Art and Culture

The bustling Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood certainly keeps directors busy: In the past decade, Daniel Oriahi has made over 25 movies. But the filmmaker hit a new career breakthrough when the Tribeca Festival accepted his…
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(Ashley Blanchet played the titular role in 'Cinderella' at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in 2019. Photo by Jerry Dalia.) Though Disney princesses are often viewed as outsiders in their own narratives, there has…
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Visit the Minneapolis Central Library over the course of several days and you might notice something different about the place. It has the usual books and research materials you’d find at any library, but as a recent New Yorker article…
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Lately, I’ve been in limbo. Entertainment limbo, a modern purgatory for a Goldilocks who has too many options, none of them quite right. This show is too slow. This show came out all in one drop and now feels irrelevant. This…
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Marin Theatre is seeking an experienced Development Director or a highly knowledgeable fundraising professional ready to independently operate their own department. The Development Director will lead our fundraising efforts and…
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Ticketmaster confirmed in a federal filing on Friday that it was investigating a data breach after a hacking group known as ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for stealing the information of more than 500 million Ticketmaster…
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In Arthur C. Clarke’s famous short story “The Nine Billion Names of God,” a sect of monks in Tibet believes humanity has a divinely inspired purpose: inscribing all the various names of God. Once the list was complete, they thought, He…
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After days of morning to mid-afternoon gloom, Memorial Day bloomed bright and early over Los Angeles — the clouds blown away, no doubt, by the powerful current of sighs, groans and complaints generated by the weekend’s disappointing…
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Peter Schjeldahl wrote things that made you put down the magazine or shut the laptop or slowly slip the phone back in your pocket. Things that were so good you needed to take a minute. He was the leading art critic of his generation —…
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The project is part of a global trend of repurposing old roads and railways into places for pedestrians and wildlife. While the skywalk won’t fully open until at least the 2030s, the expressway was briefly closed off in May to give…
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