Grant said in one candidate's video, "I, for the first time in my life, am getting active politically, because I think that the country is on the edge of a true abyss." He's campaigning stra…
Leibman won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in the 1993 Broadway production of Angels in America. At that point, he had Drama Desk Awards and an Emmy, but it was as Cohn that his …
Truly, if you've seen the movie trailer, there's no missing the multitude of jokes just sort of … oh, let's say it … hanging there to be batted around. However, Angels in America won the…
The New York-based performance artist David Datuna recorded for Instagram (of course) the removal and eating of the banana, a much-discussed artwork by Maurizio Cattelan. But, plot twist: "G…
Olga Tokarczuk, in a lecture in Sweden, said it's time for a sort of fourth-person narration: "We can regard this figure of a mysterious, tender narrator as miraculous and significant. This …
The styling is in the ties. And there are … let's say a lot of different ties in this movie. Says one of the costume designers, "The language of how the tie greets the shirt greets the bel…
Rachel Brosnahan, who plays Midge Maisel, says that season three changed things for her " and made the actor a better comedian too. "While the first and second season, most of the major stan…
Peter Englund, the former permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy and a current member, said, ""To celebrate Peter Handke's Nobel prize would be gross hypocrisy on my part" He is the onl…
One science fiction writer and futurist says we can " but a lot will need to change. "The issue isn't technical. It has to do with the way business is being done in Silicon Valley. The probl…
Maybe not 29 movies in a row, of course. But. One writer explains that she opened Netflix in the depths of a serious depression and started watching Christmas Prince. "The movie was terrible…
Of course she was; Tacitus' Annals "described the high politics, treachery and debauchery of the Roman elite." " Reuters
Sure, it's an almost guaranteed moneymaker, but it's also "a community builder, a gateway drug, and a holiday tradition." " American Theatre
The book, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, is a collection of the Swedish teenager's speeches. Waterstone's said Thunberg, its author of the year, "had an 'urgent message.'" " BBC
The puppeteers, volunteers, board and donors all got together to save the Marionette Theater after Baker died in 2014 " and after the theater was evicted from its space in 2018. Now, explain…
Musicians get paid 75 percent less " yes, 75 percent, not a typo " for playing on soundtracks and songs for streaming services. And they're fed up. They get a base wage for playing on stream…
Burgie, known professionally as Lord Burgess, said that the calypso hits he adapted and wrote for Belafonte "'revolutionized music' by introducing Afro-Caribbean rhythms to the pop mainstrea…
Evading state censorship made some music extra cool " and risky: "Bans on Western genres such as boogie-woogie, jazz and, later, rock 'n' roll, as well as other styles deemed threatening to …
Denes, who has a new show up at the (oft-maligned) Hudson Shed, says that "Environmental art spreads like wildfire and now everybody wants to partake in its production. It's okay, but do som…
Do you remember 'Cool Britannia'? If you don't, or if the idea makes you cringe, that might partly be because of the PR disaster of the Millennium Dome's opening night. "For a government fam…
In other words, there's little hypocrisy to be seen " and the accusation of "virtue signalling" itself might be a signal from those who make the accusation to like-minded others. That's beca…
Was it Scorsese on Netflix? Just Netflix in general " and Disney Plus, and Hulu, and and and? Or the weather? Whatever it was, the Thanksgiving box office took a sharp hit this year. " The N…
When a woman in a close-knit Jewish family gets divorced and moves in with her parents, her friends tell her she's just like Mrs. Maisel. But she's no comedian, she thinks. And then the firs…
Khmer dance has ancient Buddhist, Hindu, and animist roots " and though it's mostly performed by all female groups today, it used to be performed both by men and by women. Now, Prumsodun Ok …
Yes, the water's up, but the population is also dropping fast. "In the central Castello District, master artisan Paolo Brandolisio " one of only four remaining makers of oars and oar posts f…
Since the last bookstore closed, people in the town on Kodiak Island have had to use thrift stores and online purchases for their books. But two residents who moved back home to care for ill…