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A mystery voting system, a government that has passed laws harming people in the city where the awards are held, and a ton of wins for only one film " that's just the beginning of the issues…
The British got a lot wrong as the empire spread, and one facet of colonial mistakes was how to look at Tibetan religious and art objects made of skulls or thighbones. "To British colonial o…
Indeed, Ireland didn't even get its own national poet or fiction laureate until 1998 and 2015, respectively. "Laureateships, like prizes and bursaries, recognise a coherent tradition built o…
Carlo Rozzi, conducting the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff on February 22, stopped Verdi's Les Vêpres Sicilienes twice " and he wasn't afraid to go directly to the audience about why. Sa…
Sure, sure, Hollywood has tried it before " but, along with Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog is reaping big bucks. That means "video game movies are really having a moment." " Sydney Mo…
Here's why it matters that a new Dickenson series feels so modern, and why it matters that new scholarship refutes the old lies about the poet. "If the 'real' person of Dickinson is translat…
Is this a city-led marriage made in heaven? One city councillor claims, "If we lose the DIY spaces we lose the next generation of live musicians." " CBC
A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening …
Jascha Heifetz plays the "Chaconne" from Bach's D Minor Partita for Unaccompanied Violin on TV in 1970:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in th…
"Some say never meet your heroes, but I say if you're really blessed, you get them as your parents."
Laura Dern, Oscar acceptance speech, 2020
Continue reading Almanac: Laura Dern on parents…
K-Pop and K-Drama success wasn't by accident. "The wave spread across Asia before reaching a global audience thanks to savvy social networking strategies and a steady stream of media with in…
The dance itself, and Irish dance in general, is obviously older " but it débuted as an interval act at Eurovision, and its appeal has never gone away. Its newest star says, "It's all I've …
Cerny, said Henry Louis Gates Jr., was "the proverbial dean of American genealogical research, … [whose work was] transforming raw data into narratives and metaphors about diversity and ou…
The good: Leadership. "Its festival directorships were shared equally between men and women, and … its executive board was similarly balanced." The less good: Director numbers. "The majori…
Well, that's a fraught subject. Phoebe Waller-Bridges, who wrote the show and plays the character, says, "Actually, she wishes she were more perfect, and that feels like it was an attack on …
The find is in the Roman Forum, where authorities revealed on Friday that they believe this may date to the 6th century B.C.E., 200 years after Romulus was said to have lived. That means it'…
But no one really knew it because her husband kept it one of her carefully guarded secrets. Now, "searching the archives for Amelia Earhart's lost poems is a study in fragments"every tucked-…
Sound stages of the 1930s and 1940s needed lots of stage sets, and at MGM, George Gibson was the man in charge. "The backdrops he created appeared in films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939), A…
They're different from the quality of movie soundtracks, many of which don't stand alone, and they're "a marvelous untapped source of experimental instrumental electronica. … The context o…
Vine was introduced in 2012, bought by Twitter, and killed in 2016. But in its time, it "turned everyday people into stars on other platforms and beyond. Its musical whims warped the music i…
This is the weirdest possible sentence to write, but director Céline Sciamma says that Portrait of a Lady on Fire isn't considered erotic in, of all places, France. What? WHAT? Quoi?? Sciam…
Take one cane, add whiskey, then gather a "mood" pitch for movie financiers, decades of photography, years of moving pitching, and presto! A new Emma. Miranda July on the director: "If there…
Yes, in recent months, Amazon has removed sellers who are peddling Nazi imagery on ornaments and a beer opener. But these are books, and "Amazon takes a different approach with books than it…
Of course, the officials say, books and article about how to strangle someone or how to escape handcuffs must be censored. But what about Angie Thomas' young adult book The Hate U Give? What…
The problem is that thinking about the prize bypasses the hard work " the mountains, in some cases, of hard work " that it takes to reach those goals. So: "The key to bypassing this mental g…
