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Totally Reimagining The Sundance Festival For Its Pandemic Year
Director Tabitha Jackson was lucky in 2020 - her hiring was big news at last year's Sundance Film Festival. Then, of course, a global...
Junior Mance, ‘One Of The Most Swinging And Utterly Delightful Pianists In Jazz,’ 92
Mance was "a buoyant, bluesy jazz pianist who worked with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley and Dinah...
What We Expect From Revenge Fantasies
And what Emerald Fennell delivers - which is something different - in Promising Young Woman. "How do you write a revenge movie that feels...
The San Francisco Art Institute Is Facing Budget Issues Again, And Its Chairwoman Has...
The chair, Pam Rorke Levy, says that despite controversy over the attempted sale of a Diego Rivera mural, among other things, "she has acted...
Iconic Architecture Is Urban (And Insta) Clickbait
And, because of social media and marketing, it's making a serious comeback. The projects "are magnified again by technology, by the software that enables...
The Creativity, Therapy, And Writing Skill It Takes To Co-Create Celebrity Memoirs
Michelle Burford has co-written, or really, written after many hours of absorbing interviews, quite a few celebrity memoirs. She calls herself a "story architect,"...
Dungeons And Dragons, And Other Gaming Too, Must Find A Way To Rid Itself...
It's not going to be easy: "Genetic determinism is a fantasy tradition. ... As both a ruleset and a fantasy backdrop, D&D is in...
The Internet Is Shaping, ANd Changing, The Novel
Can a novel be, or feel, contemporary without references to doomscrolling or at least brushing up against social media? "While the internet and mobile...
AMC’s CEO Thinks He Can Save Movie Theatres
Or at least AMC, despite its debt load and the damage from the coronavirus shutdowns. Adam Aron: "Some of my competitors, the ones caught...
The Biden Administration Gives Hope, And Attention, To The Arts
Despite the fact that the previous president was, himself, the product of show business, the arts seemed to mean nothing to him. "If artists...
The Captain Of Sea Shanty TikTok Gets A Record Deal
You've heard "The Wellerman" by now, no doubt, since the Scottish postman who sang it a TikTok rendition of it went completely - ridiculously...
Scottish Gymnastics Told To Speed Up A Ballet School Abuse Investigation
"Several parents raised concerns with Scottish Gymnastics a year ago over dance classes for eight to 12-year-olds at the prestigious Ballet West school in...
Before Coming Back To Live Interior Performances, Theatre Audiences Want Vaccines And Masks
A survey of frequent theatregoers says that widespread vaccines are the only way most people will feel comfortable in the theatre - and, even...
Whiners Didn’t Like A New Star Wars Host’s Support Of Black Lives Matter
The official Star Wars account (and thus, Disney) is backing its Star Wars: The High Republic Show host Krystina Arielle, a Black woman who...
The Backstage Details Of That Pandemic Inauguration Gala Spectacular
The producer of the Celebrating America gala had to be very cautious, and very (very) flexible: "Our plans were carved in Jello. Everything was...
Ticket Brokers Are Starting To Pay Fines For Scalping
The Better Online Ticket Sales Act was enacted in 2016, but this is the first time it's seen enforcement. Aside from using bots, "the...
Italy’s Anarchist Architects Warned Of Endless Building Expansion
And, ironically, they might also have inspired Saudi Arabia to try to make a 100-mile-long building. - The Guardian (UK)
Turns Out Netflix Has A Vice President Of Inclusion Strategy
That's a long way to say the global creator and distributor of streaming (and don't forget DVD) content wants, and needs, to diversify the...
Larry King, Interviewer Of Darn Near Everyone, 87
King "shot the breeze with presidents and psychics, movie stars and malefactors — anyone with a story to tell or a pitch to make...
What Novelists Can Learn From Playwrights
Brontez Purnell: "All good theater and literature should run the zodiac of feelings: Some of it should be sad, some of it profound; some...
Election Misinformation Online Dropped A Dramatic 73 Percent After Trump Was Banned From Twitter
Just wow. "The findings, from Jan. 9 through Friday, highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites — reinforcing and amplifying each other —...
The Baby Blimp Of The U.S. President Will Be Memorialized At The Museum Of...
The crowd-funded helium balloon made its first appearance during the 45th president's first UK state visit in 2018, and has since made something of...
Ireland Is One Country That’s Done Well For Classical Music Online
Or so says pianist Finghin Collins, who's also artistic director of Music for Galway and the New Ross Piano Festival. Collins: "Ireland has done...
Dealing With The Legacy Of Abuser, Murderer, And Music Producer Phil Spector
Long before he murdered Lana Clarkson, it was clear Phil Spector (who died over the weekend) was not a good guy. "Ronnie Spector’s 1990...
A Bold Proposal For Galleries
Cancel them. No reform. Abolition. "Why are horror stories of racism, sexism, and abuse in art galleries open secrets that remain unaddressed? The dominant...