Especially, it seems, the bookshelves of celebrities. Take Regina King: "Tupac Shakur Legacy, by Jamal Joseph: Curated by a family friend, this "interactive biography" of the rapper inclu…
The actor, who died yesterday, went up against an entrenched system, and won. Her successful 1943 lawsuit against Warner Bros. "destroyed the indentured servitude that was the studio system,…
The new season will include in-person Masterworks concerts at the Carpenter Theatre at the Dominion Energy Center in September, October and November. The capacity of the Carpenter Theatre wi…
Over the last half-century, Warhol has been merchandised into the trite, plastic banality he supposedly critiqued, but as Blake Gopnik reminds us, the artist is much harsher, and more cynica…
Victor Sen Yung started in Hollywood as a "Chinese peasant boy" in The Good Earth, and his last role was 43 years later, in The Man With Bogart's Face. He was credited as Sen Yung, Sen Young…
Martha Gonzalez sings with the band Quetzal and has a new memoir out as well. When the band was nominated for (and won) a Grammy, "Quetzal never showed up to the pre-Grammy gala. Instead, th…
The mystery and TV writer says maybe we'll be better at responding to dangerous events in the future " or at least some of us will be. " LitHub
With fresh spikes in the virus in the U.S., studios delay releases again, and "hopes for a speedy substantial resurgence at the global box office were dashed." " The Guardian (UK)
The volunteer's lawyer: "He bitterly regrets his actions … My client is consumed with remorse," after admitting he set three small fires that destroyed the organ and stained glass dating b…
The argument to Congress: "We are over 675,000 small businesses and organizations in every town, city, and state, employing 5.1 million hard-working Americans who are now desperately struggl…
Hands convey meaning, and they have for eons, but they're not our primary means of communicating to each other. "People gesture, but their gesture is clearly a secondary supplement. People a…
Just as some of the Boomers and Gen-Xers first encountered opera on Tom and Jerry, and just as some Millennials first found memorized U.S. presidents or learned the nations of the world from…
What does she think of how the British government is doing? What's she doing during the pandemic? How will the arts recover? And so much more (including the fact that yes, of course she coul…
"Glenn Gould: On the Record," a 1959 CBC documentary in which Glenn Gould is seen recording Bach's Italian Concerto at Columbia Records' New York studio: (This is the latest in a series of …
"Reading the writings of a friend one often says, 'I can almost hear him talk.' But no one, looking at a picture, can possibly say, 'I can almost see him paint.' The art of the painter is to…
No, seriously: Can we? Landscape architects say yes. " Fast Company
This isn't a new issue at the library, but protests and action finally got the staff some of what it's been asking for for a very long time. "Workers have raised concerns about racial discri…
Since quarantine, a lot of us have been doing a lot more walking in our neighborhoods or wherever we can find to go outside without a bunch of people nearby. Austen would understand. "A spec…
The BBC isn't mincing words about the money: "The amount available for grassroots music, worth 1/700th of the total relief package, will go to venues at 'severe risk of insolvency' and can b…
A huge number of Britain's theatres are in serious trouble:"Julian Bird, chief executive of UK Theatre and the Society of London Theatre, said 70 percent of theatres and production companies…
Philbin hosted everything from Regis and Kathie to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but was far more than that. "He also wrote five books, appeared in movies, made records as a singer, gave co…
You can take one of two paths through the 20-year-old museum as it reopens, and nothing is comforting " not that that's new. "Tate Modern has never been a relaxing place to visit. But we've …
Rapid development in India is threatening knowledge of how humanity came to be. Sites are crumbling into rivers, being turned into rice fields, and being destroyed for buildings. "With sites…
The Avatar sequels are delayed " again. That's the seventh delay, in case you're counting. Will they ever happen? And what's going on with James Cameron? " Vulture
New Orleans has more than 130 live music venues, most of them smaller (some far smaller) than the average size venue in the country. The city's restaurants and tourist industry rely on the l…