Quibi " whose ads you've likely seen if you've been online at all in the past four months " was meant to be a short-form video platform that people watched in moments of their commute or at …
Alvarez, the author of In the Time of the Butterflies and the new Afterlife, isn't trying to be facetious or to downplay the importance of health care workers or grocery clerks. But, quoting…
The group is called Huqqullaaqatigiit, and the drum dancers have been getting together every week for more than a decade to preserve language, music, and the words of elders in the community…
And, turns out, it was. This is why New York just banned it as a tool for teachers: "Zoom contains a number of critical privacy and security flaws, as educators have been learning the hard w…
Rocca and five others, former classmates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "came together under the sway of influences as disparate as Dubuffet, Native American art, hand-p…
The email was grim, and employees who had done all of the prep work for April tours aren't being paid for that work. On the other side of things for educators " though not for 76 other staff…
Given strict health controls by the production teams, including quarantines for the entire film crew, "studios have reopened in Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao and Xi'an, and TV series such as Leg…
But much of the money is earmarked already, and may benefit furloughed employees: "About $7.5 million of the bailout will cover six months of benefits " pension, social security and health c…
Here's what's going on with some bookstores in Los Angeles. The Ripped Bodice in Culver City, which has a big Twitter following, offered a "care package" deal. Co-owner Leah Koch: "'Those ha…
Lia Cirio: "For a few days I was really in wallowing mode, just watching Netflix and not being very active. But then my mom sent me a quote on Instagram that said 'Victory comes from finding…
This is what happens when we're all watching movies all of the time: A fan spots something off, makes a TikTok, and then the NYT reports on it. What the heck, we need humor, and this is fain…
The podcasting business is changing at the speed of sound. There's a pivot toward profit. And while that's great in the short run for public podcasting, it also attracts new players and an a…
"Suddenly he was in a drab, dehumanizing place, first a stable in California, then the barracks of Topaz, Utah, where he spent most of his time in internment. It was bleak, hot, arid and dus…
Everyone includes musicians, visual artists, designers, dancers and other freelancers who are part of Washington's vibrant arts economy. They are musicians with no tour dates. Art handlers w…
Here's a brief history, going from a five-by-five palindrome from ancient Rome to Victorian double acrostics to four different kinds of riddle (including the anti-riddle). " The Paris Review
SXSW announced Thursday that it's partnering with Amazon Prime Video to stream as much of its movie line-up as possible for a 10-day period in the U.S. It will be free to viewers with or wit…
An April Fool's story that's actually true: back during the 1978 newspaper strike in New York City, a group of writers and editors that included some now-illustrious names " George Plimpton,…
Comics are largely sold through the direct market, moving from publisher to distributor to specialty comics retailers, as opposed to digital distribution or the newstands of yesteryear. But …
I spoke to several industry professionals; almost all were reluctant to play Monday morning quarterback without the promise of anonymity"if you're making a book deal in secret, perhaps it's …
To bring real value, any A.I. application needs loads of quality data"which is doubly problematic in our small and notoriously opaque industry (dealers l-o-v-e to hoard sales info). Without …
For most of my career, dancing and academic research were two separate but equally weighted spheres. However, over the years, I have become more and more aware that many people viewed dance …
"Alamo Drafthouse, Film Forum and the Angelika are a few of the … theaters testing out the provisional path into [online streaming]. … Patrons can purchase a digital ticket, most of whic…
Withers broke out nationally with "Ain't No Sunshine," which he also wrote and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. Fueled by a melancholic groove and soulful vocal, it won the Gr…
"Skylight Theatre, a Los Angeles theater company that prioritizes social issues, … [has] kicked off weekly plays from its writers lab set amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the [online] serie…
Mr. Woods's previous position ended just as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's season was about to begin last year. After building a reputation for innovation during his run as president of the …