The Lyons family of New York were a vital part of New York's Seneca Village. They "were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for bla…
That's right: Fanfiction, with its hookups of likely and unlikely characters, its absolute refusal to live by the rules of the world set by authors like J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, edu…
The hours are good, the patrons can be terrible, the dreams live … for a while. "A lot of actors, directors and writers work front of house, with most of us spending our days auditioning, …
Well, it's because of a brief scene with a map, you see. "It's not every day that a largely forgettable Dreamworks yeti movie can come under fire from multiple national governments for viola…
The narration begins, "You were too young to lose your mum, and we were too young to organize a funeral. So because we were in Yorkshire, with nowhere else we wanted to be and nothing else w…
Can a madrasa that teaches children of suicide bombers to draw and dance help them get deprogrammed from hours and hours of militant videos? The school is sure trying, but "when they first a…
In Columbus, Ohio, ballerina Rachael Parini was the inspiration for a 90-foot billboard that advertises the BalletMet company, but it means more than that to her " it means that young dancer…
Swings are more than understudies " they have to learn multiple roles within one show. Twenty-year-old swing Debôrah Godchaser, who was barely born when Lion King opened, says she's learn…
The three-story mural, created for the Catholic youth Grace House in New York, has been cut out and preserved for auction. The Haring Foundation is not thrilled by the idea of the auction. "…
A consultant tells the BSO that it needs a "vision" in order to deal with the debt and the uncertain future. The consultant said that "the BSO should be building a blueprint for the next sev…
The vast majority of Inuit artists, even the celebrated ones, "eke out an existence." Canada's famed reconciliation isn't touching their lives much. "Many support large extended families tha…
Jia Tolentino, New Yorker writer and extremely online person, follows the advice of a computer scientist. First thing to do: Give up everything optional on your phone and computer for 30 day…
Vine and Instagram did it first (and, let's be honest, Vine was great, RIP Vine), and now TikTok is the new way for kids to become social media-famous. How the heck is a school supposed to d…
The choreographer has a new memoir out. In an interview, he describes "the sissy tests" of middle school " and turning those humiliating, degrading moments into dance. " NPR
Why did Elizabeth Strout return to her dour, challenging protagonist " and how the heck did Olive Kitteridge become such a cultural force to begin with, a bestselling book that turned into a…
Clark was "an African-American expressionist painter who used a broom and bold colors to capture the natural world and to convey emotions about the racial injustice of the 1960s, earning him…
Backup dancers aren't very "backup" anymore; instead, like the 16-year-old who began touring with Janet Jackson at age 12 and is now a major social media influencer, they're at the center of…
We regret it an awful lot as well, Dame Julie. But oh, the stories she's accumulated, this one quite early: "I had forgotten to pack my dress shoes, so my mother painted white ballet slipper…
Sure, Peter Handke spoke at the funeral of Serbian war criminal Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević in 2006, and sure, before that he had compared the fate of Serbia to that of Jewish people during th…
This is a bit of a problem for the massive company: "The big question now is whether some of Netflix's existing subscribers will decide to cancel its service and defect to cheaper alternativ…
Hockney, as a brash young artist in the 1960s, made some bold moves. "In the previously unknown letter, scrawled by Hockney while he was studying at the Royal College of Art in London, the 2…
Scary: "A Japanese man was arrested for reportedly stalking a pop star and attacking and groping her at her home, according to Japanese news organization NHK. Allegedly, this man found…
The Vanguard Artists Collective is "a tight-knit group of like-minded members of the creative class looking to push each other in their artistic practice while nurturing the next generation …
Originally the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award was meant to give encouragement to writers with new or creative thinking about gender, but the award's focus has changed " and now the award n…
Forster started strong but faded and had a hard time finding work for decades. But "the drought ended with a chance encounter with Tarantino at a West Hollywood coffee shop where Forster reg…