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So why aren't there more realistic, or semi-realistic, or, dare it be suggested, hopeful films about climate change? Because, several directors said, it is hard to find financing for movies …
"People think that all you have to do is have certain postures, wear certain clothes, dance to certain music" to make it hip hop, Michele Byrd-McPhee says, pointing out that simply donning t…
Native Hawaiians agree that Mauna Kea connects humanity to the universe " as an umbilical cord between Earth and space. The peak at Mauna Kea is the "highest point where land touches the sky…
This figure is still 15% short of the NT's stated 50/50 target for gender representation, which the theatre has said it will achieve by 2021. It is also below the 42% figure recorded in 2016…
Bodies have changed " we're bigger, with a lot more markings " and times have changed: It's actually less legal to be nude on national beaches now than it was during the summer that saw both…
Martin, famously far, far behind on his books in The Song of Ice and Fire series (which became The Game of Thrones on HBO), says, "Having the show finish is freeing, because I'm at my own pa…
Work stopped entirely on July 25 to ensure that tests were done and the workers were safe, because many tons of lead burned or melted when the spire fell in the fire in April. But work will …
Do you want a serious look at the world of dance; a more lighthearted, behind-the-scenes glance; or some potentially weird but eclectic and innovative podcasts involving hosts and guests? Th…
Sciorra has said that Weinstein attacked her in 1993, which is outside of the statute of limitations " but the prosecutors want her to be able to tell the jury her story anyway. "Prosecutors…
Here's the deal: "Some 19 million tourists visited the Netherlands last year, more people than live there. For a country half the size of South Carolina, with one of the world's highest popu…
No, really, go watch the crews move the wall " moved so more musicians could eventually fit on the stage-to-be " and enjoy: "It took about six hours for construction crews to move a seven-st…
Is the phone booth a thing of art? Of commerce? Or is it just a piece of trash from an older age " a piece of trash no one, including the phone companies, wants to deal with? While Spaniards…
Singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus: "Music is magic, yes, and many people use it as an outlet for their animal emotions, but I just wish people would let loose their feelings while still keeping t…
Sure, some of this is funny " "One edition of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story referred to itself on the back cover as Animals Farm: A Fair Story. The preface referred to another great Orwell work…
Olivia Laing won a £10,000 prize for her novel Crudo over the weekend. But Laing said, in her acceptance speech, "Crudo was written against a kind of selfishness that's everywhere in the …
Kimberley Rampersad was a dancer who started to sense that dance jobs would dry up " and it was time to move into directing. Now, she's got Man and Superman, all six hours of it, on her plat…
The claim: The event takes up an incredible amount of time and money, and the symphony says "our understanding of our role in the community has begun to change." Therefore, "the staff is eva…
War and Peace? Bring it! Every single word of Silas Marner? Amateurs! What about 72 hours of Sherlock Holmes? Bliss! "'There is an appetite for the epic that has simply surpassed our expecta…
Alvin Baltrop only had a few shows while he was alive, one of which was at a gay nightclub. Now that he's getting more attention, we can see some of the "real" New York of the 1970s and 1980…
"There's a tendency among some Anglophones to see the official struggle to resist English as somewhat hysterical. That attitude partly reflects the smugness of a people who increasingly expe…
Amazon's new use case takes Rekognition to a new level. Now you can now use the software to take a pretty good guess at what a person in an image or a video is feeling. What could possibly g…
"His inventions and scientific theories, as well as his painstaking painting technique, were all of a piece: science and art were not separate modes of thinking. His investigations into geol…
Whoops, forgetting (or neglecting to worry about) maintenance isn't going to cut it anymore, or at least not in this case. "The five judges on a Roman court overseeing the use of public fund…
How long can this last? "This market brings together two groups who normally don't socialize: critics and collectors. There are the exotic-seeming rich people, as any reader of Henry James w…
India is a huge country with many different regional cuisines. But cookbooks haven't reflected that " until now. "As the publishing industry's view of Indian cuisine approaches homogenizatio…
