Celebrities including Sting and Benedict Cumberbatch, the mayors of New York and London, and the former archbishop of Canterbury intervened with the Trump administration The Jungle was a hit in London, and “the creative team and producers were reluctant to move the play without all the cast members, saying their life experiences — several had lived in the Calais refugee camp being depicted — gave the show its authenticity. But trying to get two Iranians and a Syrian into Trump-era America to perform a drama that is inherently sympathetic to refugees was, to put it mildly, daunting.”
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No One Saved Filmstruck, So Stop Celebrating
Indeed, this was all a master class in PR spin. “It’s difficult to not see the WarnerMedia item as anything other than a previously determined property-maximization plan, reframed as a response to bad press.”
San Diego’s Outdoor Symphony At The Marina Is Getting Closer
The California Coastal Commission has approved a permanent structure. “The new, permanent outdoor concert space would feature a 57-foot acoustic shell housing a stage, turf lawn with temporary seating, a box office and two food pavilions.”
Changing The Way Children Are Depicted In Anime Isn’t Easy, But It Is Necessary
Sometimes it takes real-life models to get more realistic animation, and this animator just happened to have two of his own on hand.
Can Anyone, Or Anything, Revive The British High Street?
Decimated by online shopping and giant box stores, the British high street needs help. “The identity and self-esteem of entire towns and city districts is wrapped up with retail – what, for example, is a ‘market town’ if it doesn’t have a market? As it has become ingrained that one of the main forms of shared public life is shopping, its loss becomes an existential threat to society.”
New York City Reviews Its Statues, And Fills A Big Gap With One Of Shirley Chisholm In Prospect Park
The statue will be installed in 2020, and it’s the first in a planned series that came about after “the city’s reviews of its statues — an effort to toss out ‘symbols of hate’ — and the creation of She Built NYC, an initiative to create more statues of women.”
Accused By Multiple Women, Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Now Being Investigated By Fox And Cosmos
Three women have accused the scientist and host of the TV show Cosmos of misconduct ranging from groping to rape.
Is The Iconic West Coast ‘Sunset Magazine’ About To Sunset?
This is bad (and, of course, it’s because the magazine was bought by a private equity firm): “Five top editors, including the editor in chief, have quit in recent weeks. Some freelance writers haven’t been paid for months. Sunset’s holiday issue, which typically lands in mailboxes in late November, has been delayed until nearly Christmas, in part because of a lack of advertising.”
WWI, As Seen From The Home Front
You can thank the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery for some of the most indelible images of the home front: “Rilla of Ingleside does an extraordinary job of conveying the anguish and worry of having sons far away in the trenches, fighting endless bloody battles to take and retake small pieces of ground, while at home you have to go on living and working and, all the time, tracking the faraway battles, waiting for the casualty lists, asking again and again, as Rilla writes in her diary, ‘Over there in France tonight — does the line hold?‘”
Transforming The Image Of Blackness
Afro-surrealist artist – and Ferguson documentarian – Damon Davis says, “We need to be able to imagine the world as we want to see it. … It can’t solely be based on anger because you’ll burn out.”