Barcha held the landlord off while Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the book, and when he emerged with the manuscript, "pawned her hair dryer and the couple's blender so she could pay the postag…
Even before the colorful public ballots of the early United States, actually, "people used the viva voce system, rooted in ancient Greece, where voters announced their candidate to a clerk. …
The pandemic changed some things, and then came the murder of George Floyd " and the largest civil rights movement in U.S. history. "Anti-racist manuals have been cleaned out from virtual bo…
Popova, who died of Covid-19, lived a dramatic early life and found stability, if not joy, on Broadway and TV before becoming a ballet teacher. " The New York Times
Publishing has rather a lot to do to catch up in the diversity, equity, and inclusion fronts. Lisa Lucas, the outgoing director of the National Book Foundation, who is Black, says, "What do …
As the pandemic exposes massive historical cracks in the U.S. along class and race lines, it also exposes what state universities have been dealing with for a few decades " and it's causing …
Hepburn wasn't well-known in the U.S. before William Wyler cast her against Gregory Peck in the bittersweet rom-com. But "her star rose so quickly after this movie. That is crazy. This movie…
"Two of Domingo's managers and a spokesperson briefly cut off the interview when the singer was asked to respond to the fact that both investigations had found the sexual harassment accusati…
The idea was to figure out what could make for a safe return to live music, using healthy volunteers who had tested negative before the concerts. "The first of Saturday's three concerts aime…
Heidi Pitlor: "Ghostwriting is a form of acting, method acting really, as well as improvisation. You must become your subject, whether they are a Kennedy, a congresswoman, or a guy who espou…
Jascha Heifetz and Erick Friedman play the finale of Bach's Two-Violin Concerto, accompanied by Brooks Smith, at an undated master class: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and histor…
"I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm." Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devll and the Good Lord Continue reading Almanac: Jean…
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We need a significant, stable ongoing source of new funding for the arts that is politically insulated, inflation-proof, and expands the definitions of non-and for-profit arts. " Douglas McL…
Thuy Van Vu's empty classrooms feel eerily familiar right now, almost photographic. "The spaces she portrays are vast and full of potential, and also of a great, yawning absence. Where are t…
Turns out not everyone loves mansion tours, or even castle tours. "The trust's visitor experience director proposes putting thousands of artworks and other items into storage in order to 'fl…
The drivetime listeners are gone, sending NPR's radio ratings into the sub-sub-basement. Yet NPR is reaching 10 percent more people than at the same time last year. What gives? "Bringing a y…
It's bad from the singer side " 51 percent of the top 100 songs were by solo male acts, and only 19 percent were by solo female acts " but it's shockingly horrible from behind the scenes, wh…
And what an author " Marcie Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an "award-winning poet, playwright, author of children's books, short stories and the popular Cash Blackb…
His team sprang into action and got censor-free footage that seems impossible. "The hardest footage to shoot was inside the I.C.U., Ai said, but he could not divulge how it was filmed. He sa…
Can they? Yes. Will they? Hm. " Slate
Police tear-gassed the gathering before the march began, killing L.A. Times columnist and KMEX news director Ruben Salazar (two others also died during the tear-gassing and shooting). "The M…
Kanstantsin Shyshmakou, the 29-year-old director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk, refused to sign anything certifying the re-election of Lukashenko " and was found dead in a river …
Reassuring: "The theaters are pushing hard the argument that moviegoing is safe more broadly, or at least as safe as going to a restaurant, flying on an airplane or worshiping in a church." …
So here we have a movie, Cuties, that "has been praised for questioning how society and social media pressure young children into acting in sexually explicit ways." Best way to advertise it,…