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Every Town, Including Every Refugee Camp, Needs A Theatre

“As migrants faced uncertainty, displacement and made frequent attempts to cross into the United Kingdom, a robust arts community began to take shape inside the Good Chance Theatre. Residents staged stand-up comedy, music, storytelling, kung fu, circus acts and theater performances.” - Sahan Journal

This RAM Shortage Thing Isn’t Going Away

Yikes: “Everything from phones and laptops, to VR headsets and gaming handhelds have seen price increases due to the RAM shortage.” - The Verge

Isa Briones Gets Her Time, On The Pitt And On Broadway

The actor who plays Santos - the abrasive, competitive, smart young resident on The Pitt - is also a dab hand at karaoke, a longtime Broadway and national touring company singer, and a person who posts Instagram Stories defending the theatre from weird Pitt fans. - Vulture

The V&A East Is Just One Example Of How England, And The Entire UK, Could Put Money Back Into The Arts

Make the United Kingdom truly good again - with culture. - The Guardian (UK)

The Film About France During WWII That Is Very, Alarmingly Relevant To Several Other Countries Right Now

Yes, you need to watch The Sorrow and the Pity, and you need to do it right now. Why? Because “Ophuls’s film is illuminating precisely because its lessons about complicity apply to evil and corruption of all kinds.” - The Atlantic

Some Companies You Probably Love Are Taking Trademarks Too Far

"If you have a granola group, seed society, cherry circle, or risotto ring, and a lawyer league owns a trademark on one of them, they might just airdrop cease-and-desist letters like leaflets over a city in World War II.” - Slate

Television And Theatre Aren’t Oil And Water, But They Don’t Mix Well, Either

“Despite so much practice, television still manages to get a few things wrong, specifically the process, the product and the people. (It occasionally manages to nail the excitement.)” - The New York Times

Reed Hastings Is Leaving Netflix, But Is It Because They Didn’t Get Warner Bros., Or Because They Ever Tried?

Bizarrely, Netflix would up in a much stronger place: “The company did not say how it plans to spend the $2.8-billion US termination fee it received after losing the Warner Bros. movie studio, including HBO, and lifted its earnings per share.” - CBC

It Takes Many Artisans To Create A Lady Gaga-Level, But Fake, Pop Star

The Mother Mary gang has been finding out over the past couple of years. - Variety

How Do You Secure A Museum From Heists Without Closing It Off Entirely?

“Transparency, porousness — all the buzzwords of architecture today are antithetical to security. It’s a paradox implicit to museum design today.” - The New York Times

We Are Weirdly Quick To Believe That Actors Simply Improvise In Movies

“Audiences clearly crave these stories – but why? Isn’t a movie more impressive if it’s so well rehearsed that it seems real? Isn’t it better that an actor’s pained scream sounds authentic because they’re an elite professional, not because they stubbed their toe?” - The Guardian (UK)

Is Pop Star Rosalia Leading A Surge In Affection For Opera As An Art Form?

Yes, and then there’s this: “Pinterest said ‘opera aesthetics' - a trend which it said encapsulated ‘dramatic, opulent and theatrical styles’ - was one of its fastest growing trends, with a 55% increase in interest in opera-themed dresses on its app over the past year.” - BBC

Children’s Author Jon Klassen Is The First Canadian To Win This Huge Children’s Literature Prize

“The Winnipeg-born children's book author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which is worth nearly $750,00” (Canadian). - CBC

How A Few Simple TikToks Or A Viral Insta Reel Can Lead To A Poetry Contract

“A century ago, the democratization of poetry was only a dream. Today, everyone can be a poet thanks to social media.” - Los Angeles Times

The OnlyFans Approach To Spreading Climate Change Awareness

“Headline Newds, a new series of web videos, ... is made up of bite-size (segments) in which the climate emergency is broken down and raunchily explained to us by a variety of OnlyFans models.” Now, isn’t this better than throwing soup at paintings in art museums? - The Guardian

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