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New arts residency in Palm Beach County seeks to help emerging artists build sustainable careers
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (577+ words) Financial literacy " that's what keeps the paint brush stroking. A new arts residency in Palm Beach County seeks to help artists build sustainable careers amid ongoing anxiety over public funding. Trina Slade-Burks, co-founder of the nonprofit No More Starving Artists…...
Horror, a Downton parody, and Sondheim on screen — in theaters this weekend
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (596+ words) The Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along played to sold out crowds on Broadway during its 2023-2024 run. That show was filmed, and now available to watch on the big screen. Horror, a Downton parody, and Sondheim on screen " in…...
'Bugonia' may or may not be about aliens; it's definitely about alienation
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (775+ words) As the end credits began to scroll at my screening of Bugonia, the audience sat silently in the darkness for several long seconds. Director Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film follows Teddy (Jesse Plemons), a grimy, raw-boned conspiracy theorist who, alongside his…...
Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch and others slam Saudi comedy festival
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (409+ words) Saudi Arabia is not known as a center for comedy. But through Oct. 9, the country's capital, Riyadh, is hosting dozens of A-list comedians " many of them American " at the first ever Riyadh Comedy Festival. The participation of big-name funnymen, including…...
What Ancient Rome and Greece can teach us about comedians and free speech
4+ mon, 11+ hour ago (149+ words) As president Donald Trump celebrates the cancelation of comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and says he hopes the same fate will befall others who have been similarly critical, a look at the comedians in the ancient world who faced…...
Spinal Tap is back. Director Rob Reiner says they're still dialed up to 11
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (467+ words) In 1984, the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap lampooned heavy metal bands and rock documentaries " and introduced audiences to a new film genre. "What we were doing was not only satirizing heavy metal, we were satirizing the documentary form and…...
No one hates you like someone who used to love you. 'The Roses' misses that
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (808+ words) The 1989 film The War of the Roses was a nihilistic story of a dissolving marriage. A new reimagining starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch plays like a standard studio comedy. No one hates you like someone who used to love…...
In 'The Roses,' Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a couple at odds
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1045+ words) Many movies that have been made detail the start of relationships. Those dizzying first moments of love " flirtation and the spark of attraction, first kisses and the will-they-or-won't-they tension of so many romantic comedies. The movie, directed by Jay Roach,…...
'SNL' castmember Bowen Yang shares a piece of 'cultural contraband' from his youth
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (484+ words) For Bowen Yang, joining SNL as a writer in 2018, and then becoming a castmember the following year, was the fulfillment of a prophesy: during his senior year of high school, Yang had been voted "Most Likely to be on SNL....
The laughs land in 'The Naked Gun' reboot, but fall flat in 'Freakier Friday"
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (532+ words) Fewer and fewer mainstream comedies play in movie theaters these days, which is what I'd call a tragedy. In the post-pandemic era, the studios, figuring that audiences will only buy tickets to blockbusters and horror movies, have largely relegated laughter…...