Well, the game Trombone Champ, that is. Viral videos of players are driving "a lot of tooting, to songs like the national anthem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and subsequent laughs from people on the internet." - NBC News
"By 1999 I’d gone through 15 years of formal education, including a three-year English degree, without ever being given a book to study that made any reference whatsoever to the presence of individuals like me in the country in which I was born." - The Guardian (UK)
Stalin called Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensh "muddle instead of music, an ugly flood of confusing sound, ... a pandemonium of creaking, shrieking and crashes.” Ouch. But it feels more urgent than ever with Putin at Russia's helm. - The New York Times
The proof is in Alex Ross, artist who paints for the comics. Disney "has not totally eaten Marvel Comics yet, probably because, even if you’re hiring the hottest comics artist alive and working ... it’s just cheaper to make a comic book" than a movie. - The Guardian (UK)
Courtney Pine became a success despite that music teacher. Even his dreams are in sync with his career: "I usually dream about music, about the missing chord or someone famous from jazz history, like Charlie Parker, giving me advice." - The Guardian (UK)
Well yeah: "Women made up 66 percent of the audience, according to Warner Bros., the studio behind the $35 million film, with an unusually large 52 percent of ticket buyers under the age of 25." - The New York Times
Why not use the surveillance capabilities of satellites for good instead of evil, right? "Instead of biking on a straight path or in circles around a park, Ms. Strong plans her rides in the shapes of birthday cakes, stars, birds, lions — and the occasional Vermeer." - The New York Times
The film, Los Reyes del Mundo (The Kings of the World in English), "follows five young men from Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, trying to get ahead in life." - Bloomberg (AP)
The unnamed producer controlled what she wore and how she handled business matters. "One evening, she writes, after she and the man attended a sporting event, he placed his hand on her thigh, his hand ultimately grazing her crotch." - The New York Times
Did all of the rumors, speculation, reports of on-set arguments, and reports of affairs fuel sales for Don't Worry, Darling? You bet: "It’s been a juicy backbiting tabloid celebrity saga in which nobody actually did anything too wrong." - Variety
"Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal, used in the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and dated to the late 13th century. It was used about 700 years ago in Roman Catholic worship, they said." - CBC
Saturday was the four-month anniversary of the school massacre that killed 19 kids and two teachers. At the library where the Joffrey dancers were teaching, "The baby grand piano’s ballad married with the sound of laughter to drive out some of the sadness." - KSAT (San Antonio)
Of course, it's a win after a long fight. "Amazon has done the right thing for once! In this case, the right thing is closing a loophole revealed by a TikTok about 'reading hacks.'" - LitHub
