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New Editions Of Roald Dahl’s Books Remove Some Of His Hateful Rhetoric
The man really loved to call people fat, and he also enjoyed calling people - with varying degrees of disgust - "crazy," "Black," and...
The Extraordinary, Art Historical Beauty Of Photos Of The Downed Spy Balloon
The Navy images’ "unusual lighting and dramatic composition ... smooth individual sailors into heroic archetypes and make the calm, pre-dawn Atlantic seawater as lush...
Banksy Mural Messed With Once Again, This Time By The Gallery
First the local council said the freezer that was part of the artwork was a hazard, and now a gallery says they can't figure...
The Girls Who Dance, And Gather Coal
"Before sunset, in the 110-square-mile mining region of Jharia in eastern India, an ensemble of girls dances near an opencast coal mine. Come sunrise,...
A Small Jeff Koons Sculpture Has Shattered On The Floor At A Miami Art...
At a preview, a woman brushed the sculpture - and, said a collector, "Before I knew it, they were picking up the Jeff Koons...
The Classical Legend Of Cartagena Plays On
When Teresita Gómez was 3, a piano teacher let her watch "from a distance — while was teaching the little white girls who...
Jesse Trevino, Who Lost His Painting Arm In Vietnam And Retrained Himself, 76
"Trevino painted portraits of Chicano life in San Antonio that have been exhibited across the country, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His towering murals...
Dame Judi Dench Is Losing Her Eyesight
She says her macular degeneration makes it impossible to read scripts, and to memorize lines. - Los Angeles Times
Will Disney Dump Hulu?
The trials and tribulations of the large streamers seem somewhat petty - and yet the Mouse just announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs. Will...
The Netflix Password Crackdown Backlash Is Part Of Something Much Bigger
"There was a moment in which it felt like the desires of users and the desires of Big Tech aligned, especially in the pandemic....
Poet Em Strang Says We’re Living Through A Time Of ‘Incredible’ Misogyny
"At the moment it just seems at the forefront because we’re living in these extraordinary climate-change end times and so much is collapsing. I’m...
The BAFTA Nominees Aren’t So White Anymore
Or at least, following not so hard upon the all-white 2020 actor nomination slate, not this year. - The New York Times
Making Dance After Being Incarcerated And Then Catching COVID
"Paper became a backbone for the project, and therefore a large part of the soundscore for Data. As dancers move throughout the piece, the...
Are Theatre Sales Trending Upward?
Record tickets sales in Chicago's Theatre Week may indicate - finally - something's going OK for the COVID-bitten profession. - Daily Herald (Illinois)
What Fluency Means, In Speech And Writing
"My capacity for speaking German is not unlike imagination or good writing: Believe hard enough and the genie reappears. But belief also cannot be...
Indiana College Catches Heat For Plan To Sell Museum’s Paintings To Pay For Freshman...
"The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), and the Association...
The Indian Writer Reclaiming Her Language
Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand, written and published in Hindi, pushed Western readers and critics to learn about the deep diversity of Indian literature...
The Shady Ethics Of Documentary Series
What happens to the subjects of these series years later - and what about when the series get bought by streaming services, and everything...
So This Netflix Show’s Villain Is Pretty Close To, You Guessed It, Disney
The Netflix series My Dad the Bounty Hunter's Patrick Harpin: "The theme park ... was a way that kids have an entry point to...
Sale Of Chewbacca Actor’s Memorabilia Halted After His Widow Makes A Plea
A couple found scripts and call sheets in their attic and gave them to an auctioneer - but health issues related to original Chewbacca...
The Library Of Congress Has Acquired The Archive Of The Lion King’s Choreographer
Of course Tony Award-winning Garth Fagan, now 82, did a lot more in his career than The Lion King. He's "a Jamaican-born choreographer known...
Jada Pinkett Smith, The Person The Slap Was Supposedly About, Has Moved On
Along with racism, and other setbacks in her industry,"It’s something that can either make you bitter ... or it’s something you can look at,...
Cornerstone Theatre’s Michael John Garces To Step Down
He was the group's second artistic director, after Bill Rauch left for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. "Upon arrival he helped to define a new...
Diving A Little Deeper Into The Five Oscar-Nominated Documentaries
All but one of the documentaries (though that one's the frontrunner) debuted at Sundance 2022 - "a testament to just how vital the fest...
How The Beyhive Beat Ticketmaster
Partly, Ticketmaster might have (slightly - let's be real) improved since the Taylor Swift tickets debacle. Also, Beyoncé fans shared tips, tricks, secrets and...
