Tag: 01.24.21
Native American Languages Could Become Another Casualty Of COVID
Jodi Archambault: "As COVID-19 takes a fearsome toll on our people, it also threatens the progress we have made to save our languages. The...
The Most Valuable Award In British Poetry Goes To Bhanu Kapil
Poet Lavinia Greenlaw, who chaired the committee for the T.S. Eliot prize, said of Kapil's How to Wash a Heart, "This is a unique...
The Lonely Struggle Of The Street Artists Of Paris
The artists of the Place du Tetre are feeling squeezed out by restaurants, and then there's the emptiness. One of the artists: "It’s a...
What Did CBS Do With, And In, Its Supposedly Thorough Investigation Into A Racist,...
Some things have changed. But the news affiliates? Oof. The details of CBS Television Stations President Peter Dunn's racism - saying of an anchor,...
Despite The Pandemic, Honolulu’s Bishop Museum Is Taking Visitors Through The Experience Of Surfing
The designer of the exhibit: "Duke Kahanamoku, on a wooden board with no fins, surfed a wave that was over 25 feet tall on...
During Pandemic Lockdowns, Thousands Turn To Online Nude Drawing Classes For Solace
Online drawing classes are, for many people in lockdown in Britain, a lifeline to the outside world. And there's a plus: "Individual sessions can...
Can Virtual Reality Deliver The Benefits Of Nature?
It's an urgent question for many in lockdown - and in the UK, "whether we are in lockdown or not, four fifths of the...
Spike Lee Gives Fiery Speech Comparing Trump To Hitler
Lee's speech for the New York Film Critics Circle Awards was filmed on January 6 - the day when insurrectionists broke into the U.S....
Totally Reimagining The Sundance Festival For Its Pandemic Year
Director Tabitha Jackson was lucky in 2020 - her hiring was big news at last year's Sundance Film Festival. Then, of course, a global...
Junior Mance, ‘One Of The Most Swinging And Utterly Delightful Pianists In Jazz,’ 92
Mance was "a buoyant, bluesy jazz pianist who worked with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley and Dinah...
Iconic Architecture Is Urban (And Insta) Clickbait
And, because of social media and marketing, it's making a serious comeback. The projects "are magnified again by technology, by the software that enables...
The Creativity, Therapy, And Writing Skill It Takes To Co-Create Celebrity Memoirs
Michelle Burford has co-written, or really, written after many hours of absorbing interviews, quite a few celebrity memoirs. She calls herself a "story architect,"...
Dungeons And Dragons, And Other Gaming Too, Must Find A Way To Rid Itself...
It's not going to be easy: "Genetic determinism is a fantasy tradition. ... As both a ruleset and a fantasy backdrop, D&D is in...
Scottish Gymnastics Told To Speed Up A Ballet School Abuse Investigation
"Several parents raised concerns with Scottish Gymnastics a year ago over dance classes for eight to 12-year-olds at the prestigious Ballet West school in...