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South America’s Largest Film Collection Goes Up In Flames
On Thursday, flames engulfed Brazil's Cinemateca Brasileira, whose collection includes "more than a million archival documents and around 250,000 film reels," with the extent...
Older Kindles May Stop Connecting To The Internet
And yes, you can blame 5G for this issue. - BBC
Turner Prize Winner Says UK Cut School Arts Funding To Cut Out Criticism From...
Artist Helen Cammock: "They’re trying to eradicate the subjects that encourage people to think, and the parts of culture that really loudly challenge the...
Do Olympic-Level Achievements Make People Happy?
That depends on when you ask them. (And yes, that has a bearing on the lives of the rest of us as well.) -...
The Pleasure Of Falling Asleep With A Book
That is, with a book slipping out of your fingers, or falling on your face or stomach. - The New York Times
Jackie Mason, Who Kept The Borscht Belt Style Alive And Brought It To Broadway,...
Mason, "a former rabbi from a long line of rabbis, ... made comic capital as a Jew feeling his way — sometimes nervously, sometimes...
Mockingbirds Create Songs Pretty Much The Way Humans Do
Timbre morphing, pitch morphing, stretch morphing and squeeze morphing: "Mockingbirds compose their songs much like human composers do, drawing phrases from other birds' melodies...
Working At An Amazon Warehouse Is Dangerous, And Getting Injured There Is Worse
Getting injured can happen quickly in a bustling Amazon warehouse. Then there's trying to get the company to respond. - Boston Globe
Too Much Screen Time Can Literally Make Some People Sick
And when we say "literally," we mean it: "These symptoms fall into three categories: nausea, oculomotor issues, and general disorientation." - FastCompany
The Death-Positive Library
Truly, the UK has invented - and spread - a library movement for our times. - The Guardian (UK)
Why Eric Carle’s Whimsical Books Are So Important For Children – And Adults
Jonathan Kozol: "There’s nothing wrong with treating children or yourself to a bit of whimsy and wonderment and unimportant foolishness in a world that’s...
How The Mafia Destroyed Southern Italy And Sicily With Concrete
Palermo is ugly for a reason: "Vito Ciancimino, a mobster from the violent Corleonesi clan, ordered the demolition of splendid art nouveau mansions to make...
A Memoir Of What Hollywood Men Took And Took And Took From A Young...
Theoretically, things are different in a post-#MeToo Hollywood from when Mena Suvari was a young star. She thinks they should be, and adds, "If...
As The Movie ‘Spirited Away’ Turns Twenty, An Evaluation Of How It Changed Animation
The movie made animation a legitimate genre in Japan, and set up young girls as true heroines in their own lives. - Time Magazine
The Largest Wind Instrument In The World
Hint: It's in San Francisco. (And a musician just made an album with its tourist-pleasing self.) - The Guardian (UK)
Trying To Put On A Festival Amid Floods, A Plague, And Brexit
It's not easy for the Salzburg Festival, but performers and audience alike feel the reality that "peace doesn’t exist without its antithesis." - The...
The Disappearing Antonyms Of ‘Grumpy’ Words
Weird factoid: In Old English, people could be couth, kempt, and ruthful. - LitHub
Idris Elba Says Difficult And Constant Creative Work Is Great Therapy
Elba was working as a bouncer when he got a part on The Wire - and since then, he hasn't stopped working as an...
Alice Clark Brown, A Black Woman Who Starred In A Very White Circus, 68
She was the first Black woman to star in a Ringling Bros circus, and "photographs from the time show Ms. Brown triumphantly astride her...
What Are Los Angeles’ Theatres Doing In Response To The Delta Variant?
Pivot, pivot, pivot, keep on pivoting - and require proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 tests. - Los Angeles Times
How An Actress Known For Playing Dramatic, Troubled Roles Ended Up In Ted Lasso
Juno Temple didn't even know how to act in a comedy, she says. Brendan Hunt, Lasso co-creator and colleague: "She’s just playing the truth...
What’s Going On With High-Profile ‘Restructuring’ In Barcelona’s MACBA?
Accusations of xenophobia, and two more high-profile resignations, follow an email about "restructuring" that eliminated the positions of Tanya Barson, the English curator, and...
American Ballet Theatre Predicts Massive Audiences In The Fall
Performance-starved audiences may flock to Lincoln Center after the ABT resumes indoor live performances this fall, the ED says. "There is so much pent-up...
What Can Be Done To Protect Sacred Sites From Relentless Scientific Curiosity?
Apologies alone aren't going to suffice. "Tribal representatives and archaeologists are demanding an accounting of protected cultural sites in order to identify damage caused...
The Magic Of Chilean Photographer Sergio Larrain
Not to mention the magic of stumbling over the work of a great artist by accident. - The New York Times
