"The most many reviewers could bring themselves to call it was 'horror-adjacent,' 'horror-inspired' or as containing 'horror elements.' Even the CBC's own Eli Glasner suggests it's 'merely the veneer of horror.'" Cue the side-eye emoji. - CBC
The song contest, which bookes say will undoubtedly go to Ukraine's entry this year, also got a boost from the end of most COVID restrictions. "Much-loved events in the run up to Eurovision have been held for fans for the first time in three years." - BBC
The trade group the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America "started a diversity initiative in 2020 to 'encourage and promote the participation of L.G.B.T.Q.+, BIPOC, and underrepresented groups,'" but some Millennials and Gen Zers had started on their own. - The New York Times
Ncuti Gatwa will be the first Black man to play the Doctor, taking over from the first woman to play the popular and culturally powerful alien hero. - BBC
Simon Jenkins does not like the plans for a new building. "I could not imagine that London might inflict any more visual damage to the Thames than it has already done. No city on earth has made such a mess of its river." - The Guardian (UK)
"Mary Rambaran-Olm, a literary scholar who focuses on race and early medieval England, accused editors at The Los Angeles Review of Books of 'torpedoing' a strongly negative review ... because of their friendship with the fellow white scholars" who wrote the book she reviewed. - The New York Times
The Rapid City district has decided to destroy books by Eggers, Bechdel, Booker Prize-winning Bernadine Evaristo, Imbolo Mbue, and Stephen Chbosky. Why? Authors and topics are kinda, uh, gay, and the school board is homophobic. Eggers will replace them all. - The Guardian (UK)
There's a reason the Tony-winning actor Renée Elise Goldsberry gave Hamilton's Angelica such a punch - she's ambitious and brilliant, and depicts someone even more so in Girls 5eva. "I don’t know that women know that they’re allowed to be ambitious as they get older," she says. - Time
The main issue? Streamers are starting to realize that "continuing to try to go get new customers by spending a lot of money on original content is going to run out of steam." What's next? Probably (gulp!) advertising. - Los Angeles Times
Savage, who starred in the original Wonder Years when he was a kid, has been at the center of a few stories about his conduct in recent years. This time, after an investigation, "the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director." - The New York Times
They fled by car and foot when the bombs began to drop. Now Oleksandra Kovalchuk, staying at her parents' house, "using a borrowed laptop, has become a central node in an international network trying to protect museum and library collections in Odesa and beyond." - MSN (Boston Globe)
That might mean collaboration, that might mean mixing forms and traditions - and that might mean rehearsing in silence, with no music for the dancers to hear what their beats should be. - Irish Times
