What people who own a nonprofit are doing at the border of Hamtramck and Detroit: “They’ve got eight open lots. They garden on a few of them, but that still leaves plenty of space for other stuff. And in this part of the city, there aren’t any playgrounds. So this summer, Lerman and some neighborhood artists started a free, week-long day camp.”
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This Is How Scandinavian Crime Fiction Took Over The World
In Sweden in 1998, “among the ten bestselling books of the month was not even a single Swedish crime novel. There were historical novels, chick lit, contemporary novels, satire. And just two crime novels of any description: one British, one American. That’s how the literary scene looked just 20 years ago! … The Swedish crime novel — the Scandinavian crime novel — was stuck in a rut of whodunnits, essentially the same thing written over and over again.” Then things changed.
What’s Up With Diversity, And The Lack Of It, On TV? The Press Tour Will Tell You
Peak TV and the success of shows ranging from Empire to Transparent, added to the strong awareness of April Reign’s #OscarsSoWhite campaign, have transformed the press tour from triumphant bragging to fierce discussions and defensive moves from networks – especially the exceedingly white and male CBS – about diversity in front of and behind the camera.
An Orchestra Runs Out Of Money In Pennsylvania
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic plans to play one final concert, in October, and then shut down. “The orchestra ended last season with a $235,000 deficit. Officials say the executive director, the music director and the office staff have gone months without a paycheck.”
Pianist Vikingur Olafson On Why Philip Glass Is Important, And How To Play His Music
“He treats Mr. Glass’s music like a sculpture, worth studying from all angles in search of new interpretations and surprises. ‘I came to the conclusion that it’s not a repetition,’ Mr. Olafsson said of Mr. Glass’s music. ‘It’s a rebirth. It’s not treading the same path, but traveling in a spiral. That’s the image I have.'”
It’s The 50th Anniversary Of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ – And *That* Pauline Kael Essay
This is how film criticism changed forever: Kael “was on her way out the door at TNR when she penned a lengthy (roughly seven thousand words) essay on Bonnie and Clyde, which the magazine politely declined. Too long, they told her. Her agent, Robert Mills, reached out to William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker; they had published a more free-form Kael essay, “Movies on Television,” earlier that summer. Maybe he’d like to take a look?”
The Fierce, Independent, Imaginative Women Of Novelist Claire Messud
Messud’s protagonists, “unusually for women in fiction, tend not to be wives or mothers. More often they’re figures who might be considered unpalatable, unattractive or — indeed — angry. Her work quietly seethes at the idea that a woman needs to be ‘likable’ — or that a man should be the judge of her likability.”
You Can’t Fully Understand Virginia Woolf Without Understanding Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity
It’s especially clear in Orlando, but that’s not the only text that shows how much Woolf took and learned from what she knew of Einstein’s theories. “In Woolf’s vision of life — which echoes the ever-evolving flow of her language — the universe may remain a godless dark riddle, but some starry doors remain ajar, leading to the wonderful and terrible who-knows-where.”
As Barbara Cook Lay Dying, Singers And Other Musicians Came To Her Bedside To Sing Her Home
The list of performers who came to sing Sondheim and so much more is long, and those who couldn’t be there in person sent audio and video songs as well. “In at least one moment, Ms. Cook seemed to signal that she was hearing them, according to [singer Jessica] Molaskey. ‘We started singing and she lifted her finger up to her mouth. … She tapped her lips twice and I thought she was singing with us.'”
What Happened This Summer Is An Actual Hollywood Horror Moment
Aside from Wonder Woman and a few others, this was the entire summer for Hollywood: “Now the chickens of failure have come home to roost.”