January 2021
Posted inArts & Entertainment

Opera is taking new forms, and its survival may depend on it

by Michael Andor Brodeur The Washington Post

A strange package arrived on our doorstep this month. Strange because it didn’t contain masks, or disinfectant wipes, or even another jar of that chili-crisp paste we keep blowing through. It was a box of opera. “The Beauty That Still Remains: Diaries in Song” is the latest experiment by the New York-based On Site Opera, […]

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By forcing live events to go virtual, the pandemic may change access to entertainment forever

by Emily Yahr The Washington Post

Liz Locke wasn’t sure what to expect when she logged on to Twitter last April, cocktail in hand, for a virtual watch party of classic films. She was supposed to be attending the 2020 TCM Classic Film Festival, but when it was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced they would instead air previous […]

Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review

Documentary finds contemporary echoes in FBI’s persecution of Martin Luther King Jr.

by Ann Hornaday The Washington Post

In the exquisitely constructed, deeply unnerving “MLK/FBI,” filmmaker Sam Pollard takes viewers behind the looking glass into the shadowy world of governmental surveillance during the mid-century civil rights movement, a program of spying, infiltration and harassment that reached its perverse apotheosis with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s obsession with Martin Luther King, Jr. Since King’s […]

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