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Time To Bring Back Leonard Bernstein’s Musical?
Mark Swed thinks so: Bernstein "devoted four years to the musical. He wrote more music for it than for any other theater work. The...
Duke Bootee, Who Changed The Course Of Hip-Hop, 69
Writer, studio musician at Sugar Hill Records, and singer, Bootee couldn't take the upbeat party aims of early hip-hop. So he wrote "The Message"...
Apple Also Blames Facebook For Undermining Democracy
And now there's a tug of war about the future of the internet - and the future of any kind of privacy. - Wired
An Appraisal, And An Appreciation, Of Cicely Tyson
Wesley Morris: "Alas, she would not be playing the most daring, out-there characters. And let’s face it: the great parts were always headed to...
The Dramatic Importance Of Club Dance To City Life
That's merely one thing that's missing right now, of course, but it is missing, and Dublin isn't going to let people forget the joys...
Beaming Music To Potential Extraterrestrial Life
The SETI Institute is ready to take music to Mars, or wherever. While it's a listening project, it's also now a beaming project. A...
The Forgotten Black British Writers That A Booker-Winner Wants To Bring Back
Bernadine Evaristo, author of 2019's Booker prizewinning Girl, Woman, Other, is launching, or relaunching, a series of Black British novels that didn't quite make...
Tonys Voting Has A Plan, But The Awards Date Is A Mystery
The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing: "One, the much-delayed awards will be scheduled 'in coordination with the reopening of Broadway.' And two,...
Looking For Movies About Wall Street For, Well, Reasons?
You won't find them on the usual streaming suspects. - The Verge
Corky Lee, Photographer Of Asian America, Dies Of Covid At 73
Lee, the son of immigrants from China, "was determined both to restore the contributions of Asian-Americans to the historical record and to document their...
Leslie Odom Jr Almost Passed On Playing Sam Cooke
Those who have seen One Night in Miami will appreciate that the actor, singer, and star of Hamilton made a different choice, especially with...
The Most Valuable Award In British Poetry Goes To Bhanu Kapil
Poet Lavinia Greenlaw, who chaired the committee for the T.S. Eliot prize, said of Kapil's How to Wash a Heart, "This is a unique...
Judi Dench Is A Bit Bored In Lockdown
Someone hire her, quickly. "Lockdown, I fear, is not the life Dench was born to. She used to practically eat and drink on the...
Bob Avian, Broadway Choreographer, 83
Avian co-choreographed A Chorus Line with Michael Bennett, and choreographed Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. He "directed a 2006 revival of A Chorus Line...
The Lonely Struggle Of The Street Artists Of Paris
The artists of the Place du Tetre are feeling squeezed out by restaurants, and then there's the emptiness. One of the artists: "It’s a...
The Indie Bookstore That Categorizes Books By Emotion
There are shelves about "On the Troubles of Growing Up and Moving On" and "For Escaping Your Life," among many others. "Oh Hello Again...
What Did CBS Do With, And In, Its Supposedly Thorough Investigation Into A Racist,...
Some things have changed. But the news affiliates? Oof. The details of CBS Television Stations President Peter Dunn's racism - saying of an anchor,...
Despite The Pandemic, Honolulu’s Bishop Museum Is Taking Visitors Through The Experience Of Surfing
The designer of the exhibit: "Duke Kahanamoku, on a wooden board with no fins, surfed a wave that was over 25 feet tall on...
During Pandemic Lockdowns, Thousands Turn To Online Nude Drawing Classes For Solace
Online drawing classes are, for many people in lockdown in Britain, a lifeline to the outside world. And there's a plus: "Individual sessions can...
Making Film That’s Both Political And Personal
Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, who directed and wrote the new film Identifying Features, "don’t believe Mexican storytellers have the luxury of creating apolitically....
Why The Art World Needs Populism
Because we can't trust the art world to the elites. For instance, in recent years, "Major art collectors (mostly white) were benefitting from the...
Can Virtual Reality Deliver The Benefits Of Nature?
It's an urgent question for many in lockdown - and in the UK, "whether we are in lockdown or not, four fifths of the...
Defining Southern Literature Is A Troubled, Troubling Task
For white Southern writers, especially, "the deconstruction and demolition of so many of the myths about Southern culture and identity has been ongoing in...
Walter Bernstein, Blacklisted And Celebrated Filmmaker, 101
Bernstein's "career as a top film and television screenwriter was derailed by the McCarthy-era blacklist, and decades later turned that experience into one...
Spike Lee Gives Fiery Speech Comparing Trump To Hitler
Lee's speech for the New York Film Critics Circle Awards was filmed on January 6 - the day when insurrectionists broke into the U.S....