“Soylent Green”, Made 50 Years Ago, Is Set In 2022. Here’s Why It Got...
" Movies like Soylent Green abandon such messiness in favor of predictive certainty as they set out to shock people into action. ... And...
Seattle’s Arts After The Pandemic: Reckoning Or Opportunity?
In the ’80s and ’90s the arts were ascendant here, and Seattle was well regarded nationally as an up and coming arts town. Then...
Public Radio’s Efforts To Diversify Its Interviewees Are Working
"Journalists at NPR and Minnesota Public Radio say they are seeing the payoff from a heightened focus on tracking the diversity of their sources,...
Performers Were Among The Hardest Hit In The Pandemic. Recovery Is Slow
During the worst days of lockdown, some artists who couldn’t afford rent squatted in empty theaters to save money. Others left the art world...
Taking Standup Comedy Between Countries And Languages
Edinburgh Fringe comedians from Japan, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Argentina, and Denmark talk to a reporter about establishing connections with a foreign audience, differing...
Carl Sagan’s Warning On The Dumbing Down Of America
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, but especially a kind...
What Salman Rushdie Has Meant For The South Asian Diaspora
"Rushdie helped change how ... Europe and North America saw desis. He defied stereotypes and resisted all assumptions. He became, through no choice of...
Architectural Digest Airbrushed Cambodian Antiquities Out Of One Of Their Fabulous-Home Photo-Spreads — And...
The feature on the San Francisco mansion of Roger and Sloan Lindemann Barnett includes an image of an interior courtyard with empty pedestals. Those...
Ten Of The World’s Most Ingenious Repurposings Of Buildings
The list ranges from a small watertower in England converted into a home to a steel mill in Shanghai transformed into an eco-park to...
Gina Lollobrigida, 1950s And ’60s Movie Star, Is Running For The Italian Senate At...
"(She) is endeavouring to become a senator with the Sovereign and Popular Italy party (ISP), a new Eurosceptic, anti-Mario-Draghi political alliance that opposes sending...
Are Audiences Really Behaving Worse Than Before COVID? Sure Seems Like It
It especially seems like behavior's gotten worse in Britain, where complaints have soared and one hears and reads stories about groups chatting with each...
Joffrey Ballet Launches The First U.S. Training Program Dedicated To Contemporary Ballet
The new two-year, ten-dancer program will run parallel to the Joffrey’s longstanding Trainee Program in classical ballet, with the primary difference being in the...
More Repairs At Philadelphia’s Grand Old Academy Of Music
The exterior balconies overlooking the main entrance to North America's oldest purpose-built opera house — "still the city's formal parlor for everything from Broadway...
Can Theatre Make Any Impact In The Abortion Debate?
When faced with a loss of human rights—with accounts of real women being forced to bleed out because they cannot get an abortion for...
A Warhol Copyright Case With Potential Big Implications For Artists
On Oct. 12, the justices will consider whether he violated the federal Copyright Act by basing a portrait of the musician Prince on a...
Evidence Howard Carter Stole Some Of King Tut’s Treasure
An accusation that Carter handled property “undoubtedly stolen from the tomb” has emerged in a previously unpublished letter sent to him in 1934 by...
What Kids Learn From Play (And We Don’t Have To Teach Them About)
If you are a kid, it is your job to get inside a cardboard box from time to time and pretend it is a train. It...
Seattle’s ACT Theatre Board Has Resigned En Masse (No, It’s A Good Thing)
“The question we asked most pointedly was: ‘If you can do this all over again, what would you have done differently? And the outcome...
Fifty Years Late, Motion Pictures Academy Apologizes To Native American Actress
Almost 50 years after she was booed on the Oscars stage for declining Marlon Brando's award on his behalf in protest at the film...
America’s Best Museum Bathrooms, Ranked (Yes, This Is Real)
"A recent poll by the American Alliance of Museums asked museum professionals to submit their nominations for best museum bathrooms, and the results prove...
The TikTok Music Phenomenon
The world’s biggest new social media platform hasn’t just propelled thousands of its users to viral stardom, it’s also provided huge momentum for...
After Years Of Making Dance About Injustice And Violence, Kyle Abraham Turns To Good...
"You know, I (had) made so many works that look at the injustice that we face as a people," said the gay Black American...
Indigenous Musicians Are Getting Attention For New Experimental Music
A loose confederation of Indigenous artists is finding a wider audience by working at the fringes of modern music. These musicians and many of their...
Nicholas Evans, TV Producer And Author Of “The Horse Whisperer”, Dead At 72
He had a thriving career in network TV journalism and some success making films for cable TV until a rough patch in his 40s...
Why Storytelling Is A Critical Part Of Good Medicine
“Yes, it’s important to examine people, but you work out what’s going on from the stories. And if people know you and trust you,...
