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Meet The Teens Who Formed A Book Club To Read Banned Books
As conservative U.S. adults go on absolute orgies of book objections and attempts to censor and ban books by or about LGBTQIA+ people, Black...
Boston Has Been Without A Concertmaster Since 2019, And Its Search Is Being Conducted,...
Boston music lovers are curious because "the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been quietly searching for its next concertmaster. Whomever they appoint to this coveted...
Stephanie Selby, Known To Millions As ‘A Very Young Dancer,’ Has Died
The book that inspired thousands of aspiring dancers caused the subject serious issues. "Stephanie was not just another young woman who decided that the...
This 45-Year-Old Album Has Been On The Charts For 926 Weeks
That's right: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours has been selling well for longer than any Millennial has been alive, and now it's selling more copies on...
A Statue Of A Racist Former Governor In Mississippi Is Now Stashed In A...
Mississippi House Clerk Andrew Ketchings "said he had been bothered by the statue for years 'because of everything he stood for. ... It was...
The New MoviePass Wants In On The Metaverse
What does that mean? Well: "You don’t need fake popcorn; you don’t need tomatoes; you don’t need other things that are in there. And...
The Black Authors Shaking Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
"Until recently Black authors had a hard time getting book deals from mainstream Brazilian publishers," when a few authors decided to change things: "They...
We Don’t Understand The Past, And We Don’t Have Any Idea What’s Coming
Or so says historian and science fiction author Ada Palmer. "As she sees it, societal progress may be stochastic, unpredictable, but certain constants shape...
Admit It: Jimmy Kimmel Has A Point About The Oscars
OK, he sounded a little like a frat boy while dissing The Power of the Dog, but "the thing that Kimmel was getting at...
Why Does A C Look Like A C?
Or any letter at all - what's the reasoning behind letter shapes? Turns out it might not be as random as linguists thought, and...
Finding A Balance In Opera Performance
Soprano Marlis Peterson: "In the beginning of my career, the singing was most important. ... Then the music became as important as the text,...
No Shock That In-Person Library Use Plummeted In Early 2021
But, in the UK at least, there was a corresponding gain in e-usage. But "borrowing of physical books had returned to around 84% of...
Perhaps We Need A True Oscars Villain To Know Movies Can Come Back From...
The true way to unite a culture is to give the Best Picture nod to something like Crash. (Please do not, though. Please.) -...
Henry Darger’s Landlords Inherited The Rights To His Art, But Should They Have?
Good question, though without the landlords' advocacy, the world might never have heard of the artist and his work. "Now distant relatives of Darger...
How Physics Shape Opera, And The Rest Of Reality
It's all about resonance. "A system’s natural frequencies depend on its intrinsic properties: For a flute, for instance, they are the frequencies of sound...
It’s Possible That On Tuesday, The Oscars Will Nominate No One New For The...
The trend is weirdly strong: "If you read the tea leaves put forth by the nominations for the DGA and SAG, there’s a strong...
Artist Damien Hirst Faces His 16th Accusation Of Plagiarism
Can one plagiarize a painting of cherry blossoms? Perhaps. "English artist and writer Joe Machine ... says they look just like his own cherry...
Why Are People Upset About The Sudden Demolition Of This 1945 House?
The Marcel Breuer-designed Geller House "embodied the optimistic, now-vanished values of postwar suburbia: technological progress and a lifestyle built around children’s needs." - The...
Along With COVID Disinformation, Turns Out Joe Rogan Was Peddling The N-Word An Awful...
Spotify has removed 70 episodes wherein Rogan used the N-word, but none of the episodes removed were related to the protest over Rogan's habit...
A Harvard Student Has Created An Entire Musical For A Korean Disney Princess
Julia Riew's senior thesis at Harvard is "complete with script, screenplay, and more than 15 original songs. Her Disney-inspired work tells the story of...
One Way Singapore’s Theatre Actors Have Kept Busy During The Pandemic
Would you believe that interactive Zoom mystery theatre is a thing? Actor Bright Ong says, "The tectonic plates under have shifted, and the...
The New Trend In Indie Movies Is Female Silver Foxes
But whew, the discourse. For instance, Emma Thompson isn't "brave" for acting in sex scenes; she’s "an actress who’s still at the top of...
Virginia Woolf Was Many Things, But She Was Not A Great Cook
In To the Lighthouse, "these dishes are described with great fanfare but, as any competent home cook will know, beef stews are neither challenging...
Yiddish Scholars Are Helping Rescue Immigrant Women’s Fiction From Obscurity
For decades, the early 20th century fiction written by Yiddish women was "dismissed by publishers as insignificant or unmarketable to a wider audience." Luckily,...
Why Are So Many Artists Placing Sculptures On The Ocean Floor?
It's climate change, dummy: "Activist artists are working to get humanity to change course before it’s too late. They are sculpting major artworks that...
