Sure, you've got your Harry Potter scores and your Star Wars celebrations (that's all John Williams, of course), but the real hot trend with film composers now is getting their non-film work…
We don't mean Oklahoma! either, though, yes, there's a ballet in it. This is something different: "It's very difficult to cast a ballet musical; the Marie ensemble requires dancers with a st…
The issues concern who gets fees for packaging TV shows and movies (the agents get those fees now), and whether agencies have conflicts of interest around certain shows. But the point is tha…
This story has a lot of questions attached, about money and selling to someone who has had other companies go bad, etc., but " "First, it's worth asking why piers in general are so troubleso…
What can be done for the non-New Yorks, the non-San Franciscos, the non-Seattles? "Left to their own fate, state and local policymakers often end up shoveling money at companies in the hope …
The more German history you know " no, not only about the Nazis, but yes also about the Nazis " the more you'll understand how very, very much cultural work this movie is doing. The movie "e…
Mitchell Kaplan founded Books & Books in 1982, a time when Miami was seen as a place of drug running, diet culture, and political unrest " and certainly not literary culture. But, well, …
Junya Ishigami + Associates allegedly sent an email to a student interested in interning in their Tokyo office laying out the conditions for internship: "No pay, a six-day working week and o…
The poor and middle-class can't escape screens, and the data they hoover up both mindlessly and with (scary) intention. But the rich can, and do. " The New York Times
Spoiler alert, perhaps obviously. But really, whom are the Kree meant to represent? It's unclear, or variable, perhaps, but for sure: "The Kree become a scapegoat, an oppressive empire that …
And there's not enough " hardly any " video of him performing, but here's one. " Doug Ramsey
Well, indeed: "'There has been a whole parallel universe that existed that people had not tapped into,' said Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Mus…
As Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100, a tribute to the first decade and a half of the beloved bookstore he founded. " Jan Herman
They are supposed to perform in Chicago on Tuesday, but they say they "will join striking Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians on the picket line if the labor conflict hasn't been settled by…
Here's a gathering of 1940s Los Angeles all-stars. " Doug Ramsey
Today, she apologized for much of the interview wherein she blamed the parents of the men who say Michael Jackson abused them when they were kids, and saying such things as "You can say 'mol…
Mirga GražinytÄ—-Tyla became the music director for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2016. She says, "British orchestras, the CBSO included, don't have an easy life. They w…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman has become a go-to feminist author with her clear, understandable, and terrifying short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," forgotten after her death but rediscovered in …
Of course it's not because that intimate scene has two men in it. No, no, of course not. It's … the swearing. And the drugs. "According to one source close to the production, filmmakers an…
What's the Whiting Award " and who are these people? (It's a $50,000 award for early-career writers, so no surprise you don't know most of them yet.) " NPR
The move comes after Britain's National Portrait Gallery and Tate (all of them) said the same thing. "The Guggenheim announced its decision on Friday in a brief statement that did not mentio…
Just ask Sarah Bernhardt, or her greatest rival. "Technological advantages like the steam locomotive and gas lighting made it possible for acting companies and star performers to reach large…
At least, according to Richard Grant, a 2019 Best Supporting Actor nominee who eventually made the movie with Melissa McCarthy (nominated for Best Actress in 2019) as lead instead. The issue…
And writing about trauma doesn't bestow some kind of catharsis on authors, or so says T. Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. "My love for magic, still, is all abo…
The iconic Trocadero is going out in May, according to owner Joanna Pang, who says (and this is depressing as heck) "The landscape of the business has changed in the last five years. It's ha…