Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant " and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed schools to teach about the…
You know his work even if you don't know of the man. "Stalmaster's accomplishments are too numerous to list exhaustively, but among them: He became the first casting director to receive an h…
Of course he did. "Like modern immigration laws, the [1921] Emergency Quota Act inspired a wave of pro-immigration activism, and Porter, who was born to the state's wealthiest family and liv…
First there was Ratatouille: The Musical or Ratatousical, which raised more than a million dollars for actors, with the no doubt bemused blessing of Disney. Then TikTok went sea chanty. Now?…
The problem isn't earned income lost to tourism (that is, no tourism). The problem is the trustees. "Met trustees established a special fund to deal with the pandemic crisis. So far, accordi…
Of course, we've all probably been watching quite a few things during the past year, but have those things included Academy-honored movies? Time to start, perhaps. " The Guardian (UK)
Turns out it might not be sitting on the couch behind your daughter in the TV room. (Who could have known, pre-pandemic?) " Fast Company
Women Artists for Revolution (W.A.R., of course) weren't shy about their rallying cry in 1969. "The group ignited a robust movement against gender discrimination within, and widespread exclu…
Well, that sounds hokey. But it's powerful, a program from Georgetown that, a co-founder says, shows "there is a particular power that performance has, to allow us to listen deeply, bear wit…
Dear Gavin Newsom, this makes no sense at all. Signed, a lot of LACMA and other art-lovers in California. Weirdly: "LACMA can open its Resnick Pavilion gift shop but not the galleries within…
Not that left-wing art-lovers can't sympathize (and a socialist mayor in another town is planning to defy the national orders as well), but … well, honestly? This is another seemingly biza…
The site, which the City of Federal Way annexed in 1994, has been lauded over the years for the pioneering way it intertwines building and landscape. Today, it is caught up in controversy ov…
The novel has been misinterpreted for a long time: just after it was published, Fitzgerald complained to Edmund Wilson that "of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the s…
As a nonsense word perfect for a doo-wop song. It's a video app that connects people and (sometimes) facilitates romance. " WBUR
"I realized right away with COVID that people were becoming dancers, in that their spatial awareness was growing. We were literally afraid of each other's presences. We were backing away fro…
What we haven't pulled out yet is a black ball: a technology that invariably destroys the civilisation that invents it. That's not because we've been particularly careful or wise when it com…
The cinema chain Malco has been doing this in six Southern states since November, and the South Korean chain CGV started it in January. With prices for a small group of players running aroun…
We live in a technopoly, a society in which powerful technologies come to dominate the people they are supposed to serve, and reshape us in their image. These technologies, therefore, might …
The state has issued $750,000 to seven stations annually since 2019. The funding, which is divided evenly among the stations, supports technology needs and operating expenses. It also covers…
Sir Tom occasionally shades into Saint Tom, thanks to a notably ample collection of friends who remark on his generosity and kindness. He remembers birthdays, he lends money when others are …
"One of the things I wasn't thinking about, but which is very obvious to me now, is the great value of having each festival stage exactly what they would like to present. This has brought in…
Its diameter of 110m is identical to the ditch that encloses Stonehenge, and it is aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise, just like the Wiltshire monument. A series of buried stone ho…
In the face of complicated events, bewildering new technologies, and sometimes contradictory information, the explanatory power of some occult yet totalizing narrative easily overmasters mor…
"After Donald Trump made a flurry of hasty, last-minute appointments to the board that oversees the design of much of what is built in the capital, the CFA is once again all White and all ma…
"Peter Barnes had 14 soliloquies on BBC Radio 3 [in the late '80s] under the umbrella titles Barnes' People and More Barnes' People. They attracted remarkable actors, including Laurence Oliv…