, I had to fake an orgasm in a room full of male ad execs at an...
Linda Pastan, Whose Poetry Illuminated Everyday Life, 90
"The range of her poetry was vast. A 1978 collection was called The Five Stages of Grief. On the other end of the spectrum...
In A First For Google, YouTube Contractors Go On Strike
What's the issue? A demand to return to in-person work ... for no real reason. "The contractors are paid as little as $19 an...
Broadway Streaming Is Back, And Here To Stay
Sure, people are mostly back to live theatre - but " a newly formed nonprofit organization is collaborating to bring nonprofit Broadway ... into...
Iran Releases Director Jafar Panahi From Jail Two Days After He Starts Hunger Strike
His wife said at the time of his arrest "that his detention - several months before the ongoing anti-government protests erupted - amounted to...
Calm Down, Netflix Password Sharing Isn’t Over In The US – Yet
One Netflix exec said, though, that it will be coming, and he added, "I think it’s worth noting that this will not be a...
Tourist From The States Arrested For Knocking Down And Assaulting Statue Of Jesus In...
"In social media video, the suspect can reportedly be heard saying 'You can’t have idols in Jerusalem.'" - Yahoo News (The Independent UK)
Why Society Needs Violent, Scary Computer Games
"My favorites are the games that have intricate plots, because many of them are cultural markers that reveal what fascinates us — and more...
Everything To Know About The Grammys Before The Big Music Industry Night
First of all, Beyoncé "needs three wins to tie, and four to beat the conductor Georg Solti, who holds the record for most overall...
A Head-Spinning Time For Podcasts
And those heads aren't spinning in a "get rich podcasting!" kind of a way. "Call it a pivot, call it a withdrawal; ... whatever...
The So-Called Discovery Of Knossos Was ‘Half Bull, Half Truth,’ New Show Says
You might not revile Sir Arthur Evans in the same breath that you do Lord Elgin - but the British archaeologist was a fabulist...
Apple’s ‘Failed’ Lisa Computer Shaped Everything We Do On Screen
From 3D graphics to half-tone images, from letters of different widths to editing pictures - it all started with the Lisa in 1983. -...
The Rift Within Art Criticism Reflects, In Part, The Shrinking Job Market
In addition, the more progressive U.S. membership has clashed - repeatedly - with the much more culturally conservative international contingent. - The New York...
How (And Why) Film Creatives Bow At The Altar Of Groundhog Day
"It gave a name to the very common human experience of realising that you’re stuck. ... And that you can’t seem to get out...
How Different Cultures Process Grief
Studies of grieving brains – be it scans of the brain regions which process grief, or measures of the stress hormone cortisol that is released in...
How Thelonius Monk Changed Music
Like his hero Duke Ellington, he had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop, finding freedom in the constraints of...
What Literary Criticism Is (And Isn’t) For
What is literary criticism — specifically, the kind of highly specialized, theoretically sophisticated textual readings generated by academic critics — really for? - The New...
Our Need For Constant Entertainment Has Ruined Everything
We have surrendered ourselves to our entertainment. We will become so distracted and dazed by our fictions that we’ll lose our sense of what...
Ukraine Ballet Comes To US
Some 60 dancers who fled the war make up The United Ukrainian Ballet. With help from local dance professionals and city officials, the company is...
Was This Antarctica’s First-Ever Professional Outdoor Dance Performance?
Probably. Earlier this week, members of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional Argentino and Compañía Nacional de Danza Contemporánea traveled from Buenos Aires down to Argentina's...
UK Playwrights Protest Low Pay, Working Conditions
“Theatre is in danger of just being a museum piece – not current and not tackling the things that are going on right now...
Remember The Guy Who Streaked At The Oscars? He Did A Hell Of A...
"Who was Robert Opel, and why did he do what he did? ... Even as Opel's fifteen minutes ticked down, his quest for exposure...
Monterey Jazz Festival Head Steps Down After 30 Years
Tim Jackson co-presented the ’92 season with Jimmy Lyons, who launched the festival with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ralph J. Gleason in 1958. By...
Meet The Most Media-Friendly Of Maria Von Trapp’s Great-Grandchildren
"(He's) not one of the von Trapps you'd occasionally see performing 'Edelweiss' on Oprah or The View in years past. But ... when journalists...
