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School District Near Minneapolis Accedes To Somali Families’ Anti-LGBTQIA Books Request
"St. Louis Park Public Schools will allow opt-outs for families who don’t want their children to read books with LGBTQ+ characters, after six Somali...
Alexei Navalny’s Last Laugh
"I will always remember the words written on a piece of paper that Navalny held at one of his court hearings: 'I am not...
How Novels Can Crack The Tightest Belief System
When George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison let some light in. - The Guardian (UK)
Please, Please Quit It With Overperformed Audiobooks
“Please just read me a story without distraction. I don’t need to hear a variety of voices from a single narrator if a full-cast...
The BAFTAs Have Never Awarded A Black Woman With The Best Actress Award
That seems unlikely to change this year either, despite the nominations of Vivian Oparah for the charming Rye Lane and Fantasia Barrino in the...
For These Major Awards, Some Authors Were Unaccountably Declared Ineligible
Then Hugo Awards rumors started; now leaked emails confirm that “one of the Hugo administrators had advised other members to vet the finalists and...
MoMA Returned A Nazi-Looted Chagall To Its Heirs, And Garnered A Large Fee
"MoMA, which acquired in 1949, received $4 million in compensation for giving it back under an arrangement negotiated by a restitution company that...
The Monologues Of Oscar Season
Joining, say, Sally Field in Norma Rae or Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, "actors in current Oscar-season movies enjoyed ample opportunity to...
PEN America Has A Whole Bunch Of Writers Quite Furious At It
More than 600 writers have signed a letter that "condemns PEN’s relative silence on the unfolding genocide in Gaza ... on the heels of two...
Was It The Strikes, Or Sexual Harassment Allegations, That Is Shutting This Talent Agency...
Or are the harassment allegations part of an ownership argument? In any case, the A3 Artists Agency is shutting down today. - Los Angeles...
Why Won’t The ‘Toxic’ Ballet World Change?
“Who’s really motivated to change the system if it’s working for some people?” - MSN (The Telegraph UK)
Theatre Leaders In Kansas City Vow To Rebuild After Fire Guts Historic Building
This year was the Metropolitan Theater Ensemble’s fifth year in the Warwick Theatre building, which "originally opened on Sept. 26, 1914, and seated 1,200.”...
After Bell Canada Announces Massive Layoffs, Justin Trudeau Calls The Company Out
The prime minister said the media company that runs CTV and many radio stations had made “a garbage decision.” He added “that media layoffs...
The Art World Excludes Most Of Us
A journalist who got immersed as a security guard and gallery assistant says, "I became initiated into the way that the art world wields...
How To Create A Musical With A Deaf Main Character
Never forget Deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members; audio signals must be matched with visual cues. And “finding the right actor to enlist as Jones...
Ralph Fiennes Wants Theatre To Be More Affordable, And More Surprising
That he, he’s so very finished with content warnings for something like the Scottish play, which he and Indira Varma star in. He said...
Director Wim Wenders Says All Of His Films Are About How To Live
Wenders, the German director whose latest film is nominated for an Oscar, but from Japan, says “For a long time I did not know...
The Lunar New Year’s Lion Dance Draws D.C.’s Chinese Residents Back To Chinatown
The dance unites a disparate group. "Unlike cities like New York and Toronto, D.C.’s Chinatown no longer feels particularly Chinese Chinese architectural motifs still...
What Is To Become Of Opera?
Can any opera company withstand the blows of the 21st century? “The ongoing crisis in opera parallels a current 'free fall' … in American...
Does The U.S.’s Recording Academy Care One Bit About The Issues Jay-Z Brought Up?
"This isn’t just about hip-hop. This is about Afrobeat, Latin music and the genres that the ‘mainstream' overlooks.” And evidence, based on many years...
How Do Social Media People Create Those Art, But Make It Sports Posts?
"Oftentimes, you will see on social media people post a photo from a sports event and say, ‘Hang it in the Louvre,' as a...
The Download Wars, Or, How iTunes Became Relevant Again
In the early 21st century, downloads were a thing, but now, downloading rather than streaming "is a purely performative gesture – it only ever...
Climate Protestor Charged For Defacing African American Civil War Memorial At The National Gallery...
The protestor painted on the wall next to Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, not the piece itself. However: Jackson Green "has been...
Nothing Lasts Forever, Especially Not Digital Archives When Mergers Come Into Play
In short: Don’t give up your DVDs or Blu-Rays, OK? Digital “copies” are simply rentals, as Funimation fans are discovering to their chagrin. -...
A Deep Dive Into Visual Artists On The Small Screen
Visual art "doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from...