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Meta Manages To Muzzle Former Employee Who Published Memoir
“The book, Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who used to be the company's global public policy director, includes a series of critical claims about...
The Supreme Court Just Reopened The Question Of Who Has The Right To This...
A new California law changed a ruling that had seemed to be final last year, and now the painting, which is hanging at a...
Now, They’re Coming For All Of The Libraries
These executive order-demanded cuts will affect public libraries, museums, the Voice of America, and so very much more. - Politico (MSN)
Los Angeles Firefighters Were An Oscars Highlight
Awards season, a few weeks after the devastating fires, was a good break for them too. But then it was right back to work....
Xiaolu Guo Rewrites Melville
“I don’t have this need to consume ‘story': I need to have a debate, a dialogue with truth; to think more, write less, and...
Is This The First Oscar-Winning Movie That Appeals To Our Domestic Companions?
That is to say, cats and dogs alike seem to be obsessed with Flow. “The trend is a particularly cute coda to what was...
Vienna Has An Intense, Formal Ball Season
In Austria, teenagers go on YouTube to learn dance moves - but they also “attend multiple lessons at a dance school and receive a...
Nobody Puts Writer Geoff Dyer In The Corner
Well - nobody but himself. "The feeling is most intense after dark, when the chair is bathed in the glow of a lamp, after...
You Might Not Even Know About The Best Comedy On TV Right Now
That’s right, it’s The Righteous Gemstones, which is about to conclude its four-season run, “one of those rare works that channels all the pathos...
Playing A Sumo Wrestler On Stage Takes Months Of Exacting Choreography
“As Peña and Dring committed to having the actors wrestle, and doing so smoothly and within budget, they hired two fighting directors — one...
Remembering Jeanne-Claude And Christo’s Gift To New York, Two Decades On
The artists “illuminated Olmsted and Vaux’s paths in municipal orange, rendering the park’s plan visible to a visitor, thus reinscribing it as a public...
The Day The Movies Went Dark
“The first weekend in March 2020, … North American cinemas had a snappy $100 million weekend.” Two weeks later? That take was just over $4,000...
Where Have All The Black TV Shows Gone?
It’s not just the current administration causing problems, says Issa Rae. The actor’s new docuseries “makes a comprehensive history and showcase, with evidence, that...
On The Day Before A Five-Year Renovation Begins, Paris’s Pompidou Is Swarmed
France does not do museum renovations by halves. “The building, famous for its facade adorned with colourful pipes and ventilation shafts, will be given...
Whether You Love Or Hate Daylight Saving Time, Here’s A Reading List For You
Of course, don’t stay up too late reading it; the week after the time change is dangerous for commuters. - The Atlantic
Athol Fugard, Playwright Who Chronicled And Dissected Apartheid, Dead At 92
In South Africa, “for decades he was considered subversive by the government; at times productions of his work, with their integrated casts, were considered...
This Ukrainian Theatre Troupe Is All Women, Though Not By Choice
Because so many men are fighting against the Russian invasion, "We only had the female part of the troupe left. So we thought, ‘Well,...
Why We’re So Obsessed With Tales Of True Crime
“Feito turns up the volume in the new novel, ‘because it was fun, but also because they did drip belladonna into their eyeballs!’ (A...
Is It Possible To Mount A History Play About Civil Rights In Florida Right...
“‘We’re sort of really trying to ride a fine line of when we talk about the play and how we talk about the play,’...
The Writer Who Coined ‘Love Is Love’ Wins An Award
Writer Thalia Zepatos: “Oregon became the testing ground where we first discovered the catchphrase 'love is love' and realized the power of telling the...
A Painter’s Work Is Never Finished
Janiva Ellis says, “Some of them are done,” she said. “Some of them are actually not done. Some of them are not done, but...
The Humiliations Of Working In A Fulfillment Center Are On Full Display In This...
“They were expecting the job to be physically demanding, but didn’t realise how psychologically demanding it would be,” the director says. “Then, when they...
Dear People Seeking To Escape News Turmoil In Hobbies, There’s More Bad News
Everything hobbyists love - from graphic novels to BluRays to vinyl to, yes, yarn - is in a constant state of flux and higher...
This Artist Grew Up In A Civil War, But Now Creates Games To Help...
“All of Hazelight’s games are cooperative endeavors, played best with two people sitting near each other on the couch. The studio tries to balance...
At The University Of Iowa, The Feds Cut Funds For The Famous International Writing...
“It’s the end of a 58-year-old partnership, which has brought writers from all over the world” - including later Nobel Prize winners like Han...
