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As The New Conductor Of Cologne’s WDR Funkhaus Orchestra Settles In, He Still Worries...
“Celebrating his new job over pints in a Cologne Irish pub, orchestra members told Brophy that his confident versatility was why they chose him.”...
Like Everyone Else, Sigourney Weaver Fell For Baby Yoda
And that’s why she’s in the new movie The Mandalorian and Grogu. Baby Yoda isn’t so young anymore: “He’s grown up a little bit...
This Strad Sold For Millions, Though Less Than The Auction House Had Expected
The Joachim-Ma Strad from 1714 “was most notable for having been played for decades by Joseph Joachim, one of the most famous violinists of...
Denzel Washington Can Be A Rather Tough Interview
He drops gems anyway. About his wife, who competed for the Cliburn: "Acting just sort of chose me, and I got going. But she’s...
How Bridget Jones Outlasted The Critics
What happens when Lizzie loses her Darcy: “How will the last cockeyed optimist in popular culture deal with such desolation? Widowhood is no laughing...
We’re Living In The Horror Comedy
No wonder the genre is so popular right now. - Vulture
Canadian Government Strips Buffy Sainte-Marie Of Order Of Canada
“The announcement comes more than a year after an investigation from CBC's The Fifth Estate reported that her claims of Indigenous ancestry were inconsistent with publicly available...
Want To Write A Prize-Winning Novel?
One path, according to novelist Eimear McBride: Go to drama school, and study method acting. - The Guardian (UK)
Mort Kunstler, Whose Epic War Paintings Were Meticulously Researched, Has Died At 97
“Künstler developed a sense of dramatic realism early in the 1950s as an illustrator for pulp novels and men’s adventure magazines,” which carried over...
The Campaign For Emila Perez Was Historically Amazing, Until The Star’s Old Tweets Turned...
Karla Sofía Gascón was a frontrunner for Best Actress, but “recently resurfaced racist, anti-Muslim and openly anti-diversity tweets have upended the Oscar campaign not...
In England’s Midlands, A Plan To Tear Down A Brutalist Building Is Met With...
Art students at the University of Wolverhampton aren’t happy with the plan. “Yes, it can get a bit cold in the winter and some...
At A Fire-Postponed Critics Choice, Demi Moore, Then Anora, Are Surprise Winners
Because of the fires, “Voting had already concluded on Jan. 10, meaning the weeks that followed — marked by major events including the announcement...
Out Of The Forty Lowest-Ranked Films On Rotten Tomatoes, What’s The Best?
And the real time roll-out of Idiocracy meets Handmaid’s Tale, how does the reviewer survive? - The Guardian (UK)
How We All Became Both Fans And Creators Of Documentaries
“All of our feeds are at their core tremendously banal: They’re just windows into what people do with themselves all day, repeated over and...
How Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Came About, And Created The American Dream
“Obviously, they wanted films to make money. They were not public servants. They wanted a profit. But they really believed that film could create...
Explaining The Kennedy Center, And What The Current President Can Actually Do To It
“Trump’s conflicts with Kennedy Center programs began when some honorees in 2017 threatened to pull out of events including him, following his handling of the...
Amy Lau, A Co-Founder Of Design Miami, Has Died At 56
Interior designer Vicente Wolf: “Amy was the first of a new generation of designers. … She was unrestrained in the sense that she wasn’t...
Anne-ime Of Green Gables
Canada hopes the new anime series called Anne Shirley will bring back Japanese visitors to Prince Edward Islands. “Anne of Green Gables was first translated into...
Christie’s Pulls An El Greco From Auction After Romania Objects
The Romanian government says the Saint Sebastian is “part of its national art collection was removed from the country in 1947. That year,...
Librarians Saved The Day In WWII
The so-called “ink knights” were deeply into the spy game. “What’s stronger than the sword? Apparently a humble aspect, a high tolerance for cocktail...
Visiting David Hockney’s Los Angeles Haunts
Hockney would take friends “on a ‘Wagner Drive,’ something he devised as an opera-loving motorist. He’d drive up through Malibu Canyon to Mulholland Drive...
As Emilia Perez’s Oscar Campaign Implodes, The Nominees Could Be So Much Better
“Outside of Dune: Part Two's occasional experimentation, there's not much you could point to as groundbreaking. There is Nickel Boys and The Brutalist: your-mileage-may-vary sociopolitical commentaries that, at...
How Portland’s Capella Romana Survived This Administration’s First Attempt To Shut Down The Arts
As Capella Romana was planning concerts in Portland and Seattle, their NEA grant funding was suddenly frozen. Donations have poured in, but the concert,...
As The Film Festival Ends, Here Are The Best Movies Of Sundance
In its second to last year in Park City, Utah, “it was hard to escape the specter of those difficult times,” including - of...
Two Of The Stars Of Emilia Perez Fight Back
The “French musical about a Mexican drug trafficker who transitions and leaves behind a life of violence has generated a wave of controversy,” but...
