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Who Owns The Rights To South Park?

Basically, there are too many streaming services involved. "Warner Bros. Discovery claims that Paramount Global 'embarked on a multi-year scheme to unfairly take advantage of Warner/HBO.'" - Vulture

How One Young Photographer Changed The Game For Herself And Her Peers

When editors said they couldn't find Black photographers during the George Floyd protests, journalist and photographer Polly Irungu transformed her social media and networking skills into a lifeline for hundreds of other Black photographers. - HuffPost

Barbara Bosson, Who Took A Brief Cameo And Turned It Into A Vital Hill Street Blues Role, 83

"Bosson received five Emmy Award nominations in as many years for her supporting role, as she portrayed a character who reinvents herself to help crime victims and takes on a cheeky confidence with signature sentence-starters such as 'Hey, buster.'" - Washington Post

What Is Fixer-Upper Empire Builder Chip Gaines Doing With Larry McMurtry’s Last Bookstore?

This is a twist. "The Archer City store was the last remaining shopfront, and had become a pilgrimage of sorts for devotees of McMurtry’s Westerns." Gaines was spotted carrying boxes of books out of the store, the inventory of which has now gone all-online. - LitHub

The Puppetry Group From Manchester That Brought Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio To Life

It wasn't easy: "Creating the models for Pinocchio took 62 people tens of thousands of hours over four years." - BBC

Even In Canada, The Right-Wing Is Coming For Drag Performances

Not great! "It has become quite aggressive online and our drag queen performer has also been personally harassed," says the Kings Playhouse interim director. The Prince Edward Island theatre says it has postponed, not cancelled, the event.  - CBC

Hey Big Tech, And Everyone, Let’s Keeping Online Options Open

It's completely fine not to meet in real life - and look, virtual relationships of all kinds are "real." (Performance art spaces need to figure this out as well, especially so they don't alienate their immunocompromised audience and donors.) - Wired

A French Documentary Wins Big At Berlin

A real surprise: "The festival’s top award is rarely given to a documentary, and in his acceptance speech, a clearly surprised asked the jury members if they were 'crazy'" - ironic, since his film is about a floating Parisian barge that treats mentally ill patients. - The New York Times

Surprise – America Finally Built A Good Airport

Perhaps the inspiration for renewal can benefit from, or even require, an awakening humiliation. LaGuardia’s reconstruction was, in some sense, a response to Biden’s insult, but also to the disgraceful state of the airport—which has now been transformed into a swanky theme park. - The Atlantic

The Corrosive Effects Of Licensing Culture

The benefits of excessive licensing are unsubstantiated, theoretical, or minimal. But the drawbacks? Those are very real for workers and consumers alike. - The Atlantic

Frank Oteri Talks With Kevin Puts

"I just feel like what’s going on right now in this moment, of course you should be open to whatever’s going on, the zeitgeist, but I would just look at all of music that you’ve heard, that meant something to you from the very beginning, and feel like it’s okay to incorporate all of that." - NewMusicBox

How Saudi Arabia Is Using Culture To Distract From Government

To hide the precarity of its rule, the government wants to erase its people from political discourse. It has transformed the rich and varied history of the Arabia it came to control over the last century into the history of the House of Saud. - Catalyst

New 20 Percent EU Tax Threatens French Art Market

The E.U.-wide rule, which was quietly approved last April but will not take effect until 2025, could impose a 20 percent sales tax on artworks. The move has sent shockwaves through France’s art market, where art sales in many circumstances have benefitted from a reduced tax rate of 5.5 percent. - Artnet

How Did Paul Mescal Make Ireland Really, Really Proud?  By Speaking Irish At The BAFTAs

"For a man whom the BBC had erroneously identified as British only a few weeks before, it was quite a moment. The two-minute interaction, posted on Twitter, has been viewed one million times and set off a conversation across Ireland about the state of one of Europe's most endangered languages." - The New York Times

How Ukrainians Are Trying To Defend Their Culture

As the one-year anniversary of the deadly 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, we take a close look at the ongoing work of hundreds of professionals across a landscape of Ukrainian and international organizations to defend endangered cultural heritage. - Smithsonian

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