"Picketers and audience members broke out in chants, including, 'pay your writers!' as Zaslav spoke about his career experience" at Boston University. - Washington Post
This comes after the BBC decided to start restoring the sculpture by pedophile artist Eric Gill, which was also attacked in January of 2022. - The Guardian (UK)
Essayist - and TV writer - Samantha Irby: "Some guy commented on my Instagram that I was destroying the American family, and I was like, me? ... Then I should be richer than this! Like what are you talking about? I’m wearing a shirt from Target! I’m, I’m ruining families." - LitHub
"You have people who are imagining what ‘Asian American’ can be in wildly different ways, that might not adhere perfectly to that sense of needing to be very clearly part of the Asian American movement. ... It was a moment of ‘anything goes,’ that there were no rules." - HuffPost
Njideka Akunyili Crosby will go to many lengths in order to do the research for her paintings. "She spent hours looking through pictures of flora and fauna from Nigeria and L.A., spending time in a plant store and visiting the Huntington art museum’s expansive botanical gardens." - The New York Times
To be honest, "as Hollywood has transformed since the 1950s, workers and their unions have contended with endemic insecurity". - Los Angeles Review of Books
That is to say, fan videos of Six made it a megahit. The closing number was "written specifically to be recorded and shared on social media ... and turns musical theater into a full-on pop concert." - Los Angeles Times
"More than 100 Nobel laureates, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee, have called for the release of Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and said they 'stand with the fearless people of Belarus who continue to fight for their human rights.'" - The Guardian (UK)
What? "If its full storage capacity was purposed for music, a modern iPhone or Samsung Galaxy could hold hundreds of thousands of downloaded songs, representing more than 1 million minutes of audio. And yet those same phones will sometimes whine that your voicemail is full." - The Atlantic
"When I was growing up, it was a few networks trying to appeal to tens of millions of viewers, but ... look at what’s popular on streaming—it tends to be things that aren’t straight down the middle. People are more willing and able to dive in." - Time
Halle Bailey says she would have liked having a Black little mermaid when she was a kid. "That would have changed my whole perspective, my whole life, my confidence, my self-worth." - The Guardian (UK)
That is, along the way of your quest to succeed at Zelda games, of course. "For me, it's been a way to begin to start opening up and forming friendships when I might not otherwise be willing to engage in conversation." - BBC
Mira Nadon, who's 21: "That's exciting for me to have some responsibility and feel like I can do something to help ... the culture in our company." - CBS
