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DC’s Trivia Scene Is Facing A Cheating Scandal
"Don’t use Shazam on your Apple Watch to figure out the songs on the music round. … Don’t throw your arm up in the...
Why Is Civil War So Evasive About The Nature Of Its Civil War, And...
"Garland sets so far apart from the fray that their objectivity starts to look like incuriosity. Journalists, at least the old-fashioned kind, are...
The Joys And Hazards Of Replacing Dudamel In Los Angeles
"What might a young music director mean to an orchestra and to a city when an amazing crop of international and, for the first...
The Film Composer Who Helped ‘Drive My Car’ Win An Oscar Is Driven By...
Eiko Ishibashi says that in scoring Ryûsuke Hamagachi’s new film, she felt his raw emotion - “anger that felt directed towards the way humans...
What Beatrix Potter Did With All Of Her ‘Peter Rabbit’ Money
She bought land - and sheep. So many sheep. Honestly, #goals. - Washington Post
Artist Mary Miss Sues To Stop The Des Moines Art Center’s Planned Destruction Of...
"Seeking a temporary restraining order to preserve , Miss alleges that the Center both failed to consult her before determining that the installation wasn’t...
It’s True: Writing Can Be, Well, Therapeutic
"Reader and writer, therapist and client, come together to conjure something in a mysterious symbiosis that will help make sense of the experience of...
The States Driving Hollywood Incentives Ever Higher
“As Oklahoma poured more and more funding into its rebate program, major productions came to collect. The incentives helped attract Killers of the Flower Moon, an Oscar...
A British Artist Completely Transformed His Rented Flat, And Now It’s Got Protected Status
"His artwork, inspired by ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, included fireplaces in the shape of a lion and a minotaur, Egyptian and Greek murals...
Casey Benjamin, ‘Free-Spirited Saxophonist’ For The Robert Glasper Experiment, Has Died At 45
Benjamin "brought colorfully expansive saxophone flourishes to the Grammy-winning Robert Glasper Experiment and added rich layers of texture to recordings by Solange, A Tribe...
Michael Jackson’s Accusers Would Like To See Those Sealed Records, Please
Jackson's production company "believes Robson and Safechuck’s actual target is a series of nude photographs of Jackson included in the records,” or so they...
Visa Costs For International Artists In The U.S. Have Risen Astronomically, And With Devastating...
One musician says, "Every time I go over there, I'm losing money. … We’re never making money, it's not a possibility. I'm lucky enough...
Astrid Roemer Is Making Sure You Know Darn Well Where Suriname Is
Newly translated, her books are winning attention. Says writer Raoul de Jong, "There was a whole system in place to keep voices like hers...
Notes From The Guy Who Lifted A Rodin
"Chilean politicians have been plundering for years. So I thought: why not explore theft almost as if it were an artistic intervention, and see what...
Rachel McAdams Is Ready For The Next Step: Broadway
"In Hollywood, taking a step back can mean audience amnesia and producer disinterest — but McAdams braved it before, at the height of her...
Why Are Canadian Festivals Struggling So Hard?
“Festival organizers say they are still recouping losses from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns while they contend with inflation. ... 'The sponsors and the grants are...
An Oral History Of Playing Mrs. Lovett, One Of Theatre’s Bloodiest Roles
Lea Salonga, on the song “The Worst Pies in London": "There are a whole lot of built-in reversals and crazy shifts. And I don’t...
The Gang That Targeted The United States’ Small Museums
They stole Yogi Berra’s World Series rings. “‘These kinds of artifacts tell people the story of who we are, and they connect us to...
The Many Reasons Not To Date A Reader
There are the bleedover emotions. There’s the tendency at a party to hide in a corner with an e-reader app open, looking like readers...
An Independent News Site Was Critical Of Facebook, And Then Its Links Were Blocked
After an outcry, Facebook apologized for blocking links to the independent Kansas Reflector - then expanded the crackdown to other news sites. A spokesperson...
Japanese American Women Made Art During Internment – And They’re Finally Getting Recognition
"During these dark times, many people turned to art, and the Topaz Art School was born, where hundreds took classes in still-life and architectural drawing within...
As Illinoise Opens On Broadway, Choreographer Justin Peck Plans To Conquer Hollywood As Well
"Peck, who has created almost 40 works for NYCB and other ballet companies around the world, is ambitious to bring modern dance to bigger,...
Why Are We So Obsessed With Beloved TV Shows Sticking Their Landings?
There is no “final score” for a series. "The modern fixation on endings is partly a creation of the TV business itself. For most...
Writers Must Be Able To Perform Magic
Myriam J.A. Chancy: "When history is a nightmare, all one can do is circumvent it, write another version, a fiction. This is what literature...
Margaret Tynes, Who Soared In Verdi And Strauss, Has Died At 104
Tynes, as a Black woman, found little work in the United States, but "with her incendiary, full-throated voice, in roles like Aida and Salomé,...