Can Bob Iger Bring Joy Back To The Disneyland?
"More than its streaming services, movies or television series, the Walt Disney Co. matters because of its theme parks, and it is at institutions such...
How Two Women From New York’s Avant-Garde Theatre Changed Omaha
"Decades before today’s movement for gender parity in the theatre, Terry and Schidman produced their own original work and that of others,...
Irene Cara, Singer Of Fame And Flashdance, Has Died At 63
Cara was a child dancer and singer who found young fame on Electric Company (and in its band) and then became iconic for singing...
Casablanca Is Looking Pretty Good, At 80
"It was merely warmly received and successful, but not a sensation – but it won best picture, along with awards for its peerless screenplay...
Ending A Theatrical Tradition Means Space To Innovate
Or that's the idea, anyway, at the Prince Edward Island theatre festival that won't perform Anne of Green Gables every year anymore. The artistic...
Why Streamers Are Cashing In On True Crime
"Streamers are doubling down on the genre, tapping into the huge appetite for true crime by developing scripted limited series based on actual stories...
The Minnesota Rest Stop That May Join The National Register Of Historic Places
There are only 10 on the Register - nine in South Dakota, one in Arkansas - but the 50+-year-old brick rest stop near Alexandria...
NPR’s Book Recommender Is Back
And it features 402 books this year. - NPR
Hollywood Has Classically Failed Arab Women
A new movie wants to change that. - The Guardian (UK)
The Dark History Of The Nutcracker
Sure, it's become the classic holiday ballet (and moneymaker), but "if you look at some of the forces giving rise to it, and that...
Bad At Arguing? Try This
It’s not impossible to make your argument stick. And there’s been some good scientific work on this. Here are two strategies that, based on the...
After 70 Years, London’s “Mousetrap Is Coming To Broadway
On Friday, keen-eyed theatergoers discovered a website for the Broadway iteration, which announced that the murder mystery, whose London production holds the Guinness World Record for the...
This Year’s Oxford “Word Of The Year” To Be Chosen By Public Vote
Voting is now open online, and over the next two weeks English speakers can cast their vote, choosing from three words selected by Oxford University...
UK Orchestra Works With Dementia Patients To Recover Memories
While some with dementia can often feel trapped in the past, some researchers believe the act of creating music - as well as listening...
Disneyland Has Become A Lesser Experience. Iger Should Fix It
In recent years, especially in the months since it reopened after an extended, pandemic-forced closure, the tone of a visit to the Disneyland Resort...
End Of An Era: World’s Longest-Running Annual Musical Theatre Production To End
The musical was staged every year from 1965 to 2019, earning it recognition from Guinness World Records. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a two-year pause,...
Today Marks The 75th Anniversary Of Hollywood’s Blacklist
On that day, the heads of the major studios, with a few notable exceptions, agreed after a contentious two-day conference at the Waldorf-Astoria in...
What “Tar” Demonstrates About The Mythology Of Great Artists
By creating a character who can’t be written off as another predictably problematic man, “Tár” draws our attention to how Lydia learned to become...
The Audiophile’s Agony: Just What Is “Perfect” Sound?
I do know that the word “accuracy” in the context of audio means reproducing the master recording faithfully, but this always seemed like an...
What, Exactly, Were Music Critics?
The rapport between artist and critic has historically ranged from affable to antagonistic to utterly bizarre. - The New Republic
Just What Are Literary Studies Trying To Accomplish?
One of the main determinants of the vulnerability of literary studies, and hence of the compensating over-ambitiousness of the justification offered for it, is...
Museums’ Big New Security Concern: Which Visitors Might Attack Art?
With the attacks showing no sign of abating, museum directors across Europe are settling into a nervous new equilibrium, fearful for the works in...
Iger’s Return Is A Chance For Disney To Pivot Strategies
The change in leadership gives Iger the opportunity to swerve away from Chapek’s fixation on Disney+. A similar redirection occurred this year at Warner...
Parent Gets School Library To Remove All Its Graphic Novels
All graphic novels in the school library’s collection were recalled after parent Tim Reiland took issue with the school letting his teenage daughter borrow Blankets,...
“Gangnam Style” Blew Up The Internet. Its Creator Had A Tough Time After That
The video, which now has some 4.6 billion views, was so culturally pervasive in 2012 that Barack Obama was asked about it on Election Day. NASA...
