IDEK why ppl think txting & emojis aren't language. "Any concerns about what the internet is doing to our collective mental health must be set against the poetry that it has simultaneous…
Why did The Washington Post reviewer (and the now-infamous headline writer) have such a hard time dealing with singer Debbie Harry's memoir? Perhaps because "she always comes off as tough an…
Apparently this is, or was, a new process; "Digital humans have been put into shots before, but, according to Guy Williams, a visual effects supervisor at Weta who is quoted in the film's pr…
One student recorded the burning of author Jennine Capó Crucet's novel, which Georgia Southern had chosen as a campus read: "These people decide to burn her book because 'it's bad and tha…
Hilariously to anyone who's ever worked in, or anywhere near, pastels, "There's one theorist who said it was better for women to use because they wouldn't soil their fair hands the way that …
Films like Always Be my Maybe, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Farewell, and Searching create new images for larger mass consumption. "In these complex films, Asian American mothers a…
What defines the protests in the public's memory might just be the art, including statues likening protesters to the Statue of Liberty and pop-art posters of Chinese officials and the city's…
Audible may be trying to get away from this case " but publishers are ready to wade right in. "Captions is a feature that scrolls a few words of an AI-generated transcription along with a di…
The Maine island where Indiana found a home isn't quite into it. "There are concerns here on the island about just what an Indiana museum might entail. Who would it attract? What sort of peo…
The child whose "Wow!" captivated the classical music world "is something of a celebrity at Symphony Hall." The Handel and Haydn Society invited the 9-year-old and his grandparents to a rece…
Scorsese says Marvel movies aren't cinema, but are more like theme parks. Jackson (who is, famously, Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe): "That's like saying, 'Bugs Bunny ain't funny…
What is a comfort zone, anyway? And how are the claims about Franco and his acting school exemplary of a certain kind of boundary-ignoring harassment that, yes, Harvey Weinstein also engaged…
There's only one big rule: Stop expecting specific books; surrender to the stacks, and enjoy. " Literary Hub
It's a little weird " well, one might call it something other than weird, but it also is weird " that Lauren Gunderson, the most produced playwright in the U.S. aside from Shakespeare, hasn'…
OK, where they printed money, a museum of the Mint " but not in the mint. Real estate is everything in San Francisco- San Francisco Chronicle
Just a few nights after Anne-Sophie Mutter stopped a concert to tell a woman in the front row to stop filming, actor Joshua Henry, star of a new Off Broadway musical called The Wrong Man, tr…
Projection design is that cool part of theatre where " poof! " an entire kingdom can freeze over, as in the Broadway and touring versions of Frozen, or where, in Anastasia, "a stage-spann…
Print? What is that? "What was once seen as a tool to pull in daily customers is increasingly seen as something taking up valuable floor and counter space." " Nieman Lab
Portman's acting life, of course, has been marked not just by Marvel movies but by that other huge franchise, Star Wars. She likes meatier roles as well, but she says, "I love getting to be …
Though they were shadowed by AIDS, the two works might feel contemporary in 2019. "Baldwin's primary theme is described by the author thusly: 'Forays, frontiers, and flags are useless. No…
Garbo wrote to her best friend, "It is hard and sad to be alone, but sometimes it's even more difficult to be with someone … When we are here on Earth it would be so much more kind if for …
Russian oligarchs have sat on the board of the Guggenheim and given money to the Kennedy Center. They've funded the New Museum and historic parks in the U.S. At least, they've done all that …
Feinstein was 88. She'd published more than a dozen poetry collections and 15 novels, translated Russian poets and wrote biographies of Ted Hughes and Bessie Smith. "Feinstein often explored…
How, why, and why is Nancy so hard to adapt to the screen? "Never out of print, she has appeared in more than 250 books and counting, in movies, on television shows, in CD-ROM games. She has…
But where are the other parts of the Wall of Scribes? And how did someone (or someones, or a syndicate, who knows?) steal the bronze sculpture in 1969? " Los Angeles Times