Take the First Amendment, and then flip it. That’s Saudi Arabia’s media landscape – and Netflix, the huge media company, is supporting the regime’s censorship. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]Seriously, it’s time to reform the academic journal – especially in the sciences, where colleges are being priced out (and if colleges are priced out, who’s buying the jour…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]As Beto O’Rourke and newly minted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez use Instagram to show their domestic skills, Senator Elizabeth Warren uses it to announce a presidential bid, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]Susan Zirinsky will become CBS News President in March after years as the executive producer of “48 Hours.” She’s taking the reins after CBS has been rocked – and per…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]Oh, are movies entirely dominated by Disney and Netflix? These 2018 independent movies beg to differ. – Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Yes, but they sure are trying hard to make it impossible. “Huge privacy violations have become commonplace. Without a private right of action, consumers have little practical ability t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]She won one, too, for Killing Eve. But back to this article: Oh says, “People can pooh-pooh Hollywood all they want " and there is a lot to pooh-pooh, sure " but we also make cultur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Seelan Palay’s Singapore isn’t the overwhelmingly rich, lush fantasy of 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians. Instead, it’s a place where protest, including performance art…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Equity is considering a limited strike, barring its members from developmental labs – “generally four-week sessions in which actors and writers test out material for shows in pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Heck yeah, books and beer. Or really, books and a brewpub. How is this not in every city in the U.S. already? – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Though the song didn’t have its origins in the actual Confederacy, it became an anthem of that attempt to break away from the United States. But eventually, long after the Civil War en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Whoa. (Here’s the full list, including some rather surprising winners.) – Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]But he was in his 40s, and so it wasn’t as filled with possibility and joy as it might have been when he was in his 20s. “The bookstore is a liminal space. Even if like me you do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]A century ago, Lois Weber ruled Hollywood, directing 138 films and being counted as one of the three finest minds in the industry, alongside DeMille and Griffith. Her biographer: “She …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Here’s a collection of stories and a future live-blog for the ceremony, which starts at 8 Eastern tonight. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]That’s right, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez titled his new dance after the classic anthology This Bridge Called My Back – but with the word “ass” instead…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Why is anyone, much less seemingly everyone, watching Netflix’s deeply mediocre (if even that) Bird Box? Some critics try to explain. For one thing: “It's like a taunt: The ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]The video, and its many predecessors, and the many dancing videos it’s spawned since a right-wing Twitter user tried to use it to shame the Congressional representative, is only availa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]So this is going well: “Hastings residents accuse [owner Sheikh Abid] Gulzar of cheapening the listed Victorian structure with plans for an amusement arcade and the installation of gol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wait, cassette tapes? Yes (driven, as movie fans could guess, by Guardians of the Galaxy compilations). “Vinyl sales grew by just shy of 12 percent from 8.6 to 9.7 million sal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Ishmael Reed’s The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of several strands of recent work critiquing the narrative of one of the defining musicals of our age. For one thin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Howard Sherman kept track of statistics about his theatregoing in 2017, and didn’t like the numbers he came up with. Did he see more plays by women and nonbinary folks and more plays b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]“Propwatch always keeps an eye on the drinks cabinet, because liquor is character.” – David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Terborg-Penn didn’t let history departments get away without telling a fuller story than the one they had, for decades, been telling. Her work successfully “challenged the existi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]The talk-show host, who is “the most influential openly gay person alive, gave Hart a massive platform and let the homophobic tweets that led to him stepping down from the gig go unque…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Research architecture is the name for an organized movement of investigative journalists, AI experts, archaeologists, lawyers, and others who are engaged in “the politics of space, esp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]What was a joke in 2001 is a reality in 2019: You can buy a Harry Potter egg cup and toast branding set or a Hedwig lip balm (really? Owl lip balm?). That’s because “everything c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]For instance, there was the 1943 Cine Metropolitan, a movie theatre where a couple of key Roma scenes take place. “‘Cinemas were like this,’ he says reverently. ‘When…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]The Academy had discontinued music shortlists after 1979 – but then it brought them back last year, claiming indies and small films from the first half of the year would have a better …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]After a nearly 16-year run, The Millions, which was truly one of the last outposts of the early 2000s book blogging culture, has made a decision: “While the magazine's coverage of book…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]“I had, I think, finally been introduced to the private world of reading that many people inhabit; a dream state I now regard as a portal to the act of breathing life into fictional wo…
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