The term was coined, by a white writer, in 1993. It might have been a good start, but there are issues: "It lacks room to conceive of Blackness outside of the Black American diaspora or…
Workers from the Tate, the Southbank Centre , and the National Theatre rallied for their jobs and against what they call callous job cuts on Saturday. One explained that now, "You've got the…
The RNC asked for permission, and the Cohen Estate said no. According to estate's legal representative, "if the organizers had requested to use Cohen's 2016 song 'You Want it Darker' then 'w…
First of all, this timeline is a terrible one; can we jump to another one? But basically, this all hinges on how Tenet performs in theatres versus how Mulan performs on Disney+. " Vulture
Trans dancers are challenging the conventions. Hayden Moon says it's not easy: "I'd spent years learning to be high on my toes and not make any noise and never let my heel touch the ground, …
What we think we know about the fight for women to get the legal right to vote is only a sliver of the history " and of our present. "There's a lot of that still hanging in the balance. And …
What it was like to watch Tenet in Toronto: A little nervewracking, a little weird, a lot enjoyable. "For 45 years, the summer blockbuster has given us something to orbit around, a Movie Eve…
Just a year after a protracted and bitter lockout, the musicians approved a multiyear contract that, while it includes COVID-19 related wage cuts (for administration as well as for musicians…
This may not be easy, and a lot of theatre artists may not want to think about it " but a Google Doc can help. "If there's an instance where the word 'slave' does harm and the word 'knave' d…
To be blunt, as kids go back to school, it's more obvious than ever. "Despite the truly heroic efforts in some communities, 17 million children in our country still do not have the tec…
Ruth Mackenzie was the first woman to run the Théâtre du Châtelet, the first woman to hire a Black artist to direct a play at the French theatre, and also, she says, the first woman d…
What do documentary filmmakers owe their subjects? What if the documentary wins multiple awards, grosses a lot of money, and makes the subjects (and documentarians) famous? Â Staying invol…
The actor, who also played James Brown in Get on Up and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, but had never spoken publicly about the diagnosis, and kept on…
These days, book covers are all about nature; they're festooned with flowers, swirling with birds and littered with leaves. Those aren't the only trends we've noticed, however. Here's a look…
The city is indeed at a moment of reckoning"not simply because of the pandemic, but because of what it had already become. After the fiscal crisis of 1975, New York and its economy were rest…
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How realistic is it for writers to get rich from selling adaptation rights? "It's just not," says Joanna Nadin, whose YA novel Joe All Alone was adapted into a Bafta-winning 2018 television …
A little over a year into my tenure at The Chronicle, I'd been initiated. For journalists, receiving an angry handwritten letter about usage from Quentin Kopp is a rite of passage, badge of …
"For the past several months, I've really only heard applause in small, sporadic outbreaks, and it's only hitting me lately how much I miss the stuff." " Washington Post
Festivals can serve as coronations, bestowing status or, even better, controversy. (Almost inevitably, "Joker" took home Venice's top prize, the Golden Lion.) More valuably, they can channel…
" Twenty volunteer musicians, all Black and Latinx string players from in and around Milwaukee, make up the Black String Triage Ensemble. When a tragedy occurs, they bring their instruments …
In 2011, Hallberg joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal, the first American (and one of the few foreigners) ever to do so. In 2019, he danced what would turn out to be his final performan…
Previous research on universal facial expressions has centered largely on similar responses by people from different modern communities. These studies seems to suggest that individuals acros…
"Without widespread consumer awareness that most books are not fact checked, or about which imprints publish which books, there's no real reason for publishers to care about fact checking. I…
"For too long, we have watched the detrimental impact of Amazon's business on our communities and the independent bookselling world," Powell wrote. "We understand that in many communities, A…