"You’re seeing a lot less cop novels, a lot less cop procedurals, because I think there’s an inherent disbelief in the goodness of the police right now." - LitHub
Kennedy was a "British-born cookbook author and expatriate who became one of the world’s leading experts on authentic Mexican cuisine, influencing generations of chefs and deploring Americans’ fast-food experience of wan tacos and overseasoned enchiladas." - Washington Post
Sure, the players might ride truncated broomsticks, and some of the images will look familiar, but the game played in 40 countries with 600 teams is now called quadball. The impetus was the Harry Potter author's anti-trans stances, but the move will also help with trademark issues. - NPR
He trained as a cellist, used to skip French to go to the symphony, can dance, and said that "as a young Black man in Baltimore, a majority-Black city, 'I understand that my presence here is much more significant than it would be in other cities.'" - Baltimore Sun
Or rather, rethinking who she is, and how we conceptualize her, with the three actors who have played her in Into the Woods on Broadway. - American Theatre
Sure, it's popular on TikTok - but "because this is a relatively new explosion in the craft scene, we don't know the implications it might have on human health longer term or the environment longer term." Oh. - BBC
She should be - but she's spoken out against the Chinese government. Still, Western film companies could do something. "Yan’s campaign, and the muted response, highlights how an apparent censorship decision in China can quietly ripple through the art-house film world." - The New York Times
Sidewalk Labs had big plans for Toronto's Quay, to "transform the neighborhood with everything built on top of the tech. It would be robotaxis, autonomous trash pickup and an extensive system of data monitoring." Then "all hell broke loose." (Transcript here.) - Slate
The ballroom competition was also for dancers with prosthetic limbs, and was the first adapted competition in the U.S. One dancer's parent: "It's nice to see the U.S. catching up to what the rest of the world is doing." - NPR
Kersey "founded the Hollywood Black Film Festival in 1998, with the goal of spotlighting independent films and filmmakers from the African diaspora." The festival was often called "The Black Sundance." - Los Angeles Times
Panah Panahi, a filmmaker whose filmmaker father Jafar was arrested recently, says, "Who are you doing this for? ... What’s the point of this kind of resistance? From our family’s perspective, you sometimes think that, well, maybe it wasn’t worth it.” - The Guardian (UK)
How did Julie Doucet become canonical? Part of the reason: "French comics, too, had its #MeToo moment, or #BalanceTonPorc (#DitchYourPig) as the French say." - Los Angeles Review of Books
Knowledge (including arts administration) workers might improve the world when they work from home. Why? Knowledge workers say they use their phones to make calls, plan events, and read - and reply to - emails ... while driving. - Fast Company
The pandemic "significantly damaged San Diego’s arts and culture organizations last year, costing them more than $77 million in revenue and donations, shrinking their economic impact by 47 percent and prompting nearly 700 layoffs and lost freelance contracts." And that's better than 2020. - San Diego Union-Tribune
