Month: July 2024

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater The Federal Theatre’s adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here was seen by nearly 400,000 Americans. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection Between 1935 and 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged more than a thousand productions in twenty-nine states. Established by the Works
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Shiloh Jolie Dropped Brad Pitt’s Name After Painful Events An attorney for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh has spoken out for the first time about her “significant” move to drop “Pitt” from her last name. It was reported over the weekend that Shiloh published an ad in the Los Angeles Times stating that
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New York City’s East Side at the turn of the 20th century comes vibrantly alive in The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld. In the late 1800s, Eastern European Jews began fleeing Germany’s pogroms and Russia’s Pale of Settlement, the largest ghetto in history. The East
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2 days ago By Andrew Rogers, BBC Newsbeat Getty Images How do you stage a music festival for 25,000 people when you’re under threat from a potential Russian missile attack? That’s a question Vlad Yaremchuk has been trying to answer for the past few months. He’s the programme director of Atlas United, Ukraine’s biggest music festival. The
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