Yearly Archives: 2021
Let’s Look At The Logic Of Netflix’s Christmas Movies
"Netflix’s Christmas rom-coms are not meant to be judged on a spectrum of 'good' to 'bad.' They are only to be understood on a...
Almudena Grandes Started Her Writing Career With An Acclaimed Erotic Novel
Before her death at 61, she had become one of Spain's most ambitious, and certainly most progressive and feminist, novelists. Spain's prime minister wrote,...
Theatre Freelancers Have Had A Hard Time During The Pandemic
Gigantic surprise, right? On the other hand, a study found that in Britain, "Freelancers have also been networking and organising and built up a...
What’s The Future For Musicians Who Work On Streaming Shows?
In terms of payment, it's a huge mess - thanks to the failure to win residuals from reruns in the 1960s, plus streamers' legendary...
Will Theatres In Ireland And Britain Make It Through Panto Season?
Maybe, but without kids onstage: "We would usually have four teams of 10 children under 12, and four teams of four teenagers rotating through...
In 2021, We Were Still Cry-Laughing, Or Laugh-Crying, A Whole Lot
At least, according to our collective emoji use. The "face with tears of joy" accounted for five percent of all emojis sent online last...
How John Coltrane Became A Literal Saint
A church founder says hearing Coltrane turned him into "born-again believer in that anointed sound that leaped down from the tone of heaven out...
Turns Out It’s Not So Easy To Bridge The Gap Between Scotland And Northern...
Boris Johnson wanted a span crossing a 300-m trench filled with munitions, but his bridge game is off after "a government feasibility study by a team...
Jane Campion’s Bones
“I’m an old dog in the game,” Campion says, smiling. “I’m careful about the bones I care to chew on. I want something with...
Florida School Called TikTok High, After Dance Videos
The videos featuring students – many of them uniformed athletes at Venice High School – dancing at the school with the staircase as their...
A Dancer Who Doesn’t Look Like The Others
The 23-year-old has returned to dance from injury and uses his wheelchair and crutches to perform. He said it should be easier for others...
How Amazon Made Book Selling The Way We Read
The populist turn has put into question whether a comparatively very small group of authors—no matter how diverse—should really hog the scholarly limelight, especially...
Chicago Art Institute Fired Its Docents – A Struggle To Redefine American Museums
The ramifications of what happened at the Art Institute will play out for years. Depending who’s talking, it’s about diversity, gratitude or merely the...
Bookstore Lost 400,000 Books In A Fire. Then The Community Stepped Up
Thousands of books, filling two shipping containers, have been donated - and more are coming in all the time. - The Leader
The Diagram Prize For The Oddest Book Title Of 2021 Goes To —
Is Superman Circumcised?, which is, in fact, a serious study of the origins of the DC Comics character (subtitle: "The Complete Jewish History of...
Why It’s So Difficult To Design Communities Resilient To Climate Change
The recent passage of a $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure bill is a big step toward tackling some of those problems, but as East River...
Mezzo Jamie Barton Intends To Dismantle The Patriarchy, Or At Least Its Standard Opera...
"I've spent a lot of years doing roles where I'm the third person in a love triangle, … and the lead soprano almost always...
NBC’s Live “Annie” Was “Pleasant”
You probably tuned in to NBC’s “Annie Live!” for one reason: to see if it would be a train wreck. - Washington Post
Spain’s “Scrap Cathedral”
Using bricks and wood scavenged from building sites, shards of stained glass, and stacked oil drums for pillars, former monk Justo Gallego spent six...
It’s Not You: Why It’s Getting More Difficult To Understand Movie Dialogue
"It's really a gumbo, an accumulation of problems that have been exacerbated over the last 10 years … that's kind of this time span...
The Pivot That Got One Of L.A.’s Biggest Dance Centers Through The Pandemic
"In August, the Los Angeles-area stalwart the Lab closed its dance space, a 12,000-square-foot location. … Instead, it has transformed from a dance studio...
Sondheim And The Art Of Mentoring
As a mentor, as a letter writer, as an audience member who showed up far beyond Broadway to witness new work, he quietly, faithfully...
The Choreographer Who Designs Movement For People To Use Computers With
Lins Derry "is one of the world's foremost experts on the design of choreographic interfaces: the practice of using carefully designed bodily motions (think:...
Antony Sher, One Of Britain’s Great Stage Actors, Dead At 72
Though an accomplished writer and screen actor, he was most admired for theatre classics from Shakespeare to Pinter. In 1985, for Richard III and...
After 25 Years, “Citizen Ruth” Is Relevant Again, And Star Laura Dern Is Very...
In this Q&A, she says that in 1996, Harvey Weinstein and Miramax deliberately buried the movie, but that young people today (including her daughter's...