Trained at the Paris Opera Ballet, she became an international star in the title role of Carmen by her husband, choreographer Roland Petit (for whom she continued to dance for decades, somet…
If there's one lesson to be learned from the pandemic, it's the benefits of flexibility. In a matter of months, we've converted parking spaces into cafés, restaurants into food pantries, cl…
"The repayment clauses could stipulate that the amount employers have paid towards furlough contributions is subtracted from workers' wages when shows resume, and if workers do not return to…
For decades, the P in NPR stood for "public," as in publicly supported, noncommercial radio and digital news. Yet with its growing dependence on corporate advertising, NPR has found itself o…
From 2006: Art doesn't have to be true to life to be good, but when a work of art is true to your life, it strikes a special chord. On occasion music has this effect on me: I can think…
"That is why education seems, to me, so important: it actualizes that potentiality for leisure"if you like, for amateurishness, which is man's prerogative. You have noticed, I hope, that …
Movies, jazz and reading remain my favorite solitary diversions, and Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead enables immersion in all three with Play The Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz S…
The one-story, three-bedroom cottage was built in 1913 as a temporary home for Wright's lawyer, Sherman Booth. Booth developed a cluster of Wright houses, including one for himself, in the R…
Written by two former employees and one current staff member and signed by almost 70 others, the petition alleges sexual and racial harassment at the federally funded institution and calls f…
Science fiction writers have, indeed, always embraced globality. In interplanetary texts, humans of all nations, races and genders have to come together as one people in the face of alien in…
"We keep hearing that this is a post-truth era, that feelings beat facts, people no longer care what's true, and we're heading for ruin. Opponents of Brexit and Donald Trump not only found t…
The Broadway program publication hasn't printed programs since Broadway went dark. Website and social media traffic is up, but advertising has collapsed. "Just as it would be impossible to i…
For those wanting transformation, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. But will hardship economics allow for new possibilities from our most prominent venues or will it just be a matter of…
Although I spent college and most of my NBA career in Los Angeles, it wasn't until I retired from basketball and began my second career as a writer specializing in African American history a…
The politics of nostalgia doesn't capitalise on people's memories of particular past events they might have experienced. Instead, it makes use of propaganda about the way things were, in ord…
It may be closed on its 65th anniversary, but that's the only appropriate choice. "For me and many Southern California residents, Disneyland is more than a theme park; it is where I go to…
While some authors say the fiction can help people learn how to resist and persist, Black people in the U.S. say it's more of a mirror. "Assume where America has always been is a tragedy. Wh…
At the centenary of his birth, NPR has an appreciation of those he mentored and his influence on the music world of today. "Isaac Stern's tombstone simply reads, Isaac Stern, fiddler. These …
Parker was a huge supporter of civil rights and gave most of her estate to Martin Luther King (whom she had never met) when she died in 1967. When King died, the estate was transferred to th…
According to the publisher's own history, Elliott founded the magazine during a summer holiday from Keele University, where he was studying. "He produced the first edition on the kitchen tab…
Morgan Bullock's TikTok videos went viral, and then came the backlash. The dancer diplomatically says, "I think people use the term appropriation without understanding what it means." Plus, …
Opening with socially distanced audiences on August 1st? Not likely, say theatres. "For most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30%-40% audience required under social…
It's just too, too weird. "To someone living exclusively online, many of Freud's "primitive beliefs" would be literal truths. The dead live on in their videos and social media feeds. Thanks …
Sapardi, an influential poet and cultural critic, founded the Indonesian Literary Scholars Association and served as a dean at the University of Indonesia. One author: "As long as I've known…
Natasha Trethewey, former poet laureate of the U.S.: "When people talk about how getting rid of [Stone Mountain] would be erasing history " well, the monument itself is already an erasure of…