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NUKE That was great, huh?
CRASH Your fastball's up, your curveball's hanging. In the Show, they would've ripped you.
NUKE Can't you even let me enjoy the moment?
CRASH The moment's over.…
The exploding audio medium is forecast to generate nearly $1 billion in 2020 advertising revenue, with an expected growth rate of 14.7%, according to the fourth annual Interactive Advertisin…
Newark's artists have applied their imagination to both cope with the time and seize its possibilities. Many have been documenting public and personal lives, and some have contributed their …
The Banff Centre shut down suddenly as the COVID crisis began and has canceled most of its residencies and programs. Much of the growth of the Banff Centre in recent decades has come through…
This week, in an operating theatre at the government's science facility at Porton Down, a small group of guinea-pig choral singers, some professional and some amateur, are taking part in exp…
COVID-19, unfortunately, has given the nation pause, but for LACMA it may be a blessing, a reason to apply the brakes: the pandemic has opened up time, offering the museum board, the LA Coun…
The black Seattle blues singer has been in talks with the band [formerly known as Lady Antebellum] for weeks about using the name, maintaining that she doesn't want to share the Lady A brand…
For the first time, anti-Olympics activists from around the globe are now joining to stand against the Games. Their slogan is "No Olympics anywhere," and after 200 of them met last summer in…
Mrs. Sokoloff taught at Curtis longer than any other professor in the conservatory's history, and more than anyone else, she was its gracious " if sharp-witted " personification. " Philadelp…
Some social media users took aim at the cheery "Welcome Back" videos Disney put out ahead of its world resort's reopening. Remixing the park footage with eerie music, including the opening t…
"Even if you had a hundred people in a space that's supposed to be 200, are they really going to keep six feet apart? A lot of people expect a nightclub to feel a certain way and have a cert…
What's safe now? Uh, mannequins. "We've had a lot of strange looks and questions like, Do you really want to do this? … But everyone is game. They are getting their first latex kiss." " Th…
Let's be honest about LA's Upright Citizens Brigade and the Groundlings, say BIPOC comedians: "The self-perpetuating white power structure fostered by these institutions led to the belittlin…
The actor, who attended USC on a football scholarship in the 1920s, said some intensely racist things in a 1971 interview. So why did an exhibit honoring him go up at USC's School of Cinemat…
Author Candice Carty-Williams (she of the hilarious, sexy, sad, and moving 2019 novel Queenie) says that Michaela Coel's new series is the first (and perhaps only) screen depiction of what i…
The group "We See You, White American Theater" released a 29-page letter of demands that "would amount to a sweeping restructuring of the theater ecosystem in America." Indeed, they say, it'…
While some big stars have already died, Sunday shook the Bollywood world further. "Superstar Amitabh Bachchan was in a 'stable' condition in the isolation unit at Nanavati Hospital, the faci…
Bethany Schoeff-Cotter is a classically trained oboist and married to the symphony's general manager " and was the personnel manager for 11 years. In her tweets, she "referred to the Black L…
The former American Ballet Theatre star didn't elaborate, but "at least three ballet employees became sick after the Washington Ballet's online gala June 18, according to several people." Th…
Why consume museum resources to honor settler colonialism or racism? India and former satellite states of the Soviet Union offer a different path. "In these places, no effort is made to pres…
Bonnie Lucas loves to take pretty things, cut them up, rip them apart, and then remake them into art. "The store-bought object is not meant to be cut up and dismantled. It's highly valued in…
As so many of us have been doing, the store redecorated " or rather, some of the chain took what it calls first steps in redecorating. (Might it be useful to hire back some of those content …
The statue of Edward Colston loomed over the city at the beginning of June, and historians had given up hope to get even a plaque of context about the man. Now, "beaten-up, bloodied and graf…
They weren't going to include bars, airports, hotel lobbies, and other public places for a while " because, after all, what kinds of numbers are in those places now? Then the studio ad execs…
Well, you know, new medical research buildings. "University spokespeople claim that UC San Francisco is unable to cover the costs of removing and preserving the murals, estimated at $8 milli…
