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Celebrities didn't vanquish the paparazzi so much as figure out how to undercut them " and the publications they fueled. In the end, the solution was so straightforward. Celebrities simply b…
Unlike some of its streaming competitors, Apple TV+ is being built almost exclusively for original content. Its smaller, more focused catalog is starting to look attractive to Hollywood A-li…
It happened in the winter of 1938 in Paris, as he was walking home from a movie with friends: a pimp named Prudent (yes, really) badgered them for money. (Later, in court, Beckett asked his …
The discovery, first announced by the country's state-run news agency, came during a decade-long excavation of the first of four pits at the mausoleum, a 4,300-square-foot area where some 6,…
Want to break out of your algorithmically-determined musical taste? How about being more intentional about what you listen to? Musicology Duck has set up a listening challenge for 2020 that …
Changi in Singapore, which has long striven to enthral and entertain its users, outdid itself with its new "Jewel" extension to its existing terminals, essentially a shopping mall and nature…
It's rare that a book hitting the list is a total surprise, but there are nail-biters and books that hit higher than we expected and that's a beautiful thing … but not as beautiful as maki…
The Associate Dean champions the processes of decolonizing, Indigenous Vitalization, and diversifying the Faculty's curriculum, as proposed in OCAD U's developing Academic Plan. Commensur…
In 2001, the newly-unified Arts Council England (ACE), with plentiful government and lottery arts funding, made the expansive claim of making artists central to arts policy. The individuals …
By the time the software was euthanized earlier this year, it had become an embarrassment, a mess of greasy preference panes and grayed-out, unreliable content. We were glad to see it go. " …
The poet fell in love with Emily Hale in 1912, while he was a graduate student at Harvard. She did not reciprocate at the time, though they corresponded until 1956, when she announced that s…
Over the past decade, the Super Bowl accounted for $3.66 billion in advertising revenue, according to data from research firm Kantar Media. In that same time, the average cost for a 30-secon…
"Watch clips of fevered crowds, from today or the past, chanting against 'enemies of the people'; they are malignant scenes, but ones that in no small part mimic religious revivals. … Huma…
"The last 10 years have seen a boom for black British playwrights, actors, artistic directors and others in the industry. What has changed on and off stage " and what's next?" Eight Black th…
Uri Sands, who founded the St.Paul-based TU Dance in 2004 with his spouse, Toni Pierce-Sands (both are former Ailey dancers), after "a lawsuit was served on a member of the company's board i…
"These works include George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and books such as Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, E. M. Forster's A Passage to Indi…
"Since 2016, California musicologist Linda Shaver-Gleason has been using [her] site" " called Not Another Music History Cliché! " "to compile a clear-eyed and level-headed accounting of the…
William Robin: "Linda tackled subjects from the purported ugliness of contemporary music to the contested idea of the 'masterpiece' to myths around Beethoven's deafness to whether music is a…
"'We can't become anaesthetised and think, 'Oh, he won [the election]. There's nothing we can do," said [Edu] Krieger, who has written songs for some of Brazil's most celebrated female voice…
A month after the disastrous flood of November 12, the president of the historic church's governing body said that the building cannot withstand repeated exposure to salt water it has faced …
"Seventeen stalls will be moved from sites including the Trevi fountain, Spanish Steps, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. However, eight of the 17 will still be able to trade on streets away f…
"Examining the 1,300 top films from 2007 through to 2019, the Annenberg researchers found that on average just 4.8 percent of directors were women, yet that spiked to 10.6 percent in 2019 �…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review Lincoln Center Theater's off-Broadway production of Samuel D. Hunter's Greater Clements. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Now that Horton Foote …
Ida Lupino appears as the guest on This Is Your Life. The host is Ralph Edwards. This episode was originally telecast live by NBC on March 3, 1958: (This is the latest in a series of arts…
"Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth." W.H. Auden, "The Protes…
