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03/16/2026 11:00 AM
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Recommendations For Deeply Depressing Irish Books To Read On St. Paddy’s Day
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 “These days the air has a keen edge. A desperate edge. What forms can the imagination take when power seems nonsensical and cruelty deliberate? These questions haunt—and should haunt—our fiction.” – Electric Lit
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03/16/2026 10:30 AM
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This Tiny Art School In Queens Just Got Two Million Dollars From Trump’s NEH
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 The school’s founder and artistic director says the grant “represents a chance to further what he calls his lifetime mission to inspire a return to a classical style of art that last reigned supreme in an era before the Civil War.” – The New York Times
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03/16/2026 10:00 AM
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In A Really Tough Market, Some Indie Publishers Are Finding Ways To Survive
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 Jane Austen card decks (themed by book), collaborations with London publishers, old imprints reabsorbed or renamed, and audio – some indie publishers are finding ways to stay alive and even, ina few cases, grow. – Publishers Weekly
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03/16/2026 10:00 AM
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What’s Going On With Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Wolfgang Dorner, And The Vienna Phil?
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 “We’re left to wonder why a noted Price advocate, one of the world’s greatest orchestras, and a respected composer thought it was a good idea, or even remotely acceptable, to suppress Florence Price’s own melodies, harmonies, rhythms, and forms and substitute Dörner’s own for them.” – John Michael Cooper
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03/16/2026 09:45 AM
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When A ‘Sold Out’ Performance Space Means Nothing More Than Marketing
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 Where are the bodies? – El País English
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03/16/2026 09:30 AM
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What Happens When A Tiny Library In A Tiny Coastal Town Gets A Windfall
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 A donor “gave $150,000 to the library in honor of her late husband, … who had been a math professor,” with one catch: the library had to take his library of 1,000 mathematics books. – Oregon ArtsWatch
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03/16/2026 09:15 AM
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For The First Time In Oscars History, A Woman Wins For Cinematography
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 “The filmmaker, who also worked with Coogler on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, also asked that all the women in the theater stand up during her speech, thanking them for their support and honoring all the other female trailblazers.” – USA Today
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03/16/2026 09:00 AM
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On Set When No One’s Performing
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 “The fact that stills photographers often find themselves shooting very famous subjects at what might be sensitive, stressful moments on set is only one reason that the job requires a discreet, diplomatic presence.” – New Yorker
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03/16/2026 08:45 AM
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Javier Bardem, Announcing The Best International Oscar, Gets Political
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 Bardem “started his time at the poduium by saying ‘No to war and free Palestine,’ which earned a big round of applause from the audience at the show.” – Variety
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03/16/2026 08:30 AM
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Cultural Awakenings Can Even Come From 1960s Folk Band Revivals
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 “I grew up feeling perpetually ‘in-between:’ half-white, half-black; half-British, half-Caribbean, and on the faultline between what sometimes felt like two worlds at war. One night in 2008 my dad took me to see Pentangle play.” – The Guardian (UK)
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03/16/2026 08:15 AM
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Jurgen Habermas, Influential Philosopher Of The 20th Century, Has Died At 96
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 Habermas “theorized that democracy emerged and could continue to exist in a healthy form only if there was a space that was outside the control of the state, where deliberation and the exchange of ideas could freely occur.” – The New York Times
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03/16/2026 08:00 AM
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The Most Powerful Oscar Movie About The Arts That You Probably Didn’t See
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 “In 2023, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was up for best documentary feature, which — unlike some major categories at the Oscars — is typically stacked with impactful heavy-hitters.” – Salon
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03/16/2026 07:45 AM
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How A New York Times Critic Finally Fell For Michael B. Jordan’s Acting
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 “Fights about Jordan’s acting have lit up chat rooms and nearly destroyed barbershops. Is he good? We’re just. Not. Sure.” – The New York Times
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03/16/2026 07:30 AM
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Can Restaurant Culture Be Fixed?
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 “The stuff you see on TV is just sort of the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in a lot of these restaurants. And generally, the more vaunted the restaurant, the worse the abuse is going to be.” – NPR
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03/16/2026 07:00 AM
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As Was Obvious As Soon As The Casting Director Win Happened, One Battle After Another Won Quite A Few Awards
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 That includes supporting actor, adapted screenplay, director, and the big one, best movie. Ryan Coogler won for best original screenplay, and Michael B. Jordan won for best actor, for Sinners. – The Guardian (UK)
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03/15/2026 09:24 PM
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Good Morning
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The Oscars happened last night under unprecedented security — federal authorities warned of possible retaliatory threats tied to U.S.-Israel-Iran tensions (Hollywood Reporter). Circling outside the venue: an anti-merger billboard aimed at the Paramount/Warner Bros. deal, its message plain — “The Deal Is Not Done” (The Wrap). And the studio model that produced this year’s probable […]
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03/15/2026 04:30 PM
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Live Updates From The Oscars
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 Follow at the L.A. Times, Variety, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Guardian. – Los Angeles Times
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03/15/2026 04:00 PM
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This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
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 For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, “her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the sea of black’ in a typical Victorian-era story, she said.” – Seattle Times
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03/15/2026 03:30 PM
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens To Revoke Licenses If Iran War Coverage Isn’t To The President’s Liking
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 Uh … how’s that First Amendment doing? Carr “accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.” – The New York Times
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03/15/2026 03:00 PM
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Security For The Oscars Since The Iran War Began Has Been Extended, Intensified
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 “Security at the ceremony has always been formidable. But this year, in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s event, federal authorities issued a memo warning of a possible retaliatory threat against the West Coast — particularly California — tied to escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran tensions.” – The Hollywood Reporter
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03/15/2026 02:30 PM
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Huge Anti-Merger Billboard To Circle Oscars Ceremony Today
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 “An anti-monopoly mobile billboard, meant to caution against the impending merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., will circle Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. The billboard’s message is plain: ‘Call Your Agent. Speak Out. The Deal Is Not Done.’” – The Wrap
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03/15/2026 02:00 PM
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The Studio System That Backed This Year’s Likeliest Best Movie Is About To Fade Away
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 After missteps, Warner Bros’ new “strategy was a roaring success that evoked the studio’s prior glories and served as a reminder that if you let smart directors make great movies, even in a streaming world, audiences will go out to the theater to see them.” – Washington Post (Archive Today)
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03/15/2026 01:30 PM
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Grappling With AI’s Presence In Hollywood As The Oscars Take Place
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 A recent report “forecasts more adoption of AI throughout the industry. But it also points to ways that the technology could lead to different kinds of work and open up new possibilities.” – The Conversation
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