"We are the literary magazine for Taco Bell literature. I also say celebrating the Taco Bell arts and letters. We're not a gimmick, we're not a viral sensation. We are real fiction, real ess…
The LA Times looks at what a new Hollywood might look like when it reopens. On the table: everything. How movies are shot, how they open in theatres (if they do), what movie theatres might l…
Sarah Kaufman: "They can serve as guardian angels of the evening, controlling the musical universe and its atmosphere, smoothing over mishaps and delivering well-timed thunderbolts with a wa…
On paper, the practice of logging on to a video-conferencing site to sit with strangers for an hour without communicating may hold limited appeal. In practice, silent Zooms have become a lif…
"The hosts [of the radio show A Way with Words], Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, are the Click and Clack of word talk. Barnette is a writer who has studied Latin and Greek (her books incl…
"It turns out that being in a dangerous situation with others fosters a new social identity. Boundaries between us, which seem so salient when things are normal, disappear when we perceive w…
With its relief funding, the NEA is switching tack from supporting individual art projects to ensuring that non-profit institutions and organisations are able to reopen. "We want to preserve…
The city's mayor: "I say in all firmness that it is out of the question that we allow ourselves to be invaded by cars, and by pollution. It will make the health crisis worse. Pollution is al…
Michael Andor Brodeur: "Lately, my social media feeds are filled with musical experiments that take a head-on approach to the current crisis, or works composed before the outbreak that reson…
Guided by pins on a digital map and a downloaded soundtrack " featuring songs, poetry, a couple of old voicemail messages and mysterious clues " ticketed audience members drive through the c…
"Mr. Ales was one of [Berry] Gordy's most indispensable executives throughout the 1960s, when Motown became a ubiquitous force in American pop culture and a prime symbol of black enterprise …
Dave Voorhees estimates that the store's chockablock bins hold half a million recordings of rock, R&B, jazz, classical, country and other musical genres " an inventory his business manag…
"The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project … has found an uptick in posts on Facebook groups involved in buying and selling looted objects from the Mid…
"Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures." A good picture "takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows…
"The proposed addition of hand-washing stations and health screening areas means that theatre lobbies will have to grow. The whole theatre building will have to grow, in fact. If social dist…
AMC has announced that, in both its U.S. outlets and its Odeon Cinemas abroad, "it will refuse to show movies released by Hollywood studio Universal. The latter had just declared it would co…
"For every private development project of $500,000 or more in the city of Los Angeles, the developer must pay an arts fee to the city based on the square footage of the building or a percent…
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Alaska "cited 'sexually explicit material' and "anti-white' messaging' in [Maya Angelou's] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, … [and] languag…
"The salaries of 89 senior-level executives " all nonfederal employees " will be cut by 10 percent for 12 months, starting May 24, with Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III and Deputy S…
"South Korea, which has a burgeoning theatre economy with a size and scale to rival the West End, has become the big player in Asia. … Its theatres were given the choice, rather than deman…
"So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side." John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress Continue reading Almanac: John Bunyan on death at About Last Night.
The 10-day "We Are One: A Global Film Festival" will feature content curated by the Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Toronto and Tribeca film festivals, among others, starting on May 29, or…
Comfort has won, and most formality is gone. But the freedom of informality comes at a cost. Formality is the bulwark against some of the nastiest human impulses, and acts as a vaccine again…
Will the current pandemic change human attitudes to death? Probably not. Just the opposite. Covid-19 will probably cause us to only double our efforts to protect human lives. For the dominan…
The next phase is set to start on May 4, with museums slated to welcome visitors again on May 18. They must follow safety guidelines drawn up by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage an…