Camp relies on a sensibility that is deliberately not mainstream. So: “Is camp still ‘lots of fun’ when everyone’s on board, aboveboard? The ‘fugitive sensibility’ Sontag hoped to capture is now enshrined in the museum.” – The New York Times
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The Former Heart Of The Confederacy Gets A New Civil War Museum That Refocuses The Lens
It’s got the collection of the former Museum of the Confederacy, so can it ever truly tell all of the stories suppressed and neglected over the years? Well, that’s the plan: “It’s unprecedented in its attempt to tell the entire story of the war, not just from the Northern and Southern [white men’s] perspectives but through the eyes of women, immigrants, Native Americans and enslaved African Americans.”- NPR
OK, What’s Going To Be On Broadway Next Season?
Is it too soon after this year’s Tony nominations came out? So what? Bring ’em on: “When it comes to new musicals, looking beyond Broadway can reveal productions that may yet be players in the coming season. It’s also a reminder of the almost inextricable relationship that now exists between non-profit institutional theatres in the US and their commercial counterparts.” – The Stage (UK)
The Saatchi Gallery Covers Some Art After Muslim Visitors Explain That It’s Blasphemous
The artist was SKU and “the exhibition, Rainbow Scenes, was billed as exploring ‘how we, as individuals, are subjected to wider cultural, economic, moral and political forces in society.'” – The Guardian (UK)
David Cameron Gave Tina Fey A Secret Mission To Change British TV
Well, why not? “‘Come and convince our showrunners that they can’t just make six episodes of things. Like you guys, they should make 200 episodes,’ she recalled him saying. Fey rejected the request, however, explaining that US writers were, in fact, jealous of the less-is-more British approach.” – BBC
From ‘Audition From Hell’ To Tony Nominee
Amber Gray auditioned as well as she could for the Broadway-bound Hadestown: She “couldn’t read sheet music but had prepared for the tryout by diligently listening to the assigned song from the production’s buzzy concept album — which had since been tweaked.” Oops. – Los Angeles Times
Let’s Take A Little Closer Look At This Claim That A Netflix Show Caused A Spike In Teens Dying By Suicide
Did the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why *cause* the spike? Bit of an issue with a recent study that claims it did: “Importantly, the researchers don’t know if the people who died by suicide watched the show or not.” – Vice
Alex Trebek, Host Of ‘Jeopardy’ Who Recently Revealed He Has Cancer, Gets An Emotional Win At The Daytime Emmys
If you ignore the controversies surrounding some “sloppiness” in the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Emmy awards last year (and maybe this year too), you can just focus on the positive: Alex Trebek! Also, a lot of other winners (the whole list, indeed), in this post. – Variety
The Rockefeller Center Goes Back To The Land
Really. “The botanist David Hosack transformed this landscape into the country’s first public botanical garden in 1801. His creation, the 20-acre Elgin Botanic Garden, would come to contain about 3,000 species of plants. … It was a space where New York City residents were exposed to exotic flora and fauna like kumquats and figs.” And now? Well, it’s a garden again. – The New York Times
In Writer Helen Hoang’s World, Autism Is A Key To Love And Happiness
Hoang’s first novel, The Kiss Quotient, had an autistic main character – and so does her second. She says, “There was this website I looked at — I don’t want to tell you what it is, because I don’t want to drive traffic there — but it, basically they say that autistic people are heartless, and that we don’t experience empathy, we are selfish and cold, and anyone who’s had a relationship could go on there and kind of air their grievances and say how horrible it was. And I’m sure that those situations exist, but I can’t accept that that’s a rule.” Hence, her wildly popular romances. – NPR