Museum curators and conservators are especially worried that because of the amount of un-digitalized catalogues and other existing print materials in archives and libraries, some very vulnerable materials are in danger of being lost completely. - Aisle Say
The hyphen underwent an assault from a different corner in 2007, when Angus Stevenson, an editor of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, removed the hyphens from sixteen thousand words. - The New Yorker
At heart, they just expose our funny, brilliant, quirky humanness. We love riddles because they show how we’re “rationalization machines. We are great at finding patterns where none exist.” And if we don’t find the pattern? That’s our humanness, too. - Washington Post
Suddenly, Kobabe was at the center of a nationwide battle over which books belong in schools — and who gets to make that decision. The debate, raging in school board meetings and town halls, is dividing communities around the country and pushing libraries to the front lines of a simmering culture war. - The New York Times
These days, KEXP has roughly 180,000 weekly listeners on the airwaves, 100,000 listeners online, and a YouTube channel with 2.69 million subscribers and nearly 1.4 billion views — 75% of them outside the United States. Its biggest international audience is in Mexico. - Seattle Times
No, truly. And, in classic pandemic times fashion, "after several months of working remotely, the band members met one another in the flesh and performed together for the first time in the Adirondacks last summer." - NPR
The laws have done some good for buildings that truly do need to be preserved. However: "In cities with significant numbers of old buildings ... preservation became an essential part of the process by which communities fended off urban-redevelopment projects." - The Atlantic
One wood turner: "Well, you know, tradition is not just something in the past. It’s something that we’re making. ... I hope that I’m making things that 100 years from now people will say are traditional." - Slate
One dancer who fled to Estonia and then to the United States says, "Russian ballet is definitely going to be totally isolated," and the editor of Pointe magazine says, "It feels like we’re going backward in time." - Yahoo (AP)
There's "a systematic program of theft from a whole cohort of writers, stemming from Disney's orgy of acquisitions. ... Disney took the position that all of these corporate mergers only transferred the literary assets – the right to publish – but not the obligations – the requirement to pay authors." - Pluralistic
That it didn't, while also not making a direct copy, is due to writers who did the right thing - they asked agents what their lives were truly like. - The Atlantic
The exhibition in Boston is "a referendum, of sorts, on just how far the MFA and its peer institutions have evolved when it comes to grappling with the issue of white racism following the murder of George Floyd." - Boston Globe
He called it "a difference of opinion" and said production of Being Mortal, the "movie in which he was set to star was suspended because an attempt at humor had been taken amiss by a female co-star." - The New York Times
In the 1970s, CBC North (part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) decided the best way to preserve music and build an archive was simply to found a record label. - CBC
Liudmyla Monastyrska, who replaced Russian superstar Anna Netrebko at the Met in Turandot, wrapped herself in a Ukrainian flag for her curtain call. "'I wanted to help however I could,' Ms. Monastyrska said." - The New York Times
