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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...
Horses And An Authoritarian Future
Ali Smith, on her new book Gliff, and needing libraries: “The difference between information and knowledge is the difference between an ice covering across...
All About Tonight’s Grammy Awards
Remember the Los Angeles fires? “Some weren’t sure the show would go on as planned. The Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammy Awards,...
The Problem With Big Tech
Well, more than one problem, really. And Ed Zitron would like to be the one explaining why it’s all such a mess - and...
Han Kang On South Korea’s Constitutional Crisis, And How It Felt To Win The...
“Han was not prepared for her new status as national hero. ‘Too much attention is not very good for writers,” she says. … ‘You...
One Week In The Life Of An Experimental Theatre Director, In January
As commercial theatre recovers from the holidays, experimental theatre is amped up. "January is this incredible crush of everyone doing everything all the time,...
Embracing The Analog
“In modern reality, most media are streamed, digitized, and easily vaporized; not so much owned as leased; pockmarked with ads and often tweaked (or falsified)...
Two Films Yanked From Sundance’s Online Portal Thanks To Piracy
Before Twinless and Selena y Los Dinos even found distributors, "people were circulating clips and key plot points for both films.” - Vulture
Neko Case On Where Artists Can Put All Of Their Rage
Case thinks that "if her upbringing had been stable, ‘I would have been a much better musician, because I’d have started earlier – I...
Philip Guston Mural Restored In Mexico
“The surreal, Renaissance-influenced composition of broken bodies, ominous hooded figures and tools of cruelty was crumbling and faded. Whole sections of the piece were...
Can Dutch Cinema Compete With The Rest Of Europe?
One producer says, “Unfortunately, the talent isn’t really stimulated in the Netherlands in the right way, and there is a definite lack of ambition,...
Claire Tabouret Is One Of Eight Artists Chosen To Design New Stained-Glass Windows At...
"I never applied for any competitions before. … And I think when I saw this, I was like, ‘OK, if I’m going to try...
Wired Is Tracking As US Government Websites Disappear
An employee said, “Decades worth of taxpayer-funded reports and analysis gone in an instant. … We have no idea what is happening behind the...
Phyllis Dalton, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer For Historical Epics Doctor Zhivago And Henry V, Has...
“‘Anyone can make a smart frock,’ she said. … 'It’s much more difficult to make people from the past who are wearing ordinary...
Is There Any Way To Fix The Academy’s International Film Category?
“Alone among the Oscar categories, International Film puts people who are not in the Academy in charge of what Academy members can and cannot...
What Makes Lion Dancing So Rigorous, And Rewarding
Lion dances for Lunar New Year are part of “an art that dates back to the Han Dynasty and is said to bring good...
Hollywood Is Finally Giving Older Women Second Chances
“One of the prevailing narratives of this year’s awards season leading up to the Oscars has been that of the return to the limelight...
People Who Know Little About AI Are Much Friendlier Toward Using It
Bascially? People who understand AI isn’t “magical” are less enamored of it. - Wired
Spotify And Universal Music Group Reach A Deal That May Help Musicians After Bundling...
The deal, which supposedly ameliorates some of the damage from last year’s audiobook-music bundling plan by the streaming giant, “also marks the first direct...
How Can Los Angeles’ Most Beloved Industry Survive?
“At stake is the future of a defining industry that helps make Los Angeles a vibrant creative capital, employing tens of thousands of workers...
Why Reading Lolita In Tehran Still Holds Up
Or maybe holds up even better, more than two decades later: Azar Nafisi’s memoir “isn’t just about reading and teaching literature under a repressive...
