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The Vast Majority Of People Absolutely Will Not Pay For News

Running from one free trial to another, even news junkies often think information demands to be free - to the consumer, that is. "Only 17% of respondents said they had paid for online news in the past year. ... This was, in fact, an improvement." - Nieman Lab

Amanda Claridge, The Archaeologist Who Brought Us The Ruins Of Rome, 72

Claridge "revealed the details of what, to a casual observer, might seem a homogeneous slice of the long-ago," making the ruins speak to any general reader or visitor to the Eternal City. - The New York Times

What Does It Take To Get Older Audiences Back To The Movies?

Why, just a little Downton Abbey magic, of course. - Los Angeles Times

How A 1972 Production Of Godspell Changed The Comedy World Forever

Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Victor Garber, Jayne Eastwood, Andrea Martin, and Paul Shaffer all walked into a theatre. This is a (rollicking) oral history of the experience. "Jesus starts his narration, and we look up and Andrea has a dinner roll in her mouth." - Washington Post

Zelensky And The Art Of Storytelling

The comedian-turned-president's video dispatches "have done more than win Ukraine moral and military support. They have created a serialized manifesto—one that makes the case for liberal democracy over oligarchic autocracy." - Wired

Groups Invade The Red Carpet At Cannes To Protest Violence Against Women

Sunday's group was "carrying a banner with the first names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the festival was held. The group, dressed in black, also set off black smoke grenades as they paused on steps in front of the Palais des Festivals." - The Guardian (UK)

Iran Tightens The Screws On Its Filmmakers

During a crackdown over general protests about food prices, the government has arrested or threatened many documentary filmmakers. The government take credit for filmmakers' success abroad - but wants to control them at home. - The New York Times

The Former KKK Warehouse That’s About To Become An Arts Center

In Fort Worth, the site of at least one brutal lynching is set to become a space for "arts and community healing." - Hyperallergic

The Attention Arms Race

All that glitters is not pepperoni. It's not just advertisers competing with each other on Instagram, it's TikTok competing with Netflix competing with YouTube competing with LEGO Star Wars competing with ... a new Stranger Things pizza app? - Fast Company

Let’s Talk About These Concert Holographs

Sure, ABBA are doing it now, but what's next - recreated Liszt concerts? (We'd probably need video for that - but who knows what the future may hold?) - The Observer (UK)

Jhumpa Lahiri Explains Why Italo Calvino Is So Beloved Outside Of Italy

"Let’s start with his Italian (or non-Italian) identity, an Italianness always tilting toward the Other. These are some biographical facts (with which he loved to play): he was born in Cuba, raised in San Remo—an extremely cosmopolitan city at the time—and married an Argentine translator." - LitHub

The UK Production Book Is Actually Harming Indie Filmmakers

The boom is for high-end streamers, really, and "has created a scarcity of resources, from crew and soundstages to generators and actors (one agent even told Variety productions were struggling to find Winnebagos to accommodate their clients on set)." - Variety

Did A 1990s Sitcom Warn Us About Amazon, Or Essentially Tell Us To Give In?

The problem with the cutesy Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks Nora and Delia Ephron-penned You've Got Mail has always been that the person warning about the Internet is the boring old boyfriend (sorry, Greg Kinnear) instead of new, sexy gazillionaire Tom Hanks - LitHub

How Composer Vangelis Blew Up Musical Categories

His band Aphrodite's Child created "1972’s astonishing double concept album 666, which delivered 77 minutes of wildly experimental music that touched on jazz, proto-metal, prog and stuff that still defies explication." - The Guardian (UK)

A Stolen De Kooning Is Back, But It Sure Looks Different

True, Woman - Ochre has been recovered and restored. But that's not the issue. "The artwork’s return to view raises the question of to what extent visitors will see the painting, with its grotesque — some say sexist — depiction of the female form, in a different light." - The New York Times

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