Marinela Nuñez: "When I'm dancing, I always think " even when I am in a fairytale ballet such as The Sleeping Beauty " that it is real. It touches me and it makes me think of my lif…
You've probably heard of the French Resistance, but do you know about the great-grandmothers of Ethiopia in 1935? Ethiopian novelist Maaza Mengiste's second novel (partly) concerns the women…
The show, The Truth Has Changed, tells of Josh Fox's anti-fracking work and what he describes as "incessant harassment" from the gas and petroleum industries. Fox says the issue was the cont…
Tanega's "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog," which was truly a recounting of her life with her cat named Dog, smashed through 1966 and was covered by Barry McGuire, jazz artists, Yo La Tengo, They M…
They did what? Yes. They digitally blurred the photo before it went on display in the nation's capital. To quote one strong tweet about it, "This is some weird Soviet shit right here." And t…
Streaming was barely a thing back in the day of the last big strike " but it still cost everyone a lot of money and time. "Studios, production companies and guild members are all eager to av…
Larkin won four Tonys for his work as a designer on Broadway. "Larkin won his Tonys in a remarkable run in the mid-1950s, for Ondine, The Teahouse of the August Moon, No Time for Sergeants a…
The protestors are angry about the government's proposed pension reforms, and they've shut down much of Paris on and off over the past six weeks. "'Closing the Louvre to prevent tourists fro…
She won for The Farewell, the film's only win of the night. She thanked director Lulu Wang " who was not nominated, one of several snubs to women from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association…
Baldessari's decades of teaching and witty art-making in Los Angeles helped define it as a visual arts cultural capital. "Inspired by the spirit of Marcel Duchamp, who overturned traditional…
And really, did it ever? The problem (in the U.S., at least): "Though exhibitions might have a progressive point of view and artists themselves might be making radical statements, as institu…
Mattei's voice and stage presence have made him a popular Figaro or Don Giovanni, but the 54-year-old "was cast against type as Wozzeck, a soldier who is ground down by poverty and oppressed…
As they say, he could just have said nothing, and no one would have had to figure out that complicated dance of dealing with sexist whining from a(nother) beloved filmmaker. Instead, he"has …
The speech, which introduced Ellen DeGeneres as that comedian won the Carol Burnett Award, made it clear that Ellen was a trailblazer. McKinnon said, "She risked her entire life and her enti…
Legal observers warn that the tweets themselves could be considered threats of war crimes; "the 1954 Hague Convention, of which the US is a party, bars any military from 'direct hostilities …
Giichi Matsumura died during a freak summer snowstorm when other members of his hiking group went on to fish in a lake, and he stayed back to paint. Though the family knew roughly where his …
Well, one writer: Rachel Syme, who, every once in a while, calls herself the Perfume Genie " and people on Twitter ask her for recommendations. She thinks, "When people are saying, I want to…
And Lloyd Barnes, the founder of Wackie's, wants his reggae studio and label to live on after he retires " but more than that, the sound and the style. "His concerns now are ensuring that hi…
The V&A's collection of women's hats from the time has a lot of feathers, and those feathers were preserved in arsenic salt. Yikes. " The Guardian (UK)
After Nipsey Hussle was killed on an L.A. street in front of his shop last March, fans wanted to figure out how to honor him. Shop at his store? Paint his face as murals on walls? Yes, and s…
Vigdis Hjorth's novel, in which a woman in her 50s reveals to her family that her father sexually abused her as a child, has touched off a debate in Norway " and fury in her own family. "Hjo…
Christopher Acebo, who spent 14 years working with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, starting the Latinx Play Project and and helping found the Latinx Theatre Commons, says the only way forwa…
Netflix had 34 nominations, but HBO " and Sony " topped the list. " Los Angeles Times
Why is Knives Out selling out movie theaters more than a month after it was released? Basically, the cause is that it's "a pretty good movie that's exceeding people's expectations because th…
Will Netflix rule the night? How terrible will Ricky Gervais be? Who will win Best Actor? And why, why, why are all of the Best Director nominees men, AGAIN? " NBC