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Stop Blaming Jaws For ‘Ruining’ Movies

“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)

Space Artists At The Museum Of Natural History Discovered A Spiral At The Edge Of Our Solar System

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)

Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor, Has Died At 83

“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

The Paris Opera House Turns 150 This Year

“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

How Can Hollywood Studios Still Be Downsizing?

“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)

Thanks To Our Phones, We Deeply Lack Boredom

And for the sake of our brains, that’s a real problem. - The Guardian (UK)

Netflix Took Its Number One Show From Mocked To Celebrated

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

Disney And Universal’s Battle With Midjourney May Reshape Copyright

“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

Pussy Riot Founder’s Performance Art ‘Police State’ In LA Got Shut Down By The Police State

"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)

Nerding Out With The Unwieldy Emmy Ballot PDF

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)

Golden Toilet Thieves Sentenced To Prison

“'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

Booker Shortlist Nominee Wins Women’s Prize For Fiction

The Safekeep, a novel by Yael van der Wouden about a family in the 1960s Netherlands whose house is filled with secrets, wins the fiction prize. - BBC

Remaking Biography, Again

“Biography alters as we do, as our conceptions of motive evolve, as theories of personality float into fashion or fade away. It offers a snapshot of our working notions of selfhood.” - The New York Times

Streamer MUBI Responds To Anger Over Investor With Ties To Israeli Defense Startup

Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of MUBI.” Surely that will calm the waters. - Variety

Dear Literary Writer, Sure, You Might Be The You Know What

Or not! “You’re not doing anyone a disservice by declining to share your art.” - LitHub

Podcasts Drive Massive Books Sales For Conservative Authors

Especially audiobook sales, it turns out. Authors of other political backgrounds are taking note. - The New York Times

In April, Two Visitors Sat On, And Broke, A Priceless Chair In A Venice Museum

Now, the Palazzo Maffei is asking people to “respect art.” Somehow, the couple - caught on camera - have not yet been identified. - BBC

Where The Last Decade Of Andy Goldsworthy’s Life Has Gone

He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire. And the artist says he’ll never do anything like it again. - The New York Times

As Live-Action Remakes Tank, Why Does Universal Think It Can Do Better?

"Universal, whose parent company acquired DreamWorks Animation in 2016, was adamant that the new cater not only to young viewers but also to adults who had grown up with the original.”- The New York Times

Nan Goldin Is Selling Prints To Support Trans People In A Very Scary America

Why just take on the Sacklers when you can take on the entire trans panic apparatus? "Hundreds of anti-trans bills are threatening trans people’s safety, stability, and health. … Transphobia has long plagued legislation and culture,” Goldin said. - Hyperallergic

By Topic

Thanks To Our Phones, We Deeply Lack Boredom

And for the sake of our brains, that’s a real problem. - The Guardian (UK)

How AI Is Remaking Google And The Internet

We've all noticed the changes in Google's approach to search, and most would agree that they have made finding reliable and accurate information harder. Regardless, Google's incredibly deep and broad index of the Internet is in demand. - Ars Technica

What Marshall McLuhan Teaches Us About Creative Inquiry

McLuhan foresaw that computing would enable new forms of pattern recognition, requiring fundamentally different ways of thinking — more integrative, relational and responsive — rather than simply accelerating old methods. - The Conversation

Your Brain’s Two Sides Hear Language Differently

Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. - The Conversation

How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?

New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on active, outward cognition, such as attention, problem-solving, working memory and decision-making, it’s becoming clear that beneath the surface, our background processing is a hidden hive of activity. - Quanta

Good Taste Will Be Even More Important In The Age Of AI

Taste is a subtle sensibility, more often a secret weapon than a person’s defining characteristic. But we’re entering a time when its importance has never been greater, and that’s because of AI. - The Atlantic

Disney And Universal’s Battle With Midjourney May Reshape Copyright

“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

Streamer MUBI Responds To Anger Over Investor With Ties To Israeli Defense Startup

Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of MUBI.” Surely that will calm the waters. - Variety

Why World’s Fairs Are Still Worth Having, Even If They’re Not Cool Anymore

Historian Charles Pappas argues that, from the first World Expositions in Paris and Chicago in the 19th century through the groundbreaking 1939 World’s Fair in New York and Expo 70 in Osaka and even the bankrupt 1984 gathering in New Orleans, these events can provide major long-term benefits to host cities. - Bloomberg CityLab

Are Bay Area Arts Organizations Sustainable? Some Data…

This report surfaces urgent questions about how to support long-term sustainability in the arts—particularly for the organizations that operate closest to community needs. With reserves dwindling and costs rising, the need for equitable, strategic investment has never been clearer. - SMU Cultural Data

Perp Walk? Trump’s Wednesday Night Kennedy Center Event

It had the feel of a Hollywood movie premiere. Ahead of showtime, the Kennedy Center was a festival of Trump officials. - Washington Post

LA Arts Institutions Are Impacted By Militarization Of City’s Downtown

Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects of the civic unrest compounded by an uncertain future as thousands of National Guard troops and Marines roll into town under President Trump’s orders. - Los Angeles Times

The Paris Opera House Turns 150 This Year

“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

What 18 Years In The Met Opera Costume Shops Looks Like

After 18 years, Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, 64, a fast-talking native New Yorker, is retiring this month from the Met. She has garnered a reputation as a calm troubleshooter with a knack for defusing last-minute sartorial snafus. - The New York Times

Mayhem At World Cafe Live In Philadelphia: Staff Walkout, Firings, Picket Lines

“Employees continued to picket on the day after Wednesday night’s walkout when, during a Suzanne Vega concert, they protested ‘an unacceptable level of hostility and mismanagement’ by the new leadership. … On Thursday evening, the management team headed by new CEO Joseph Callahan responded by firing some employees involved.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Daniele Gatti Appointed Music Director Of Florence’s Opera House And Festival

Gatti, currently chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and formerly music director of the Rome Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, is succeeding Zubin Mehta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which encompasses both Florence’s famous spring music festival and its opera house. - ANSA (Italy)

Chicago Symphony Cancels Next Season’s MusicNOW Series

“The orchestra has informed subscribers that the contemporary music series will be ‘paused’ for the 2025-26 season. There was no public announcement or acknowledgement. The CSO series presented just two MusicNOW concerts this current season, most recently in March.” - Chicago Classical Review

Apple Music Exec: It’s Crazy That Streaming Services Give Music Away For Free

“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free. We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service. As a company, we look at music as art, and we would never want to give away art for free. - The Hollywood Reporter

Space Artists At The Museum Of Natural History Discovered A Spiral At The Edge Of Our Solar System

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)

Pussy Riot Founder’s Performance Art ‘Police State’ In LA Got Shut Down By The Police State

"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)

Golden Toilet Thieves Sentenced To Prison

“'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

In April, Two Visitors Sat On, And Broke, A Priceless Chair In A Venice Museum

Now, the Palazzo Maffei is asking people to “respect art.” Somehow, the couple - caught on camera - have not yet been identified. - BBC

Where The Last Decade Of Andy Goldsworthy’s Life Has Gone

He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire. And the artist says he’ll never do anything like it again. - The New York Times

Nan Goldin Is Selling Prints To Support Trans People In A Very Scary America

Why just take on the Sacklers when you can take on the entire trans panic apparatus? "Hundreds of anti-trans bills are threatening trans people’s safety, stability, and health. … Transphobia has long plagued legislation and culture,” Goldin said. - Hyperallergic

Booker Shortlist Nominee Wins Women’s Prize For Fiction

The Safekeep, a novel by Yael van der Wouden about a family in the 1960s Netherlands whose house is filled with secrets, wins the fiction prize. - BBC

Remaking Biography, Again

“Biography alters as we do, as our conceptions of motive evolve, as theories of personality float into fashion or fade away. It offers a snapshot of our working notions of selfhood.” - The New York Times

Dear Literary Writer, Sure, You Might Be The You Know What

Or not! “You’re not doing anyone a disservice by declining to share your art.” - LitHub

Podcasts Drive Massive Books Sales For Conservative Authors

Especially audiobook sales, it turns out. Authors of other political backgrounds are taking note. - The New York Times

Canada’s Currently Reigning Major Prairie Poet

As these credentials suggest, there is a widespread view, if not a consensus, that she is one of the major poets writing in English today. - The Walrus

Why Literary Prizes Are A Bad Idea

As I got older and developed a more mature understanding of what literature is, the prizes started to seem increasingly bizarre and then sort of embarrassing. - Persuasion

Stop Blaming Jaws For ‘Ruining’ Movies

“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)

How Can Hollywood Studios Still Be Downsizing?

“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)

Netflix Took Its Number One Show From Mocked To Celebrated

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

Nerding Out With The Unwieldy Emmy Ballot PDF

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)

As Live-Action Remakes Tank, Why Does Universal Think It Can Do Better?

"Universal, whose parent company acquired DreamWorks Animation in 2016, was adamant that the new cater not only to young viewers but also to adults who had grown up with the original.”- The New York Times

50 Years After It Was Canceled By CBS, “Gunsmoke” Is Still A Hit

“Since wrapping production 50 years ago, … the western drama starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon … has never gone away, finding fans on cable (currently on TV Land and INSP), home video formats and retro broadcast TV channels such as MeTV before it was discovered by the streaming generation.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

In Defense Of The Dream Ballet, The Most Mocked Ingredient Of Stage Musicals

Going right back to the original, Agnes DeMille’s “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind” in Oklahoma!,  the power of the dream ballet lies in ‘being able to express something that words aren’t able to. … It liberated our form of storytelling and offered something really human and deeply revealing about the characters.” - The Guardian

Dayton Dance Company Fights To Keep Mexican Dancer In The US

“In my opinion, they are asking for proof of things that are not tangible. We are really trying to jump through all of the hoops no matter how small. The hoops get tinier and tinier but the standards and criteria are not tangible.” - Dayton Daily News

For The First Time In 40 Years, A Dance Company In Dallas-Fort Worth Has Successfully Unionized

In contrast to the mess at Dallas Black Dance Theatre last year, when dancers voted to join a union and were promptly fired, leading to a nationally publicized fiasco, the dancers at Texas Ballet Theater, who voted to join AGMA in 2023, have just signed their first contract. - KERA (Dallas)

Hamburg Ballet’s Artistic Director Fired For “Toxic Working Environment”

After months of increasingly public complaints by company dancers, Demis Volpi, an Argentine-German choreographer who succeeded company founder John Neumeier one year ago, will officially end his tenure at the close of this season. By mutual agreement, he is stopping work immediately. - DPA (Yahoo!)

Despite Ongoing Bombardment, Kharkiv’s Ballet Dances On Amid The Destruction

“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones and bombs.” A performance of Chopiniania in April was the first complete classical ballet given in the city since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. - Reuters

A Ballet Founder, And Longtime Director, Passes The Torch In Oregon

Toni Pimble “is that rare dancemaker whose visual sense and musical sense are equally acute; moreover, her interests are wide-ranging. Over the years she has made ballets of varying length inspired by literature, music, folk tales, Native American legends, visual arts, film, current events, and politics."  - Oregon ArtsWatch

Sydney Theatre Company Scores Windfall Off Hit

Sydney Theatre Company has recorded a $10m boost to revenue after its Dorian Gray production became a West End hit, and is poised to reap millions more when it receives a cut from this year’s even more lucrative Broadway run. - The Guardian

London’s Most Admired Theatre Producer Says Broadway’s Business Model Is Broken

Sonia Friedman, the producer behind, among many others, last season’s game-changing revival of Merrily We Roll Along, the revival of Sondheim’s Company with a female Bobbie, and this season’s Dead Outlaw, discusses why New York’s model is dysfunctional and how box-office reporting makes things worse. - TheaterMania

How Healthy Is New York’s Theatre? Here’s A Look At The Data

“How are New York City’s theatres really doing in the wake of pandemic disruption, economic instability, and social upheaval? (This report) dives deep into this question using three years of comparative data (2019, 2022, and 2023) from more than one hundred nonprofit theatre companies across the city.” - SMU DataArts

Why MAGA, The #Resistance, Trump Himself, And Almost Everybody Else Identifies With “Les Mis”

Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring demonstrators, Jan.6 insurrectionists, anti-Beijing Hong Kongers, and Mormons. Zachary Pincus-Roth considers what they all see in the show. - The Washington Post (MSN)

A Shakespeare Producer Talks About “Translating” A Script Into Comprehensible 21st-Century English

Tracy Young: “I’ve seen nothing to counter the notion that Shakespeare was a populist. All about the people, and the audience’s kind of theater guy. … That to me was the real affirmation of why Play on Shakespeare is worthy. I have no complicated feelings about the rightness or wrongness of it.” - TheaterMania

The Really Good News Out Of This Year’s Tonys

On Sunday, the Tony Awards paid homage to the astonishing array of acting talent that drew audiences back to the theater. But it wasn’t star power that determined the evening’s prizes. It was boldness — unadulterated theatrical fearlessness — that carried the day. - Los Angeles Times

Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor, Has Died At 83

“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

Ocean Vuong Recounts The Death Of His Mother And Taking In His Young Brother

“It had been more than a decade since we lived together … a straight man with an affinity for collectible sneakers, basketball, sports cars, anime and first-person-shooter video games coming to live with his nerdy gay professor brother in a house full of books.” - The New York Times

Yes, No, And We Give Up: The Verdicts In Harvey Weinstein’s New York Retrial

After what were reported to be extremely contentious deliberations, the jury found the disgraced producer guilty of one count of sexual assault and not guilty of a second count. The judge declared a mistrial on a count of rape after the jury deadlocked and the foreman refused to continue deliberating. - AP

Günther Uecker, Who Made Art With Hammer And Nails Rather Than Paint, Has Died At 95

“In his art work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves perhaps be perceived as potentially aggressive and hurtful, turned into harmonic, almost organic creations. His reliefs with the tightly hewn nails are reminiscent of waving grasses or fields of algae in a marine landscape.” - AP

Brian Wilson, Creative Mastermind Of The Beach Boys, Is Dead At 82

“There was an abiding pathos in his best records — not merely the idealized scenes the songs depicted, but also that they were created by a depressed, socially awkward, partially-deaf young man who never surfed or much liked the beach and spent his time alone in his room.” - The Washington Post (MSN)

The Most Popular TikTok Star On The Planet Is Detained By ICE And Leaves The U.S.

Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer with 162 million followers on the video app, was detained at Las Vegas airport for (as an ICE spokesperson put it) “overstaying the terms of his visa.” He was allowed to depart the country without being held to wait for a deportation order. - AP

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Manhattan Theatre Club seeks Director of Learning & Community Engagement

The Director of Learning and Community Engagement will be an innovative thought leader, strong collaborator, and skillful public advocate, with a fervent commitment to community engagement and relationship development.

Chief Philanthropy Officer – Kansas City Ballet

Kansas City Ballet seeks a collaborative, data-driven philanthropy executive to foster donor relationships, and champion accessible, world-class dance.

San Francisco Symphony seeks Deputy Director of Development

The Deputy Director of Development is responsible for strategy and contributed funding from individuals, foundations, and government supporters and overall growth of private philanthropy.

Opera Colorado: Director of Advancement

Opera Colorado seeks a dynamic, experienced, and strategic communicator and fundraiser to lead the next chapter of the company’s growth.

Executive Director – Goh Ballet

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Stratford Festival seeks Senior Director of Marketing

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Celebrity Series of Boston seeks next President & CEO

The President & CEO will provide the leadership, direction, and management, as well as identify and secure the resources necessary to build on decades of success and elevate its full potential as an exciting multi-disciplinary performing arts organization.

Assistant to the Executive Director, Joyce Theatre Foundation

The Joyce Theater Foundation, the country’s leading dance presenting organization, seeks an Assistant to the Executive Director.

George Street Playhouse: Director of Advancement, New Brunswick, NJ

George Street Playhouse, Central NJ’s premier producing theater, seeks experienced Director of Advancement to lead ambitious fundraising program that supports GSP’s vision next 50 years.

Project STEP seeks Executive Director

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General Director – Pittsburgh Opera

As it looks forward to its 87th season, Pittsburgh Opera—one of America’s most artistically respected opera companies—invites recommendations/applications for the position of General Director

Space Artists At The Museum Of Natural History Discovered A Spiral At The Edge Of Our Solar System

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)

Disney And Universal’s Battle With Midjourney May Reshape Copyright

“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

Pussy Riot Founder’s Performance Art ‘Police State’ In LA Got Shut Down By The Police State

"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)

Where The Last Decade Of Andy Goldsworthy’s Life Has Gone

He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire. And the artist says he’ll never do anything like it again. - The New York Times

Brian Wilson, Creative Mastermind Of The Beach Boys, Is Dead At 82

“There was an abiding pathos in his best records — not merely the idealized scenes the songs depicted, but also that they were created by a depressed, socially awkward, partially-deaf young man who never surfed or much liked the beach and spent his time alone in his room.” - The Washington Post (MSN)

Watching The Tryouts For The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus

“The Metropolitan Opera’s stage door, a plain entrance hidden in the tunnels of Lincoln Center, routinely welcomes star singers, orchestra musicians, stagehands, costumers and ushers. But a different bunch of visitors arrived there on a recent afternoon, carrying stuffed toy rabbits and ‘Frozen’ backpacks.” - The New York Times

Kyiv’s 1,000-Year-Old Cathedral Damaged By Russian Air Attack

St. Sophia, the 11th-century landmark considered the mother church of Orthodox Christianity in Russia and Belarus as well as Ukraine, was damaged by blast waves from bombs dropped on the Ukrainian capital last night by Putin’s armed forces. - Euronews

Smithsonian’s Board Confirms That Its Chief Executive, Not The U.S. President, Has Hiring And Firing Power

While the Board of Regents (which includes the U.S. Vice President and the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice) didn’t directly address Trump’s attempt to fire National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet, the Board’s statement clearly affirmed that hiring/firing power belongs to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch. - The Washington Post (MSN)

The GSA Oversees 26,000 Public Works Of Art, But Trump Cuts Leave Everything At Risk

This administration slashed the staff of 30 to about 10, an impossible number to track the government collection, which “has been placed in federal offices and private institutions in all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.” - The New York Times

Live Updates From The Tonys

At the preshow, “Buena Vista Social Club, a musical about a Cuban band, picked up awards for choreography, sound design and orchestrations, while Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the Netflix series, won for sound, lighting and scenic design.” - The New York Times

So, Turns Out We Might Have Been Completely Wrong

Cool cool: A “new law of nature” upends everything we thought we knew about time, evolution, and (perhaps) life in the rest of the universe. - Wired

Prominent Lawyers Join The Fight Against Paramount’s Planned Settlement With The President

“Late Thursday, the two attorneys sent a strongly worded letter to Paramount’s chairworman and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and other board members arguing that a Trump settlement would cause ‘catastrophic’ harm to the embattled media company.” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)

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