Both are large (one is very large), but only one is backed by the city. “Those behind the earlier and smaller project – the nine-storey mural in Cohen’s old Saint-Laurent neighbourhood, painted by Kevin Ledo as part of the latest Mural Festival – say it was a complete surprise to them when Coderre revealed in April that a rival 20-storey mural would rise on a building near Montreal’s Golden Square Mile.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Opera Singer Who Needed A Double Lung Transplant
Soprano Charity Tilleman-Dick: “I went into the hospital with an epic set of cankles — my ankles were swollen to the size of pachyderm ankles. I thought that they were going to give me some diuretics and let me leave, but the following morning, I woke up. It was to the news that there were lungs, it was a match and we were going to Cleveland immediately to have a transplant.”
The Lit-Doc, And Where It Can Go From Here
The news isn’t exactly scintillating. “The continued rise of streaming services, and their need for a constantly renewed library of content, means that informational documentaries will continue to be made. … They demand little of the viewer and are easy to digest, not to mention relatively cheap to produce. But at the same time, in the case of literature, they reduce their subject to a series of outworn clichés, where the lives of all writers begin to resemble each other.”
Yay For More Sex In Movies, But Can We Make It Fun?
You’d think it was 1811 at the movies, at least for women and their enjoyment of sex. “Female characters who have sex as casually as men have long been punished in popular culture, but a few decades ago things looked as if they were changing for the better.” (Spoiler: They didn’t.)
Lin-Manuel Miranda Says The President Is ‘Going Straight To Hell’
That, from the creator of Hamilton, comes after the man supposed to be running the country claimed that hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico “wanted everything done for them.” Miranda added, repeated his claim and added quite a bit more, and you can see it all (of course) on Twitter.
For Most Of Us, Immoral Actions Seem Nearly Impossible, But Why?
Seriously, this helps makes sense of our weird reactions: “It begins to make sense why, whenever the former neighbours of a serial killer are interviewed, they consistently report not being able to believe that their neighbour actually killed multiple people.”
Monty Hall, Who Knew What Was Behind Door Number Three As Host And Co-Creator Of ‘Let’s Make A Deal,’ Has Died At 96
In more than 5000 airings of Let’s Make a Deal, Mr. Hall had quite a few jobs – traffic cop, smooth-talking salesman and more. “‘Monty had to be a very likable con man; he had to convince people to give up a bird in the hand for what’s in the box,’ David Schwartz, the author, with Fred Wostbrock and Steve Ryan, of ‘The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows,’ said in an interview.”
A Harrowing Play That Gets New Life Thanks To The Administration’s Anti-Immigrant Policies
Sure, Alex Alpharoah’s play about coming to the U.S. as a baby in his then-15-year-old mother’s arms was powerful, and sure, it sold fine during its six-week run at Ensemble Studio Theatre. But its name – Wet: A DACAmented Journey indicates what had everyone from politicians like Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) to the ACLU and the Human Rights Watch showing up, and what has the theatre planning for another run: It’s about DACA, the “Dreamers” program that the president kept saying he would end.
Six Years Ago, Jennifer Egan Won The Pulitzer For An Unconventional Novel, But She’s Changed Her Ways
Why is her new, 400-page historical novel a linear piece, complete with a heroine in the Brooklyn Navy Yards during WWII? The author says that’s just the way it worked, and her writing group agreed: “There’s nothing inherently exciting about any narrative move: it’s only exciting if it works, and if it couldn’t be done any other way. Everything else is gimmickry.”
One Of China’s Most Popular Directors, On A Pre-Release Victory Tour, Sees His Film Abruptly Canceled
Did Feng Xiaogang delay the film – a romance set against the Cultural Revolution and China’s brief war against Vietnam – himself, because of poor ticket sales, or did party officials make a decision to delay it in advance of the Communist Party congress? Probably the latter: “Youth had already passed the scrutiny of Chinese censors, and was shown at the Toronto Film Festival this month. But the memories and themes evoked by the film may have prompted senior officials to reverse approval for its release during this sensitive political season.”