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Why Music Can Cue Such Intense Memories

"Patients with Alzheimer’s still can experience the music 'time travel' episodic memory phenomenon even after the disease has attacked their hippocampus, as long as those episodic memories are more than two years old." - Washington Post

The War Poetry Of Ukraine

"The war has been going on since 2014, but it wasn’t until the full-scale invasion of February 2022 that the world started paying attention. Or, perhaps, as some of the poets in the anthology state elsewhere, the war began long before 2014 by way of colonial imperial politics." - LitHub

Everything Everywhere All At Once Takes Producers Guild Awards, Actors Take SAG Awards

It was a really good night for the cast and crew of Everything Everywhere All at Once, as the cast won four acting awards and the movie took Best Film at the Producers Guild. - The New York Times

The Worst Job Listing In The Art World Isn’t That Far From The Usual Art World Job Listing

"As it pinged from one reader to another, people argued about which aspect of the job, which offered to pay '$65,000 to $95,000,' was funniest or most insulting. The most frequently singled out absurdity was the phrase 'Manage dog systems.'" - The New York Times

Why Has Italy Kept Much Of Its Fascist Architecture And Statuary?

"After World War II, prompted by the Allies, Germany underwent an intense de-Nazification program. Not so Italy — there was no equivalent de-fascistization. The country is still filled with buildings and street names that evoke its 20-year dictatorship." - NPR

How To Become Bad Cinderella

First, watch In the Heights in high school. Linedy Genao: "I was like, ‘They said Dominican Republic on Broadway! I didn’t know that was allowed!’"- The New York Times

Indigenous Jazz Musicians Take Their Place On The World Stage

Delbert Anderson has goals. "I want to be the one who kept it all together and takes joy in my art and changes my world." - The New York Times

Look, Why Would Anyone Pay For Facebook?

Facebook, sadly, "is following the trajectory of the airline industry writ large. It is a once-revolutionary service that, over time, has transformed into something more soul-sucking." - The Atlantic

The Obies Were Announced Before The Ceremony, And ‘English’ Wins Best Play

OK? The American Theatre Wing "decided to announce the award recipients in advance to allow the evening to focus on a celebration of theater’s resilience. Acceptance speeches are being posted on the Wing’s YouTube channel." - The New York Times

Oh, You Thought The Lord Of The Rings Movies Were Over

You were very, very wrong. Because where there's money - so much money - to be made, there are "multiple films in the pipeline." - BBC

British Reality Show “The Piano” Is Sweet, Funny, And An Inspiration To Learn To Play

"Watching the crowds cry, or clap, or tap their feet, it’s impossible not to wonder how many of those train travellers – or the audience at home – are seeing something that looks like fun, something that they could have a go at." - The Guardian (UK)

Spotify’s AI DJ Has Absolutely No Soul

Not a real surprise, and yet, "Cast your mind’s eye behind Spotify’s X voice and you will find only the void—a vast jumble of machine-learning metrics and carefully calculated curation that tells you what it thinks you want to hear." - Wired

Don’t Miss The Exuberant Diversity Of Ukrainian Literature

It's a thorny question after years of occupations and wars. That, "combined with the systematic repression of the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian culture has made some Ukrainians ambivalent about fully embracing the many writers from Ukraine who are not ethnic Ukrainians." - The Millions

The Man Turning Newark’s Trash Into Art

Frustrated with Newark's ongoing water crisis, Wille Cole and his communities take the city's resulting trash and try to create something better. "It’s not always easy to 'open up perception' and see familiar objects in a fresh way, Cole says." - The New York Times

Many Indian Film Fans Aren’t Impressed With The Song Naatu Naatu Or The Movie RRR

"Among Indian audiences, there is a deep divide between those who applaud that the rest of the world is waking up to his brilliance and those who are horrified that a 'dubba' — or hollow film — is being lauded." - Variety

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