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So … Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" is sitting at number one in the UK " and in the US, but despite its utter yeehaw-ness, not on the country charts because Billboard claimed it didn't "embra…
Melissa Young began her career as a dancer with Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and since then, she's been rehearsal director, academy director, associate artistic director, and interim artistic…
And yes, it was an inside job: "The Bible was among hundreds of rare books, maps and other items, worth about $8 million in total, that the authorities have said were stolen by the archivist…
Media were removed from the courtroom for a while during Friday's proceedings as well. Why? "Prosecutors want to call additional women with similar allegations to help establish a pattern of…
A woman who keeps only 5-10 physical books in her personal library at any time wonders, "Why are we so attached to our books? As I held and decided the fate of each book, I kept coming back …
When every site, production company, and channel seem to be creating their own streaming services, and when Disney decides it might want to sell its own bundle, it's time to acknowledge that…
First, of course, you need to be familiar with the original. Russell Howard, who's playing the Duke of Cornwall to Glenda Jackson's King Lear on Broadway, also had to help figure out how goo…
You'd think an ill-conceived, badly written mini-screed might not be worthy of worry for critics. You'd be wrong " dangerously so, when it comes to stars "taking on" the low-paid people who …
Final Draft, a widely used software for screenwriters, now has a free add-on to help writers measure everything from gender and race to age, ability, and more The software can even analyze w…
Well, the directors did ask people not to spoil the movie. (Obviously, the answer is not violence, but it does indicate the seriousness with which audience members treat spoilers for movies …
Or call them "dramaturges" after the research supporters of the theatre world " or, heck, call them collaborators: "Some choreographers have turned to a more collaborative process, using dan…
First, don't think too much about writing a book. Second, cheat. " LitHub
The strike lasted for seven weeks and, though the musicians didn't get everything they wanted in terms of gaining wages and pensions, at least they stopped losing. As one musician (and negot…
For those over a certain age " people who can remember the first years of the Clinton administration " "Waco" used to mean one thing: Branch Davidians. Now it's all about the empire of the c…
Without Robert Hooke's keen drawing eye, and the microscope, who knows what might have happened? You can read "the story of British art through a scientific looking glass. The Royal Society …
This happened: "At a forum in January, Yale's top librarian outlined a seemingly uncontroversial proposal: to relocate tens of thousands of books from the heart of the undergraduate library …
Wrightsman, like her husband before her, was a big donor and a trustee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "While giving millions to buy art and refurbish galleries, her involvement was often…
Sure, Netflix is developing more interactive content, but Netflix is far from alone. A new game, or perhaps it's an "interactive media experience," aspires to do something slightly different…
The country " and world " is chock-full of serious ballet competitions now. But "before YAGP was founded 20 years ago, it was a much different story. For bunheads, 'competition' was almost a…
Don't do it for the children! In other words, some parents, even in tech-obsessed San Francisco, refuse to put their kids online. "They cite reasons ranging from preserving children's safety…
Florence and the Machine sang a haunting song over the end credits of the second episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, and they're one of a very few groups who have gotten that opp…
If you can doodle, you are drawing. And you're not alone. "When I was a baby critic, a veteran colleague once told me to avoid drawing shows at all costs, since they were just preliminary ex…
When students get a chance to write music for a documentary about a musician, one composer, who had never been into TV or movies, realizes this is the path: "I see media like TV and film in …
And it didn't always go well. '"This is offensive to me,' [a] vexed visitor complained. The security staffer found himself in the position of having to defend the activists's right to protes…
Boulez erased most of his early compositions, but this one was preserved at the Paul Sacher Foundation. "After reviewing that score, 'Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo,' the Dutch pianist Ralph v…
