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Yes, that finishes as "stay together," of course. Though it's a bit unusual in the cosplay community, these women have a different idea. "It was just so nice to share our resources. It made …
Magdalene Odundo, a Kenya-born British ceramicist who hand-builds her work, says clay is a natural substance for creating bodies and other shapes. And no, she doesn't find the word "craft" o…
Marshall, the child of immigrants from Barbados, wrote novels and short stories that connected the US African American community and the communities of the Caribbean " and influenced many wr…
The company is part of Killing Eve, the movie Book Club, and around 100 other media properties, to date. Their spin: "In a world of media consolidation at an unprecedented scale, the size an…
The 9-year-old girl's parents sued the State and Cathedral Choir of Berlin after her application was rejected, but the court ruled that "the acoustic pattern of a choir is part of its artist…
Barnes served as a studio musician and producer for some of the most popular acts of the 1990s, including Roberta Flack, Sting, and Chaka Khan " and she propelled SNL to early viral fame on …
Reinholz, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, also had a hit as a playwright with Off the Rails (an adaptation of Measure for Measure) at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in…
Remembering Bob Wilber, and celebrating Gunhild Carling. " Doug Ramsey
Dorothy West was called Zora Neale Hurston's "Kid Sister," and her books were not immediate successes, partly, some say, because she wrote about the Black middle class. "She wrote 'posh blac…
It's not quite fair to call City Ballet principal Sara Means a force of nature because she's so hard-working and disciplined, but it's tempting. " Deborah Jowitt
Lyn Gardner says that "the fringe is like a machine churning out ever more raw talent, which is attractive to venues who buy it up cheaply. But the issue is they then offer very little ongoi…
In Brisbane, the Trace show is taking art to bakeries, luggage repair shops, and mechanic shops. The point? To "democratize" the art. " The Guardian (UK)
But drama is actually doing well, compared to the other arts. Yikes: "Entries for music fell by 6% to 5,125, and dance dropped 18% to 1,050." " The Stage (UK)
This week in comics news: "Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his graphic novel Maus, withdrew his introduction to a new Marvel comics collection after its publisher …
Don't get distracted by your feelings about obnoxiousness. Well … a little, maybe. "It's easy to see why phones can be annoying. They represent a sort of loud carelessness, the idea that s…
The cartoonist's essay about the rise of superheroes is online, and he makes his opinion clear: "International fascism again looms large (how quickly we humans forget " study these golden ag…
The music, to be released in September, was the Coltrane Quartet's soundtrack to the French Canadian film Le chat dans le sac (The Cat in the Bag), which is available online now. "Coltrane h…
Broadcasting live theatre changes the audience " and the theatre. But for the better? Directors try to "collaborate with the show's creative team and company. 'We've got to do it in such a w…
The actor Liu Yifei, who plays Mulan in Disney's live-action movie, "this week reposted an image on Weibo, a Chinese social network similar to Twitter, that took the police's side. The…
"What mobile AR adds is the ability to changefocus by actively moving around a simulated object in real space. The technology wants you to do that. So it may just not be the ideal way to exp…
The project reached its crescendo, transitioning from theoretical to actual, last month when the Port of San Diego agreed to lease a 3.68-acre site on Embarcadero Marina Park to the symphony…
"He would reject work, but praise the writing. His form rejections included a note: "It happens that I am both the editor of the Blue Moon and also the head of a critical revision business. …
Beethoven's political engagement is indisputable, but whether it finds direct expression in his work " aside from dedications and commissions " is a sticky topic. " New Statesman
Jimmy Kimmel Live! was fined $350,000 by the FCC for a sketch about the presidential alert system. " New York Magazine
"I think that to him, in his head, he was just a big star and everyone wanted him. And to the rest of us he was just, you know, this creepy guy that could make or break your career." " Los A…
