The camera operators' job applications asked them to list their skills at things like mountain biking, river rafting, and hiking. Those aren't on the skillsheets for a lot of camera operator…
You may not know you know his work, but you definitely do. A partial description: "Emmy-winning composer who worked with Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, scored Steven Spielberg's early w…
Actors rehearsing for the musical Sleepless get test results within 45 minutes on an app. One of the actors says, "It does actually feel amazing to just be hearing people sing again. It's ma…
The Golden Notebook, published almost 60 years ago now, gets to the heart of almost everything (depressingly, still) going on right now. "Lessing " like Anna " is unafraid to dirty her hands…
Manz also featured in Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue. " Variety
That likely condemns a lot of venues to closure. "'It's shocking that they don't just stay until they figure it out,' says Audrey Fix Schaefer of the National Independent Venue Asso…
A literal éminence grise (his hair went white decades ago) best known for editing the books-and-culture pages of The New Republic for 32 years, Wieseltier was about to launch a journal fund…
Its roots go back to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios, established in 1919 on a corner of Formosa Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Renamed United Artists Studio in the 1920…
"Whether or not companies can figure out how to incorporate digital into their strategy is going to decide which will fold. Linking digital programming to data, marketing and operations is a…
From this vantage point early in its run " and I'm pronouncing this with my fingers crossed that no virus outbreak occurs " the festival can be seen as a cultural marker in ways both subtle …
Interviewed in the Guardian aged 80, Bream, who retired in 2002, said he was no longer playing: "The thing I feel a little annoyed about is that I know I'm a better musician than I was at 70…
Once the news broke, many of the first edits to Harris's Wikipedia page were the sort of structural maintenance done by veteran editors on the site: citing sources, attaching categories, imp…
The impresarios of the Democratic and Republican national conventions are facing the same theatrical problem that playwrights, stand-up comics and concert singers have been grappling with si…
Given their prevalence in the great cathedrals of Europe, it is easy to imagine that pointed stone arches and soaring ribbed vaults are Christian in origin. But the former dates back to a se…
The idea came from Joan Plowright and her husband, Laurence Olivier, who was then running the National Theatre at the Old Vic. They and colleagues wanted an additional theatre that would tar…
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University, and the composer Edmund Hunt are to lead an effort to fuse music and historic linguistics to examine the sonic footpri…
"Today, the pop-culture collectibles market grabs headlines and brings in between $200 million and $400 million in annual sales. … But back [in the '90s], entertainment memorabilia was sti…
Rebuilding Notre-Dame begins by recounting the history of the gothic cathedral with close-ups of its gargoyles, bells and sacristy alongside the rector Patrick Chauvet talking about his sens…
"All concerts will be broadcast live via the Royal Albert Hall website and on BBC Radio 3, but there will be no live audience. The fortnight of live performances comes after two months of ar…
"While a final agreement is still pending, the Iraqi government has reportedly consented to a $15 million settlement over 4,000 disputed antiquities in the Museum of the Bible's collection, …
"Dr. Nunberg's day jobs were in academia and in a Silicon Valley think tank, but his deepest preoccupation was in understanding how human beings communicate through words, from slang and vul…
That's because all of Lebanon was in crisis, with daily demonstrations, the collapse of the currency, and a gridlocked, dysfunctional political class that has been clinging to control since …
The multistory, ochre-and-white mud-brick houses in the UNESCO-listed old city of Sanaa had already been weakened by bombs and artillery during Yemen's six-years-and-counting civil war. But …
For one day only, tickets at the theaters will sell for 15 cents, roughly the equivalent of what it cost to watch a movie in 1920. That's the year that the company's founders, the Dubinsky B…
"As performer and developer of the guitar and its repertory " and as a leading reviver of the lute's Renaissance repertory " Bream, who has died aged 87, was one of the instrument's towering…