Tag: 05.30.21
Solving One Problem With Publishing Genres
Though "Asian fantasy" has been exploding in popularity as a sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy, not all authors think that's a good categorization....
How Atlas Obscura Is Decolonizing — No, Enhancing — Its Content
"The Internet's favorite catalog of weird places" (as the headline fittingly describes it) is going through what it's calling (for lack of a term...
Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Of Colorful Books Like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, 86
Ehlert created 38 books for young children as an author and illustrator. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, which she illustrated with her signature collages, has...
Opera Singer Adrian Angelico Says The Art Form Helped Him Come Out As Trans
Angelico specializes in trousers (or pants, in the US) roles. He says that one day, he finished a rehearsal at covent Garden and realized...
New Research Says That Sleep Evolved Before Brains
This is an entirely new concept for many researchers. "For more than a century, researchers who study sleep have looked for its purpose and...
Can The Movies Recover From The Pandemic?
Well, A Quiet Place II's boffo box office seems to indicate that people are sick of their living rooms and, one hopes, fully vaccinated...
Forget Art And Gems, The Real Money’s In The Library
How many archives are being plundered for private profit? Probably quite a few - and only librarians and academics seem to care. - The...
The Specialized Bacteria Cleaning Michelangelo’s Masterpieces
A top-secret project made the Medici Chapel gleam anew: "In the months leading up to Italy’s Covid-19 epidemic and then in some of the...
A Sound Check In Inglewood
How'd the dry run for the YOLA concert hall go? "It would be hard to imagine a less proper acoustic assessment, or a better...
Barcelona’s City Council Rejects A Proposed Branch Of The Hermitage
It's not a simple no, however: "The port authority, which owns the site of the proposed museum, gave the green light but the council...
The Food Design Of Mare Of Easttown
Honestly, among fans, the food is famous. "HBO is aware of the series' reputation, and continues to tweet things like 'The Mare of Easttown food pyramid:...
A Choreographer Finds Her Voice
Leslie Cuyjet has recently created a dance "so conceptual and personal. Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen — who curate Dance and Process, an...
The Washington State Choir Whose Rehearsal Proved Singing Can Be A Superspreader Event Wants...
To be fair, the Skagit Valley Chorale (the one where 52 of 61 singers eventually got COVID from a single rehearsal in March 2020)...
Call My Agent’s Liliane Rovere Explains How Her Life Created Her Character
Rovère's character "Arlette has struck a chord as everyone’s ideal disreputable aunt with a repertoire of outrageous stories that she just might tell if...
How Hollywood Has Avoided Telling The Story Of The Massacre Of Black Tulsa
We don't avoid telling stories about difficult topics. "There have been numerous movies about slavery, about Jim Crow, about the Vietnam War. There have...