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With "Crazy Blues," Mamie Smith opened the door to a surge of powerfully voiced female singers who defied the conventions of singerly gentility to make the blues a popular phenomenon in the …
Jim Hall and Larry Goldings play Hall's "All Across the City":
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Frid…
"Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken."
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (courtesy of Brenda Becker)
Continue reading Almanac: C.S. Lewis on the tragic natu…
The shutdown has suspended usual rules, positions and behaviors, suggesting there may be opportunities to not just rethink but take action.
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Grau, who won the 1965 prize for her fourth book, The Keeper of the House, wrote "stories and novels [that] told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South." " Los Angeles Tim…
So many legends, so much art, and yet … "Rubbish collects in gutters, litter spills from over-stuffed communal bins, pigeons scavenge among fallen, leaking garbage bags. People walk casual…
The shutdown has suspended usual rules, positions and behaviors, suggesting there may be opportunities to not just rethink but take action.
"Maybe you've learned the seasons in a new way. Perhaps, in some way, you are a visitor in your city, state, land." " The New York Times
Carver, one of Canada's great stage actors, "was an artist who demanded the most from himself, opening up his heart to reveal the pain and beauty of life. He was an inspiration to everyone w…
A question for everyone who loves to read his work: "How should we now regard this pathbreaking, Nobel Prize"winning author, who grappled with our nation's racial tragedy in ways that at onc…
In the year of the 500th anniversary of Raphel's death, a 3-D reconstruction of his face, using a plaster mask of his skull, provides what may be "concrete proof that the skeleton exhumed fr…
Novelist Candice Carty-Williams is astounded and, she says, in love with the list, despite the ways that "Book Twitter was excited but baffled that the offerings we usually expect to be on t…
Soria was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and former editor of the Italian news weekly L'Espresso. He began his second term as president of the press association in…
The perfect holiday film? "First broadcast on ITV, at 9pm Christmas Eve 1989, it haunted all who watched it, thanks in part to Wise's tense, economical direction, and one of the greatest jum…
Nothing will be the same, or at least for a long while, so why not try something new? "It's easy to imagine many areas of a theme park resort being refashioned into a special-event space. I'…
Paint what you see " including virtual realities that might just be based on paintings. " CBC
Alan Dershowitz has sued CBS for a"defamatory" comment on the TV show The Good Wife. If the plaintiff were to win his lawsuit, it would be a real problem for TV writers and novelists. CBS's …
Go back to the time when a switch flipped in Tolstoy's head: "It's as if Tolstoy woke up in Pushkin-world and put on his own seven-league boots and started striding over the heads of all the…
The Marvel and Star Trek actress, who was heavily criticized for playing the much darker-skinned singer in the 2016 biopic Nina (which has a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, whew). Saldana said…
The writer of the piece says, "Limitations foster creativity." These specific limitations also foster free time to watch other people's creativity, of course. " Dance Magazine
Not that it would be easy to fix the issues with Twilight, but author Stephenie Meyer gives it a try with her newest book. So … how did that work out? Uh: "Meyer seems to think that accoun…
At Berkshire Theatre Group's outdoor production of Godspell, things are different. "For the artists, it's a brave new world. … They perform six feet apart in the musical about Jesus and hi…
The Condé Nast food magazine's missteps around race and representation continue. "The departures came a day after three journalists of color said they would no longer participate in t…
Artist Ngarralja Tommy May, a Wangkajunga-Walmajarri artist, has won the major prize at the (streamed) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards. Said another winner (for pai…
Many things have battered the city center over the past two decades. "German mayors have tended to turn to marketing in an effort to attract more people to the city center. With retail movin…
