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Jean-Philippe Allard, Jazz Producer And Fierce Advocate For Musicians, Has Died At 67
“His passion for the music was stronger than his patience for taking directions — and when he found out that some of his U.S....
As The Senate Blocks A Bill Enshrining The Right To Contraception, A New Sculpture...
Yes, it’s protest art: “Installed by Americans for Contraception (AFC), a campaign advocating for contraceptive access across the country, the lavender IUD is set...
How Fran Drescher Won Social Media, And The Support Of Hollywood’s Unions, During The...
“In an industry shaped over the decades by bombastic and hard-charging men, Drescher embraced her idiosyncratic and unabashedly female style. She offered spiritual teachings...
Apparently, Hollywood Is Sexy Again
“Hollywood is trying to bring sexiness, if not always actual sex, back to the big screen, at a time of superhero fatigue, years of relative...
That Awful Apple Ad Was Even Worse Than Every Creative Person Thought
“It’s not just that the ad is a car crash — it’s that the people who poured so much work and money into something...
Private Museum Employees Vote To Unionize After Pressure From Owners
There’s a wave of unionizing among museum employees, and “Glenstone is a relative newcomer. The museum opened in 2006 as a private center for...
Catherine Opie’s Lifelong Work Is To Fight Queer Invisibility With Art
Opie: “We have a national warning advisory around pride for gay and lesbian and trans folks. It’s crazy. But we’re still trying to go...
What In The Living Heck Just Happened At The Philadelphia Free Library?
On June 3rd, the staff who run the author events program with 120-130 events per year resigned en masse, for the end of the...
A Small Town In Spain Wants To ‘Break The Stranglehold’ Of Madrid And Barcelona’s...
“If the aesthetic aim is to share 120 pieces that illustrate how the arrival of Italian and Flemish art in Valencia fuelled and influenced...
One Director Who Isn’t Freaking Out About Streaming
Richard Linklater isn’t mad at Netflix for premiering Hit Man on streaming. “You got to look at the industry and say, ‘Why did they...
The Artist Who Defines Persistence
Alison Aye, a "58-year-old textile and collage artist who is based in London, has submitted work to the Royal Academy (RA) over the last...
Clips Of Comedians Interacting With Audience Members Often Go Very, Very Viral
“‘To be a stand-up comedian in today’s world, you have to be a content machine,’ said Gianmarco Soresi, a New York-based comic with about...
Remember When TV Channels Had Music On Them?
In Britain, “at their peak, between 2003 and 2010, there were nearly 40 rolling music video channels available in the UK.” - The Guardian...
It’s Pride Month, But LGBTQIA Actors Want Better Hollywood Rep All Year ‘Round
Carl Clemons-Hopkins says that “accurate representation stems from getting more representation behind the scenes: ‘The more that you can show the variety of the...
People Are So Lonely, And Theatres Are In So Much Financial Trouble
Can funding struggling theatre help solve our disconnect? Sarah Ruhl: "We are facing a public health emergency—and we need funding from the National Institutes...
Big, Golden Art In Las Vegas
Urs Fischer "became a more permanent presence in the desert entertainment mecca when the delay-plagued, 67-story Fontainebleau, a casino and 3,644-room hotel that cost...
Author Lorrie Moore On Her Mentally Ill Characters
“Understanding someone 100% is probably an illusion. And madness can be seen as a stand-in term for the parts you don’t comprehend. I think...
It Turns Out That Microsoft Default Capturing Your Screen Every Few Seconds Is A...
Who could have predicted this was a bad idea? "In the preview versions of Recall, … screenshot data, complete with the user's every bank...
When A Beach Book Author Says Goodbye To The Beach
Elin Hildebrand’s noves, "set among the misbehaving moneyed class on Nantucket Island juggle romance and crime and a sun-kissed beach vibe that her fans...
A Different Dolly Comes To Broadway
For Hello, I’m Dolly (some of us would get tickets simply based on the title), “the star is writing new songs to go along...
Reservation Dogs Doesn’t Have An Emmy Why, Exactly?
There’s a “glaring similarity” among One Day at a Time, The Wire, and Reservation Dogs: “TV shows about Black criminals and cops in Baltimore...
The Queen’s Double Has Died
Jeannette Charles “first acted in small repertory roles in regional theater. But her uncanny resemblance to the queen distracted audiences, who giggled and guffawed...
Dick Van Dyke Wins Another Emmy At 98
Unsurprisingly, “at 98, that makes Van Dyke the oldest actor to receive a Daytime Emmy win.” He said, “I feel like a spy from...
Sacre Bleu! Why Are English-Language Books Filling Europe’s Bookstores?
"As English fluency has increased in Europe, more readers have started buying American and British books in the original language, forgoing the translated versions...
A White Canadian Journalist Just Published A Book About Traveling The US In Blackface
That publishing decision is not being met with glee in either the U.S. or Canada. “‘It's hard to simultaneously draw the ire of black...