“What does it mean when the majority of the African LGBTQI+ narratives lauded as ‘important,’ ‘urgent,’ or ‘powerful’ are ones where queer black bodies are tortured, shamed and violated? And what kind of reading culture is fostered by a publishing industry that prioritizes those particular narratives?” - LitHub
“The most important part of my job besides writing producible scripts that are on time is to keep my show on the air as long as possible, to keep everyone employed as long as possible. And that’s the thing I like the best about it.” - Los Angeles Times
“Five decades on, it’s easy to forget just how remarkably undiluted the pleasures of Jaws were, and how unassailable its craft.” - Washington Post (MSN)
“In a city of over 800 museums, fewer than a dozen have publicly voiced their support for the undoc+ community, with the majority of institutions exclusively speaking out in solidarity with ‘immigrants’ and ‘migrants.’” - Hyperallergic
As the artists worked on a video, “We’re flying away from the Oort cloud and out pops this spiral, a spiral shape to the outside of our solar system. … A huge structure, millions and millions of particles.” - Fast Company (Internet Archive)
“Shapiro’s best-known sculptures are easy to recognize. Constructed from wooden beams jutting in different directions, they typically suggest a human figure with outstretched arms, a blocky head and a torso shaped like a cereal box.” - NPR
“It was a time in French history when you could change your birth status with money. The nouveau riche included industrialists and bankers. You could also move up in society with an education, which was the case for opera architect Charles Garnier.” - NPR
“Rosy projections of a robust recovery this year have not materialized. If anything, the downturn, at least in terms of employment at the studios, has continued.” Also, there’s Trump and the tariffs. - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
How? Well - murder. And our timeline. “Georgia Miller—scammer, charmer, killer—is an American icon for our times, and she deserves public office as much as anyone else.” - Slate
“The only thing that can stop AI companies doing what they’re doing is the law. ... If these lawsuits are successful, that is what will hopefully stop AI companies from exploiting people’s life’s work.” - Time
"Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.” Normal country. Nothing to see here. - The Guardian (UK)
What’s up with guest actors on White Lotus and The Pitt? Will Kathryn Hahn get nominated in Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress? Could an Anna Sawai nomination remind voters they think Pachinko is really darn good? - Vulture (MSN)
“'This was an extraordinary case in many respects,’ Shan Saunders, a solicitor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement. ‘It is not every day that we prosecute high-value burglaries of stately homes, let alone the audacious theft of an 18-carat gold toilet.’” - The New York Times
