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• New California Bill Could Save LA’s 99-Seat Theatres

  26-04-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Enter SB 805, which is up for a hearing by the California Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on April 26. If passed, the bill would greenlight low-cost payroll and paymaster services for small nonprofit performing arts organizations that make $1.4 million a year or less. It would also create a fund to award grants so that these theaters could hire and pay employees at least the minimum wage. – Variety
  
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• Choreographer Creates Company To Copyright Dance Moves

  26-04-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The JaQuel Knight’s company Knight Choreography & Music Publishing will see to the rights to Knights dance moves while operating as a music publisher as the company will broker licensing deals and protect IP. – Geo
  
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• How TikTok Has Made “Vibe” A Multimedia Haiku

  26-04-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  What a haiku is to language, a vibe is to sensory perception: a concise assemblage of image, sound, and movement. (#Aesthetic is sometimes used to mark vibes, but that term is predominantly visual.) A vibe can be positive, negative, beautiful, ugly, or just unique. It can even become a quality in itself: if something is vibey, it gives off an intense vibe or is particularly amenable to vibes. – The New Yorker
  
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• Opera Super-Fan Leaves Behind 200,000 Autographs

  26-04-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lois Kirschenbaum was a switchboard operator from Flatbush, Brooklyn, who became perhaps New York’s biggest and longest-standing opera buff — and an obsessive autograph collector. For over half a century, she spent about 300 nights a year at the Met and other musical and dance performances. – The New York Times
  
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• American TV Watchers Flee Cable

  26-04-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five years ago, 63% of Americans mostly watched television through cable and satellite. Today, that percentage has dropped to fewer than half of all Americans, while the percentage of those primarily watching television via a streaming service on the internet has jumped 17 percentage points, from 20% in 2016 to 37% today. – CBS News
  
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• Streamers Ruled The Oscars This Year

  26-04-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, 2020 was a weird year, and the rules for movies to debut in movie theatres were waived, but still: Netflix had seven statues, Amazon two, Disney one (or a lot more, if you count Nomadland as a Disney production), and Warner Bros one, all for movies that were either only streamed or debuted on streaming and theatres (if any were open) on the same day. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Anthony Hopkins Sure Didn’t Expect To Win, Either

  26-04-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The actor didn’t appear on video for his Best Actor win, leaving the Oscars production with a big letdown of an ending. A Los Angeles Times article explained that “while at 83 years old Hopkins became the oldest winner of an acting Oscar in any category, it wasn’t worth the risk of being exposed to the coronavirus to travel to the British Film Institute in London to accept it.” He later posted a sweet video to his Instagram from his home in Wales. After praising Chadwick
  
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• Before The Pandemic, Jenny Odell Wrote A Book About Being Stuck In The Doomscroll

  26-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  So how did the author of How to Do Nothing survive the various self-isolations, lockdowns, and other stay-at-home initiatives before vaccines got their start? For one thing, she remembered what she had learned about social media, “this way of engaging with the attention economy that feels toxic to me, that I talk about in the book, how much that’s driven by fear, shame, self-loathing, guilt, all of these very reactive emotions.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• The Oscars Disrupted Union Station And More

  26-04-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  How wild to have a show with Crip Camp nominated for best documentary, a show that prevented disabled people in L.A. from getting to their subway trains – and also forced hordes of people to find the new site for COVID-19 testing. Ash Pana, who lives by Union Station and “who suffers from chronic pain and sometimes uses a walker, said other disabled people had been directed to detour at least 10 blocks rather than receive an escort into the station to which they needed access.&rdquo
  
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• Al Young, Former Poet Laureate Of California, 81

  26-04-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Young was an acclaimed poet, but he also wrote novels – and always, always, worked jazz into his readings and his life. And along with music, he had his voice. “Writing a poem, Mr. Young believed, was only part of the process. Reading it live — something he did with a compelling, resonant voice — was the other.” – The New York Times
  
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• London’s West End Galleries Reopen

  26-04-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  And visitors who have been in lockdown number … infinity? … and have been absolutely starved for art are more than happy to be in the galleries, masked, in person. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Oscar-Winning Director Chloe Zhao Gets Great Performances From Non-Actors

  26-04-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Basically, her subjects tell their stories; she works with those stories and fictionalizes them, and then the subjects act out their fictionalized lives. “The outcome is scripted but the raw material is fact. There’s a personal rediscovery for the men and women onscreen as they interpret themselves in Zhao’s fabricated versions of their realities.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Kathie Coblentz, Master New York Librarian, 73

  26-04-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  She spoke or could read 13 languages, ran the New York Marathon, and was the third-longest serving employee of the NYPL, where she catalogued rare books for more than 50 years. She wrote books, edited books, and told those taking tours of the underground steel stacks that catalogers were “the most important workers in the library.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Best Way To Predict Our Futures

  26-04-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a kind of internal averaging of disparate opinions: “Each of us has an inner crowd, too, with a wisdom of its own.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Most People Are Missing The Most Revolutionary Thing About Nomadland’s Win

  26-04-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, Nomadland is only the second movie directed by a woman to win a Best Picture Oscar, and the first Best Picture Oscar to go to a film directed by a woman of color. But also: Nomadland is about women. “Movies about women basically never win Best Picture. By my count, Nomadland is one of only six movies focused on the lives and stories of women ever to win the award. That’s in 93 years.” – Slate
  
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• The Guy Who’s Crashing Every Library’s Summer Reading Program

  26-04-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  By 20-year-old Aaron Yang’s estimate, “he’s now contacted around a thousand libraries [around the country] and acquired untold numbers of pencils, stickers and awards.” Is … is this OK? Librarians are torn. – NPR
  
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• Activists Say They’ll Move Protests Inside MoMA

  26-04-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Protests have been going on outside the museum for the last three weeks. “These protests, called ‘pop-up deoccupations’ in the activists’ parlance — have so far been tame, focusing on ‘speakouts’ and performances while keeping a measured distance from the museum’s entrance. But this might change next Friday, April 30, as the activists plan to escalate their protests and bring them into MoMA’s halls.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Christa Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano, 93

  26-04-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ludwig was most prominently associated with the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, but she also sang at the Met. She “rose from straitened origins in a shattered wartime Germany to the height of the singing world, aided by a sense of discipline instilled by her strong-willed mother — her only real teacher and a constant presence throughout her career. … Onstage, Ms. Ludwig brought a striking combination of acting ability, charisma and vocal beauty. Her voice had ra
  
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• Hollywood’s Anti-Black Bias Is Costing It Billions Of Dollars A Year

  26-04-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a supposedly capitalist industry, what the heck? A study found that “America’s film industry is the country’s least diverse business sector and that its systemic anti-Black biases cost it at least $10 billion in annual revenue. Black content is undervalued, underdistributed and underfunded, the analysis found. It also found that Black talent has been systematically shut out of creator, producer, director and writer positions. That is despite the fact that films with t
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: the birthplace of a future prime minister

  26-04-2021 07:00
  
  With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: David Lloyd George’s Birthplace, Manchester in the Lowry, SalfordAn image that could have been made at the height of lockdown, this deserted street corner by Laurence Stephen Lowry is a surprise from an artist better known for his crowded city landscapes. Lowry often recorded the ebb and flow of people’s daily lives; the strik
  
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• The Oscars, Intimate And Sometimes Surprising

  26-04-2021 04:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here are the live updates and the winners list as it happens. – Los Angeles Times
  
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