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Where Tap Dance Came From, And Where It’s Going
It's a long history, and a new generation is reviving the art even during the pandemic. - CBS News
Doctor Who And Torchwood, And Men Behaving Badly
First there were reports that Noel Clarke, who played Mickey from 2005-2010 on the Doctor Who reboot, was a serial sexual harasser and bully....
Nashville Isn’t Coming Through For Women
But TikTok is, forcing country radio to pay attention, and give opportunities, to young singers in new ways. - The New York Times
Streaming Theatre Will Do For Now
But nothing can replace the live experience. "Call it immediacy or authenticity, unpredictability or uniqueness, but it’s part of the reason people pay more...
Is Drawing In Decline In Britain?
Some of the nation's top (male) artists are unhappy about the lack of drawing classes, bemoaning the lack of compulsory drawing classes at the...
Lloyd Price, Whose Smash Hits Prefigured Rock, Dies At 88
Price, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, had his first big rhythm and blues hit with "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"...
What Will Happen To Eli Broad’s Grand Dreams For Los Angeles?
Broad's vision was of a Champs-Elysées on Grand Avenue, but all with his stamp on it. "Broad’s ambitions ought to prod Angelenos to consider...
The End Of Net Neutrality Was Riddled With Fraud
Fraud - and 8.5 million (Eight. Point. Five. Million.) bot comments secretly created by ISPs to urge against net neutrality. To be fair,...
Writing, It Turns Out, Can Be Rather Difficult
Masterful essay writer Elissa Mashuta: "This is the dilemma at the heart of the process: writing would be easier if I had an assured...
Hollywood Publicists, Netflix, And Amazon Push Golden Globes Group To Reform
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's released list of "reforms" didn't impress anyone much. Instead, the list set off "a remarkable cascade of criticism toward...
Broadway Reopens In Four Months, But Theatre Workers Still Need Help
A survey released by the Actors Fund says that "40% of the arts and entertainment respondents reported being more food insecure during the pandemic,...
Lyn Macdonald, Who Preserved The Voices Of WWI Soldiers, 91
Macdonald was a producer for the BBC in 1973 when she "was given what she thought would be a one-off journalistic assignment: to accompany...
Emma Donoghue ‘Toned Down The Horror’ In Room
Those who read the book or saw the movie may not quite believe it, but the real-life case from which the author drew her...
Can These Movies Save The 2022 Oscars?
Yes, it's a bit early to start placing bets, but still: "There are many nervous insiders hoping the post-pandemic pendulum will swing back toward...
Martin Bookspan, The Voice Of The Lincoln Center, 94
Bookspan realized young that he probably wouldn't make it as a solo violinist, but he brought music to anyone with a radio or TV....
Why American Remakes Of Foreign Films Don’t Always Go To Plan
Art house films in particular bear the marks of their specific directors and writers - and that often doesn't translate (sorry, Another Round and...
The Big Screen Experience Is Unparalleled
No matter what you've got in your house, there's nothing like watching a movie in the theatre with scores of other people. Then there...
Art Frieze New York Is Back, And So Are The Art Parties
Someone even asked, "Are we going to pretend nothing happened?" But no, not at the fair itself: "To gain admittance at the Shed at...
Streamers Ruled The Oscars This Year
Yes, 2020 was a weird year, and the rules for movies to debut in movie theatres were waived, but still: Netflix had seven statues,...
Anthony Hopkins Sure Didn’t Expect To Win, Either
The actor didn't appear on video for his Best Actor win, leaving the Oscars production with a big letdown of an ending. A Los...
Before The Pandemic, Jenny Odell Wrote A Book About Being Stuck In The Doomscroll
So how did the author of How to Do Nothing survive the various self-isolations, lockdowns, and other stay-at-home initiatives before vaccines got their start?...
The Oscars Disrupted Union Station And More
How wild to have a show with Crip Camp nominated for best documentary, a show that prevented disabled people in L.A. from getting to...
Al Young, Former Poet Laureate Of California, 81
Young was an acclaimed poet, but he also wrote novels - and always, always, worked jazz into his readings and his life. And along...
London’s West End Galleries Reopen
And visitors who have been in lockdown number ... infinity? ... and have been absolutely starved for art are more than happy to be...
How Oscar-Winning Director Chloe Zhao Gets Great Performances From Non-Actors
Basically, her subjects tell their stories; she works with those stories and fictionalizes them, and then the subjects act out their fictionalized lives. "The...