And old-school stylists are in pain: “Straight quotes appear as an abomination in a typeface, because their designers rarely love them; they’re included by necessity and often lack cohesion with other characters. The non-curly quote comes from the typewriting tradition, and arose from cost.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Netflix Has An Algorithm (Of Course) That Determines How Much The Company Will Pay For A Movie Or Series
Also, it’s paying $13 million – thirteen. million. dollars. – per episode of “The Crown.”
Broadway’s So Busy That It’s Bringing Back Standing Room For The Holidays
Wear comfortable shoes to Broadway, people. Along with “Dear Evan Hansen,” other shows “that are regularly offering standing room these days are such favorites as ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Book of Mormon,’ ‘Beautiful,’ ‘Waitress,’ ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘School of Rock.'”
Can British Publishing Become More Diverse For Good?
Some authors and publishers are wary. “We have seen it all before. … A few people are championed and then people lose interest because they think the issue has been addressed. And then it all reverts back to the way it was before.”
Sarasota’s New Principal Cellist And Her Beloved Ricky
“You’re not going to luck into this career. … You have to work for it, nonstop, even once you have a job. And you have to be careful not to let that change your love of music.” (Ricky is the cello, y’all.)
What Movies Will We Be Watching In 2017?
Here’s what lies ahead after we all catch up with this year’s Oscar nominees and winners.
John Williams Is The Reason Star Wars Resonates So Much, So What Is The New Star Wars Movie Doing Without A John Williams Score?
“A big part of what makes Williams’s music so resonant is his consistent, masterful use of shifting themes—across all of the films—to carry ideas and represent characters. In that way, the franchise has more in common with Wagnerian epic opera than with your standard action movie, where sound is so often used to trigger a quick emotion.”
Immersive Art Has Taken Over Music Festivals
And social media is to blame: “People just want to share what they’re experiencing, even if it’s unsharable.”
What It’s Like To Be A Poet Who Writes About The Elimination Of A Tyrant
Poet Alice Notley says, “The tyrant is what enslaves us to our forms. The tyrant is the form of our life, the form of our politics, the form of our universities, the form of our knowledge, our thinking we know something. All of that is the tyrant.”
Carrie Fisher, Performer, Writer And Activist, Dead At 60
The woman who played Princess (and General) Leia, wrote Postcards from the Edge, spent decades punching up scripts in Hollywood, and made it OK to publicly speak about mental illness, suffered a heart attack on a plane ride from London to Los Angeles on Dec. 23 and died on the morning of Dec. 27.