Hulu's The Bear is a big hit for the streamer, partly because it's terrifyingly accurate about the abuse in restaurant work. Now, "two and a half years after the Covid pandemic began, we’re in a long-overdue moment of upheaval and evolution for the restaurant industry." - The New York Times
Jennette McCurdy of iCarly says that "During a call with her management company, she was offered $300,000, 'and the only thing they want you to do is never talk publicly about your experience at Nickelodeon. Specifically related to the Creator." - Los Angeles Times
"Activists and members of the state’s Indigenous population have long objected to the image, which one critic called the 'last state flag of white supremacy.'" - MSN (Boston Globe)
The e-waste workers of India, taking apart our discarded cellphones to make new machines: "No doubt we are at constant risk here, but what other option do we have?" - Slate
Normal country; everything is fine: "Residents of Jamestown Township voted to defund the Patmos Library by a 25-point margin, after a local conservative group led a campaign against the inclusion of LGBTQ+ books." - Vice
How long does academic work take? How long should it take? Even more troubling, who gets to decide what is valuable and necessary work for an academic today? - Sydney Review of Books
The $50 Million gift represents one of the Tsai family’s biggest ventures so far into the performing arts. Joseph Tsai, who trained as a lawyer and serves as vice chairman of Alibaba, is more frequently associated with athletics. He is the primary owner of the Brooklyn Nets. - The New York Times
"At a time when public discourse around issues like trans rights materially impacts the lives of LGBTQ people, such institutions have carefully considered how to frame queer history, and they have come to different conclusions about how these radical movements of marginalized people should be institutionalized." - The New York Times
The grant, earmarked for an Indigenous artist and awarded for a short documentary, was instead used by then-director of community investments Barbara Mumby-Huerta for travel expenses for herself, a daughter, and a friend. She has now been fined by the city's Ethics Commission. - San Francisco Examiner
The NTIA recorded the lowest number of nightclubs on record - 1,130 - in its latest set of data, based on the situation in England, Wales and Scotland. In March 2020, when the figures were last published, the number was 1,418. - BBC
Office occupancy downtown is still less than a third of what it was before COVID arrived, so the public-private "community benefits district" for the neighborhood commissioned a plan, just recently submitted, to redesign and rezone the streetscape to attract more people downtown during and after business hours. - Bloomberg CityLab
Over the years, he said, studio executives have rejected his pitches for stories, telling Leguizamo — who is of Colombian descent — that Latino people apparently don’t want to see “feel-good movies,” he said. - Los Angeles Times
"Not even two months after taking office, Yoon Suk-yeol has made a huge investment in the country's culture: a $3.7 billion fund for film, TV, art, and other cultural projects, as well as plans to transform a historic presidential home into Korea's answer to France's Palace of Versailles." - Artnet
What killed them wasn’t just online shopping or big box stores, but a broader cultural shift. Malls succeeded by catering to different groups, from housewives to retirees to teens, the latter often attracted to cinema multiplexes and arcades, until Netflix and Nintendo undercut both options. - City Journal
The type of cultural appropriation we need to be vigilant about is fairly simple. It occurs when members of a dominant culture – for example, white Americans or white Australians – take elements from the culture of an ethnicity or racial group they have typically oppressed – e.g. Indigenous peoples – and use them for themselves. - Fast Company
