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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Paint what you see " including virtual realities that might just be based on paintings. " CBC
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'…
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…
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 …
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As the Civil War raged, Kentucky was officially neutral " but it was a slave state. Freedom lay just across the river in Indiana, says poet Hannah Drake, whose nonprofit is preparing to inst…
At the Moravian Music Foundation, librarian David Blum "was doing a routine cataloging of material that the foundation has owned for years, [when] he noticed the plate number of the printing…
Some stations have meditation minutes, and some have other ways to fill all of that time when they'd normally have stories about events (the events that aren't happening right now). Some 30-…
VÃctor's hit was the 1991 "Mesita de la Noche," but before that, his son says, the Dominican singer/songwriter/producer had "lived a double life. … He was writing romantic songs and bei…
A couple of the filmmakers: "This is where our brains went. Instead of making bread, we were like, 'what can we do with how we're creative?'" " NPR
Why? Perhaps this: "While Ulysses Kay shared stages with the greats of his day, his daughter said over time his compositions haven't been performed as widely and are often programmed for cul…
And, in the U.S., it may be just getting started. A cellist in Pasadena who performs weekly with his wife, a pianist, says, "We thought with so much suffering, and so much anxiety, this is s…
Blocked off seats, reduced capacity, and musicians wear masks and face shields, with dancers keeping far apart as they perform onstage. " BBC