How a traditional New Year's melody that dated back to the pre-Christian era (when the new year was celebrated in March), and which was introduced by a Ukrainian choir touring the U.S. while…
"Underlying each of the disagreements in the letter is not just a matter of historical fact but a conflict about whether Americans, from the Founders to the present day, are committed to the…
… when it seems that everybody is looking back over their shoulder more with nostalgia than disgust. I am not immune. Scrolling through some old emails, I came across this one called "from…
Do all uncooked foods talk back? Snap crackle crunch; that's how cerealized infants learn words for eating. Yet the sound of celery is curbed by wilt. And then comes heat, and silence. " Jef…
The Executive Director will be a dynamic and experienced professional with overall strategic, financial, and operational responsibility for the Festival's programs, staff, and execution of…
Two years ago, Mrs. T and I made plans to spend Christmas on Florida's Sanibel Island, our beloved home away from home, for the first time ever"but then her doctors told her in no uncertain …
Louis Armstrong recites Clement Moore's "The Night Before Christmas." This was Armstrong's last commercial recording. He made it at his home in Queens on February 26, 1971, five months befor…
"Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be rig…
From Zadie Smith to Christian Marclay's clock to Beyonce and Clive James " the decade was a series of flashes. The New Yorker
I have tried not to think too often about the long shadow that Paul Bowles casts over Tangier, but this year's commemorations have made it hard to avoid: the twentieth anniversary of Bowles'…
"If you haven't been in a public library lately, you probably wouldn't recognize where you were if you entered one tomorrow. This is no longer, as I wrote early on, your mother's library. Th…
Classical music and opera are not an old wooded sailing ship about to break into pieces in a fierce storm. They are the thin, iridescent film of soap bubbles stretched and borne aloft by the…
Basically, it's always Christmas in July in British Columbia, complete with fake snow, fake characters, fake love stories, fake Christmas and … er … yes, the whole schlockfest (BELOVED s…
The headline: "Was this decade the beginning of the end of the great male white writer?" (#NotAllGreatMaleWhiteWriters, of course.) "Though few publications have reached parity, the overall …
Wait, if you let yourself be photographed for a feature story, aren't you already out of the running for being the "Banksy of" anything? Well, it's Vegas, y'all. Frankie Aguilar says that on…
Let's talk more about what Andrew Lloyd Weber did with this music, and what's been done to it since it premiered. Erm, the LAT's pop music critic isn't a fan: "To hear the song's dreary open…
But let's put it into context. "Just four percent down? At a time when the Star Wars franchise expanded into live-action television for the first time with The Mandalorian on Disney Plus?…
If you know the recipes date back to Portugal and Spain during the Inquisition, does that tell you what the secret is? "One of the most unusual recipes … uncovered [was] a sugary dessert c…
The organizers of the festival, almost all women, had to come up with Plans C and D after the Belarus KGB said no to showing films in the theatres or bank buildings. "The confidence to cover…
Uh, congratulations? That's very advanced of Dancing on Ice, if we lived in, say, 1994? But of course, someone has to be first. " BBC
Lindsey started writing romance on a whim, and she wrote more than 60 novels " and sold more than 60 million books. " The New York Times
The issue of delayed wages has been a thorn in the side of arts workers for months " or years. While unionized workers have shut down several museums over it, this protest was organized by n…
You might as well just plan to stay for the entire year. Don't forget your Beethoven-reality-enhanced sunglasses. " The New York Times
What is Martha Cratchit thinking at the end of A Muppet Christmas Carol (and why hasn't this ever been written about before)? "Your employer has brought an uncooked fourteen pound turkey to …
Yes, Amy March was a spoiled brat who burned Jo's manuscript, and thus earned the ire of every creative person ever, and the films and series have reflected that. But Amy … was also a crea…