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At least partially " the biggest ad buyer this year on the social media giant has decided to pull its Disney Plus and Hulu ads, probably, along with hundreds of other advertisers, over conce…
Sure, people might pay $20 for a concert " but will they do what's even better, what the Met would like them to do? "The recitals are intended to stimulate donations. 'Fund-raising ebbs and …
Last week, Netflix suddenly decided to "reveal" its Top 10 movies of all time. Hm. "The catch was that Netflix provided the ranking and the numbers itself, meaning there was no way to verify…
The graduating MFA class of 2020 at the Oregon College of Art and Craft has, to put it mildly, been through some things. But they may be the only graduating MFA class in the country to have …
There aren't many in England, even in the capital city " and it took two years to raise the funds for this one. "Price's latest statue will be one of very few in Britain of black female subj…
What's that about? "Are these enablers true believers or just cynical opportunists? Do they believe the lies they tell and the conspiracies they invent or are they simply greedy for wealth a…
It's hard to settle on a bop when there's no one to bop with and no place to dance to that bop. "This level of turnover has not been seen since 1990, the year before Nielsen SoundSc…
Dan Duryea is Jack Benny's guest star in "Death Across the Lunch Counter," a spoof of the opening scene of Robert Siodmak's The Killers. This clip is an excerpt from an episode of The …
"You're only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, every ten years."
Chazz Palminteri, screenplay for A Bronx Tale
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The author of Room says, "I generally go out of my way not to be timely or to try and capture cultural moments. It's very peculiar "- Irish Times
OK, we just miss it. A lot. "It's a different absence than the loss of indoor theater, partly because of how fondly we cherish summer traditions. But as the director Anne Bogart said in a ph…
Uhm. British government regulations are that singers and musicians stand three meters apart, or (for singers) back-to-back, or side-by-side (in other words, not in rows on risers). "If the c…
Museums will not open on Monday, or anytime soon, says Governor Cuomo. "We're not going to have any indoor activity in malls or cultural institutions. … We'll continue to monitor that situ…
You'd think living during a plague (The Stand, The Walking Dead, Domesday Book) and a time when unmarked federal agents are kidnapping people off the street (Little Brother, Hunger Games) mi…
Bloodletting was a normal treatment at the time, but not the best practice for someone who probably had pneumonia, or so a new study says. " The Guardian (UK)
Despair about the state of the world, a little rosé, and voilà : "Orlean sent 27 entertaining, if typo-infused, tweets (read: "I do r e we. Know who is I my house") that careen from th…
London: "Emptied out by coronavirus during lockdown, the City was the perfect place for socially distanced, government-mandated walks. And beneath its streets are the bodies of innumerable p…
When you have to ask yourself, "Am I actually dying to see this movie?" it might be too early for the theatres to reopen. "Infections are still going up in many states, and there is no feder…
While Spain's figurehead monarchs went to the movies in Madrid, the Catalan government shut down Barcelona theatres and other mass gatherings (though it's awfully hard to shut down Barcelona…
A new streaming documentary does a lot more than set jazz dance into context " it asks the ballet and dance communities to restructure what they consider "foundational." " Dance Magazine
Why? Well … drive-in movies and a summer that's full of actual horror as well. "It turns out that inexpensive horror flicks, which have been part of the Hollywood ecosystem as long as cine…
It's not the language teachers, especially the English-language teachers from places like the Philippines, who are getting paid poverty wages. And what of apps? Uh … "Language 'learners' o…
For the new Beethoven piece, 323 musicians and choir members will perform remotely " and during Proms, most performances will be from years past (though there's a faint hope some final perfo…
Tucci began her career in Italy in the 1950s and went on to international acclaim, including in the 1960s at the Metropolitan Opera. "An unaffected and subtly compelling actress, she was bes…
Truly embarrassing themselves again, major studios released 118 films in 2019 and, well, they all got low grades from GLAAD. "Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, United Artists Releasing and Univ…
