Tag: 06.20.21
What Makes Aristophanes Relevant Today? Call It ‘Patriotic Obscenity’
"When adversaries in politics go low, one has no choice but to go equally low, if not lower, in order to have the same...
Edinburgh Fringe Venues Get Lifeline From Scottish Government
"The Scottish Government and the city council have joined forces to offer £1.3 million worth of support to leading venue operators to help offset...
New Antitrust Crusader Confirmed To Run The FTC — And Big Tech Shudders
Lina Khan's bipartisan confirmation to the FTC is as strong a sign as any that she has Congressional backing for her most ambitious ideas....
Giant “Marilyn” Statue Unveiled In Palm Springs — How Offensive Can It Get?
The aim is to saunter between a woman’s spread legs, look up her billowing dress and snicker at her panty-clad crotch — or, better...
Soprano Gianna Rolandi, 68
New York-born, South Carolina-raised and Curtis-trained, she became one of the top American coloraturas of her generation and one of the stars of New...
Why UK Music Festivals Are Dying
The problem for festivals is that preparation and planning – let alone building a site – stretches over months and often costs millions, and...
Screens And Speakers And What we Learned During COVID
Screen nausea and social media compulsions are no joke, but the current self-loathing about the long year of screen time is misplaced. It was...
Rich Guy Goes To Hollywood, Improbably Makes It Big As Movie Mogul
At a time of entertainment industry upheaval, David Ellison has transformed Skydance into the rarest of Hollywood businesses — a thriving, built-from-scratch, all-audiences, independent...
Do We Really Need Public Statues?
We want to mark important events and people. But which ones? And who should decide? And are we creating an unreconcileable hierarchy of what's...
A New Dance Company To Mine The Experience Of Older Dancers
“It can take a long time to work out what your voice is, particularly in ballet. After 100 Nutcrackers, 100 Cinderellas, to get to...