This Year’s Best Music Was Inspired By Grief
"Death, collapsed relationships, the passing of youth and the inexorable passage of time: these are sombre themes that fit a quite spectacularly grim year....
How Terrible Does A Christmas Movie Have To Be For It To Disappear Forever?
Bad, really bad. "It’s a mistake to compare this stuff to other films. It is, indeed, a mistake to compare it to any other...
AOL Instant Messenger Taught The Internet To Chat
But it wasn’t supposed to exist at all - and it’s only thanks to a “semi-rogue” group that we all know ROTFL, LOL, and...
Some Pretty Big TikTok Creators Are Worried About New US Ownership
And that’s because of censorship. - Variety
You’re Probably Going To Watch A Movie On, Or Over, Christmas, Right?
How to pick an (Oscar) winner: "The presumptive top five in the Best Picture race includes two auteur-driven blockbusters, one old-school weepie, one timely...
What Directors Have To Say About ‘Wasting’ Money On Their Movie Sets
“You don’t have a right to make your movie, because it costs so much and you need so much help. You do have to...
K-Pop Demon Hunters, But Make It Classical
Does this have rizz? Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins has recorded a classical reinterpretation” of “Golden,” from K-Pop Demon Hunters. - BBC
Literary Authors Are Writing Romances Under Pseudonyms And Never, Ever Talking About Romance In...
Gross. "Every type of writing requires specific attention to detail. For people not to take that seriously (and to ask for your help in...
Rosa Von Praunheim, The Pioneer Of Gay Cinema In Germany, Has Died At 83
“His second feature, entitled It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, premiered at the Berlin film...
Sorry, TrumpKennedyCenter Dot Org Is Not Available
Why? Because a comedian knew what was coming. “Morton isn’t in the game to sell off his domains. ... Instead, he buys them with...
Chicago’s NPR Station Created A ‘Theatre Club’ For Younger Audience Members, And Advertised It...
The first club meetup included “an exclusive Theater Club post-show talkback with artists who worked on the show, and a drink ticket that can...
Bradford Ends Its ‘City Of Culture’ Year
How did it go? “The year-long celebration cost around £51m and generated audiences of three million people.” OK. Also, train traffic from London went...
Sinners Is The Most Culturally Important Film Of 2025
“Hollywood machers were convinced the film would never make money and that Warner Bros’ big gamble ‘could be the end of the studio system.’...
The Secrets Of The Women Of The Frick
The Frick’s new chief curator loves nothing more than researching the women on the walls. "What captured Ng’s attention, though, was Lady Skipwith’s forlorn...
60-Second Broadway Bootlegs Are Turning Up All Over TikTok. Some Producers Just Love It.
Hey, if there’s going to be short-form piracy, why not consider it marketing and consumer outreach? - The Hollywood Reporter
How Regulation Tamped Down Montreal’s Legendary Nightlife
The history of Montréal’s night-time regulation reveals how managing nightlife expanded police power and budgets — and how burdensome effects of these changes fell...
Finally, Bricks And Arches Are Returning To Philadelphia’s New Architecture
After years of “fast-casual architecture” — blocky, drab grey hulks clad in relentless grid façades which look all the worse next to the city’s...
Why Music Needs Its Dissonance
Music has a variety of “jobs,” as the other arts do. It can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite. No...
Has The UK Fallen Out Of Love With Non-Fiction?
A recent report from NielsenIQ found that trade nonfiction sales have slipped sharply. In volume terms, the category is down 8.4% between last summer and the...
Atlanta Opera Relaunches Its New-Works Festival
The June event, formerly the 96-Hour Opera festival, is being expanded and rechristened as the NOW Festival (New Opera Works), with well-known librettist and...
We Used To Have One Version Of History. Now It’s Messier
Unity, cohesion, and a sense of epic narrative have been lost. Freedom, pluralism, sensitivity, and a respect for difference have been gained, and, overall,...
Why Rational Behavior Might Not Be The Best Model
Behavioral economics has identified dozens of cognitive biases that stop us from acting ‘rationally’. But instead of building up a messier and messier picture...
Today’s Challenge For Writers: Don’t Write Like AI
Increasingly, both professional writers and everyone else is facing a new, unwelcome constrained writing challenge: don’t sound like AI. - ArtsHub
Dallas Theater Center Has A New Artistic Director
Jaime Castañeda, a freelance director who has worked extensively with the top regional companies in California and with New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, will...
The Louvre Is In A Historic Crisis
Behind the walkout are not only frayed labor relations, but a building itself under strain, with crumbling parts of the aging former palace now...
