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Itinerant artist and poet Ser Serpas says that "Parisian trash is sturdy." The 27-year-old, "like, many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers." - The New York Times

The list of those testing positive and missing Sunday's Critics Choice Awards, a few days after the Golden Globes, included nominees Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, "head cheerleader" Jamie Lee Curtis, and planned presenter Michelle Pfeiffer. - The Hollywood Reporter

The star of Everything Everywhere All at Once says, "But the only way we can keep this going is by getting the right storytellers, having the studio executives understand and keep putting it forward." - HuffPost

For instance: You might be feeling like a crambazzle thanks to winter - so it might be time to get some snerdles in your hibernacle. - CBC

Natalie Murray Beale says, "We looked a lot at the physical aspects, ensuring she would not be too reverent of the conductor’s podium, because after all it’s just her workplace." - The Observer (UK)

Six producers of potential Oscar contenders explain why they did it anyway. Says the producer of Banshees of Inisherin, "Your aim is to be invisible and make sure that nothing interrupts" the director's process. - Los Angeles Times

Bad news for writers and artists: As AI improves, the plagiarism will become less apparent. "There’s no quick technological fix to these issues. As has been the case for nearly all instances of bad information spreading online, readers and editors will again have to figure this out themselves." - Slate

Emmons - her obit is in today's Boston Globe - "was furiously busy in the months leading up to her death," including publishing two novels in September, sending her final novel to her agent hours before she died, and writing a popular blog about having ALS. - Los Angeles Times

Blame the loss of the Catskills incubator for city dancers on, what else, the pandemic - and donor priorities. - The New York Times

But, alert, the trade-offs may be worth it. - The Atlantic

Cancellations due to flooded theatres, reschedulings, and an art project that was about rain but needed a dry site for the actual installation. Feels like the early days of COVID, but, you know, climate change. - Los Angeles Times

Marlee Matlin, Billy Porter, and Michael Chiklis discovered the other side of the camera with TV episodes in a new series. Chiklis: "One of the wonderful thing about directing is your creative mind really is firing on all cylinders. You’re creating the narrative." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Since making petroglyph hunting their collective hobby, in 2016, the three enthusiasts have transformed knowledge about prehistoric art in Norway, more than doubling the number of carvings known in their home region." - The New York Times

The writer "is narrating his ongoing drama but also conjuring past memories, musing about writing and art and describing the terrifying, sometimes transcendent profundity of being dependent on the love and patience of others." - The New York Times

This summer's season will have six shows, down from 11 pre-pandemic and eight in 2022. AD Nataki Garrett: "Our numbers have come in between 46 and 50 percent of people returning, which is the same return rate as most theatres across the country." - American Theatre