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Ballerinas Are Athletes

And so experts are helping them, along with athletes from other arenas entirely, learn to avoid injury. Aside from the art, the biggest difference: "There's no other athlete who spends as many hours training." - ABC (Australia)

How A Movie Is Helping Heal Generational Trauma

The writers of Everything Everywhere All at Once wrote that the movie "was a dream about reconciling all of the contradictions, making sense of the largest questions, and imbuing meaning onto the dumbest, most profane parts of humanity." - The New York Times

A Thirty Year Old Dispute About A Centuries Old Fresco Shows No Signs Of Waning

An Italian court says the Piero della Francesca work must be returned to the hilltop church where it was painted in 1460. The mayor of the town says no way in hell is it going to live among 3,000 graves. - The Guardian (UK)

Vladimir Sorokin Says Russian Writers Must Fight Back Against Totalitarianism

Sorokin: "A Russian writer has two options: Either you are afraid, or you write. ... I write." - The New York Times

Comedians Like Bill Maher And Dave Chappelle Are Obsessed With Their Haters

And, quite frankly, it's ruining their comedy. "That isn’t just bad for public discourse—it’s bad for a mainstream comedy landscape that too rarely spotlights the many voices doing subtler, gentler, weirder, or more experimental work." - Time

The Weight Of Confederacy Statue Removal Rests On One Company’s Shoulders

Devon Henry "has emerged as the go-to statue remover not only for , but for all of Virginia and other parts of the South." And there's a high price to pay, on a personal level. - The New York Times

A Unifying Theory Of The Musical One-Hit Wonder

Here's the deal: "Being very different from the mainstream is really, really bad for your likelihood of initially making a hit when you’re not well known. But once you have a hit, novelty suddenly becomes a huge asset that is likely to sustain your success." - The Atlantic

After Francis Bacon’s Friend Has A Row With The Tate, He’s Sending The Priceless Art To France

Barry Joule "said he is so frustrated by the Tate’s failure to exhibit an earlier donation of the artist’s work that he has cancelled plans to donate hundreds more items to the gallery." - The Observer (UK)

Meet The Stressed Out Gig Workers Getting Paid Badly To Make A Ton Of NFTs

What a shock: NFT art is also made by low-paid young gig workers. That's so pandemic era. - Vice

A Story About The Banning Of The Book Persepolis Has Led To Another Graphic Novel About The Ban

Chicago Public Schools quietly banned and removed the famous graphic novel in 2013. In 2023, a graphic novel will be published that "follows a group of Chicago high school students who fight back against the attempts at censorship in their own school." - Book Riot

When Disney Collides With Reality

The lash, backlash, and backlash to the backlash around Florida's repugnant "Don't Say Gay" bill is stressing the Mouse out. And "all of this comes at a perilous time for Disney, which is racing to remake itself as a streaming titan." - The New York Times

Merle Oberon’s Big Secret

In racist Hollywood, Oberon kept her Sinhalese and Maori heritage quiet. "Oberon's mother Charlotte Selby, who had darker skin, followed her as her maid." - BBC

Does Nostalgia Get In The Way Of Music Venue Innovation?

That innovation might not be what music lovers expect. "The picture for live music in Britain is beyond bleak, but it’s more complex than it can at first appear: it’s not just the fault of the usual culprits such as greedy landlords, property developers and moaning neighbours". - The Guardian (UK)

Broadway Decides To Drop Vaccine Checks, But Not Mask Mandates

The theatre owners "announced the decision as many governments and businesses nationwide have been loosening restrictions, but with cases rising in New York City and the virus forcing several Broadway shows to cancel performances in recent days." - The New York Times

So Globalism Is Dead You Say? Think Again

International data flows surged as the pandemic sent in-person interactions online. The annual growth rate of international internet traffic roughly doubled in 2020. But that was just a one-time spike. - Harvard Business Review

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