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Let Movies Be Movies Again, Hollywood

Don’t make a “verse,” like “The Monsterverse.” Just make a movie. They don’t all have to tie in together! - The Atlantic

Robin Morgan, Who Helped Found Second-Wave Feminism, Has Died At 85

“Morgan caused shock waves in 1970 when she published an essay in Rat, an underground newspaper. The article, titled 'Goodbye to All That,’ named specific men as sexists. ‘Goodbye to Hip Culture and the so-called Sexual Revolution,’ she wrote.” - The New York Times

With Freedom And Community, Music Has The Power To Transform Young Lives

“If you want to get a young person out of trouble, put a trumpet in their hands – then just watch what they do.” - The Guardian (UK)

Trying To Revitalize A Tiny ‘Lost’ Town With Traditional Arts In North Carolina

“In the wake of Helene and the subsequent inland migration, the is teaching so-called Old World skills — like fiber arts and clay throwing — as essential tools in the modern age.” - The New York Times

Court In Argentina Rules In Favor Of Jewish Art Dealer’s Heir

“Portrait of a Lady by Italian baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was missing for eight decades before being photographed in 2025 hanging in the home of the daughter of a senior Nazi officer who had fled to Argentina after the second world war.” - The Guardian (UK)

Remembering Gloria Steinem As A Writer

As she said, “It's one of the ironies of trying to be a writer and an activist at the same time that just when you feel you have the most to write about, you have the least time in which to write it.” - The New York Times

Bad Bunny Finally Gets An Emmy, For The Super Bowl

The so-called “Primetime Emmys” happen next week, but Bad Bunny cleaned up with seven “creative Emmys” for his halftime show at the huge sporting event. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Turns Out AI Can’t Turn Dakota Johnson Into Marilyn Monroe

And Maggie Gyllenhaal is kind of sorry she ever tried something “the people who commissioned this project” wanted. - Vulture

CD Sales Are Booming, Alongside Vinyl And Cassettes

“Despite the increased interest in physical media and the ongoing iPod revival, people are not leaving streaming in droves. Streaming revenue grew by 4.7 percent to $4.9 billion — dwarfing all physical media combined.” - The Verge

What To Do With All Of Europe’s Empty Churches?

Sure, indoor pickleball courts can work, but there are many arts options. - The New York Times

Maurizio “Banana Taped To The Wall” Cattelan Insists He’s Serious (And He’s Probably Right)

The art world’s merriest prankster; the guy who duct-taped a banana to a gallery wall, called it “Comedian,” and saw it get eaten, sold for $6.2 million, and then eaten again — he says “My work has always been serious. The problem is people often stop at the joke.” - The Guardian

How Errol Flynn Beat The Rap For Statutory Rape

Two credible allegations of sex with teenage girls would by themselves be enough to get Flynn cancelled today, especially since both complainants said that he forced himself on them. Unfortunately, that’s not how it played out in 1942 and ‘43 for Hollywood’s biggest star. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Why The Bayeux Tapestry Thrilled Ancient Audiences

If we look at the meanings incorporated into different objects during the early medieval period, we see that the Bayeux tapestry is a visual form of the scop, an early medieval storyteller who told tales of heroes and great deeds, helping to preserve the oral tradition of the early English peoples. - The Conversation

Have We Wrecked Childhood?

This doesn’t sound like a very nice life, does it? It’s an existence in which you’re micromanaged and surveilled, given almost no freedom or privacy, and put under constant pressure while, at the same time, being seen as incompetent and lazy.  - The New Yorker

Twilight Of The Oxford Dons

These same dons disdained Britain’s provincial universities—known pejoratively as Redbrick—as well as academics in the U.S., whom they scorned for going about their business with “woefully unnecessary seriousness.” A don, by contrast, was effortlessly successful. - The Wall Street Journal

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