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People In Cars Scream Racial Epithets At Ballet West Dancers
And this didn't happen once, bad as that would have been. The company says "two black dancers had people scream racial epithets at them...
How Hollywood Has Avoided Telling The Story Of The Massacre Of Black Tulsa
We don't avoid telling stories about difficult topics. "There have been numerous movies about slavery, about Jim Crow, about the Vietnam War. There have...
The Power Of Fiction Helped Millions Of Us Get Through Lockdowns
Author Valeria Luiselli just won the Dublin literary award. She says that she, her daughter, and her niece have been reading out loud to...
A New Disney Movie Gives Punk’s Overlooked Women Designers Their Due
Yes, that's a weird confluence, but Cruella still makes it happen. "Cruella signposts something essential about punk: the power of reinvention. For the original...
The Fonts Of The NYT Book Review
The history of the New York Times Book Review is pretty interesting for word nerds. "Although photos already appeared in other parts of the...
Jerome Hellman, Producer Of Midnight Cowboy And Coming Home, 92
With barriers at every turn, from an anxious director who didn't want to work with the leading actors to disastrous early scripts, no one...
TV Characters, Like Everyone During The Pandemic, Have Trouble Connecting
Both on Master of None and Solos, even when the pandemic isn't in the script, it affects everything. New seasons feel "intriguingly defined by...
Gavin MacLeod, Star Of The Mary Tyler Moore Show And The Love Boat, 90
MacLeod had been a working, but struggling, actor for many years when he read for The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. He had...
Misconduct Allegations Rock LA’s Largest LGBTQ Theatre Company
Celebration Theatre's longtime AD Michael Shepperd was accused of sexual misconduct over more than a decade - and the accusers say that the theatre...
French Quarantine Rules May Prevent Britons From Attending Cannes
The problem is a new variant: "After delays caused by Covid, the festival confirmed it would take place in early July, but France has announced...
Faye Schulman, Who Fought The Nazis With A Rifle And A Camera, 101
Her rifle was important during the war; her camera became more important after: "As one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers, Mrs. Schulman,...
How The Show ‘Friends’ Helps People Around The World Learn English
Yes, that's right, the long-running sitcom (still massively popular with Millennials and Gen-Zers thanks to streaming) is useful for English language-learners around the world....
The ‘Paddington 2’ Stranglehold On Rotten Tomatoes Is Over
There's a bad review of Paddington 2? Yes" "The new Paddington 2 review slammed the warm-hearted adventure film for having deviated from the spirit of Michael...
USC’s Pacific Asia Museum Reopens With A Goal
And that goal is to decolonize itself. Museum director Bethany Montagano: "We felt a sense of urgency to do this because colonial systems of...
Under Biden’s Plan, NEA Funding Would Rise
On the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, President Biden proposed a 20 percent increase in funding for an agency the previous president always threatened...
There’s A New Black Superhero In Town – And That Town Is Milan
It's not common for Italian shows to have mostly Black casts, but the new show Zero does - and makes the invisibility of Black...
What Ta-Nehisi Coates Did For Black Panther
And, as his five-year run writing for the comic series comes to an end, what it did for him. "Coates decided early on he...
How Will Amazon Exploit Bond, Other MGM Classics?
Amazon desperately needed content, but will the Bond plan work? "Bond is a treasure trove, unexploited beyond the 25 feature films focusing on its...
Alix Dobkin, Who Wrote Songs Of Liberation, 80
Dobkin was an early idol in the women-loving-women movement. "Long before K.D. Lang transformed herself from a country artist into an androgyne pop idol...
There’s No Actual Mayor Of Easttown, But Residents Have Some Thoughts On Mare
The chair of the Board of Supervisors of Easttown says the real town isn't much like the show. "'I can’t remember when the last...
Gearing Up For Summer Reading
You ready for 75 nonfiction books in 90 days? (Oddly, LitHub also has recommendations for a mere 38 fiction works in the summer, but...
The 1990s Magazine That Showed, And Gripped, Lesbian Mecca San Francisco
Curve began its life as Deneuve, a lesbian magazine founded by a 23-year-old who gambled all her money on horse races, won, and used...
Restarting The New York Phil, In A Cemetery
Justin Davidson, on the NY Phil's Green-Wood Cemetery "Death of Classical" concert: "That might not seem like the obvious location to stage the revival...
It’s Time To Abolish Museums
Does that sound hyperbolic? It is, a bit. It's time to abolish what musuems have been in order to see what they can be,...
Prizewinning Composer Sara Glojnaric Talks About How Music And Identity Intersect
Sara Glojnarić, who won Berlin’s “Neue Szenen” competition last year, explains that being a woman, being queer, and working against racism all intersect in...