“The app’s popularity—it surpassed 1 million downloads in its first week—is ripe for this moment of decaying truths, where fact and reason have an increasingly diminished value.” - Wired
“After at least half a decade of acute concern about the way that platforms such as Instagram may affect young people, ... Meta has arrived at a label that was invented in the 1980s because parents were upset by movies such as Gremlins.” - The Atlantic (Yahoo)
Tensions still exist between London and Manchester, and not everyone is pleased. The ENO's artistic director says, "“The way this happened was not something that anyone involved would want, and we were then forced to build the road as we drove the car.” - Manchester Evening News (UK)
The creator says Mayor Adams "works so well because he has so many existing real videos where he says unusual and funny things. … In my head, it's the same guy. I feel like it's stuff I could hear him say in real life.” - Hell Gate NYC
"From Dorothy’s ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz to Harry Potter wands, props from iconic films are earning big dollars at both auction and private sales — in some cases on par with rare wine, Swiss watches and fine art.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
There’s no First Amendment right if you don’t own your own printing press, as student journalists at Indiana University learned last week when administrators fired their adviser and canceled their print edition. Purdue student journalists weren’t having it. - Bloomington Herald-Times (MSN)
Gao Zhen’s “detention is linked to three very specific sculptures about the legendary founder of the People’s Republic, Mao Zedong. One entitled Execution of Christ represents a firing squad of seven Maos who are preparing to shoot Jesus.” - El País English
That is, focused on the music - and out of the hands of predators. Not that she’s rewarded for it, aside from helping other people get some forms of justice. - Washington Post (Yahoo)
“Today, more and more critics pay their own bills, build their own followings, and invent their own rules. ... For better and for worse, the adage “Everyone’s a critic” no longer seems like an exaggeration.” - The Atlantic (MSN)
Was a young Stephen Sondheim really at the party after the opening night of Oklahoma! at Sardi’s, the night that possibly destroyed Lorenz Hart? Er … let’s just say that “adherence to reality would have deprived the movie of a hilarious scene." - Slate
“If you deliberately and regularly go without checking your phone, or indeed exposing yourself to any other source of electronic stimulation, you’ll build ‘the skill of boredom,’ which will enable you not only to confront life’s grand questions, but also to be less bored with ordinary life.” - Open Culture
He won for his work on Secret Lives of Orangutans, a documentary that also won Emmys for “outstanding music direction and composition and outstanding directing team for a single camera daytime non-fiction program.” - BBC
Loves: Baroque music, textiles “from all over the world,” real estate listings from across the world. Oh, and candy. "Am I not human?” - The New York Times
