Tag: 03.12.21
TV’s First Sitcom Family Wasn’t Much Like The Cleavers
Far from the WASP families in suburban homes seen in Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver (and The Brady Bunch and The...
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Approves Musicians’ Contract With No Pay Cuts
"The pact, announced this week, was passed unanimously by the musicians, the SPCO board and the board of the American Federation of Musicians Local...
‘Little Did I Know’: A Theater Critic Considers The Anniversary Of The COVID Shutdown
Helen Shaw: "The pandemic has been a period of getting a lot of 'little did I know' stuff out into the open, including (but...
A Political Winner In Boston — The Arts?
"As it happens, this year’s wide-open mayoral race — a political rarity in Boston — offers the cultural sector a golden opportunity to flex...
The Indigenous Choreographer And The Presenter — A Dispute Spirals
The dispute burst into the open earlier this year when Emily Johnson severed her connection with Peak Performances and wrote about her decision in...
Could Netflix Transform Africa’s Cinema Ecosystem?
In Sub-Saharan Africa there are and have been numerous impressive filmmakers, but only Nigeria and South Africa have fully developed industries in which films...
Boris Johnson Says The Elgin Marbles Will Not Be Returned To Greece
"Boris Johnson has used his first interview with a European newspaper since becoming the UK's prime minister to issue a point-blank rejection of the...
How Robert Fulford’s Arguments With Glenn Gould Shaped Him As A Critic
As students, Fulford and Gould would argue about music. Fulford was acquiring a taste for jazz and other forms of popular music, which Gould...
The Book ‘Empireland’ Is Selling Well – And Britain’s Imperially Nostalgic Are Flinging Hate...
The author is pleased by the support from his publisher, but the hate has truly ramped up. Sathnam Sanghera: "In a way, it proves...
The Silver Lining Of Netflix’s Password Crackdown Is Your Security
No, really. "Sharing user names and passwords with even your closest relations can have woesome consequences" - and the Netflix crackdown might help save...
How Did Disney Get The Bachelor So Wrong This Year?
The Mouse promised change at the protests in the wake of George Floyd's death. But the online chatter over racism on The Bachelor has...
Memoirs Tell Us What We Don’t Know About The People We Know
A good memoir "gets into the feelings that are so buried and complex that they rarely come into focus in a conversation, even among...
How Exactly Does Voting For The Grammys Work?
Yes, there are secret committees. "And they're just one strange, clandestine part of a voting process that is largely shrouded in mystery." Yikes. -...
Leon Gast, Filmmaker Of ‘When We Were Kings,’ 84
Gast spent 22 years making the documentary about the Rumble in the Jungle, and in the end, it paid off: "In 1996, Mr. Gast...
Angelica, Eliza, And Healthcare Workers Making Pandemic-Related Art
Some healthcare workers created dances to deal with the losses and tragedies - and stresses of people not believing in the virus' toll -...
Musical Brit Awards Exclude Nonbinary Musicians
So do most awards - and that excludes nonbinary, extraordinarily popular singer Sam Smith. The official line: "The Brits are committed to evolving the...
A Broadway Pop-Up Concert Slash Rally Briefly Invigorates New York
With Chita Rivera, André De Shields, and an array of singers and dancers, the pop-up on the anniversary of Broadway's shutdown gave paying work...
Novelist Yaa Gyasi Goes Shopping In Her Own Bookshelves During The Pandemic
We all have books that are waiting for just such an occasion. When the author of Homecoming and Transcendent Kingdom was young, her parents...
Live Theatre Finally Gets Its Own Guidelines In Los Angeles
The guidelines are stringent - each county must cycle completely out of "colors" of COVID-19 infections before indoor theatre can open, and they have...
The Secret History Of Women Writing Liner Notes
Representation is a problem across the board in the Grammys, including - weirdly, wildly - the writing of liner notes (which is an actual...
Herge’s Heirs Are No Fans Of A French Artist’s Edward Hopper/Tintin Mashups
So much not fans that they've sued the artist making the images. Hergé's heirs specifically said of Xavier Marabout's images that "it was not...
French Actor Wears A Donkey Costume Soaked In Fake Blood, And Then Strips, At...
The details: "Actress Corinne Masiero took the stage in a donkey costume covered in fake blood, before stripping down to a faux gore-soaked gown and, finally, fully undressing...
Want To Hear The Lego Microtonal Guitar?
Of course you do - and the electromagnetic harp, the "evolved piano," and more of the winners of a new instrument competition. - The...
The Pandemic Has Shown Us That We Need A Lot More Art
Yes, we need food and water, air and health care. And we're desperate for cultural nourishment as well. For one family at an outdoor...
The Stunt Doubles Of The Art World
When museum staff are preparing for a show, they need maquettes, like an actor's stand-in, to represent the works themselves. But they can't be...