Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were A Doll's House, Leopoldstadt, and Ain't No Mo' with six nominations each. - Variety
"Born in 1869, (Rex) Brasher left an enormous body of paintings, almost 900 large-scale watercolors documenting American bird life and habitat, that became the source material for a monumental 12-volume compendium of hand-colored reproductions." (And he didn't defend slavery or shoot the birds before painting them.) - MSN (The Washington Post)
"Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications. ... The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday." - AP
A major presence on the US charts and an even bigger star in his native Canada, he's remembered for "Sundown," "If You Could Read My Mind." "Rainy Day People," and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." - Variety
Is neutrality even attainable? “No journalistic process is objective,” Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter, observed in a widely discussed New York Times opinion piece from 2020. “And no individual journalist is objective, because no human being is.” Given “the failures of neutral objective journalism,” he urged another ideal: “moral clarity.” - The Atlantic
Most people who write for the internet have had the experience of publishing something that escapes the bounds of one’s usual audience and goes viral. The experience can be mesmerizing. - Slate
Earlier this year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that a “new” art installation in Concourse A legitimized the flat earth conspiracy theory. Videos attempting to assign conspiratorial meaning to the tiled global map, set beneath arching train tracks and titanium poles, have racked up more than 1.5 million views. - The New York Times
That a collection is as well versed in Rechy as it is in Dudamel tells you a lot about the writer, as well as about the time and place in which he was writing. - LA Review of Books
“We have a bunch of A.I.s that are creating a bunch of entertainment that people are kind of OK with.” In their attempts to push back, the writers have what a lot of other white-collar workers don’t: a labor union. - The New York Times
But you probably will. "Contentious labor talks in Hollywood are rarely settled without the pressure of a contract expiration deadline bearing down. The stakes and the tension feel especially heightened this time around." - Variety
"Noh Huyn-soo was filmed brazenly removing the banana, which was duct-taped on to a wall at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, unpeeling it and eating it in front of stunned onlookers before reattaching the banana skin to the wall using the same tape." - The Guardian (UK)
"Multiple people who attended the L.A. Phil concert on Friday reported hearing a woman making a moaning noise during the symphony’s second movement." - Los Angeles Times
"It’s the first topic that comes up in every meeting, every phone call, and everyone claims to have their own inside source about how long a strike will go on and whether the directors and actors will also go out, which would truly be a disaster." - The New York Times
