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Tag: 05.22.21

The Era Of The Big Comedy Film Is Over

TV shows, TikTok, live mini-shows, Instagram Stories, and memes - comedy has changed. Even the second Borat movie, though it was made and was...

That Viral Band The Linda Lindas Gets A Record Contract

The girls went absolutely viral for a video of their performance at the Los Angeles Public Library, especially a clip with their song "Racist...

Former Moonlighting Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron’s Time At CBS Ends After An Investigation

After multiple writers left the show following season five, the show investigated. The writers - who all refused to be named out of fear...

Kathleen Andrews, The Woman Who Helped Bring Us Ziggy, Cathy, And Doonesbury, 84

Kathy Andrews and her husband Jim, "with his best friend, John P. McMeel, concocted a newspaper syndication company from the basement of the Andrewses’...

Michael Morgan Talks about Developing Young Conductors

The Music Director of the Oakland Symphony speaks about innovation and helping train promising young candidates for the podium. - Aaron Dworkin

Don’t Count Print Newspapers Out Yet

Well, not quite yet, anyway. "When futurologist Ross Dawson published his 'newspaper extinction timeline' in 2010, he predicted that newspapers would cease to exist in the...

A Japanese Composer, A Burkina Faso Storyteller, And A Congolese Rapper Make Opera

Composer Keiko Fujiie, who moved to Burkina Faso and built a house where the musicians can practice without annoying their neighbors, hopes to tour...

This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors Are A Breath Of Fresh Air

The five honorees said that the six-month delay, and the loss of so many performance opportunities and spaces during the pandemic, made this weeklong...

How Jane Rogers Took On Britain’s Very Male Literary Establishment In The 80s

Rogers: "When I started work on Mr Wroe’s Virgins I was 35. I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder. Faber had published...

How Colonial Williamsburg Is Producing Progressive Theatre

The truth is, enslaved people formed the majority of the town's population at the time depicted at the site. New interpreters and an urgency...

And Now Tattoos Will Be Sold As NFTs

But the owners won't need to get tatted in real life. "In this new marketplace, customers will be buying the exclusive rights to the...

Movie Theatres Are Begging Audiences To Return

Apparently, 70 percent of the moviegoing public - which is, let's note, far higher than the percentage of fully vaccinated people in the U.S....
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