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Tag: 03.09.18
The 1882 Play That Is Benefitting Enormously From The Current U.S. President
That’s right, it’s Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. Do we need to explain? Well: “What started as a response to a Trump presidency now seems to speak to our times in many ways, with a plot that intertwines an ethically compromised antihero, political extremism, corruption, environmental activism and a lack of accountability for the destruction of a town.” There was even a site-specific play set, and performed, in Flint, Michigan.
ABC Puts An Episode Of ‘Black-ish’ On The Shelf For Being Too Political
The showrunner shot the episode in November, and it was supposed to run in February. Instead, it will never be shown. The episode “features Anthony Anderson’s patriarch Dre caring for his infant son on the night of an intense thunderstorm that keeps the whole household awake. Dre attempts to read the baby a bedtime story, but abandons that plan when the baby continues to cry. He instead improvises a bedtime story that, over the course of the episode, conveys many of Dre’s concerns about the current state of the country.”
Recent Movies Show That Science Fiction Is For – And About – Women
If you look at the early days of science fiction with the author of Frankenstein, and then turn to recent movies Black Panther, Annihilation, and A Wrinkle in Time, you get pretty serious acknowledgement that women are an integral part of the genre. The films “dispute a mainstream perception of science fiction as a masculine genre, using feminine costumes and environments to build the strong-willed characters. Nothing will stop these women from overcoming the perilous obstacles ahead of them.”
After Being Accused Of Harassment By Multiple Women, Sherman Alexie Declines Literary Honor
The American Library Association had given him the Carnegie Medal and a $5,000 prize for nonfiction for his most recent book, and they had intended to hand out the prize in June. He declined this week, but the ALA isn’t going back to the drawing board – they simply won’t give the medal this year.
Where Are All The Dancing Boys? Instagram, Of Course
One of the boys – and we’re talking children, not young men – has 140,000 followers on Instagram, and another teaches dance moves to his friends at recess. So don’t think boys aren’t into dance; they are – especially online.
New Study Delivers Deeply Depressing News About Spread Of Fake News
The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.
Canadian Creative Industries Set New Policies On Harassment
The code, unveiled Thursday by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), requires all signatories to enact a zero-tolerance policy for harassment, discrimination, bullying and violence. It also requires them to implement consequences for violations, designate people to receive complaints, provide a process for resolution and protect complainants from reprisals.
Arms Dealer Pulls Out Of Arts Festival Sponsorship After Public Protests
BAE Systems has now put out a statement saying it “remains supportive of the aims of the Great Exhibition” but has decided to “redirect our support to other initiatives better suited to both our skills and innovation objectives”.
Record Phillips Auction Sets London Records In Hot Sales Week
Before the sale, the pre-1945 Modern content was estimated at 37 percent of the value of the entire sale—an increase on any previous Phillips sale. By the end, it was more like 60 percent. So with only Phillip’s day sale to go, the London Impressionist and Modern sales total has ended with just over £400 million ($551 million) in sales, the second highest for the capital, while the Contemporary bracket is looking at a record in the region of £340 million ($469 million). When the two categories are combined it also marks a new record for London—and there, in the heart of the scrum, Phillips has proved they can mix it with the big boys.