The St. Paul's Park Square Theatre had a budget issue due to expected donor funding shortfalls and lackluster ticket sales. Now it has a leadership issue. "For 'at least two years,' Park Squ…
Eilish, whose 22-year-old brother produced her album (and who won Producer of the Year), won Best Song, Best Record, Best Album, and Best Artist. Dudamel and the LA Phil won a Grammy; Jennif…
My old friend Jody Bottum recently wrote a social-media posting that has stuck with me: There's a book I've always wanted to write"titled, maybe, The Christ of the Mind, about the deep co…
The Dave Brubeck Quartet performs Brubeck's "The Duke" in an undated 1956 film clip. Paul Desmond is the saxophonist, Bob Bates the bassist, Joe Dodge the drummer: (This is the latest in a …
"One needs a town, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A town mens not being alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the soil, there is something of yourself, that even when you're…
Not to be confused with the autobiographical Shia LaBoeuf feature Honey Boy, of course. But seriously: The film, a documentary about a woman in North Macedonia living in isolation with her d…
You've probably heard of Harry Belafonte's connection to the Civil Rights Movement, but … McDonald's? Yes. The history of McDonald's includes a large number of Black-owned franchises that …
That may sound weird when Netflix also has Scorsese and Noah Baumbach out with Oscar-nominated movies at the moment (not to mention last year's Roma), but: "The idea is to forge relationship…
Public sector workers, dancers, and musicians have been on strike since December, with cancellations costing the Paris Opera nearly 15 million euros. But Saturday night, the production of Ta…
Perhaps writers are out of love with romantic love, not only marriage. "If the romance fantasy was long doled out to women as a compensation for powerlessness elsewhere, contemporary writers…
Last night, the night before the 62nd Grammys, Sean "Diddy" Coombs called out the awards for their lack of diversity " and a decades-long refusal to recognize rap and hip hop. The NYT had al…
As controversy continues to swirl (for instance, as HuffPost recounts the ways American Dirt takes passages from Latinx writers' nonfiction books on immigration) and as the book itself climb…
This move has "raised a business question about what kind of platform Amazon wants to be." In part, it's problematic because Amazon bought the big review site Goodreads in 2013. One writer a…
Lion was the main producer for Hairspray and Jelly's Last Jam, and she also played a major role in bringing Angels in America to Broadway. The artists she worked with remember how warm and h…
They create, sustain, and promote inequality " and a lack of public funding is increasing the issue. "The trend of putting on safer exhibitions by established artists to guarantee high visit…
In the heart of Chinatown, the collection was central to the history of Chinese Americans " and, because the building is structurally unsound, no one can go in to retrieve the water-soaked i…
She's a rising star of Season 3 (and 4) of The Crown, an executive producer for Killing Eve, and " oh yes " a writer and director of a movie whose trailer has been viewed more than 3 million…
Combining recent controversies " a statement King made about the Oscars and the reaction to American Dirt " author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez explains what publishing is like for many Latinx wri…
"In a field that so far has relied largely on show-by-show contracts for intimacy directors, a salaried position with benefits is a significant step. … 'It confirms that the company has ma…
With past colleagues backing her up (that story here), the ousted head of the Recording Academy says that she didn't want to be the story as the 2020 Grammys get underway " but she couldn't …
Jimmie Allen, who hit the charts with "Best Shot" in 2019, says, "I was excited and a little sad to be the first Black artist to launch a career with a number one in country just because of …
Sasha Waltz and Johannes Ohman had signed five-year contracts to lead the young ballet company (that was, in 2004, created as a consolidation of three opera ballets), but the protests agains…
The Denver Art Museum has cast Monet as a sort of Romantic painter, looking for the truth in unalloyed nature " and perhaps finding it. But instead of demonstrating oneness with pure nature,…
This is a hot time for symphonies showing Harry Potter movies while performing, live, John Williams' scores. But, well, why? John Jesensky, who works for CineConcerts and has conducted many …
Grime is a music style that came from London hip hop and electronic dance music " and now a grime artist, Lionness, has decided to team up with a London ballet company to "merge two worlds t…