For the teens at the time, "The thought was mostly like, this will be a fun little experiment. We'll learn some stuff. Maybe we'll bring the game back online for a couple months.” Now Toontown Rewritten has 2 million registered users. Will Disney try to shut it down? - Wired
Jessica Lange isn’t playing Chekhov, exactly, but in (HBO) MAX's The Great Lillian Hall, she is playing an actor who’s in Cherry Orchard - and losing her memory. - Washington Post
That’s partially due to Spotify - but the service only pays authors when listeners finish a book, so despite the increase in listenership, it may end up devaluing the product. - The Guardian (UK)
“Starting at the strip club in Midtown and wending around the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, past the Parkview Diner, Coney Island and Brighton Beach en route to the mansion in Mill Basin that played Ivan’s home, you get a survey of high and low.” - The New York Times
"The shuttering of Indian Time closes the final chapter on a legacy of journalism in this Haudenosaunee community, which sits 120 kilometres west of Montreal, stretching back to the 1960s that at one time produced one of the most influential Indigenous publications on the continent.” - CBC
“Whatever you do when you read fiction is commit a small act of empathy. You know, you think about situations that are not like your own. You think about people whose lives are not like your own. And that, I think, is an incredibly useful exercise.” - The Atlantic
Sacre bleu! What is happening? A French artist won "a competition to replace the existing six windows installed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1844 – even though the windows were not damaged in the 2019 fire.” - The Guardian (UK)
Carmen Souza, a Cape Verdean musician, realized that certain words she knew from her childhood derived from British sailors and merchants who "came for the cheap labour, goats, donkeys, salt, turtles, amber and archil,” and “built roads and bridges and developed the natural ports.” - BBC
“For decades, National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System have overcome similar threats. But this year, 'the attention and intensity’ of the calls to defund public media seem greater.” - Seattle Times (NYT)
“His music speaks to something timeless: the longing for connection, and the pain at not finding it. He gives voice, and then consolation, to that part of us that feels alone in the world even when surrounded by people who care for us.” - The New York Times
“She was one of the first to transcend the Danish repertoire, making her mark in ballets like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty and touring abroad widely.” - The New York Times
“Choir singers have lived in two handsome terraces of silvery-pink-stoned medieval houses beside Wells Cathedral for more than 650 years. But the gated close – which is thought to be the most complete and continuously occupied medieval street in Europe – is now in desperate need.” - The Observer (UK)
“Breaking has evolved greatly since he spun on cardboard in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Today’s B-boys and B-girls are more diverse, athletic and powerful than ever.” - The New York Times
