By Tessa Nolan In September 1858, a 13-part essay series began appearing in the pages of the New York Atlas, a Sunday broadsheet. It ran…
By Tessa Nolan When Michael Blakemore collected his second Tony Award on the same evening in June 2000 – becoming the only person in history…
By Tessa Nolan The year 2024 was supposed to be a write-off. After the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes shuttered writers’ rooms from May through…
By Tessa Nolan By Tessa Nolan In February 2024, Dame Helen Mirren stood at the podium of the 37th Annual American Cinematheque Awards at the…
By Tessa Nolan In the summer of 1998, a white-label twelve-inch circulated through Ibiza and the Miami Winter Music Conference with no artwork, no marketing…
By Tessa Nolan In January 2026, when the ninety-eighth Academy Awards nominations were announced, Emma Stone collected two more – Best Actress and Best Picture…
By Tessa Nolan Sir David Chipperfield does not design buildings that shout. His architecture is measured, quiet, and deliberate – a quality the Pritzker jury…
By Tessa Nolan In September 2024, a 26-year-old singer from Missouri walked onto the stage of the O2 Academy Brixton for the first of three…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 September 1979, a fifteen-year-old Portuguese boy boarded a plane leaving Lisbon, armed with a scholarship, a clandestine camera, and the…
By Tessa Nolan There is a prejudice so embedded in Western culture that most people never think to question it: the assumption that the ability…