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As I watched Dolemite Is My Name on Netflix the other day, I realized that I never anticipated living to see the end of movies as a public and collective viewing experience. Yet it's well on…
Many people no longer hold the kind of religious views according to which our time of death is not allowed to be of our choosing. There are an increasing number of countries where physician-…
Seriously, is this the brave new world of streaming? Where press releases go out daily about the wildly "diverse" television creators drafted by Netflix (and to a lesser extent Amazon) but t…
After Netflix received 24 Oscar nominations on Monday " the most of any studio and the highest level to date for the streaming giant " both chains said that they wouldn't screen its movies. …
Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family's dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff. Reversing the …
"Perel, a famed Belgian cross-cultural psychologist and educator who has written numerous books and given countless talks on the subject of relationships and sexuality, conducts these sessio…
Friar Niccolò da Poggibonsi took notes on gesso tablets while he traveled, and when he returned to Venice in 1350, wrote down his full firsthand account. The oldest manuscript of the work…
"Any man who's ever killed a chicken knows that it's best not to look it in the eye. [With his Sportsman's Notebook, Ivan] Turgenev forced his fellow landowners to do that, look the serfs in…
'The' tops the league tables of most frequently used words in English, accounting for 5% of every 100 words used. "'The' really is miles above everything else," says Jonathan Culpeper, profe…
Yup. A startup called Quibi has raised $1 billion in investment capital from every major Hollywood studio and most of the major tech companies. It has corralled an A-list tsunami to make pro…
On Saturday, officials announced that the government would withdraw, at least temporarily, a plan that would have raised the full-benefit retirement age, now 62 for many workers, to 64 for a…
Says the former master builder (i.e., chief preservation officer) of Cologne Cathedral, "The risk of further collapse is quite realistic. The vault is unlikely to collapse as a whole, but mo…
"Eric Wirth, vice president of the Guild of French Architects, … forcefully argued that wood " rather than concrete, material, or other materials that have been suggested " was the most ec…
"French-born Nederlands Dans Theater alumnus Medhi Walerski has been named the troupe's artistic director, starting officially in July 2020. … [He] replaces longtime artistic director Emil…
"In an announcement made on Tuesday, the French culture minister Franck Riester said the project was 'conceived and wanted' by Georges Wolinski " one of five caricaturists killed in the 2015…
The new database hosts profiles of underrepresented critics and journalists and invites media outlets, studios, networks, talent and film and television critics associations to find and cont…
Along with his classmate MiloÅ¡ Forman, Passer was one of the key figures of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s, and after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets, the two escaped …
Some film critics now differentiate themselves from amateurs through the practice of Extreme Film Criticism. In it, critics subject themselves to physical, film-related challenges that bear …
According to the Broadway League's annual Demographics of the Broadway Audience report for 2018-19, admissions for the season hit an all-time high of 14.8 million, with attendees from outsid…
Just one business day after articles were published detailing accusations that he propositioned and even dated subordinates in Erie and in his previous post at the Philadelphia Museum of Art…
A statement signed by hundreds of current and former employees says that "the reporting in the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer seems to barely scratch the surface of the abuses …
Here's a detailed look at a project by the Museo del Violino in the Italian city of Cremona (the Stradivari family's hometown and to this day a center of instrument-making) to digitally reco…
As I watched Dolemite Is My Name on Netflix the other day, I realized that I never anticipated living to see the end of movies as a public and collective viewing experience. Yet it's well…
From 2005: I went to my framer yesterday afternoon and picked up the presidential commission for my appointment to the National Council on the Arts. It is a splendidly old-fashioned document…
"Lately I have had the feeling that I have my whole life to consider and enjoy, especially the periods that were especially nice and that when I was younger I might have regretted because th…
