“The Columbian Chemicals hoax was not some simple prank by a bored sadist. It was a highly coordinated disinformation campaign, involving dozens of fake accounts that posted hundreds of tweets for hours, targeting a list of figures precisely chosen to generate maximum attention. The perpetrators didn’t just doctor screenshots from CNN; they also created fully functional clones of the websites of Louisiana TV stations and newspapers. The YouTube video of the man watching TV had been tailor-made for the project. A Wikipedia page was even created for the Columbian Chemicals disaster.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Broadway Casts Get Stuck At LaGuardia And Have A Sing-Off [VIDEO]
“To pass the time, the actors performed impromptu renditions of ‘The Circle of Life’ and ‘Arabian Nights, and [Tony winner James Monroe] Iglehart dropped an impressive freestyle to the tune of Black Star’s ‘Lions of Hip-Hop.'”
From Zero To Hero (AKA, How ‘Bridesmaids’ Got Director Paul Feig Out Of Movie Jail)
“It’s about as dramatic a career turnaround as possible for a Hollywood filmmaker, but escaping his five-year stint in movie jail was far from the only time Feig’s found himself standing at the precipice of a professional chasm. It’s happened, in truth, with some frequency.”
When You Nostalgia-Watch – And Then Figure Out The Villains Are Actually The Good Ones
“Leona Barrett, Lean On Me. … She’s a parent/activist who seems genuinely committed to getting the best possible outcome for all the children of Paterson. She’s also absolutely right: keeping every entrance and exit chained and locked is an unconscionable fire hazard and Clark never should have done it.”
Painting: Doomed By Cliché And A Lack Of Feeling?
“The problem is optical: two parties, critics and artists, look past each other with incompatible expectations.”
Ronnie Gilbert Of The Weavers Has Died At 88
“‘We sang songs of hope in that strange time after World War II, when already the world was preparing for Cold War,’ Ms. Gilbert recalled in ‘The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time,’ a 1982 documentary about the group. ‘We still had the feeling that if we could sing loud enough and strong enough and hopefully enough, it would make a difference.'”
No, David Oyelowo Is Not Going To Play A White Man’s Black Friend
“‘Don’t send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend,’ he said. ‘I just won’t do that. You can feel when it’s literally an afterthought; you can feel when it’s like, “Oh quick, let’s get some colour in here.” That I won’t do.'”
Producing Queer Theatre In A High School In A Red State
“This is a state that recently voted against adding LGBTQ people to a list of protected classes. You can be fired for being gay here. Or evicted. It happens all the time. People get married on the bridge between Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota. Queer kids here, many of whom grow up without ever knowingly knowing a queer person, feel incredibly isolated and, because of the legality of discriminatory practices here, have a brave few people to look up to.”
Why Loki Has Been Popular For, Oh, 900 Years Or So
“Of all the gods of Asgard, Loki is the subversive, the social and racial outsider; a gender-fluid character in a binary world. It seems appropriate, therefore, for Loki to subvert the epic tradition of prose just as he subverts everything else. It is a gesture of defiance – one of many – against authority, convention, even the rules of storytelling.”
Should Composers Disrupt What A ‘Song’ Means?
“For instance, Spotify, the clear leader in the streaming space, pays after 30 seconds, so an honest question is: A) Why write beyond that? And … B) Are you, in fact, screwing yourself six times over for writing a three-minute song (:30 x 6 = 3:00 song)?”