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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1257681638-1ab1977a31eb0d877cdee78173928100dbc65fcd-scaled-e1687974945462-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The white Princess Leia dress worn by Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars’ is displayed between the General Maximus armor worn by Russell Crowe in ‘Gladiator,’ and the clown doll from ‘Poltergeist.’\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1257681638-1ab1977a31eb0d877cdee78173928100dbc65fcd-scaled-e1687974945462-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1257681638-1ab1977a31eb0d877cdee78173928100dbc65fcd-scaled-e1687974945462-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1257681638-1ab1977a31eb0d877cdee78173928100dbc65fcd-scaled-e1687974945462-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1257681638-1ab1977a31eb0d877cdee78173928100dbc65fcd-scaled-e1687974945462-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1257681638-1ab1977a31eb0d877cdee78173928100dbc65fcd-scaled-e1687974945462-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1257681638-1ab1977a31eb0d877cdee78173928100dbc65fcd-scaled-e1687974945462.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dress worn by actress Carrie Fisher in the 1977 film ‘Star Wars’ is one of 1,400 items up for sale at a live auction of film and TV memorabilia in Los Angeles this week. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those who’ve ever dreamt of dressing like an authentic \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> princess might find they have a little “New Hope”: A gown worn by Princess Leia (played by the late actress Carrie Fisher) in the first film of the blockbuster space saga is up for sale at this week’s Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it comes with no small price tag. The gown is expected to fetch \u003ca href=\"https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/347/lot/113092?url=%2Fauctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F347%3Fpage%3D1%26view%3Dgrid%26catm%3Dany%26order%3Dorder_num%26xclosed%3Dyes%26featured%3Dno%26key%3Dstar%2Bwars\">up to $2 million\u003c/a>, with bids closing Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costume is believed to be the only surviving Princess Leia look from the film that launched a cultural phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The slim-fitting silk gown features in the final scene of \u003cem>A New Hope \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 1977 film, later subtitled \u003cem>Episode IV — a New Hope\u003c/em>, features the gown in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixG8pfncOs\">its final scene\u003c/a>, in which Princess Leia presents medals of honor to the newly minted heroes of the rebel alliance, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixG8pfncOs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The white gown serves as the focal point of the mise-en-scène. It’s even the last object visible as the final shot transitions to the director’s credit, in the movie equivalent of what’d be a final bow on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dress is a real relic. It’s an absolute piece of film history,” said Brandon Alinger, the chief operating officer of Propstore, the company behind Wednesday’s auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> fans see it, they stop in their tracks, they gasp a bit at the sight of it, because they recognize the significance of it,” Alinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_50308']The tone-setting dress helped its designer, John Mollo, win the Oscar for best costume design at \u003ca href=\"https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1978\">the 50th annual Academy Awards in March 1978. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referred to as Princess Leia’s ceremonial gown, the floor-sweeping frock is made of slim-fitting silk and adorned with a single silver-plated belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s in the senator’s signature color (white), but, notably, features a scooped neckline and empire waist, which leave it less conservative than the hooded, roomy garments Leia wears for most of the franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(That excludes the gold bikini get-up, trademarked as “Slave Leia,” that’d come to define her later character transformation. The fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/05/slave-leia-controversy-star-wars-objectification\">the arguably more iconic\u003c/a> look \u003ca href=\"https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/02/news/princess-leia-bikini-auctioned-for-96000/\">only sold for $96,000 in 2015\u003c/a> underscores the significance of the ceremonial gown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A wax figure of a white woman seated on the ground wearing a gold bikini with purple skirt attachment. 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It took a total of eight months for teams to remove the dust that had accumulated on the gown and patch tiny holes that’d appeared in the fabric’s fragile areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_103268']The hem and seams were restitched and restored with the highest archival standards — which ultimately means, the auction catalog implies, you could let the seams out if Fisher’s dimensions don’t match you perfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a decent chance the piece is destined for a display collection and not for personal wear, given the prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bidding, which is expected to end on Wednesday evening, opened at $500,000 and had already reached $750,000 in a special preview window as of 11 a.m. ET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your tastes match the dress, but not the price, there’s always \u003ca href=\"https://www.shopdisney.com/princess-leia-dress-for-adults-star-wars-2840057900342M.html?CMP=KNC-DSSGoogle&efc=179006\">the official Disney costume\u003c/a>, available in adult sizes, for a relative bargain: $129.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The tone-setting dress helped its designer, John Mollo, win the Oscar for best costume design at \u003ca href=\"https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1978\">the 50th annual Academy Awards in March 1978. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referred to as Princess Leia’s ceremonial gown, the floor-sweeping frock is made of slim-fitting silk and adorned with a single silver-plated belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s in the senator’s signature color (white), but, notably, features a scooped neckline and empire waist, which leave it less conservative than the hooded, roomy garments Leia wears for most of the franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(That excludes the gold bikini get-up, trademarked as “Slave Leia,” that’d come to define her later character transformation. The fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/05/slave-leia-controversy-star-wars-objectification\">the arguably more iconic\u003c/a> look \u003ca href=\"https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/02/news/princess-leia-bikini-auctioned-for-96000/\">only sold for $96,000 in 2015\u003c/a> underscores the significance of the ceremonial gown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A wax figure of a white woman seated on the ground wearing a gold bikini with purple skirt attachment. Behind her is a large monster that resembles a slug.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-473041644-f114f9b653cc82396a80722bca0746271b627c58-scaled-e1687974202250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wax recreation of the famous scene featuring Princess Leia in a gold bikini was displayed at London’s Madame Tussauds in May 2015. \u003ccite>(Stuart C. Wilson/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The original production had only \u003ca href=\"https://www.slashfilm.com/1231937/george-lucas-first-star-wars-draft-was-completely-different-from-a-new-hope/\">a humble budget of $11 million\u003c/a>, which may be why the costume team made just one single version of the ceremonial gown for filming and photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those involved with the film thought that the piece had been destroyed alongside the original sets — until word got out that it was intact, collecting dust in a London attic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The dress, long thought to be gone, was swiped from the set and stored in an attic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A crew member had swiped the dress from the burn pile, according to Alinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was 10 or 12 years ago that we first became aware of the piece,” he added. “It was such a moment when we first learned of this and then, ultimately, when the Star Wars fandom learned that this piece still existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1252647808-c5332b718901ad4e9327414882779e89ab352ad9-scaled-e1687974451123-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1252647808-c5332b718901ad4e9327414882779e89ab352ad9-scaled-e1687974451123-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1252647808-c5332b718901ad4e9327414882779e89ab352ad9-scaled-e1687974451123-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1252647808-c5332b718901ad4e9327414882779e89ab352ad9-scaled-e1687974451123-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1252647808-c5332b718901ad4e9327414882779e89ab352ad9-scaled-e1687974451123-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1252647808-c5332b718901ad4e9327414882779e89ab352ad9-scaled-e1687974451123-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1252647808-c5332b718901ad4e9327414882779e89ab352ad9-scaled-e1687974451123.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster of ‘Star Wars’ character Princess Leia and the refection of a storm trooper are seen at the ceremony for Carrie Fisher being honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 04, 2023. \u003ccite>(VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Professional textile conservators conducted a “meticulous, museum-caliber” restoration of the garment, according to its auction description. It took a total of eight months for teams to remove the dust that had accumulated on the gown and patch tiny holes that’d appeared in the fabric’s fragile areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The hem and seams were restitched and restored with the highest archival standards — which ultimately means, the auction catalog implies, you could let the seams out if Fisher’s dimensions don’t match you perfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a decent chance the piece is destined for a display collection and not for personal wear, given the prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bidding, which is expected to end on Wednesday evening, opened at $500,000 and had already reached $750,000 in a special preview window as of 11 a.m. ET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your tastes match the dress, but not the price, there’s always \u003ca href=\"https://www.shopdisney.com/princess-leia-dress-for-adults-star-wars-2840057900342M.html?CMP=KNC-DSSGoogle&efc=179006\">the official Disney costume\u003c/a>, available in adult sizes, for a relative bargain: $129.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=An+original+Princess+Leia+dress+found+in+an+attic+could+be+yours+%E2%80%94+for+as+much+as+%242M&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s hard to maintain the level of enthusiasm that critics and audiences worked up over \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>last summer. The impeccably made story of Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), who takes over the family beef-sandwich shop after the death of his brother, not only had people chanting “Yes, chef,” but it brought attention to the whole company — particularly White, Ayo Edebiri as Carmy’s new sous chef, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Carmy’s cousin Richie, who worked in the shop for years while Carmy was off training for fine dining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second season arrived this week, and the bottom line is that it avoids just about every pitfall that second seasons can encounter. It’s one of the most successful follow-ups I can remember to a first season that generated this much heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13930637']\u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>is still Carmy’s story at heart, but rather than intensify its focus on him (particularly in the wake of the perhaps unanticipated levels of pure erotic enthusiasm that White generated), Season 2 widens its attention to the ensemble even more than before. Sydney has her own stories, Richie has his — but so do the shop’s longtime cook Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas), pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce), and Carmy’s sister Natalie (Abby Elliott). It would have been easy for creator Christopher Storer and the rest of the team to “yes, chef” their way through this set of 10 new episodes, focusing on fan service and flexing the muscles of a show with a lot of goodwill on its side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they don’t do that at all. Instead, there are experiments with what Kathryn VanArendonk at \u003cem>Vulture\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/article/last-of-us-long-long-time-bottle-departure-episode.html\">has helpfully termed\u003c/a> “departure episodes,” where you get a chance to explore what’s going on with a sharp focus on particular characters outside the most common settings and rhythms of the show — here, one example would be an episode where Marcus goes off to improve his skills and works with a chef played by Will Poulter. There are others; I wouldn’t dare spoil them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5U-w1yL4r0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things the show does this season that I suspect will be differently received in different corners is its deployment of unpublicized guest stars — which goes back to Season 1 and the fact that it wasn’t publicized ahead of time that Jon Bernthal would be playing Carmy’s late brother Mikey in flashbacks. \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>has become, for lack of a more exact term, a very cool show, and it’s able to nail down some pretty impressive guest stars, most of whom you should encounter on your own (don’t read any of the lists that are circulating; consider them true spoilers).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these don’t feel show-offy, like mere “hey, look who we can get now” demonstrations. \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>does a very, very smart thing with guest stars, which is that it uses people with big, well-established personas and reputations to play characters who loom large in the minds of characters we already know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13930048']Think of, for instance, when Marlon Brando played Superman’s father in the Christopher Reeve \u003cem>Superman \u003c/em>movie. (Stay with me.) The character of Jor-El needs to be big, important, indelible, the kind of person who could potentially bestow a superhuman upon Earth. So no matter what you think of the long and fairly ponderous Krypton sequence, it makes perfect sense that it’s Marlon Brando. If it were just Some Actor, would it really work the same way? It’s a fiction that actors ever really disappear into roles (with very rare exceptions). They bring with them your sense of who they are, and they hit additional notes just by being accompanied by their own history. (See: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/493150297/in-sully-a-pilots-heroic-water-landing-and-its-real-life-fallout\">casting Tom Hanks as “Sully” Sullenberger\u003c/a>, the hero pilot, which did half the work in establishing Sullenberger as an outsize good-doer.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you watch \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>and you watch these performances, ask yourself whether the effect would be the same if it were a character actor you didn’t recognize. Not because there’s anything lacking in the skills of character actors, who make enormous contributions to this season of \u003cem>The Bear\u003c/em>, the last season of \u003cem>The Bear\u003c/em>, and television generally. But with these particular characters, as you watch, think about what it accomplishes to cast a familiar face rather than one that asks the audience to start from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-800x532.png\" alt=\"A young Black woman with long braids pulled back looks concerned while talking to a man close to her. She is wearing a man's white shirt with a black T-shirt underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-768x510.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM.png 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu. \u003ccite>(Chuck Hodes/ FX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This season also finds the right balance between sticking with what works and immediately pushing the story forward. At the end of last season, we saw that Carmy and Sydney intended to close The Beef and open a new restaurant called The Bear. This season is … well, I was about to say it’s the Build-The-Bear Workshop, but I wouldn’t do that to you. It is, however, the story of building something new, and the focus on the new place means the show retains some of The Beef’s high pressure and hard work, but moves those rhythms to a very different process — the process of creating a restaurant rather than running one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In doing so, \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>dispenses with any fantasy that just because Carmy’s staff is talented and capable, they could instantly pivot from a sandwich shop to fine dining without any adjustments. It respects the fact that they would need to develop some different skills — some of the ones that Carmy brought with him last season before he learned to master sandwich-shop life from them. We’ve seen Carmy barge into Richie’s world; we now see what might happen if Richie were transported into Carmy’s world. It makes use of the same complex characters and the same deeply developed relationships, but it also shakes up the specifics enough that you’d never mistake a scene from this run of episodes for a scene from the last. It was before, and it remains now, a show about \u003cem>work\u003c/em>, one that is about training and not just natural genius. People are allowed to fail, sometimes more than once, because learning is not magic; it is repetition, attention and persistence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-800x535.png\" alt=\"A white man wearing blue t-shirt and black apron stands in a kitchen and pours a green liquid from a blender into a saucepan. Next to him is a Black man wearing the same outfit, plus a black beanie. Both men are deep in concentration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-800x535.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-1020x682.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-768x514.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM.png 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Poulter, left, as Luca, and Lionel Boyce as Marcus. \u003ccite>(Chuck Hodes/FX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have quibbles here and there — for one, there is a new character who appears as a potential love interest for Carmy who is not as developed as the rest of the characters on the show, which is a regrettably common problem with Potential Love Interest characters. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s hard to maintain the level of enthusiasm that critics and audiences worked up over \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>last summer. The impeccably made story of Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), who takes over the family beef-sandwich shop after the death of his brother, not only had people chanting “Yes, chef,” but it brought attention to the whole company — particularly White, Ayo Edebiri as Carmy’s new sous chef, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Carmy’s cousin Richie, who worked in the shop for years while Carmy was off training for fine dining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second season arrived this week, and the bottom line is that it avoids just about every pitfall that second seasons can encounter. It’s one of the most successful follow-ups I can remember to a first season that generated this much heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things the show does this season that I suspect will be differently received in different corners is its deployment of unpublicized guest stars — which goes back to Season 1 and the fact that it wasn’t publicized ahead of time that Jon Bernthal would be playing Carmy’s late brother Mikey in flashbacks. \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>has become, for lack of a more exact term, a very cool show, and it’s able to nail down some pretty impressive guest stars, most of whom you should encounter on your own (don’t read any of the lists that are circulating; consider them true spoilers).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these don’t feel show-offy, like mere “hey, look who we can get now” demonstrations. \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>does a very, very smart thing with guest stars, which is that it uses people with big, well-established personas and reputations to play characters who loom large in the minds of characters we already know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Think of, for instance, when Marlon Brando played Superman’s father in the Christopher Reeve \u003cem>Superman \u003c/em>movie. (Stay with me.) The character of Jor-El needs to be big, important, indelible, the kind of person who could potentially bestow a superhuman upon Earth. So no matter what you think of the long and fairly ponderous Krypton sequence, it makes perfect sense that it’s Marlon Brando. If it were just Some Actor, would it really work the same way? It’s a fiction that actors ever really disappear into roles (with very rare exceptions). They bring with them your sense of who they are, and they hit additional notes just by being accompanied by their own history. (See: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/493150297/in-sully-a-pilots-heroic-water-landing-and-its-real-life-fallout\">casting Tom Hanks as “Sully” Sullenberger\u003c/a>, the hero pilot, which did half the work in establishing Sullenberger as an outsize good-doer.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you watch \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>and you watch these performances, ask yourself whether the effect would be the same if it were a character actor you didn’t recognize. Not because there’s anything lacking in the skills of character actors, who make enormous contributions to this season of \u003cem>The Bear\u003c/em>, the last season of \u003cem>The Bear\u003c/em>, and television generally. But with these particular characters, as you watch, think about what it accomplishes to cast a familiar face rather than one that asks the audience to start from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-800x532.png\" alt=\"A young Black woman with long braids pulled back looks concerned while talking to a man close to her. She is wearing a man's white shirt with a black T-shirt underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM-768x510.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.06.27-AM.png 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu. \u003ccite>(Chuck Hodes/ FX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This season also finds the right balance between sticking with what works and immediately pushing the story forward. At the end of last season, we saw that Carmy and Sydney intended to close The Beef and open a new restaurant called The Bear. This season is … well, I was about to say it’s the Build-The-Bear Workshop, but I wouldn’t do that to you. It is, however, the story of building something new, and the focus on the new place means the show retains some of The Beef’s high pressure and hard work, but moves those rhythms to a very different process — the process of creating a restaurant rather than running one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In doing so, \u003cem>The Bear \u003c/em>dispenses with any fantasy that just because Carmy’s staff is talented and capable, they could instantly pivot from a sandwich shop to fine dining without any adjustments. It respects the fact that they would need to develop some different skills — some of the ones that Carmy brought with him last season before he learned to master sandwich-shop life from them. We’ve seen Carmy barge into Richie’s world; we now see what might happen if Richie were transported into Carmy’s world. It makes use of the same complex characters and the same deeply developed relationships, but it also shakes up the specifics enough that you’d never mistake a scene from this run of episodes for a scene from the last. It was before, and it remains now, a show about \u003cem>work\u003c/em>, one that is about training and not just natural genius. People are allowed to fail, sometimes more than once, because learning is not magic; it is repetition, attention and persistence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-800x535.png\" alt=\"A white man wearing blue t-shirt and black apron stands in a kitchen and pours a green liquid from a blender into a saucepan. Next to him is a Black man wearing the same outfit, plus a black beanie. Both men are deep in concentration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-800x535.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-1020x682.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM-768x514.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-11.09.35-AM.png 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Poulter, left, as Luca, and Lionel Boyce as Marcus. \u003ccite>(Chuck Hodes/FX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have quibbles here and there — for one, there is a new character who appears as a potential love interest for Carmy who is not as developed as the rest of the characters on the show, which is a regrettably common problem with Potential Love Interest characters. 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Instead of yellow curly hair, she wears thick, afro-textured, honey blonde locs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894928']This is the Goldilocks of \u003cem> from the Diaspora\u003c/em> by husband and wife photographers Kahran and Regis Bethencourt. The two have reimagined familiar stories with photographs of Black children and, occasionally, new plot points, in an elaborate book of 141 photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the sequel to 2021’s \u003cem>GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book is broken down into three categories: Classic fairy tales, African and African American Folktales and original stories. 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She is wearing a blue, green and pink gown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.22.50-AM-800x1001.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.22.50-AM-1020x1276.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.22.50-AM-160x200.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.22.50-AM-768x961.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.22.50-AM.png 1036w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cinderella becomes Asha in this retelling. \u003ccite>(CROWNED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the retelling of Cinderella, “Asha the Little Cinder Girl,” Asha wears an extravagant blue gown with purple tulle shooting from the bottom as Jamal, her Prince Charming, slides on a white high-top sneaker instead of a glass slipper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most striking element in the picture is Asha’s hair, a structure of carefully placed black braids and white pearls piled high on top of her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important for, specifically, Black and brown kids to be able to see themselves reflected in the stories that they read growing up,” Kahran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bethencourts began their photography careers in Atlanta in 2009. 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At an early age we’re teaching our kids that they’re not acceptable, that their looks are not good enough.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two began doing personal projects where Black children were encouraged to wear their natural hair in fashionable settings. Staying connected to the industry helped them build enough clientele to create their own photography company, CreativeSoul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.27.25-AM-800x1003.png\" alt=\"A young Black girl wears a puffy gown that appears to be made from candy, wrappers and tulle. 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But the book also showcases Regis and Kahran’s ability to imagine and translate new worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919105']“Goldi: The Girl with the Golden Locks” was the favorite story for Regis to retell because the original story “didn’t really have a lesson at the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It pretty much was a story about a privileged girl going in and just eating everything and just leaving and going back home,” he said. “No lesson learned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>CROWNED\u003c/em>, Goldi is still a privileged girl, but she is welcomed into the bears’ home. The bears don’t have much, but they have each other and a once-haughty Goldi leaves the house with three new friends and an appreciation for nurturing her relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing the ending “was so cool for me because I feel like we’re actually changing history,” Regis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.38.46-AM-800x1003.png\" alt=\"A little Black girl, dressed as a mermaid with an exaggeratedly large hairdo stands in a sea scape, looking poised.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.38.46-AM-800x1003.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.38.46-AM-1020x1278.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.38.46-AM-160x201.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.38.46-AM-768x963.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-11.38.46-AM.png 1034w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treasures from the sea nestle in the little mermaid’s rosy hair as she strikes a royal pose. \u003ccite>(CROWNED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The book was released May 23, three days before the live action film \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em> premiered with Halle Bailey, a Black woman with natural locs, as Ariel, a princess and the main character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13926336']Like the live-action adaption of \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>, the Bethencourts’ version is setting the standard for Black representation in traditionally white spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The husband and wife duo dress Aliyah, the little mermaid, in silver jewels and colorful pearls from head-to-toe. 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It’s part \u003cem>Outer Limits,\u003c/em> part \u003cem>Alfred Hitchcock Presents,\u003c/em> part\u003cem> Twilight Zone\u003c/em> — the classic one from Rod Serling, not the disappointing recent remake — and completely, delightfully entertaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jY1ecibLYo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My challenge here is to convey how much I love this new sixth season of \u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> without revealing any spoilers about the five individual installments. The show’s executive producers, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, have crafted an environment in which, as with the best anthologies, anything can happen at any time. Characters don’t have to live, because they’re not coming back for a second episode, so any suspense is real, and earned. And Brooker, who wrote four of this season’s episodes and co-wrote the fifth, has doubled down on the unpredictability across the board. 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If this were merely a ghost story it would be enough, especially with Teddy’s imaginary friend Anya in the mix, but Rekulak has the chops to push a bit deeper and make readers think about class distinctions and how they affect the people we believe about things we don’t understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Puzzle Master\u003c/em> by Danielle Trussoni\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Trussoni’s last novel, \u003cem>The Ancestor,\u003c/em> was wholly unexpected, a gothic horror story set in the remotest mountains of Italy. And her new novel, \u003cem>The Puzzle Master\u003c/em>, which starts in New York’s Hudson Valley (but ventures far afield), is also wholly unexpected, almost three books in one — but three books blended so seamlessly that readers won’t even notice the author’s sleight of hand in turning what seems to be a book about cryptography into a book about hunting down a priceless artifact into a book about monsters. I’ll stop there so as not to risk spoilers. 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Like its cinematic ancestor, there’s also a direct reference to Pinkett Smith’s \u003cem>Scream 2 \u003c/em>character and plentiful jokes and gags poking fun at unique aspects of Black culture. Yet much has changed over the last few years as Black creators have found more opportunities and mainstream success exploring Blackness through a horror lens. Black characters are all over this genre now, even triumphing over the bodily threats they face from their horrific predators. \u003cem>The Blackening\u003c/em> acknowledges this and thus poses an apt and ingenious question as its premise: What happens when every main character in the slasher flick is Black?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of friends comes together for a Juneteenth weekend getaway in a cabin in the woods, bringing with them years’ worth of camaraderie and, in some cases, unresolved tensions stretching back to their college days. Lisa (Antoinette Robertson) and Nnamdi (Sinqua Walls) are exes secretly hooking up again — much to the chagrin of Lisa’s gay best friend Dewayne (Dewayne Perkins, also a co-writer of the screenplay), who can’t forgive Nnamdi for treating her terribly when they were dating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13921951']Allison (Grace Byers) is the biracial friend of the group who seems to have (white) daddy issues; Shanika (X Mayo) is the flamboyant lush; King (Melvin Gregg) has a shady past but appears to have settled comfortably down into Buppie life; and Clifton (Jermaine Fowler) is the nerdy, socially awkward Trump supporter and outsider who nobody else really vibes with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pop some party drugs and get in maybe half of a game of Spades before things start going sideways. The power goes out, and they stumble upon the house’s game room, which features The Blackening, a trivia board game with the terrifying image of a Sambo as its centerpiece. (“Jim Crow Monopoly!” cracks one of the characters.) Suddenly, a creepy masked figure appears on an old black-and-white TV, warning them that if they refuse to play the game, their other friend Morgan (Yvonne Orji) — who arrived a day early and is now being held hostage in an undisclosed part of the house — will die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moiRCJR4ToY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a simple enough setup that’s based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOPwQdDu-D8\">sketch\u003c/a> from Perkins’ improv comedy group 3Peat — and there’s a version of \u003cem>The Blackening \u003c/em>that could easily have suffered from the problem of there not being enough \u003cem>there there\u003c/em> to sustain a feature-length film, like so many insufferable SNL skits-turned-movies. 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The ensemble gels well together, settling into a comfortable pattern that reflects the rat-a-tat flow of a viral, meme-filled thread that hasn’t yet drifted from the insular space of Black Twitter and into the wider internet world. (The oft-repeated, melodic inflection that’s deployed every time a character colloquially uses the N-word is itself a thing of comic beauty.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most refreshing is that these characters are far and away among the smartest would-be victims of a deranged movie stalker. That doesn’t mean less-than-ideal choices aren’t made sometimes or that everyone makes it out alive — you can place your bets ahead of time if you’d like — but it seems safe to say many Black viewers have yelled at the screen for the preposterous decisions made in countless movies like this one. \u003cem>The Blackening\u003c/em> will be a different experience. When Dewayne carefully and nervously shut a door that was mysteriously flung open, I felt proud — no one in their right mind is going to willingly peek out to see what’s going on outside while staying in a cabin in the woods at night. 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"content": "\u003cp>Getting \u003ca href=\"https://www.darcydrollinger.com/\">D’Arcy Drollinger\u003c/a> ready for her first official appearance as San Francisco drag laureate was a production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artist, night club owner and newly appointed government official stood in the living room of her San Francisco apartment as two helpers grappled with a set of bejeweled, custom-made artificial nails and wedged her into a pair of white patent stilettos and a tight, pink skirt suit. Finally, Drollinger stepped out of the house, and into a very busy schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am speaking at the San Francisco Arts Commission,” Drollinger said. “I’m also on the same day speaking at the Entertainment Commission. I’m also going to speak at a high school. I’ll be in the parade with the mayor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “laureate” is most often attached to the winner of a Nobel Prize, or a poet whose job it is to mark official occasions in verse. But a “drag laureate” is something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"A drag queen in a blond wig sits before a stage makeup mirror, lipstick in hand. She is pouting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-800x600.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-160x120.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-768x576.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-1536x1152.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Arcy Drollinger applies lipstick at her apartment in preparation for her inaugural appearance as San Francisco drag laureate. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/ NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s LGBTQ task-force proposed the creation of the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/drag-laureate-program\">drag laureate position\u003c/a> around three years ago during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been through a really hard time,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed a few days ahead of the flag-raising ceremony that’s the kick-off to the city’s annual \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/\">Pride celebration\u003c/a>. And so to city officials, a drag laureate seemed to be — if not a cure, at least something of a panacea, thanks to “the creativity, the joy that a drag laureate brings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883181']Breed said one of Drollinger’s selling points as a candidate for the job, which comes with an 18-month term and $55,000 stipend, was her track record as a spreader of sparkle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nightclub owner pivoted during lockdown to run a food delivery service — “Meals on Heels” — out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoasis.com/\">Oasis\u003c/a>, the drag club she owns in downtown San Francisco. Performers in drag from Oasis delivered meals and cocktails to local residents, with a side order of curb-side lip-synching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought a lot of love and excitement,” Breed said of Drollinger’s drag performance-infused food delivery service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBWRRwJk-jc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed said the recent attacks against drag performers, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/08/1151731736/at-least-10-state-legislatures-trying-restrict-criminalize-drag-shows\">rise in anti-drag legislation\u003c/a> in different parts of the country, now make the appointment of a drag laureate particularly crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some of those communities where something like this wouldn’t be considered acceptable behavior, there’s a kid that’s thinking, ‘Oh my goodness: she’s like me. I can be myself without fear,'” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ activists around the country are working to fight a slew of anti-drag laws currently under consideration in various states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary right now,” said Kylo Freeman, CEO and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.forthem.com/\">For Them\u003c/a>, a trans-owned brand that makes apparel for transgender people, and the force behind “Drag is Divine,” an advertising campaign that aims to raise awareness and funding to help fight anti-drag laws. “The backlash is real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712-800x350.jpg\" alt='A drag king and queen recline together in a tropical green space. Next to them is the text: \"So hot they started a culture war for us.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712-800x350.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712-1020x446.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712-160x70.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712-768x336.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712-1536x672.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712.jpg 1916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “Drag is Divine” advertising campaign poster. \u003ccite>(For Them)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman said they’re excited to see local governments highlight drag culture in such a visible way. In West Hollywood, \u003ca href=\"https://www.weho.org/community/arts-and-culture/drag-laureate\">officials plan to appoint a drag laureate\u003c/a> later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13835007']“I think it’s a real step forward to have these roles in place, giving us folks that can speak on behalf of the community at a large scale,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5656533&GUID=5C982F50-33A6-4C4D-A4C3-1AA2F5CE2754\">plans to create a drag laureate in New York\u003c/a>, where Freeman is based, have stalled. And Freeman said they don’t see similar positions cropping up in parts of the country that are less friendly to LGBTQ people anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so politicized right now,” Freeman said. “And I think we’ve forgotten that this is just a human rights issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the San Francisco Pride kickoff, Drollinger not only assisted the mayor in the traditional unfurling of the Pride flag outside City Hall — she also posed for photos, dispensed hugs and made her first official speech as drag laureate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8204-1976b30214ae7bb4a80a9e172d007c02399ef15e-scaled-e1686591138390-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"A drag queen in a pink and white suit stands at a podium and speaks, with a Black woman in a white suit to her right, and a white man in a grey suit to her lift. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Getting \u003ca href=\"https://www.darcydrollinger.com/\">D’Arcy Drollinger\u003c/a> ready for her first official appearance as San Francisco drag laureate was a production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artist, night club owner and newly appointed government official stood in the living room of her San Francisco apartment as two helpers grappled with a set of bejeweled, custom-made artificial nails and wedged her into a pair of white patent stilettos and a tight, pink skirt suit. Finally, Drollinger stepped out of the house, and into a very busy schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am speaking at the San Francisco Arts Commission,” Drollinger said. “I’m also on the same day speaking at the Entertainment Commission. I’m also going to speak at a high school. I’ll be in the parade with the mayor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “laureate” is most often attached to the winner of a Nobel Prize, or a poet whose job it is to mark official occasions in verse. But a “drag laureate” is something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"A drag queen in a blond wig sits before a stage makeup mirror, lipstick in hand. She is pouting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-800x600.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-160x120.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-768x576.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900-1536x1152.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/img_8177-6fe6530fb505ac502334efa0bfce0d2a859571d2-scaled-e1686590792900.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Arcy Drollinger applies lipstick at her apartment in preparation for her inaugural appearance as San Francisco drag laureate. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/ NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s LGBTQ task-force proposed the creation of the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/drag-laureate-program\">drag laureate position\u003c/a> around three years ago during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The 76th Tony Awards wrapped up at the United Palace Sunday night. Below is the list of major 2023 Tony Award nominees with winners marked in bold. The complete list of winners is \u003ca href=\"https://www.tonyawards.com/winners/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Musical\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/13/1136342559/composer-jeanine-tesori-on-the-new-broadway-musical-kimberly-akimbo\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Kimberly Akimbo\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>& Juliet\u003cbr>\nNew York, New York\u003cbr>\nShucked\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/09/1181406854/some-like-it-hot-on-broadway-remixes-the-original-1959-charm-for-a-modern-audien\">\u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Play\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/01/1126387837/tom-stoppard-leopoldstadt-broadway\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Leopoldstadt\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ain’t No Mo’\u003cbr>\nBetween Riverside and Crazy\u003cbr>\nCost of Living\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1106366826/pulitzer-prize-winning-play-fat-ham-takes-hamlet-in-unexpected-directions\">\u003cem>Fat Ham\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Revival of a Musical\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Parade\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Camelot\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112105706/into-the-woods-broadway\">\u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166249500/as-sweeney-todd-returns-to-broadway-4-sweeneys-dish-about-the-difficult-role\">\u003cem>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Revival of a Play\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Topdog/Underdog\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman in a pink dress gasps with joy while accepting a trophy at a podium. Behind her stand three Black men in suits and a woman wearing a gold gown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497750243-ffc62254b1729bad46d135758037541235bae251-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzan-Lori Parks accepts the award for Best Revival of a Play for ‘Topdog/Underdog’ onstage during The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater on June 11, 2023 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Doll’s House\u003cbr>\nThe Piano Lesson\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1155171985/lorraine-hansberry-oscar-isaac-rachel-brosnahan-sign-brustein-window\">\u003cem>The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Leading Actress of a Musical\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Victoria Clark, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/13/1136342559/composer-jeanine-tesori-on-the-new-broadway-musical-kimberly-akimbo\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Kimberly Akimbo\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annaleigh Ashford, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166249500/as-sweeney-todd-returns-to-broadway-4-sweeneys-dish-about-the-difficult-role\">\u003cem>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Sara Bareilles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112105706/into-the-woods-broadway\">\u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Lorna Courtney, \u003cem>& Juliet\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Micaela Diamond, \u003cem>Parade\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Leading Actress of a Play\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winner: \u003cstrong>Jodie Comer, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169318356/prima-facie\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Prima Facie\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Chastain, \u003cem>A Doll’s House\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Jessica Hecht, \u003cem>Summer, 1976\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Audra McDonald, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/12/20/audra-mcdonald-ohio-state-murders\">\u003cem>Ohio State Murders\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Leading Actor of a Musical\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winner: \u003cstrong>J. Harrison Ghee, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930397\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497761638-edac1f1ccea96603676ceb94429fc35a4a5ea1d2-1-scaled-e1686546388359-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A nonbinary Black person in a powder blue gown and long gloves holds a trophy and leans forward towards a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497761638-edac1f1ccea96603676ceb94429fc35a4a5ea1d2-1-scaled-e1686546388359-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497761638-edac1f1ccea96603676ceb94429fc35a4a5ea1d2-1-scaled-e1686546388359-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497761638-edac1f1ccea96603676ceb94429fc35a4a5ea1d2-1-scaled-e1686546388359-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497761638-edac1f1ccea96603676ceb94429fc35a4a5ea1d2-1-scaled-e1686546388359-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497761638-edac1f1ccea96603676ceb94429fc35a4a5ea1d2-1-scaled-e1686546388359-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497761638-edac1f1ccea96603676ceb94429fc35a4a5ea1d2-1-scaled-e1686546388359.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Harrison Ghee accepts the award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for ‘Some Like It Hot.’ They are the second nonbinary actor to win. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christian Borle, \u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Josh Groban, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1168970326/josh-groban-never-gave-up-his-dream-of-playing-sweeney-todd\">\u003cem>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Brian D’Arcy James, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112105706/into-the-woods-broadway\">\u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Ben Platt, \u003cem>Parade\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Colton Ryan, \u003cem>New York, New York\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Leading Actor of a Play\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner:\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Sean Hayes, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Good Night, Oscar\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, \u003cem>Topdog/Underdog\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Corey Hawkins, \u003cem>Topdog/Underdog\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Stephen McKinley Henderson, \u003cem>Between Riverside and Crazy\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Wendell Pierce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128092585/too-young-too-old-or-just-a-woman-wendell-pierce-stars-in-death-of-a-salesman\">\u003cem>Death of a Salesman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Best Featured Actress of a Musical\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Bonnie Milligan, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/13/1136342559/composer-jeanine-tesori-on-the-new-broadway-musical-kimberly-akimbo\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Kimberly Akimbo\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A curvy white blonde woman wearing a purple strapless gown stands in front of a wall with TONY written on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonnie Milligan wins the Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical. \u003ccite>(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Julia Lester, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112105706/into-the-woods-broadway\">\u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Ruthie Ann Miles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166249500/as-sweeney-todd-returns-to-broadway-4-sweeneys-dish-about-the-difficult-role\">\u003cem>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>NaTasha Yvette Williams, \u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Betsy Wolfe, \u003cem>& Juliet\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Best Featured Actress of a Play\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winner: \u003cstrong>Miriam Silverman, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1155171985/lorraine-hansberry-oscar-isaac-rachel-brosnahan-sign-brustein-window\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Crawford, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1106366826/pulitzer-prize-winning-play-fat-ham-takes-hamlet-in-unexpected-directions\">\u003cem>Fat Ham\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Crystal Lucas-Perry, \u003cem>Ain’t No Mo’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Katy Sullivan, \u003cem>Cost of Living\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Kara Young, \u003cem>Cost of Living\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Best Featured Actor of a Musical\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner:\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Alex Newell, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Shucked\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A curvy Black woman in a gold gown smiles and strikes a pose in front of a green wall with TONY written on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Newell wins Best Featured Actor in a musical at The 76th Annual Tony Awards. \u003ccite>(Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kevin Cahoon, \u003cem>Shucked\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Cooley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/13/1136342559/composer-jeanine-tesori-on-the-new-broadway-musical-kimberly-akimbo\">\u003cem>Kimberly Akimbo\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Del Aguila, \u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Donica, \u003cem>Camelot\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Best Featured Actor of a Play\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Brandon Uranowitz, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/01/1126387837/tom-stoppard-leopoldstadt-broadway\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Leopoldstadt\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man with dark curly hair and beard stands on stage holding a trophy and a sheet of paper. He is smiling broadly.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Uranowitz accepts the award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for ‘Leopoldstadt’ onstage during The 76th Annual Tony Awards. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jordan E. Cooper, \u003cem>Ain’t No Mo’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Samuel L. 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Harrison Ghee accepts the award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for ‘Some Like It Hot.’ They are the second nonbinary actor to win. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christian Borle, \u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Josh Groban, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1168970326/josh-groban-never-gave-up-his-dream-of-playing-sweeney-todd\">\u003cem>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Brian D’Arcy James, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112105706/into-the-woods-broadway\">\u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Ben Platt, \u003cem>Parade\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Colton Ryan, \u003cem>New York, New York\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Best Leading Actor of a Play\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner:\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Sean Hayes, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Good Night, 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class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A curvy white blonde woman wearing a purple strapless gown stands in front of a wall with TONY written on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497712679-f08650cbec59ebf07f8ec068a47336be70b4ff19-1-scaled-e1686546620316.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonnie Milligan wins the Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical. \u003ccite>(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Julia Lester, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112105706/into-the-woods-broadway\">\u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Ruthie Ann Miles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166249500/as-sweeney-todd-returns-to-broadway-4-sweeneys-dish-about-the-difficult-role\">\u003cem>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>NaTasha Yvette Williams, \u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Betsy Wolfe, \u003cem>& Juliet\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Best Featured Actress of a Play\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winner: \u003cstrong>Miriam Silverman, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1155171985/lorraine-hansberry-oscar-isaac-rachel-brosnahan-sign-brustein-window\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Crawford, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1106366826/pulitzer-prize-winning-play-fat-ham-takes-hamlet-in-unexpected-directions\">\u003cem>Fat Ham\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Crystal Lucas-Perry, \u003cem>Ain’t No Mo’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Katy Sullivan, \u003cem>Cost of Living\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Kara Young, \u003cem>Cost of Living\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Best Featured Actor of a Musical\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner:\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Alex Newell, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Shucked\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A curvy Black woman in a gold gown smiles and strikes a pose in front of a green wall with TONY written on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497729655-42819d66171e4b5bd79afe3da4e965eb55a0dddb-1-scaled-e1686546869200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Newell wins Best Featured Actor in a musical at The 76th Annual Tony Awards. \u003ccite>(Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kevin Cahoon, \u003cem>Shucked\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Cooley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/13/1136342559/composer-jeanine-tesori-on-the-new-broadway-musical-kimberly-akimbo\">\u003cem>Kimberly Akimbo\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Del Aguila, \u003cem>Some Like It Hot\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Donica, \u003cem>Camelot\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Best Featured Actor of a Play\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Winner: \u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Brandon Uranowitz, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/01/1126387837/tom-stoppard-leopoldstadt-broadway\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Leopoldstadt\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man with dark 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He is smiling broadly.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/gettyimages-1497743195-4007f37be0456575d9c9e9da0473e873229d805b-1-scaled-e1686547067225.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Uranowitz accepts the award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for ‘Leopoldstadt’ onstage during The 76th Annual Tony Awards. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jordan E. Cooper, \u003cem>Ain’t No Mo’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>Samuel L. 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"title": "Janelle Monáe Wants You ... to Enter the ‘Pleasure’ Zone",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the already uncomfortably hot summer of 2023, talk of pleasure can hit like a forbidden tonic, providing relief from a steady diet of grief, outrage and anxiety. Janelle Monáe’s new album \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em> presents itself as both that stimulant and a guidebook, a compact compendium of fantasies and pep talks designed to encourage listeners to relax into the dopamine-rushed present tense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could f*** me right here right now I would do that,” the singer-actor-conceptualist turned libertine lifestyle coach sings in “Water Slide,” a reggaefied mid-record romp that plays with swimming metaphors — \u003cem>backstroke, freestyle, surfing on the thing like it’s high tide \u003c/em>— to invoke a tipsy kind of arousal that lingers delightfully, requiring no release. A floating feeling, like being drawn into a swimming pool’s lazy river. Or like getting intimate without an end goal in mind, in a safe space with someone you love. “I could spend the whole day in it,” Monáe swoons, and by “it” she means pleasure itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag7Ul4U_dSI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monáe’s world pleasure means some obvious things — material comfort, self-love, carefully maintained ties with intimates and an open-ended approach to alluring strangers. Musically, these values find expression in a certain cadence, that \u003cem>clavé \u003c/em>groove that unfolds the way sexual excitement does, slowing time down and speeding it up all at once. Monáe and her collaborators in the Wondaland Arts Society ground \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em> in the complex yet accessible rhythms of \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/afrobeats-global-rise-1282575/\">Afrobeats\u003c/a> (some prefer Afropop), the diasporic dance music that shares sonic borders with global Latin pop and Caribbean riddims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13929970']Afrobeats is the ground of much current mainstream pop, recasting hip-hop on the global stage in ways that are both historically minded — the presence of Nigerian scion\u003ca href=\"https://www.seunkuti.net/\"> Seun Kuti \u003c/a>and Egypt 80 on this album accomplish that goal — and \u003cem>au courant\u003c/em>. Monáe queers the trend with lyrics that celebrate same-sex encounters and polyamory and by filling \u003cem>Pleasure\u003c/em>‘s songs with quick turns, interludes and echoes, creating a sinuous inflorescence evocative of many women’s responsive patterns and the polymorphous attention blur of a friendly orgy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this sounds like a lot, Monáe and her collaborators make sure it goes down easy. \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em> is just over 30 minutes long and its structure is clean and tight. Supposedly an autobiographical departure from her previous character-driven concept albums, this neat set still displays an actor’s sensibility. It unfolds in three acts, with a bold opening, a complicated middle and a pleasing denouement. But unlike her earlier Cindi Mayweather trilogy, with its hugely detailed world-building and heady ideas about power, race and humanity itself, \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure \u003c/em>is contained, naturalistic and circular. It’s a round, a story that’s not linear but grounded in an ebb and flow, again like a woman’s sensuality — and in service of a utopian eroticism that runs on true mutual recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaclTJZCKc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to her style and accommodating an instrument that’s more chameleonic than stunningly distinctive, Monáe puts on many voices throughout \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em>. The first four tracks are flexes, runway struts redolent of the ballroom (and, inevitably, Beyoncé’s \u003cem>Renaissance\u003c/em>). The dominant voice here is that of a haughty rapper who also likes to play. Monáe doesn’t walk, she floats; she’s on her champagne s***, phenomenal, so hot she’s \u003cem>haute\u003c/em>. This is the warm-up, the infusion of pride required to pursue pleasure without too much risk of being exploited. “I’m looking at a thousand versions of myself, and we’re all fine as f***,” Monáe spits over an avant-funk beat, ready to grab her besties and go on the prowl. Flipping a line from decadent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiISc7Ej84&t=90s\">\u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, she speaks up for seductiveness as a strength instead of a destabilizing element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13930122']Her excursions occupy the album’s middle and most interesting section, a set of mid-tempo grooves that turn inward to describe a queer experience of pleasure. An interlude featuring Saint Grace Jones murmuring in French sets up the section; then comes “Lipstick Lover,” the summery reggae single that hovers in the air like a throwaway while establishing Monáe’s all-important perspective. “I like lipstick on my neck,” Monáe chants in the chorus, not only making clear that she wants queer fun but pointing toward erogenous zones that unseat Afropop and hip-hop’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/afrobeats-industry-needs-to-confront-its-bias-against-female-artists\">phallocentric tendencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more effective is “The Rush,” its half time dancehall riddim and airy harmonies sounding like what being turned on feels like, steadily yet sneakily intensifying on a wave of Monáe’s murmurs with extra strokes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1180152530\">Amaarae\u003c/a> and Nia Long. “I get that \u003cem>feelin’\u003c/em>,” she repeats, redirecting her thought processes below her neck over a bed of what the credits describe as “percolating freaquencies.” Feeling becomes a way of thinking. Next comes “Water Slide,” its drenched metaphors accentuating the music’s body consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jppx-EFJ818\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final turn in \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure \u003c/em>complicates pleasure by showing how it’s a two- (or three-) way street that can get a little bumpy. The insistence of “Know Better,” a lover’s plea built around densely multi-tracked vocals from Monáe and Nigerian crooner \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbAu0IZhKQ\">Ckay\u003c/a>, reminds the listener that pleasure demands consent. That song drifts right into “Paid In Pleasure,” a sticky allegory that lets in some perversion, turning sex’s sometimes transactional nature into a fetish. (Monáe’s early mentor Prince would have enjoyed this one.) Our sensual hero recovers her wits on the final two tracks — the adorable ode to throupling “Only Have Eyes 42,” which quotes a doo wop classic to swathe polyamory in innocence, and the brief, tender “A Dry Red,” which shows that Monaé can do yearning as convincingly as she can pose or purr, and begins the album’s cycle of awakening, pursuit and connection again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13927403']For all its narrative flair, \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em> is actually more about making space than telling a story, and that’s why this album is more instantly beguiling than her previous releases, whose high concepts could result in a certain chilliness. Monáe has called this space an oasis, and its sheltering vibes are paramount. The album’s rollout, via a \u003cem>Rolling Stone \u003c/em>cover and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7S6wLP_vsY\">“Lipstick Lover” video\u003c/a>, has centered on Wondaland West, the communal Los Angeles manse where Monáe is housemother, with its party-ready courtyard that \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>‘s Mankaprr Conteh \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/janelle-monae-the-age-of-pleasure-album-interview-1234736254/\">described\u003c/a> as “magnificent, with its tranquil pool in the center and troves of nooks, crannies, outdoor baths, and citrus trees” — an Eden where slipping away with a special someone is as possible as joining in on a group hug. During lockdown, in collaboration with the diasporic roving party Everyday People, Monáe began hosting gatherings. \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em> reflects this communal experience, asserting that the only way pleasure can flower is in well-tended gardens where people can relax into themselves. For BIPOC and queer people, such places have often been difficult to find, and they are currently under siege. \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure \u003c/em>establishes its utopia to illuminate the need for more mundane versions of it to multiply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “pleasure zone” has different meanings; it designates sensitive parts of the body, but also spaces where people can step outside the grind of their daily lives and play. Postmodern theory names certain characteristics of these spaces: They are sheltering, flexible and whimsical, allowing visitors to try on customarily unavailable modes of being. Access to such spaces has often been denied BIPOC and queer people; the history of the swimming pool, Monáe’s favorite metaphor, is stained with the blood of racist segregation. That’s why imagining — and creating — such oases matters so much, and why, for all its lightness, \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em> is profoundly political. As these songs move from Lagos polyrhythms to Atlanta \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXmqauitBkM\">hip-hop horns\u003c/a> to variations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au7W8tbSFtU\">earlier pop twists\u003c/a> on dance floor innovation like executive producer Diddy’s long-lost project Dirty Money, \u003cem>The Age of Pleasure\u003c/em> conjures a dream of frictionless fluidity where any fantasy might be pursued, any identity embraced, safely. 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The children around him kneel and hold out their hands to the terrifying animals, but in the moment young Bell can only freeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13929396']His wide eyes, drawn in simple cartoonish lines that seem nearly to jump off the page, enmesh readers in the scene. The child senses the dogs’ continued pursuit of him for weeks after, though his older brother, Steven, assures him he is just imagining the threat. At the conclusion to this prescient opening, the curly haired boy is drawn sitting safely on a school bus, riding away from what he most fears. He crouches over a piece of paper, red crayon in hand, as the adult Bell recounts of his young self, speaking in the present tense: “I draw the beast I know I saw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell’s galvanizing new work is all about those two interjecting words, “I know.” \u003cem>The Talk \u003c/em>explores the question of how people — in this case, a precocious, geeky, and artistic young man, the child of a white mother and Black father — know what they know. 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Bell’s mom holds off on buying her son a water gun for fear of the racialized violence that daily puts Black boys and men disproportionately at risk. When she finally succumbs to her young son’s pleas to join in on the children’s games he sees on the playground, the result, unbeknownst to her, is as disastrous as it is devastating. He is refilling his neon green water gun in a puddle on a street corner, imagining himself a heroic Luke Skywalker in hot pursuit, when a police officer descends on him. The incident stuns the child out of play and into paralysis, and he cannot talk about it for years after. 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He wants not so much to explain how, or why, the world works as it does — though Bell’s imaginative, deeply thoughtful metaphors and analogies for racism and prejudice consistently pepper the book in trenchant ways. Instead readers might think of \u003cem>The Talk \u003c/em>in keeping with Bell’s description of editorial cartooning. Soon after he wins the Pulitzer for his work satirizing Trump and his political machinations, he narrates: “My son asks if I won for saying how to fix it. I tell him, no, I won for pointing out what’s broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-08-at-10.13.33-AM-800x768.png\" alt=\"An illustration of a Black man staring at his reflection in a window. 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Divided into almost two dozen chapters, its drawings fluctuate from the whimsically cartoonish to the delightfully painterly. The page layouts are complex and often surprising, with illustrations sometimes splitting at the seams to suggest confusion, or fluctuation. At other times single images swell across pages to convey the overwhelming atmosphere of a caustic memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13929021']The subject matter is often difficult, as the book gathers episodes taken from years and years of micro and macro aggressions as experienced by the narrator. They are violent words and acts accrued from strangers as well as those who have known him over the years, from a school friend to a white female professor at Berkeley who baselessly accuses Bell of plagiarism at the very end of his senior year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its weighty, multi-tiered approach — this is not, on multiple levels, an easy read — \u003cem>The Talk \u003c/em>is difficult to put down. Reminiscent of longform comics memoirs such as Alison Bechdel’s \u003cem>Fun Home \u003c/em>and Marjane Satrapi’s \u003cem>Persepolis\u003c/em>, stories about young writers and artists finding their ways through both personal and structural hardships and strife, this epic portrait of an artist is a masterpiece. 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"content": "\u003cp>These days, according to the parlance of stan armies, you’re either a “main pop girl,” or you’re not. Main pop girl-ism is nebulous, but, like pornography, you know it when you see it. She emerges into the spotlight according to album “eras” (what ancient civilizations once referred to as \u003cem>cycles\u003c/em>). At some point she has, via red carpet outfit or awards performance or interaction with paparazzi, minorly scandalized a nation. “Authenticity” is not a word that appears in her marketing plan. She can often \u003cem>actually dance\u003c/em>. Drag queens impersonate her, and rockists bicker over the number of writers credited to her hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891785']She may or may not actually, by pure album sales or streaming numbers or radio plays, be \u003cem>popular\u003c/em>. The domination of her type peaked in the late 2000s to early 2010s, when the American charts were crowded with muscled, alpha entertainers like Britney, Christina, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Gaga etc. But there isn’t just one main pop girl; rather, it’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/dua-lipa-pop-girl-energy-dazed-interview-1235335755/\">energy\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/charli-xcx-new-album-crash-alone-together-1297016/\">to embody\u003c/a> — fantasy aware it’s serving fantasy, Bush-era raunch. Music is just one part of her celebrity to consume, along with relationships cataloged in the press, her breakdowns and traumas (to which many documentaries are likely dedicated).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jocelyn, the superstar around whom the plot of the contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/1180083160/tv-review-hbo-the-idol-premiere\">new HBO show \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>\u003c/a> swarms, has main pop girl energy. Played by Lily-Rose Depp, the singer is about to release a new single called “World Class Sinner” (the lyrics of which are about being a freak and not much else, and the quality of which wouldn’t earn a spot on Ava Max’s next record) and is still processing her mothers’ death from cancer. We meet her in the middle of a sexy photoshoot, hospital wristband still on her arm. When a compromising photo of Jocelyn leaks and becomes “the number one trending topic on Twitter,” her team leaps into damage control, worried about her suffering from another “psychotic break.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what Britney and Jocelyn have gone through is really unique, but ultimately universal, you know?” one handler, played by Dan Levy, says. There’s a lot for Jocelyn to prove, from her ability to execute perfect choreography to the illusion of mental stamina (“prioritizing wellness,” one team member calls it). When a shady club-owner played by The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye comes into her life, she seems attracted to his honesty when so few people exercise it with her. “When you’re famous, everyone lies to you,” she tells him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYUKxF0wMc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jocelyn’s suffering and alienation under the weight of her surveilled pop career feels all too familiar. She’s the young woman ensnared in the music industry machine, coached by handlers, every bit of her body lit flatteringly for the camera, her personality and humanity sanded down for the sake of the brand. You’ve seen her in film or television before. Take, for instance, Natalie Portman’s role as Celeste in 2018’s \u003cem>Vox Lux\u003c/em>, which follows the character as a teenager after she pens a proto-viral track following her survival of a school shooting in the early ’00s. Immediately, she’s signed by a team eager to capitalize on her trauma, whisked away to New York City, then Stockholm. Celeste transforms from innocent into self-destructive megastar, battling drug and alcohol abuse, sneering at journalists and riding fame so immense she can’t walk down the street without being accosted by fans dressed in her image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMCYE9hKP68\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure cooker is similarly distressing for Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the star in 2014’s \u003cem>Beyond the Lights\u003c/em>, a singer in the image of early Rihanna or Ciara (though if she had it her way, she’d be the next Nina Simone.) Groomed for fame by an overbearing momager, Noni’s life is a cycle of producing indecipherable hits, topless photoshoots and a label-orchestrated romance. When she tries to jump off a balcony, she’s stopped by a cop (Nate Parker) and the two fall in love. As her handlers try to contain her image, tainted by her near-suicide, Noni ultimately strips down to her true self, the one who wants to write and perform her own music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rieoWn9BdrQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We see that careful industry transformation in reverse in 2018’s \u003cem>A Star is Born\u003c/em>, as Lady Gaga’s Ally becomes a lip-syncing, orange-haired pop singer, her husband Jackson (Bradley Cooper) disgusted by the artifice that creeps into her performances. It’s never quite clear whether Ally’s transformative choices were her own or that of her new handler, but the film positions the character’s makeover as an affront and a threat to the artistic and romantic bond between her and Jackson. And despite the fact that Ally’s songs, co-written by Gaga, \u003cem>were\u003c/em> bangers (they may have sounded intentionally dated but I won’t tolerate “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01nGbIaT4Wk\">Hair Body Face\u003c/a>” slander), the new Ally was positioned as a veneer over the “real” artist lurking still underneath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbzyEJ8X9E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something exhausting about Hollywood’s copy-paste of the bubblegum star as the vessel through which all the industry’s worst impulses can be articulated or satirized. In Jocelyn’s case, her troubles also don’t feel in step with what’s demanded of mainstream music stars in 2023. The extreme, over-sexed artifice championed by her team hasn’t been en vogue these days among the tween audience I imagine her label is trying to court, who’d sooner find themselves in the lived-in songwriting of stars like Olivia Rodrigo, Lizzy McAlpine, SZA, Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112407']There’s also the issue of what could erupt an artist’s career at Jocelyn’s level; pop stars cancel global tours \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/22/this-should-not-be-normalised-why-musicians-are-cancelling-tours-to-protect-their-mental-health\">to protect\u003c/a> their “mental health” regularly, after all, and many go so far as to make that mission a marketing angle or the central thesis of a new project. \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em> may bill itself as a project “from the gutters of Hollywood,” but have Jocelyn’s Hollywood peers ever been tamer? So removed from the glare of any \u003cem>TMZ \u003c/em>camera crew, you’re more likely to be inundated with pap photos of stars carting $14 Erewhon smoothies to pilates than sloppily stumbling out of a club at 4 a.m.? Dua Lipa is too busy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1094567222/in-dua-lipas-ever-expanding-world-theres-no-time-limit-and-theres-no-what-ifs\">podcasting\u003c/a>, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t help but think about what on-screen depictions of messy music superstardom would look like if they turned their gaze away from pop girls like Jocelyn. The genres that soapy TV shows like \u003cem>Nashville \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> first mined nearly a decade ago, country and hip-hop respectively, now indisputably produce America’s most popular music stars. Where is the show about the handling of an artist like Morgan Wallen? The country star was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/03/963664999/country-star-morgan-wallen-suspended-by-label-dropped-by-radio-cmt-after-using-s\">suspended by\u003c/a> his record label, pulled from radio rotation and banned from the CMA Awards after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur. And yet it only seemed to make him \u003cem>more\u003c/em> popular — album sales for his 2021 album \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/arts/music/wallen-dangerous-billboard.html\">increased\u003c/a> after the scandal, and his most recent album \u003cem>One Thing at a Time\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/arts/music/morgan-wallen-one-thing-at-a-time-chart.html\">dominated\u003c/a> the charts for 12 straight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we had to hold a contest for who actually embodies “main pop girl” spirit and chaos in the \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>-charting set, Drake might actually be closer to the title than any current popstress. Or even The Weeknd himself, who is positioned as a dorky, rat-tailed scumbag in \u003cem>The Idol \u003c/em>rather than a dark, sexy singer prone to debauchery (as he was, briefly stealing Howard Ratner’s girl, in his \u003cem>Uncut Gems\u003c/em> cameo).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a wealth of stories worth telling about the music industry’s predations and unspoken rules beyond the cliched respectability web in which Jocelyn and her fictional pop girl brethren are often caught. I’m reminded of the hip-hop drama \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>, its episodes grounded in Donald Glover’s experiences with the music industry. That show depicted the way a local scene could become a viral, global export, and the co-option of hip-hop’s stories and aesthetics by white companies and benefactors Earn and Paper Boi mingle with. An early scene in which the two of them visit a Spotify-type company and witness a rapper dancing atop a table for an audience of white start-up office workers, or episodes like the final season’s “Born 2 Die” in which the concept of the “YWA” (“Young White Avatar”) is introduced as a pathway for Paper Boi out of music-making, feel far more cutting than \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s goofy jabs at publicists trying to control a star’s X-rated photo being leaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909218']Of course, a more holistic on-screen depiction of the music industry’s careful narrative-building around its stars may not be nearly as titillating to someone like Levinson, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082288241/unlocking-the-sensory-overload-of-euphoria#:~:text=Press-,Unlocking%20the%20sensory%20overload%20of%20'Euphoria'%20%3A%20Pop%20Culture%20Happy,violence%2C%20and%20so%20much%20more.\">body of work\u003c/a> thrives on titillation. \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s first episode isn’t about the music industry, so much as it is about carefully maintaining a certain strain of celebrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pop music is the ultimate Trojan Horse,” Tesfaye’s character Tedros tells Jocelyn. “You get people to dance. You get people to sing along.” The issue is that \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s thin conception of what pop music sounds like (not to mention the femininity Jocelyn is selling), wouldn’t actually be as popular in today’s landscape as the show’s world makes it out to be. That a character \u003cem>within\u003c/em> the show has to evoke Britney Spears as Jocelyn’s spiritual counterpart confirms Levinson’s dated ideas about stardom and the pop music that facilitates it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modern pop music \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be a Trojan Horse for transgressive or revolutionary ideas — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786451710/billie-eilish-is-the-class-of-2019s-weird-achiever\">about identity\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068323960/lil-nas-x-pop-revolutionary\">about sex\u003c/a>, about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/26/475629479/close-to-home-a-conversation-about-beyonc-s-lemonade\">real hardship and trauma\u003c/a>. 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