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Netflix Is A Drug, Its Algorithms Are Dealers, And David Foster Wallace Predicted It...
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos "recognized that viewers were addicts, and that his role was to supply what they wanted" whenever they wanted it. The...
Pianist Nelson Freire Dead At 77
"One of the most celebrated pianists of the second half of the 20th century, … The Guardian once wrote of him, 'few pianists alive...
Why Did The Old Vic Cancel “Into The Woods” So Suddenly Last Week? A...
The high-profile revival of the Sondheim musical was to be directed by Terry Gilliam (yes, from Monty Python), who has made some, er, controversial...
Why Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Important, Despite All The Censorship Controversy
"With 700,000 square feet of space, it is expected to be a major entry into the region's art scene. … Below, a look at...
Preserving Mexico’s Old-Time Popular Cinema — And Getting Some Respect From The World For...
"Had they not been rescued from a dusty storehouse seven years ago, the original negatives of hundreds of Mexican movies featuring the likes of...
Turns Out Poland Is A Hotbed Of Sacred Choral Music
Paweł Łukaszewski, now his nation's leading living composer, has written a lot of good music for choir. So have his Polish colleagues and predecessors...
Victorian “Penny Dreadful” Pulp Novels Actually Contributed To Improving British Society (No, Really)
The cheap, cheesy horror stories became so popular, especially among older children and teens, that they were arguably a bigger factor in spreading literacy...
James Ivory, Still Working At 93, Says His Life As A Gay Man Has...
The director half of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking duo (and the oldest person ever to win an Oscar) says he and Ismail Merchant weren't...
When Rudy Giuliani Tried To Shut Down The Brooklyn Museum
In a new memoir, Arnold Lehman, who was director of the museum at the time, looks back at the culture-war media circus that broke...
COVID Killed Quite A Few Dance Companies, And The Survivors Are Scared
As dance companies are returning to the stage, the ghosts of those that no longer exist haunt the field. … Dance advocates see the...
Why People Really Cancel Their News Subscriptions
The Nieman Journalism Lab asked its readers who had cancelled to tell them why, and hundreds did. Ideological or political bias was cited, but...
The Behemoth Of Broadway Licensing Companies May Be Up For Sale
You may not know of Concord Theatricals, but in the past five years, it has bought up Samuel French, Tams-Whitmark Music Library, and rights...
Off-Broadway’s Leading Awards Eliminate Gender From Acting Categories
The Lucille Lortel Awards will honor outstanding lead performer and outstanding supporting performer in a musical and in a play, thus cutting the number...
“Utterly Astounding”: Well-Preserved Roman Statues Found On Route Of Britain’s Planned High-Speed Railway
"Statues of a Roman man, woman and child have been uncovered by archaeologists at an abandoned medieval church on the route of the HS2...
NBCUniversal Loses Half A Billion Dollars On Its New Streaming Service
"Comcast on Thursday reported $230 million in revenue and a $520 million adjusted loss related to NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock in its third-quarter earnings...
George Butler, The Documentarian Who Made Arnold Schwarzenegger Famous, Dead At 78
It was via Butler's 1977 film Pumping Iron that the charismatic Austrian bodybuilder came to the world's attention. Notable among Butler's other docs were...
For The First Time In Over A Decade, The Paris Opera Ballet Has A...
Le Rouge et Le Noir, based on Stendhal's novel, has choreography, costumes and set design by Pierre Lacotte, 89, who's been with the company...
The Real Skill Behind A Great Magician’s Show (It’s Not How The Tricks Are...
Joshua Jay: "In my craft, unlike filmmaking, I have to find the intersection of suspense and surprise, and that's difficult. In a two-hour movie,...
How’s This For Brave? A Complete Wagner ‘Ring’ Cycle, Set In Samoa, Performed With...
That's exactly what the London-based collective Gafa, run by Samoan-British singers, is doing for the next four Saturdays, in a costumed concert staging. The...
Urdu And Hindi Are Basically The Same Language. Why Do Hindu Nationalists So Violently...
It's not as simple as Urdu=Muslim and Hindi=Hindu. Not only did the two languages — which share all their grammar and most of their...
Haunted House Attractions Are Immersive Theater. What Distinguishes The Good Ones?
Really, it's the same things as with any other theater: good actors with good material matter more than special effects. As Halloween approaches, Alexis...
Meet The Great-Grandson Of One Of The Benin Bronze Sculptors, Who Still Runs A...
Monday Aigbe has a statue of his ancestor in the middle of his complex, where craftsmen continue to cast bronzes and carve sculptures and...
This Is The Second Most Popular Talk Radio Show In America (You May Never...
"Like much of talk radio, The Ramsey Show sits in a murky zone between journalism and entertainment. It is not quite a news program,...
In Chicago, Nearly Half Of Small Performing Arts Orgs Can’t Or Won’t Reopen Yet
The Donnelly Foundation surveyed 91 of its grantees (organizations with budgets under $1 million) and found that 44% of them either can't return to...
After A Century, The Last Tsar’s Palace Is Restored And Reopened
The Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg, where Nicholas, Alexandra, and their five children lived before being shipped off to Yekaterinburg to...
