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Esta TerBlanche, Fan Favorite Soap Opera Star, Has Died At 51
Esta TerBlanche was a South African actress whose first language was Afrikaans, so of course she played a Hungarian princess - who ad-libbed a...
How Doing A Comedic Horror Movie Sent Penelope Wilton’s Fame Sky-High
Sure, yes, she’s the prime minister when the Daleks come in Doctor Who, but what really helped her with the Youngs was acting in...
On TikTok, True Crime Survivors Are Owning Their Stories
“True crime podcasts, movies and investigative TV series are wildly popular, often raking in profits for their producers and platforms. Many, though, are made...
Los Angeles’s Westwood Is Losing Two Historic Cinemas This Week
One, “the Village Theatre, is expected to close only temporarily, thanks to a high-profile effort by director Jason Reitman and others to save the once stately 170-foot white...
How Do You Make A Movie About Tornadoes Increasing In Intensity But Never Mention...
Welcome to a scared Hollywood. “'I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like is putting forward...
Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Tries To Recover From Bloody Russian Destruction Of Printing Plant
“Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof...
Why Did Melania Trump Choose Beethoven?
“Serenading an audience fresh from four days of divisive rhetoric, immigrant bashing and attacks on LGBTQ people with music from a sonic icon of Europe’s post-World War II...
Trying To Organize A Music Festival In A War Zone
When the Russians might bomb you out at any second, what’s the point, really? “People need some joy in their lives, even through these...
We Need To Talk About Egypt’s Weirdly Compelling Biennale Exhibit
“The images are indelible: groups of soldiers sway and swoon in perfect synchronicity; top-hatted ambassadors from European powers squat barefoot on a tilted table...
Cheng Pei-pei, Hong Kong’s Queen Of Swords And Star Of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,...
“In a career-spanning six decades, Cheng burst on to the scene in the 1960s, becoming a star for Shaw Brothers Studios, the Hong Kong production...
A Bookshop In New Delhi Explains Why Its Top 100 List Is, Well, Not...
"If a list so devoid of representation from small presses, working class writers, genre-fiction, and poetry is aggregated with contributions from ‘hundreds of novelists,...
London’s Institute Of Contemporary Art May Have Fired Workers Who Support Gaza
And "Berlin-based artist Rheim Alkadhi says she will pull her work out of London’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) if the center does not...
How Writers Can Deal With Online Reviews
“Part of trying to get on quietly and diplomatically in life and not clash with people is keeping up the pretence that fuckwits don’t...
This 82-Year-Old Abstract Painter Is Finally Getting Her Due After Some Rough Australian Times
Lesley Dumbrell "was shocked when the head of the painting department blithely told her that he was happy to have women in his class...
The Creators Of A New Movie Worry Clips Will Be Used To Call The...
“The movie’s writers say they hope it will reinforce the real story of the moon landing. But is that possible in a post-Covid age...
Bill Viola Was One Of Our Most Important Video Artists, But His Muse Was...
“His greatness was not necessarily the way he used sound or even the sound itself, rather why he used sound, where he used sound...
A Writer, Choosing Not To Look Away
Orlaine McDonald, author of No Small Thing: "I’m a painfully slow writer and can find it really hard to commit anything to the page...
On The Road With The State Ballet Of Georgia
Why is the State Ballet of Georgia travelling for a long residency in London? Well … “with the Bolhoi and Mariinsky - both of...
Florida Man Thinks Jane Austen Was An American
Most unfortunately for young Floridians, this particular Florida man is also the state’s Commissioner of Education. “In Diaz’s defense, ‘freedom’ does appear four times...
How Long Will Eva Hesse’s Artworks Survive?
“Given its fragility and waning life span, each successive showing of Hesse’s work is potentially the last. Time is part of the deal. Hesse...
Four Disneyland Unions Vote To Authorize A Strike
That doesn’t mean one will happen, but it might. Last week, a thousand people "protested outside Disneyland’s entrance in support of park employees advocating for changes...
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Founder Of Sweet Honey In The Rock And Legendary Activist Through...
Reagon, also a cultural historian who worked at the Smithsonian, “was an original member in 1962 of the Freedom Singers, a vocal quartet that...
Where Will Sundance End Up?
The surprising list includes six cities: “In alphabetical order: Atlanta, GA; Boulder, CO; Cincinnati, OH; Louisville, KY; Park City/Salt Lake City, UT; and Santa Fe, New...
The Value Of Putting Design First In Social Housing Projects
The 20th century’s social housing “calls to mind towering blocks of flats, poorly maintained with dark, pokey and cold units. But alongside a rise in community...
Say Goodbye To Basic Ad-Free Netflix
People who had the Basic plan, for $12 a month, will now have to dive into the depths of ads on streaming (not having...