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How To Wrangle A Big Band, Especially When It’s Playing Your Music
“I don’t have to just write the arrangements. I do, in fact, have to be able to conduct it in front of the band.”...
Human Bodies Sync Up At Symphony Concerts, Study Finds
“Concert music moves audiences bodily. … Music reaches not just the minds (the cognition and experiences of people), but also their bodies such as...
After A Series Of Spendy Movies That Got Meh Returns, Apple Rethinks Its Film...
When its movies don’t do well, Apple’s psychology suffers. “Apple’s brand is quality, cutting-edge, sleek, refined, forward-looking, and so now you’re tarnishing that brand...
Less Painful Ballet Shoes Are Available, At Last
But some ballet dancers, or more likely companies, refuse to use them. Says one consultant, “The classical ballet world has a resistance to change...
Rapping About Adverbs Made This Teacher Go Viral
“Under the name of his alter ego, MC Grammar, Mitchell has become a wildly popular performer whose rhymes have made reading and grammar all...
Hollywood Is Missing Jobs Because Reality TV Shows, Too, Are Moving Overseas
“As streaming platforms and increasingly vast multinational companies seek to raise their global profile and take advantage of cheaper labor markets, runaway production has...
Ted Lasso May Get Its Fourth Season After All
At least, “the studio picked up the options on three main cast members represented by U.K. performers union Equity: Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Walton), Jeremy...
Is This Ancient Stone Carving In Turkey The World’s Oldest Calendar?
“Sweatman believes illustrations of snakes coming out of the bodies of birds and foxes on the pillars represent a meteor shower.” - Hyperallergic
Laguna Beach’s Legendary Pageant Of The Masters Is About So Much More Than Arrested...
Art, theatre, spectacle: "As we watched life-sized replicas of Alfred Hitchcock movie posters, and actors recreating a scene from The Birds, the narrator invoked...
In Mexico City, Women Feature Behind And On Stage
“At Hera, women were not only performing on stage but working behind the scenes as producers, engineers and more. It’s something Itzel González, festival...
Why We Love A Movie Star In A White T-Shirt
“As a costume designer, I see the white T-shirt as the ultimate blank canvas. I’ve cut up white tees to define a character’s unique...
Congrats, Your Film Has Been Accepted To The Venice Film Festival
Now all you have to do is that little detail of finishing the film before its festival premiere. “It’s all a normal part of...
Alert, That Victorian-Era Book You’re Holding May Be Poisoning You
Wait, don’t lick that bright green cover - which probably contains arsenic. “Since the project launched five years ago, Tedone's team has cataloged...
Wooing Young Festival-Goers With A TikTok Stage
More than TikTok, the stage at the Reading Festival in Britain celebrates podcast stars, YouTube stars, and more. One 20-something: “Everybody watches TikTok …...
The Dangers In Making A Subversive Movie In Saudi Arabia
“Saudi Arabian director Ali Kalthami was born in 1983, the year the country’s cinemas were shut down. Growing up a committed cinephile and guerrilla...
What Emmy-Nominated Actor Anna Sawai Gained From Being In Season One Of Shogun
Sawai says that while filming, “I didn’t understand the intensity of what I was mentally going through, and how much it had affected me,...
Surrendering To The Surprises Of The Criterion Channel’s New Live Stream
“The summer setting is a great vibe for my viewing experiment. The plot plays out slowly, and the warm setting is calming. Of course,...
The Director Of A Popular Family Balloon Exhibit Posted Anti-Palestinian Comments On Social Media
“'I prefer a thousand crying Arab mothers to one Jewish mother because these are my people,’ Kalimian wrote in Hebrew in response to a...
What The Right-Wing Does To Librarians, And How They’re Prepared To Respond
“Amanda Jones is a Louisiana middle-school librarian who sleeps with a shotgun under her bed and carries a pistol when she travels the back...
The Pompidou Wants, And Now Needs, A Global Reach
The Pompidou is closing for five years, starting in 2025 because, well, “If we don’t take immediate measures, the building will collapse: There are...
Unexpectedly, And Beautifully, The Onion Has Saved Itself From A Content Farm Death Spiral
Is something going right for a beloved media product? This doesn’t sound like 2024 - and yet. The Onion, which many people had long...
The Many Balloon Artists Who Rallied To Create The DNC Balloon Drop
The DNC balloon designer was fighting for his life at the hospital, but “a team of 55 balloon artists from 18 states — and...
Paramount May Be Jeopardizing Its Huge Skydance Deal
Chaos just as Skydance was heading to the finish line: "Seagram liquor company heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. this week persuaded Paramount’s independent board members to consider his...
How To Survive – And Maybe Thrive – While Performing In The Edinburgh Fringe...
One performer who was new to the 2024 Fringe: “Everyone is telling me you can’t understand the Fringe until you go to the Fringe. … I’m...
Musicians Are Extremely Tired Of Obsessive Fan Behavior
Chappell Roan is the latest to call out her so-called fans. She recently posted, “It's weird how people think that you know a person...