"It is a story of betrayal, set against the turmoil of wartime France under German occupation. At the center of the suspicion is a couple." - Le Monde English
"Wherever possible, materials were sent by sea during the annual short thaw to avoid expensive airfreight. For example, building materials and boxed water — which, Arnaquq-Baril says, was chosen over plastic bottles to leave 'less toxic garbage in the Arctic' — were shipped by sealift." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
"Bloc voting, where countries award high scores to their neighbours, is a long-running tradition in Europe. Blecher says it is too early to know whether Asia will follow suit." - The Guardian (UK)
It's not 100 percent clear who, exactly, will benefit. "There's little to no way to know whether, for example, a violin teacher or a filmmaker is more likely to be approved." - CBC
"Shoots are moving away from Hollywood and, increasingly, from the United States altogether. The share of film production budgets spent in the U.S. has fallen from 74% to 42% ." - El País English
"They realized that they wanted to create their own model, in which artists — who often cobble together a living over multiple part-time jobs and punishing rehearsal schedules — could earn a salary that reflected the labor they were putting in. ... East Coast Contemporary Ballet was born." - Hartford Courant
No more pinkish treble clef on a red background: "Unlike last time, when people hated on the Music app's black-and-white design, there doesn't seem to be such passionate pronouncements of displeasure for the Classical app logo's makeover." - Engadget
The rap artist wrote that after Ed Sheeran removed him from the Sheeran tour, his team reached out to arenas with available dates. "But once they found out these were my benefit shows for Palestine, ... those dates were suddenly off the table.” - The New York Times
The Chilean director's final film was last year's The Wave. He said, "Making a film is like a gift you leave somewhere – you then hide and see what happens." - The Guardian (UK)
She said, as she accepted the Vanguard Award, she felt rage for all of her female collaborators over the years, "rage for me and even more rage for the entire generation of women who deserve to have their potential recognized and elevated." - The Hollywood Reporter
In short: "The New York Times has terminated their contract with author Olivia Waite, their romance columnist, after she reposted Mark Jacob’s repost of Marisa Kabas’ criticism of the Times’ coverage of new rape allegations about Trump." - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
"Toporkoff has found that she prefers working with mouth-blown glass because of its depth of color and texture and natural imperfections like bubbles and ripples. She sources the glass from Saint-Just Glassworks in the Loire region of France." - The New York Times
"Next year’s massive reconfiguration of power ... brings with it a number of elected officials with creative backgrounds, some of whom even incorporated music, dance and art into their campaigns and promises to constituents." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"Unfortunately, it’s part of the world that we live in right now. So the Queens Public Library is a victim of the type of world that we’re living in, where people are launching cyber attacks against various types of entities, large corporations, and now Queens Public Library." - LitHub
