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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...
Artist Alonso Davis, Champion Of Black American Art, Has Died At 82
Davis and his brother Dale opened the first Black-owned gallery in Los Angeles, “showing and selling works from Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar,...
Ballet Costumes, But Make Them Modern Fashion
“This one is a particularly huge, ambitious design—there’s probably close to 50 costumes in this ballet, and it’s a one-act ballet.” - GQ (MSN)
That Tough Move From Short Stories To Novels
It hasn’t been so hard for Irish writer Colin Barrett. “It was very rewarding in the end. And, immediately, another idea that definitely is...
Alicia Keys Gets More Grammys, But This Time One In Theatre
“Hell’s Kitchen, a coming-of-age show inspired by the adolescent experiences of Alicia Keys and fueled by her music, won a Grammy Award on Sunday for best...
The Use Of Fandom Tactics To Smear Blake Lively May Be The Future Of...
“People can manipulate what we see on social media, and ... this case will only make it easier for publicists to monopolize fandom tactics...
Why The Architecture World Hates The Brutalist
“There is nothing more irritating to enthusiasts than when the mainstream tries to portray their niche world and gets it wrong. And The Brutalist...
One Reporter’s After Hours At The Pompidou
Living the dream: A head security officer, “who is the only woman to have been appointed to this high-level position at the Centre Pompidou...
Millicent Dillon, Who Chronicled The Writers Jane And Paul Bowles, Has Died At 99
“Dillon won the coveted O. Henry Award five times for her stories, but she devoted most of her writing career to the Bowleses —...
Nicolas Cage, Like Many Actors, Isn’t Into Artificial Intelligence
After winning an award, Cage said, “I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition...
When You Get To Season Four, It’s Time To Break Out
"Previously a classical pianist, singer and orchestral clarinetist, started acting in high school productions and began her TV career at 17 on an...
On Writing Ambiguity, And Terror
"How horrifying will this monster turn out to be? And how can the characters defend themselves against it unless they accept it’s there? The...
The Full List Of Grammy Winners, Including Classical, Where Dudamel Cleaned Up
Gabriela Ortiz’s Ortiz: Revolucion Diamantina, played by the LA Phil with Gustavo Dudamel as conductor, won a lot of those gold Victrolas. Other winners:...
Tash Aw On Starting An Epic Novel Quartet
“The whole subversion of the epic form is very important to me. Because I don’t think people think of their lives in terms of...
What Kind Of Los Angeles Will Now Arise?
“Time and again, fires have fast-tracked urban change. London after the Great Fire of 1666 rewrote its safety laws, widened streets and erected new public...
When Michael Palin Started Keeping A Diary, Little Did He Know Who He’d Become
“I did worry I’d lose friends. But, well, there’s no revelations of mass drug taking or orgies or anything. Because I haven’t been to...
The Los Angeles Poets, Students, And Others Who Helped Out After The Fires
"In front of Sam’s tool crib, where workers got outfitted with gloves, goggles, hand tools, and helmets, I bumped into Rocio Carlos. ... She...
Is Mark Wahlberg Trying To Capitalize On The Rise Of Conservative Hollywood?
He’s simply quite Christian now. “The supposed edginess of the Christian Actor stems from the idea that in godless Hollywood it’s somehow taboo to...
