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Ousted Director Of LGBTQ Film Fest Sues Nonprofit For Defamation
Damien Navarro “sued Outfest in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging he was retaliated against after he raised discrimination and ethics concerns to the...
The Dancer And Choreographer Bringing A Hip-Hop Fantasy To The Big Screen
“Often in films, this type of dance can become commercial. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s a different type of beauty to the...
Saying Goodbye To The Minnesota Sinfonia
The orchestra, which was known for improving access for students and low-income folks in the Minnesota, will play its swan song concert this weekend....
The Arts Are Not A Meritocracy, But Should They Be?
“Evidence consistently demonstrates that regional artists predictably struggle for equal opportunities. 'Postcode matters,’ one regional artist with decades of experience tells ArtsHub.” - ArtsHub
Wyoming’s Episcopal Church To Return 200 Cultural Items To Native Americans
“The Wyoming Episcopal Church possessed the Northern Arapaho tribe’s artifacts for nearly 80 years — ranging from children’s toys to bows and arrows to...
The Case Against Netflix’s Baby Reindeer Hinges On One Line
It’s a line that most documentarians and people who write movie adaptations of nonfiction wouldn't use: “This is a true story.” - Los...
Our Brains On Online Reviews
Yes, AI is a problem, and so are human-generated fakes. “People do a pretty poor job at discerning a fake review from a real...
Portland’s Seismic City Council Election Could Shake Up The Arts In Oregon
Potentially huge changes in the city’s arts funding - canceling the $35 arts tax, for instance, and downgrading the longstanding Regional Arts and Culture...
Titus Kaphar Wanted To Make A Really Big Canvas
As in, as big as movie screens across the world. “The paintings and the film developed in tandem. Kaphar would wake up to write...
Tampa Bay’s Signature Clearwater Jazz Festival Has Been Cancelled
There was simply no way to keep the jazz fest going in the devastated region this week, organizers said. They "called the decision ‘heart...
In Kansas, A Youth Orchestra Idea Takes Flight
Less than a year ago, “‘my goal was 20 to 25 kids,' Pieken said. ‘(I thought) if we don’t have at least like 15...
Good News If You Like Ads
Or, maybe, if you enjoy free streaming: DirecTV is joining the FAST - Free, Ad-Supported TV - network game. - CNET
Gael Garcia Bernal Didn’t Want To Become An Actor
But he finally realized there was no avoiding it. "There is this moment of incredible tension and excitement before going on stage, you know,...
In Leeds, England, One Big Sculpture Now Represents Hundreds Of Women
"We’ve got lots of old Victorian statues of men, particularly in Leeds, and I think there was an ambition to redress this gender imbalance...
Movie Director Morgan Neville Thought AI Could Be Cool, In 2021
That was when he used a generated voice for Anthony Bourdain. "I was like, ‘Oh, it'd be fun to use this, and it'd be...
How To Disappear All Of The Taxis From New York
This isn’t, like, for Uber and Lyft - but for making the city look like Southern California. - The New York Times
Why Did Warner Bros Make A Joker Musical That Didn’t Actually Want To Be...
This is just confusing. “The film stages each number with curious hesitancy, as though it were embarrassed to go full Sondheim. Phillips has made...
The Mystery Of What Happened To The Honor Guard ‘Hat Sculpture’ Around JFK’s Grave
“They came in at night. Left at night. And back then, we didn’t ask no questions." - Smithsonian Magazine (MSN)
All Appalachian Writers Are Environmentalists
Well, maybe not J.D. Vance. But everyone else, thanks to decades - a century - of devastating floods and mudslides, mountaintop removal and mining...
Pushing Back Against That Long Atlantic Freak-Out About Students Not Being Asked To Read...
Maybe the problem is the reporter’s clickbait comprehension? “Young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding...
In Australia, Aboriginal Designs May Replace Government Housing
And, perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, the housing designed by the people who live in the space may help solve some public health crises....
David Garrard Lowe, Historian And Defender Of Neoclassical Architecture, Has Died At 91
Lowe’s "passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the...
Suddenly, We All Understand Bridges
Bridges in music, that is. And, of course, that’s thanks to TikTok. - El País
The Apprentice’s Distribution Troubles Point To A Very Problematic Future For Political Films
“If you have companies, in this case the big corporate distribution system, that willing to let that sort of culture of fear and intimidation...
As Broadway Adjusts To Public Outcry, The Question Of How And When To Dim...
“The lights-dimming ritual, which goes back decades, has been an increasingly fraught one for the nine entities that own and operate Broadway theaters.” -...