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How A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Teaches Theatre To Her Students
Lynn Nottage: "American Spectacle has always begun with a field trip to the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. ... We also go to vogue...
Do Poor And Lower-Middle Class Kids Deserve Access To The Humanities?
West Virginia says no. "For most students, their state’s main public university remains their best hope of breaching the walls of class difference. As...
Booker Winner Paul Lynch On His Dystopian Novel
Lynch has been incessantly (after the prize) "asked for his views on far right movements in Western Europe and about the recent riots in Dublin that...
Bologna Decides To Repair Its 12-Century Leaning Tower
"The city’s mayor, Matteo Lepore, noted in a debate earlier this month that the Garisenda tower had leaned since it was built 'and has...
How To Get The Best Black Friday, Cyber Monday, And Every Other Day Deals...
For that matter, the best deal on books, streaming, magazines, newspapers, and a lot more - yes, yes, you already know: A library card....
John Nichols, Author Of The Milagro Beanfield War, Has Died At 83
The author, who moved from New York to New Mexico, fell for the state. His publisher: "A lot of his work might be characterized...
The David Hockney-Keith Haring-Jean-Michel-Basquiat Amusement Park Is Reopening
That's right, people will soon be able to see (but not ride) a Keith Haring carousel at the long-neglected, now revived amusement park Luna...
The Decline And Fall Of Sports Illustrated Shows Just How Precarious Media Are
The potential AI controversy is just the latest in a series of humiliations. "All of these companies have followed the same strategy: 'leveraging” the SI brand...
Very Few Stage Magicians Are Women
The figures are grim: About 8 percent of working stage magicians are women. What's that about, and how can it change? - The New...
The Slow, Blinking Performance Robots Of An American Pizza Chain Are What One Might...
The infamous Chuck E. Cheese animatronic performers were for kids, kind of. "Those were also for the adults. The robotic characters originally spoke in...
The Ballet Where A Princess Rescues That Working-Class Guy Cinders
For the dancer playing Cinders, letting the woman playing Princess Louise "take the lead has meant fighting his ballet instincts daily. 'I don’t really...
On The Exploitation Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, And Baltimore
"Is the point of art to bring us into ourselves, or out?" - LitHub
Merriam-Webster Values Something In Short Supply In 2023
The word of a year in which AI, deep fakes, political chicanery, and war propaganda filled the airwaves and wireless chat is a bit...
New York Critics Plump For Scorsese’s Movie, But Not Scorsese Himself
With the strikes over and awards season underway, Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer are looking strong - but it's early days. -...
What The Heck Happened To Spotify Wrapped?
"The apparent hack is weird because it flew under the radar. There was no obvious social engineering involved, and the only evidence that it...
A Literal Flamethrowing Pastor Messes Around With ‘The Culture War’ Every November
But this year, it's possible that the guy who has spawned churches, offshoots, and - of course - spendy video courses about "Apocalypse-proofing your...
Who’s Afraid Of Arnold Schoenberg, And Why?
People "accept that a 'challenging' painting—or modern dance work, or play, or independent film—can be exciting, mind-expanding, really cool, and sort of out there...
In Los Angeles, Prop Houses Are So Ready For The Return Of Filming
"The local vendors that supply productions with the furniture, equipment, decorations and other items they need to dress a film or TV set were among the hardest...
British Independent Film Is Having A Real Moment
"No longer does the phrase 'British independent film' instantly bring to mind a particular sort of gritty, miserable social-realist drama." Instead, think psychosexual dramas,...
A Man Who Investigated The Crimes Of Ferdinand And Imelda Marcos Goes To The...
"Having seen and enjoyed the show in New York, I now realize that I missed the obvious during my years in Manila. The Marcoses,...
Experimental Musician And Composer Catherine Christer Hennix Has Died At 75
Hennix "fused minimalist drones, mathematical logic and global spiritual traditions into an approach she called 'infinitary composition.'" - The New York Times
Studios Need Franchises, Says Oppenheimer Director Christopher Nolan
Otherwise, where would the money for other movies come from? - Variety
The Internet Feels Like It’s Getting Less True
But there are still ways to avoid deepfakes, scams, and false news. - Wired
Fact-Checking ‘The Crown’ On Diana’s Death
"In 1999, French investigating judges assigned sole responsibility to the driver," not paparazzi. But on the other hand, why didn't he princess have police protection? -...
Making Meaningful Reality TV
One casting director says it depends on the cast, of course - and he loves "finding these untapped, undiscovered stars." - Slate