StartSmall’s gift will extend the pilot, administered by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in partnership with Mayor London Breed, in two ways. The first 130 artists will receive $1,000 monthly payments for another full year, for a total of 18 months. It will also fund a second round in which of 50 more artists will receive 18 monthly...
Dancer Jennifer McCloskey first realized her medium was TikTok in 2020, during the shutdown. "On her feed, McCloskey seamlessly blends comedy, criticism of ballet culture, and how-to videos. Her mission is to whittle away at toxic ballet culture one TikTok at a time — all while having a little fun, of course." - Elite Daily
The girls went absolutely viral for a video of their performance at the Los Angeles Public Library, especially a clip with their song "Racist Sexist Boy." Now the punk band comprised of 10-16-year-olds has a contract. (Though one hopes they don't tone things down for the record company.) - Variety
After multiple writers left the show following season five, the show investigated. The writers - who all refused to be named out of fear of retaliation - say the environment for them was, at best, terrible. Another former writer on Caron's show Medium and current producer: "It was a toxic environment while I was there. And now that I...
Kathy Andrews and her husband Jim, "with his best friend, John P. McMeel, concocted a newspaper syndication company from the basement of the Andrewses’ rented ranch house. Ms. Andrews, who had a master’s degree in mathematics, kept the books. They called it Universal Press Syndicate because, Mr. Trudeau said, 'it sounded bland and boring and like it had been...
But, of course, Hilary Mantel isn't really into easy. She and actor Ben Miles had to figure out their newest Thomas Cromwell adaptation: "You can only do so much on Zoom, Mantel said, 'because every line has to find its precise form for the next line to play off it. You have to have precision. We would pass our...
Well, not quite yet, anyway. "When futurologist Ross Dawson published his 'newspaper extinction timeline' in 2010, he predicted that newspapers would cease to exist in the UK in 2019, in Canada and Norway in 2020 and in Australia in 2022. Wrong, wrong and, barring some unforeseen Australian cataclysm in the next six months, wrong again." - Irish Times
Maybe. It depends entirely on the scholarship, and the artist. And then there's research: "The same artist with different names can be confusing even if the change happens just once, as in maiden name (the term itself is rife with problematic patriarchy) to married name. It’s a historical hitch in tracking a person, but also a literary one. Just...
Composer Keiko Fujiie, who moved to Burkina Faso and built a house where the musicians can practice without annoying their neighbors, hopes to tour the country and debunk the idea of opera as an elite art form: ""I didn't come to introduce European opera here - to the contrary - I needed to study their music, and little by...
Actor Diego Boneta could only play famously secretive musician Luis Miguel for Netflix after studying the musician for years - and hiring both an acting and a vocal coach to help him sound, and seem, more like Miguel. But he needed something else: Time with Miguel himself. Boneta says, "He shared some things that he asked me to not...
Freitag, "a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public. But she was, in more ways than one, a librarian to the stars. Known for her encyclopedic knowledge of resources in science and technology, Ms. Freitag was sought out by the leading interpreters of the galaxy. She developed a particular...
The five honorees said that the six-month delay, and the loss of so many performance opportunities and spaces during the pandemic, made this weeklong celebration even more important. Midori: "This is a blessing, but this is also encouragement, and a motivation for me to be able to continue to connect with others, and to collaborate and to anticipate a...
Rogers: "When I started work on Mr Wroe’s Virgins I was 35. I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder. Faber had published my first three novels and all had found critical favour. But I was broke and my sales were poor, and I was spiky about the literary world." - The Guardian (UK)
It may be time to just quit everything. "My eyeballs are considering taking themselves off the market entirely. They’re sick of being courted, coaxed and, frankly, pressured into choosing this streaming service over that one, trying to keep up with all the glitzy platforms while not ignoring the quieter but equally worthy requests coming from those who may not...
