Art and Culture

“I love watching people play music,” the director Rachel Chavkin wrote me in an email this week. That makes two of us. We weren’t just chatting about our clubgoing tastes. I was in conversation with Chavkin about two shows in…
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The Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Blue Moon has all the opinions you’d hope for. Photo: Sabrina Lantos/Sony Pictures…
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Geeta Gandbhir says she slept through the phone calls that told her she was nominated for best documentary feature for The Perfect Neighbor and best documentary short for The Devil is Busy. Has she written two speeches? Maybe. –…
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Which — for the moment? — looks a lot like the old one. – Washington Post (MSN) Source link
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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staff that the company…
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Image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay Editor’s Note: These weekly essays are meant to connect stories from the week to larger trends and ideas across the arts world. To see all the stories on which these essays are drawn from, subscribe…
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“‘For McAllen, mariachi is like the Friday Night Lights of high school,’ said Anthony Medrano, a prominent San Antonio mariachi musician. ‘There’s pride in it.’” – The New York Times Source link
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In the misty light of dawn, the waters of Dal Lake shimmer like crushed sapphires. The surface ripples out with the gentle push of an oar that guides the wooden shikara boats through the calm waters. The lake, once surrounded by floating…
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DOGE employees used ChatGPT to make their choices. “The prompt was simple: ‘Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’’ The results were sweeping, and sometimes…
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Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay is Dua’s Monthly Read For March for the Service95 Book Club. While Dua's conversation with Roxane dives into the book’s themes and ripple effect on modern culture, below, writer, author and podcaster Ashley C…
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