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The most notable thing about Barrie Kosky's production of Handel's Agrippina at the Royal Opera is that every member of this ensemble can act " especially Joyce DiDonato, giving what I expec…
The Ontario Film Authority was designed to operate on a cost-recovery basis, charging filmmakers fees for issuing ratings such as PG, 14A or Restricted. Its most recent annual report showsÂ…
The novel, which is a sequel to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, sold more print copies in the first week than any other Canadian book since BookNet Canada began tracking sales data in 2005.…
"Chris was a collector, and a collector of unexpected things: meteorites, records, guns. He started collecting composers' signatures when he was a kid and amassed what I imagine is the large…
"Ms. Norman, who found acclaim as well as a recitalist and on the concert stage, was one of the most decorated of American singers. She won five Grammy Awards, four for her recordings and on…
With chronic illness, rigidity in your thinking and behaviour is the greatest barrier to living well with your illness. The only thing you can count on is the fact that you never really know…
Having been given a small budget to construct homes for low-income families, many of whom said they would like to expand their dwellings in the future, Alejandro Aravena hit upon the idea of…
The idea of a "plant intelligence""an intelligence that goes beyond adaptation and reaction and into the realm of active memory and decision-making"has been in the air since at least the ear…
There was a time when we judged people, labelled them, loved them or hated them because of their taste in literature, art and even pop music. " The Spectator
Myriad issues are to blame. Donors'Â funding priorities have changed, and corporations are donating less to nonprofit theaters, making the fight for funding more competitive. High-quality …
"I remember we thought we should use the British spelling of 'theatre' so that people would take us more seriously." " Washington Post
There's a sliver of space where audience members can start to consider societal change. "I keep coming back to the idea that, as theatremakers, our greatest weapon in the fight against clima…
In time, Wenner, who founded the Rock Hall with the record executive Ahmet Ertegun, became more associated with the institution than any other figure " becoming its top negotiator in the ind…
Perhaps it's precisely the soft science of working with and viewing other people that makes performance a refreshing counterpoint to an art industry that is increasingly commercialized and c…
Bernheimer, who was the music critic for the LA Times for more than 30 years, "was renowned internationally for the strong opinions he voiced in his reviews combined with a singular wit and …
Silicon Valley (and all of the tech people who inhabit it and its environs, on- and offline) doesn't have a political point of view, really. It's not conservative nor liberal. It's only alwa…
Mary Wilson says that those who weren't there don't quite understand that Motown "really was like walking into a Disneyland. All these creative people. People say: 'Motown, it was this big b…
Whoa. For the new movie Abominable, Asian American and other actors of Asian descent play the Chinese cartoon characters. This, says a critic, is "an occurrence as rare as a solar eclipse.Â…
Seriously, how has It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which started its life during the George W. Bush administration, survived? "The show strips away innocence for every character that gets…
It's been literally half a century since the show began trying to teach little kids not only the alphabet song but also how the alphabet corresponds with letters in their lives. Now Sesame S…
In this video, "the museum is using high-tech methods to carry out a forensic examination of exactly how Rembrandt painted the picture." What's the most 21st century thing about the research…
To be fair, the architecture was a lot more barbaric at the beginning of the zoo. Now design is more focused on attempts to break down the human/animal barrier … invisibly. But is that eno…
Show-don't-tell is a mantra for early writers, the training wheels on the bike, the interior wax holding up a bronze sculpture. But. "The real goal of 'show, don't tell' is to force a discip…
That's right, streaming film criticism, in which critics break down scenes through clips and show how lighting, sound, or other effects add to the emotional and intellectual resonance of a m…
Yes indeed, historically speaking. "Tap and jazz grew up together, and in the 1930s and '40s, it was assumed that the greatest jazz bands " Duke Ellington's, Count Basie's " would bring tap …
