Like the one that celebrates the U.S. Border Patrol's whipping, from horseback, of Haitian refugees? "Unofficial coins ... are funded independently and reflect a more clandestine tradition among agents to valorize their jobs. CBP agents allegedly promote them in a secret Facebook group." - Hyperallergic
British publishing surely does not know, or want to deal with it. "You’re not being cancelled, you’re being challenged. You’re not used to being challenged, and, now you are, you don’t know what to do about it." - The Guardian (UK)
What happened after the outbreak, including a shutdown by Hollywood unions on the Amazon Studios set, "highlights the delicate balancing act facing Hollywood as the industry continues to deal with the fallout from the pandemic. - Los Angeles Times
The censor is convinced that “some forms of expression are so vile or dangerous that they should be restricted, or so valuable that they should be compelled.” Consequently, censors “claim the moral sanction to speak for the collective.” - LA Review of Books
Many older people are turning to TikTok – best known as a playground for Gen Z – to reframe the experience of ageing and kick back against age stereotyping. - The Conversation
No, they aren't just gag gifts. From their (modern) beginnings in Playboy magazine's food and drinks column, and then Mimi Sheraton's Seducer's Cookbook (somewhat scandalous in 1963), they track the way changing attitudes toward sexuality became part of the American mainstream. - Eater
On April 6 1980, Post-it Notes as we know them hit the shelves, and a year later they were also launched in Canada and Europe. That same year, 3M named the Post-it its Outstanding New Product, and awarded the development team the ‘Golden Step Award’ in both 1980 and 1981. - ClassicFM
In comments to TPR, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the symphony's former music director, blasted the board's move as a scorched-earth solution. The maestro has led a behind-the-scenes effort to convince city and county leaders to help fund the organization and end the labor impasse. - San Antonio Current
When I hear people in the corporate world talking about creativity and storytelling — how what they’re really doing is ‘telling a story,’ how everything is about creativity and storytelling, how everything is narrative — I hear it and think: Do you actually know what it means to be creative? - Chicago Tribune
Arthur Hughes, who opens in the role at Stratford-upon-Avon later this month, lives with radial dysplasia and describes himself as "limb-different." "I've always wanted to play him," says Hughes, "I think a lot of disabled actors will think playing Richard is their birthright." - BBC
Trintignant received a number of accolades throughout his 60-plus-year career, including the best actor prize from Cannes in 1969 for Costa-Gavras’ political thriller Z and a Cesar Award in 2013 for Michael Haneke’s Amour, which also won the Oscar for best foreign-language film. - The Hollywood Reporter
Two suspects were apprehended on June 9 after investigators determined that the oblivious pair had peddled the art objects—weighing in at around 2,200 pounds in total—to a recycling company for a few thousand euros. - Artnet
The Seattle Police Department, savvy to metal theft, one of the fastest-growing crimes in our region, quickly recovered the cut-up pieces of gate through detective work and a bulletin to scrap metal dealers. - University of Washington Magazine
"For those who know Dark Mofo for its gothic bombast, weird surprises and controversial headlines, this year's festival ... may feel a little different. But after a programming controversy last year which led to public outrage, calls to boycott and an eventual apology, perhaps it had to be." - The Guardian
Most works of art don’t yield their secrets all at once. It takes time, and repeated exposure, before listeners have a good sense of what rewards are available in a particular creation. But that entails a level of financial and institutional overhead unlike that of any other art form. - San Francisco Chronicle
