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Legendary New Yorker Writer Roger Angell Has Died At 101
Angell's baseball writing - his gorgeous sentences, his attention to detail, his belief that being a fan was a worthwhile endeavor - earned him...
Netflix Explicitly Tells Employees They’ll Just Have To Deal With Content They Find Offensive
In what looks like a reaction - some might call it an over-reaction - to the employee walkouts over Dave Chapelle's transphobic jokes, the...
David Marcuse, Who Provided Progressives With Books And Gathering Places, Has Died At 73
Marcuse ran several bookstores, but Common Concerns, in Dupont Circle during the Reagan and (H.W.) Bush years, was the most important for a community...
Katsumoto Saotome Preserved The Stories Of Firebombing Survivors
Saotome, a novelist who has died at 90, compiled six books of survivors' testimony and founded a museum as well. - The New York...
Toronto Gets A Horror Bookstore
Why an entire bookstore and café devoted to scary things? "Imagine your problems were a ghost, a monster, a serial killer — that the...
The Musician Making New Words In Hmong
Twin Cities spoken word artist and musician "SUNAH hopes to replace negative language some in the Hmong community use to describe LGBTQ people. There...
Chicago’s Alt-Weekly May Have Finally Saved Itself
After the sale of the Chicago Reader "was nearly derailed over a co-owner’s column opposing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for children," and after a lot...
Disney Hasn’t Had This Much Trouble With Its Public Image Since The Early Days...
"The characters in the showdown were as colorful as any drawn on the studio's animation cels: union activists, gangsters, communists and anti-communists, and, not...
The Heartbreak And Necessity Of Ending A Feminist Magazine Right Now
Co-founder of Bitch Magazine Andi Ziesler says that "the thing that made us stand out in an increasingly digital marketplace was the fact that...
Guess Where You Can Get The Best Free E-Books, Music, And Movies On The...
This should not surprise you, because it's also the best place to get free physical books, music, and movies. - Fast Company
Why Black Cinema Had A Kung Fu Explosion In The 1970s
"If the very essence of Blaxploitation films to challenge the world order, the creative marriage between Kung Fu and Blaxploitation offered global imagery...
The Painting From The Credits Of The Show ‘Good Times’ Sells For A Huge...
Look, this wouldn't really be a news story, but the energy trader who bought it said, "I’m walking away with the treasure while everybody...
What Happened To Britain’s Classic Sitcoms?
Probably what happened is streaming. "Perhaps it's no longer possible to amuse all of the people all of the time." - BBC
Why California College Of The Art Staff Went On Strike
"This protest was beautiful; we used our own craft and creative responsibility as artists to advocate for social change. From stenciled shirts to embroidered...
It Was The Sex Toy Scene That Broke Michelle Yeoh
Yeoh, on Everything Everywhere All at Once: "When we were doing the butt-plug fight sequences, I was on the ground, laughing my head off,...
The UN’s Global Emergency Meeting Of Writers
"There were impassioned statements on Ukraine, the killing of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, social media polarization, climate change, the deluge of...
Life As A Book Publisher In Wartime Ukraine
The publishing house Vivat's 117 employees are scattered across the world because "the city of Kharkiv, where Vivat is based, has been under fire...
An Exodus From The Bolshoi Benefits Brazil
Star David Motta, 25, "had called Russia home for 13 years. The Bolshoi Academy had taken him in as a boy and turned him...
TV Networks Struggle To Come Up With A Rival For Nielsen
"As media habits change, the entire system is likely to be overhauled, and the networks are relying more heavily on Nielsen rivals, trying to...
Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses Still Features A Pool Onstage As The Main Character
At Pasadena's A Noise Within theatre, it took the production team "five months to design and construct the makeshift pool for the production’s run."...
Playwright Sanaz Toossi Seizes Her Moment
Toossi on previews of English at the Atlantic Theater: "The terror of an audience coming was, like, definitely something I wish I had been...
The Conservative Fifth Circuit Lets Texas End Social Media Moderation
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, "Oral arguments were held on Monday this week, and the judges 'seemed to struggle with basic tech concepts.'" The tech companies will...
David E. Kelley Is Back, Everywhere, On TV, But Quietly
If you were watching TV in the late 1990s, the name should strike a very familiar chord. "Kelley, the creator of The Practice, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Boston...
When Eighth Grade Doodles Become A Career Path
Jessie Sima always loved to doodle horses, or one might honor that art with the word sketch, even. In eighth grade, another kid told...
Streaming Is About To Get Ads
To be fair, if you have Roku or Tubi or Freevee, you already know that very well. But now the big players are getting...
