She says that on Saturday, following her next-to-last performance in Gypsy on Broadway, an audience member “snuck around and found me the way I had exited from the theater, followed me all the way home to where I was staying, came into the building,” and insisted that “they deserved an autograph.” - Entertainment Weekly
“Ne Zha 2, an animated fantasy adventure movie written and directed by the Chinese filmmaker Jiaozi, broke multiple records after it premiered in China earlier this year. With box-office earnings of more than $2.2 billion, it is the highest-grossing film of 2025 and the highest-grossing non-English-language film in history.” - Slate (MSN)
What if we only think of happiness as a goal because we have lost sight of other alternatives? What if the heart of the problem is a lack of imagination? Aztec philosophers would urge us to reconsider our “Western” position. They would implore us to question the conventional wisdom of our culture. - LitHub
The Kiruna Kyrka, weighing 672 tons and made mostly of red-stained timber, has been elevated onto rolling platforms and is lumbering its way across its hometown in the Swedish Arctic. Kiruna is the site of a major iron mine which has weakened the ground under downtown, which is being relocated. - BBC (MSN)
This is the AI era in a nutshell. Squint one way, and you can portray it as the saving grace of the world economy. Look at it more closely, and it’s a ticking time bomb lodged in the global financial system. The conversation is always polarized. Keep the faith. - The Atlantic
There are book carts organized by United Airlines in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Virginia and more; Little Free Libraries in Seattle and Providence, Rhode Island, and “Flybrary” shelves in Punta Gorda, Florida, Traverse City, Michigan, and Redmond, Oregon. - Washington Post
The ability to create lyrics in five seconds, and you can keep refining these things. Oh, I don't like the second version. Can you rewrite this? This is just, there's never been anything like this. And then the fact that you can use it in so many different ways. - WBUR
“When I choreograph for dancers, I put a lot of thought into it. But for the Bananas, I’m quick. I have to (remember) the KISS (‘Keep it simple, stupid’) method. If I make something up that's easy to me, I break it down a bit to make sure everybody looks good.” - Dance Spirit
US public schools still require that kids be taught handwriting, so it’s not yet a lost art, but there is some evidence that digital natives are less “ready” for writing now than students in the past. - Wired
The lawsuit was brought by some of the nation's largest book publishers and some of the authors whose books had been removed from central Florida school libraries, as well as the parents of schoolchildren who tried to access books that were removed. - Scripps
Rod Sims has departed as chair of Opera Australia after three years, a decision both he and the company said was voluntary despite an extraordinary swipe at his leadership style by a former chief executive. - Australian Financial Review
Attorneys for Shira Perlmutter, who is suing the Trump administration for what she argues is her illegal dismissal as U.S. Register of Copyrights, said in a memorandum that “the dots are not difficult to connect” between her office’s report on AI training, her firing the following day, and the administration’s new AI policy. - Publishers Weekly
The standard 800-word, single-title review has long been an anemic, disparaged creature surviving off scraps along the edges of the features pages. - Washington Post
Now, some of those philanthropists are banding together in hopes of staving off that worst-case scenario by providing an emergency $26.5 million cash injection to stabilize the stations most at risk. The group is aiming to raise additional money for the fund and hopes to reach $50 million this year. - The New York Times
