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Actress Anne Heche Has Died At 53

Heche, an Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor, was declared brain dead six days after a fiery one-car crash in L.A. The Daily Beast said that the actor "deserved so much better from Hollywood," and The Guardian said she was basically too smart for Hollywood. - Los Angeles Times

The Right To Repair Movement Is Now Reaching Everything Electronic, Including Tractors

"After years of controversy in the United States over right-to-repair, the movement seems to have reached a turning point." - Wired

How Teens Are Getting Around Book Bans

Students have formed banned book clubs like the one at Vandegrift High School, organized with statewide groups, and even overturned bans, like the students at Central York High School did. The students are also connecting with each other. NextCity

Colored Statues — Did The Ancients Just Have Bad Taste?

The supposed whiteness of ancient statuary is intertwined with larger ideas of Whiteness in European culture, and the sense that colorizing the statues somehow cheapens them could well be rooted in racialized thinking. - Washington Post

Is The Out-Of-Town Tryout Done?

There’s a certain romance in the bygone days when shows would play Boston, Philadelphia and New Haven before turning up in the Big Apple, and despite their relative proximity to New York, critics tended to leave them alone. Coverage was the purview of the local press and trade publications such as Variety.  - The Stage

Why Facts Mostly Don’t Change People’s Minds

For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts. - The Guardian

Dances With Chairs: How A Wheelchair Artist Conquered Australian Stages

One day a dance tutor, Catherine Chappell, came to show the children a video about “mixed ability” dance. She invited Rodney Bell to play harmonica at a workshop; instead, he found himself part of a dance improvisation, in which he fell, crawled and was pulled back to his chair. - The Guardian

Gen Z Dilemma: What Actually Is A Healthy Relationship With Social Media?

Because young people have grown up with online communities, they have a more inextricable relationship with platforms and their identities. This changes the idea of what exactly a "healthy" relationship with social media should look like, making the notion of a digital detox unrealistic and, arguably, unhealthy. - CNET

Charlotte Politicians Battle Over Allocating $2 Million In Arts Funding

"When Charlotte City Council last discussed arts funding a month ago, members were sharply divided about ... $2 million allocated to the Arts & Science Council, the nonprofit that controlled fundraising and grants for decades until last year." - WSOC-TV (Charlotte Business Journal)

The Publishing Eco-System Is Consolidating, Narrowing What Americans Read

The Justice Department argues that the resulting merged company would control close to half of the best-seller market, continuing a longer history of publisher acquisitions, mergers and consolidation. This extraordinary shift in the balance of power in one of our nation’s most important industries has gone largely unremarked upon. - The New York Times

Was Lady Rochford Really The Villainess Of Anne Boleyn’s Story?

Jane Boleyn, married to Anne's brother George, tends to be portrayed as a schemer whose (likely false) testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. The evidence from the time suggests otherwise, say several scholars. - Smithsonian Magazine

Salman Rushdie Attacked On Stage

An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained. - The Guardian

There’s Country Music In Africa? Yes, And There Has Been For Almost 100 Years

"The history of African country music is largely uncharted. When you piece together the fragments, a long and rich musical relationship begins to emerge. It starts in the 1930s, according to writer Jesse Jarnow, and differs hugely across the continent." - The Guardian

Steve Martin Is Busier Than Ever. Retirement?

What these projects have in common — and what distinguishes them from Martin’s early days as the only guy onstage — is that he now eagerly shares the workload on almost every endeavor he tackles. - The Hollywood Reporter

The Mysterious, Endangered Language That Can’t Say “No” (Or “Yes”)

"Nepal's Kusunda language has no known origin and a number of quirks, like no words for 'yes' or 'no'. It also has only one fluent speaker left, something linguists are racing to change." - BBC

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