by | Sep 3, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from BBC Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted Officials in Brazil have blamed lack of funding for a huge fire that has ravaged the country’s National Museum. One of the largest anthropology and natural history collections in the Americas...
by | Sep 1, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from artnet Sotheby’s Is Selling the World’s First Movie Poster, Which Promoted a Premiere Only 30 People Attended The poster is an important piece of cinematic history. by Sarah Cascone Henri Brispot, Cinématographe Lumière (1896). This poster was created for the...
by | Aug 30, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker No One Is Safer. No One Is Served. An immigrant family hides from Donald Trump in a Connecticut church. By Dave Eggers The legendary Chicago oral historian and moral force Studs Terkel once said, “There is a decency in the American people and a...
by | Aug 27, 2018 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News, Projects
from Esquire The Best Books of 2018 (So Far) Get your to-read list ready: 2018 is already a good year for reading. BY ANGELA LEDGERWOOD We may live in challenging times, and there’s no better escape than through a good book. From new novels from beloved writers...
by | Aug 26, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from Fox News Neil Simon dead at 91 By Tyler McCarthy (Getty Images) Prolific American playwright Neil Simon has died at age 91. Regarded as the first playwright to have a Broadway theater named after him, Simon’s work dates back to “Come Blow Your Horn” in 1961...
by | Aug 25, 2018 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Projects
from Earn The Necklace TIFF 2018: 5 Drama Films That Explore the Human Condition By: Naveen Rao Sam Taylor Johnson with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton (Photo: Instagram/samtaylorjohnson) Even if they are from another part of the world and in another...