Pulitzer Winner Bruce Norris Retracts Rights to German Troupe's Clybourne Park Over "Blackface" CastingBruce Norris, whose play Clybourne Park features white and African-American characters - to Pulitzer Prize-honored, Tony Award-winning effect - stripped a German theatre company of rights to his drama when he learned that a white actress would be ( Read more... )

In this interview for ALL PULP, African-American retro-pulp author Derrick Ferguson describes what inspired him to write his own Paper Mirror: http://allpulp.blogspot.com/2011/04/behind-veil-with-derrick-ferguson.htmlRead more... )

These two episodes from the current fourteenth season of the PBS show Arthur really stand out. I felt that some people here in this community will find them interesting.

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Ugo.com has posted an interview with the A:TLA track team. Amongst a lot of stuff about the awesome music that we know and love is this quote by Benjamin Wynn about starting up at the beginning of the series:

"We went out to lunch and started talking about the show, how the story takes place in an alternate world and the characters. Everyone is ( Read more... )

Dark Horse Comics has a 15 page preview for the Avatar: The Last Airbender artbook up:
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/16-782?page=0
The pages feature concepts from the first 6 episodes of season two. You can even read most of the regular texts in which Mike and Bryan talk about their influences and ideas!

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Dark Horse Comics released solicitations today, including a preview for the book Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Art of the Animated Series, a hardcover book set to release on June 2nd.

Since its debut in 2005, Avatar: The Last Airbender has remained one of Nickelodeon's most talked about and highest-rated animated series to date, and it's not ( Read more... )

Hey folks,

Does anyone here live close enough to New York City to visit the American Natural History Museum there?

Prior to the movie being announced, I walked through the exhibits featuring various people and their cultures. Back then, all I could think at the time was "Jesus Christ - maybe the creators of Avatar really liked the ANHM too. ( Read more... )

Racebending.com has received a statement from Dao Le, Animatic Editor of the Avatar: The Last Airbender original animated series.

It's been a huge disappointment to hear about the casting for Avatar's live-action movie. The show was heavily influenced by Asian culture, some of the characters were even modeled after Asian members of the crew. But ( Read more... )

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