Art and Culture

NEW YORK (AP) — Edward Hoagland, a prize-winning nature and travel writer who overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and hone a conversational and digressive style that mirrored the…
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Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then,…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The world is full of theories of everything. The smartphone theory of everything argues that our personal devices are responsible for the rise of…
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Robert Carradine has died at age 71. He took his own life. The actor is best known for his roles in The Long Riders, Revenge of the Nerds and Lizzie McGuire. A beloved member of the storied clan of actors, Carradine was the…
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If you wanted to write a scabrous, over-the-top satire on liberal attitudes, you could hardly do better than use this weekend’s Bafta ceremony. As the end result of progressive, sensitive intentions, a white man sat in the audience…
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The heavy-handed adaptation of Vineland won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director — and best adapted screenplay. Hamnet won best British film (& Jesse Buckley best actress), which, sure. Wunmi Motaku took home the sole…
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“Sheehan’s prose was cool and restrained, as if to counterbalance the harrowing and chaotic lives of many of her subjects.” – The New York Times Source link
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The British Academy Film Awards and the BBC issued apologies Monday after a series of audible outbursts from an attendee with Tourette syndrome, including a racial slur yelled while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage. Jordan…
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Looks like nothing except defend the jury’s independence — and say that “the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first week of March, would be delayed slightly.” – The New York Times Source link
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The gains validate a bold bet by Charter Chief Executive Chris Winfrey: that cable could survive, if no longer thrive, by embracing the apps that had begun to supplant the traditional TV bundle. – The Wall Street Journal Source…
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