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How CODA Came From Way Behind To Win The Oscars

Timing (and a relentless campaign): "After the bombast of awards season, it seemed fresh and fulfilling: a movie that told its story with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of heart. A movie that wanted only to move you." - Slate

What It Took To Produce The Oscars This Year, By The Numbers

Fourteen miles of fiber optic cable, 1500 lighting instruments, 14,000 PCR tests ... and a longer broadcast despite having fewer awards presented in full. - NPR

That Familiar Video Game Jump Sound Dates To The 1970s

Truly, the first video games were silent. Can you imagine? But: "The hup, as it’s sometimes known, is the onomatopoetic vocalization of effort given by the player-character when initiating a jump." - Wired

Sadly, Halle Barry’s Win Changed Nothing For Black Women At The Oscars

"If Monster’s Ball is still the only movie in which a performance from a Black actress is recognized as superlative, does that mean that Leticia Musgrove is the best portrayal of a Black woman in the award show’s history?" (Hint: No.) - Vice

You Know Which Russian Composer Isn’t Suffering In The West?

Tchaikovsky. Just look at the Met's revival of Eugene Onegin. - The New York Times

William Morris’s Farmhouse Is Restored And Reopening, After Millions Of Pounds And Many Years

Kelmscott Manor "was a place of huge inspiration for an artist who dramatically influenced fashions and ideologies with fabrics and furniture, stained glass and wallpaper still produced today." - The Guardian (UK)

The British Museum Removes The Sackler Name From Its Walls

Mostly. "The Sackler name would remain on a list of donors to the museum’s Great Court, because the museum 'has always recognized the important relationships we have with each of our benefactors.'" - The New York Times

How Propaganda Became Entertaining

Blame (or praise) WWII. - The Atlantic

Journalists Supposedly Run Toward Wars, And So Did This Illustrator

Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, artist George Butler took flights, busses, and other paths "to Odesa in southern Ukraine, where he stayed for a few days before continuing on an overnight train to Kyiv, at the heart of the conflict." - The Guardian (UK)

The Artist Studios Of The World Trade Center

They're part of a nonprofit that helps provide NY artists "with places where they can work, a signature need for artists in a real estate market that has long pushed them to live in cavernous, defunct industrial spaces." - The New York Times

Samuel L. Jackson’s Honorary Oscar Award Speech Was Pretty Great

The 73-year-old actor was nominated, but didn't win, for his role in Pulp Fiction. "In an emotional acceptance speech, Jackson looked back on his career, noting his early, nameless roles, including what he described as 'Gang Member No. 2' and 'Black Guy.'" - Washington Post

Historic Wins At The Oscars Overshadowed In The Moment By Ableist Joke, On-Stage Slap

Ariana DeBose was the first out queer actor of color to win a major acting award. CODA? First Best Picture win for a streamer. Jane Campion won her first, and Will Smith won his - not long after mounting the stage to slap comedian Chris Rock. - Los Angeles Times

Oscars Live Updates, The Vanity Fair Edition

This one will be heavy on the red carpet and after-party updates; we'll add other live update news sites here (here's NPR; here's Washington Post; here's the Los Angeles Times) as the show gets closer. - Vanity Fair

It’s Hard To Make A Living As A Theatre Artist

The group Artists Who Code is trying to help artists (and not just theatre artists) make a transition to the world of actual remuneration for skills - that is, technology. This might sound depressing, but the pandemic meant the group grew quickly. - Los Angeles Times

The Charles Dickens Museum Got Shadowbanned On TikTok

It took a full-blown Twitter campaign to get the author's name, and the museum's name, and all of the museum's content, unbanned. You probably know what the problem was. - LitHub

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