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China Restricts Kids’ Video Game-Playing

Gamers aged below 18 will be limited to one hour of online game play, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in normal weeks. They will also be allowed to play on statutory public holidays. - Variety

In Louisiana, Someone’s Finally Teaching Genuine Cajun French

The state has been working to revive French for decades — but the language taught in schools has been the standardized variety, very different from the dialect local elders actually speak. Now a school for adults in a small town is teaching proper Cajun. - National Geographic

A New Company Rises From The Ashes Of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

"A group of performers from the shuttered Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company have founded the new contemporary company DanceAspen and will debut new work at the Wheeler Opera House next month." - The Aspen Times

Lloyd Dobyns, Anchor of ‘NBC News Overnight’ And ‘Weekend’, Dead At 85

He attracted national attention in the 1970s for his waggish style hosting NBC’s Weekend, where he was joined by the equally irreverent Linda Ellerbee. They later co-anchored NBC News Overnight, an admired but little-watched show that lasted only 17 months in 1982-83. - The New York Times (AP)

Apple Buys Classical Streaming Service Primephonic — And Shuts It Down

The tech giant will take Primephonic offline next week and, it says, work on integrating the service's catalog and specialized search engine, with a new Apple classical app launching next year. Current subscribers will get a refund and six free months of Apple Music. - The Hollywood Reporter

Gary Graffman And Jennifer Higdon Leave Curtis Institute Faculty

Graffman, now 92 and formerly the music school's director and president, had been its leading piano teacher, with Yuja Wang and Lang Lang among his students. Higdon, a Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning composer, cited musical and family commitments for her departure. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Giant Puppet Is Traveling Across Europe To Highlight The Plight Of Refugees. She’s Not Always Welcome.

Little Amal, a 20-foot representation of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl, is being walked by her handlers from Gazantiep, Turkey to Manchester, England. A local council in Greece is the first, and probably not the last, to ban her from town. - The New York Times

Uruguay Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum

The Museo de Arte Contemporâneo Atchugarry, now under construction in the exclusive seaside resort town of Punta del Este, is being built and funded by Pablo Atchugarry, perhaps Uruguay's most prominent living artist. Opening is planned for early January. - Artnet

The Fate Of Artists And Culture Workers Under The Taliban

A vibrant, educated, outward-looking civil society formed, and many Afghans facing Taliban 2.0 have no memory of the shockingly brutal Taliban regime that fell in 2001. Kabul may not be governable by the old Taliban methods. - Washington Post

Attempts To Fix A Mies van der Rohe Masterpiece – A Disaster As A Museum

As a museum, it has always been a disaster. Ever since it opened, the New National Gallery has been dogged by cracking windows, heavy condensation and awkward display spaces, presenting a curatorial nightmare for its staff. - The Guardian

A Genre Of Books Promises To make You Smarter. True?

Most of the time, thinking sounds like hard work, but add “smart” to the front and it sounds more attractive: hipsterishly mid-Atlantic, vaguely technological (like “smartphone”), and with an implied promise of some handy trick or shortcut. - The Guardian

The Thriving Book Community On TikTok

BookTok is a hashtag on TikTok, where readers post videos of book recommendations, talk about writing novels and make reading-related jokes. The hashtag #BookTok currently has more than 18 billion views on TikTok. - CBC

The Societal Benefits Of Public Nudity

According to a series of surveys conducted by researchers at the University of London, not only did those who engaged in naturism have higher levels of self-esteem and life satisfaction than their clothed counterparts, they also became even happier as they participated in those activities more frequently. - The Walrus

Rite Of Passage: Now There Are Academic Citations For TikTok

The iconic MLA Handbook has added an entry for TikTok, so Noam Chomsky 2.0s, who need to cite videos from the social media powerhouse, can now do it properly. - Fast Company

Why We Need Poetry Right Now

Indeed, in our age of social media, words are often used as weapons. Poetry instead treats words with care. - The New York Times

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