Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Former Star Who Transformed Charlotte Ballet, Dead At 82
“A scintillating principal dancer for the Paris Opera and New York City ballet companies, (he) took an unexpected leap by taking on yet another...
How Marshmallow Peeps Are Born
A visit to the headquarters of Just Born Quality Confections in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where some two billion Peeps are made each year (along with...
Lessons From The Taliban’s Extreme War On Music
Since their return in 2021, the Taliban have waged a war on music, claiming that it causes “moral corruption”. According to figures from...
Hungary’s Lucrative Production Incentives Put Hollywood Values On The Line
None of the studios, production companies or streamers approached by Deadline who have films and TV series filming in Hungary are commenting, with current...
Watching Auditions For A WNBA Dance Squad
“More than 100 dancers auditioned for just 21 spots on the New York Liberty’s cheerleading team, the Timeless Torches. Founded in 2005, less than...
Many Thought TV Would Kill Movies. It Didn’t. Lessons For The Coming Of AI?
Today, lessons from the introduction of TV demonstrate how the creative industries have navigated the introduction of new technology. And could offer some comfort...
Hungary’s New Repressive LGBTQ+ Laws Don’t Seem To Have Discouraged Hollywood Tax Incentives
Both Europe’s most right-wing nation and its second hottest destination for international shoots, Hungary has shocked the world with its recent ban on LGBTQ+...
The Shutting Down Of American Intellectual Leadership
There’s a cost to this beyond the tourist dollars and economic impacts others will analyse. It’s the great silencing of a cultural conversation once...
You Know Who Else Really Hates Trump’s Tariffs? Hollywood
The rough economic times caused by the 2008 financial crisis and 2020 COVID shutdown were hard on the industry, but back then, at least,...
Claim: No One Wants To Watch Overweight Dancers. Really?
As an absolute entry level precondition for excellence in ballet, a dancer cannot be overweight. - The Times (UK)
Eric Schmidt: AI Will Rival The Smartest Artists In a Few Years
“This is happening faster than… our society, our democracy, our laws will address, and there’s lots of implications. That’s why it’s underhyped – people...
High Practitioner Of The Takedown Read
Andrea Chu has achieved a rare ascendancy in the literary world over the past several years, in equal parts for her clever, lethal takedowns...
Why Multi-Hour Classical Works Are Way Too Much Of A Good Thing
“It’s not that these are great pieces that happen to be long; the length itself is the point. The language – ‘endurance’, ‘epic’, ‘marathon’...
Hollywood’s Click-Obsessed Descent Into Meaninglessness
Conservative dominance of Hollywood may prove to be a much rosier future than the one we’re actually going to get: a future where pop...
Should We Really Be Able To Read Joan Didion’s Diary Entries About Her Psychiatrist...
“Didion left no instructions about the (diary), so nobody knows how she would feel about its publication as a book, titled Notes to John....
Book Subscription Services Are Starting To Publish Titles Themselves
“It makes sense, then, that subscription services want to push their curation skills further, by commissioning, editing, and publishing titles that aren’t already in...
Cellist Joel Krosnick Dead At 84
“He was the cellist of the Juilliard Quartet from 1974-2016, and a renowned teacher at New York’s Juilliard School. … His passion for contemporary...
More Staff Layoffs At Nashville Symphony
The orchestra is facing “financial challenges driven by inflation, shifting consumer behavior, an increasingly competitive landscape and broader economic uncertainty.” - Nashville Business Journal
David Geffen And The Billionaire Who Bought And Ate The Banana On The Wall...
“In January 2024, the work” — titled Le Nez — was sold to Geffen, seemingly on (Patrick) Sun’s behalf. Sun now says the sale...
Broadway Is Selling A Lot Of Tickets To Young Adults
The 18-to-25 demographic isn’t usually considered a target audience for a circuit where tickets are so expensive, but the last couple of seasons have...
Have A Look Around The Grand Egyptian Museum, Now Open At Long Last
“There is perhaps no institution on earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated, or as mind-bogglingly delayed. ... Its construction has been such...
All About The Ocarina
This odd wind instrument, whose name is Italian for “little goose,” was invented more-or-less by chance in 1853 in a little town near Bologna....
Coachella’s Tickets Are So Expensive People Buy Them On Installment Plans. Good Idea? Or...
Coachella’s payment plan is just this: For a $599 GA ticket (including fees), fans had the option to put $49.99 down when tickets went...
Maybe “Glengarry Glen Ross” Isn’t A Critique Of Cutthroat Capitalism
“What if … Glengarry is instead celebrating the deceit, in fact presenting it as the epitome of manliness? What if Glengarry Glen Ross, quite possibly in ways...
How Architecture Shapes Everything About Video Games
These virtual spaces do more than serve as mere backdrops for gameplay. The design of buildings, streets and entire cities guides player emotions, behaviours...
