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How should food writing work? "On the one hand, it should communicate the demands of craft, expressing the physical skill of cookery with words on a page; on the other, food writing should c…
But many murals " like one to Eric Garner, who gasped out, "I can't breathe" before he suffocated as an NYPD officer held him in a chokehold in 2014 " get painted over or destroyed. "When th…
Who are the great writers of Spain's Golden Age? Well, they're men, of course … or, wait a second, we've been missing a whole bunch of information. "Recognition of these women and the 'alm…
If you're not worried about Covid-19, now may be the time to visit Rome and the Vatican, where the museums have a limited number of people allowed per hour and many other coronavirus precaut…
Here's the issue with the issues, at least around race: "Such efforts to meaningfully contribute to the conversation are especially sensitive because many of the institutions are led by whit…
It's difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but this was not the case for performers. "There's no finesse ab…
Many theatres have put out statements of support for Black Lives Matter protesters, and some have put up posters saying the same things on their boarded-up windows. Then New York Theatre Wor…
Jack Mangan interviews Carson McCullers on board the S.S. Queen Mary. This clip was originally telecast in 1951 by WJZ-TV as part of Ship's Reporter, a TV series in which Mangan interv…
For trouble comes to all of us: the rat
Has courage, in adversity, to fight;
But what a shining animal is man,
Who knows, when pain subsides, that is not that,
For worse than that must follo…
The Black Death "was the most devastating incident in human history. It altered not only human society but the imagination itself. Its traces can be perceived today, and perhaps more lucidly…
Why did the protesters pull down Edward Colston's statue? "The 18ft bronze statue, erected in 1895, has long been a focal point for anger at the city's role in the slave trade and the …
And the museum's new director will have to decide what to return to the former colonies, as well as giving the museum a new direction. (One might wonder why these tasks are given to "the fir…
Restaurants are reopening in France and elsewhere, and thus social life may be (somewhat) reborn. But how did the modern restaurant become the heart of social life in Paris, London, New York…
The actor " known to American audiences as a Sherlock and Doctor Who writer, and Mycroft Holmes on Sherlock " says, "There's always a debate about how London-centric theatre is," but adds th…
Eva Yaa Asantewaa, senior director at the Gibney Dance Company, and expert writer about dance, says, "We've gone too long doing a lot for very little, and now we're all completely screwed. I…
In the 20th century, thousands of people worked together on large projects with a vision of a better future. What's our vision now? "In the hands of technology entrepreneurs, driven by the i…
Different counties may recommend different start dates, with Los Angeles County being one of the hardest-hit by the virus, but June 12 is the first day filming may resume in the state, with …
For musicians, that is. Two meters (roughly the USian-advised 6 feet) of distance is just too far to be practical for performing musicians, according to Musicians' Union leader Horace Trubri…
The theatre group tweeted out something that said Black Lives Matter. Then former SCT employee and actor Dwayne Perkins weighed in, sparking a series of tweets from Black actors and other ac…
What's happened in the movie industry during the time David Rooney has been reviewing for THR? A little, and a lot. "The sheer multiplicity of themes and styles, of representations across th…
No huge crush at the Javits Center and no real timeline for rescheduling a live event meant one of publishing's biggest events had to move, at least partially, online " in this case, to Face…
Taub, a composer who has written music for the Public's Twelfth Night and As You Like It, was cheering on a peaceful protest on her street, from her own stoop, when she and her husband were …
But the adaptation isn't easy or OK. "'This is the only thing I've ever wanted to do,' [Nicole] Carroll said of working in the theatre. 'It feels like a grieving process, letting go for a wh…
Edwards started writing when she was 7, but published her first novel almost 50 years later. She wrote six detective novels, "mysteries set in Harlem starring a female cop turned sociologist…
Normally, for spring's Bear Dances, "groups of dancers would sway back and forth, shoulder-to-shoulder, with the lines of men and women closely facing each other before they split off into p…
