Well: “Writers are not content for their talents and their hard work to be used to generate positive publicity for companies who are engaged in deeply harmful activities,” says one climate protest leader. Will the awards survive at all? - The Guardian (UK)
And that’s “noodle boys” - young, white, floppy-haired, and un-pumped. “There is clearly an appetite for male stars who don’t look as if they could crush a car with their bare hands.” - The New York Times
In Bend, Oregon, “there have been previous reports of sculptures being decorated with Christmas garb in the past, but the googly eyes are a newer development” - one city officials are begging people to stop. - Oregon Public Broadcasting (KLCC)
Hot Frosty is far from the end of Christmas programming. "It doesn't matter that the audience has seen some version of that story 1,000 times. They're going to keep watching it, keep enjoying it and we — love it or hate it — are going to keep talking about it.” - CBC
Aside from Yunchan Lim and Vilde Frang, a notable (if challenging) development is that “the age of the all-star studio-made opera recording is very much over. DVDs of stage productions now easily outnumber new audio-only opera sets.” - The Guardian (UK)
Kohn “devoted his career to decoding, defending and disseminating the work of Hannah Arendt,” ensuring her work was in the public eye even as totalitarian ideas began to rise again. - The New York Times
British musicians Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason bought a ticket for Sheku’s cello, but Air Canada said no way. That forced the siblings, who were scheduled for a sold-out concert in Toronto, to cancel at the last minute. - CBC
But it’s not just a larger temporal lobe that correlates to reading - it’s also the auditory cortex. “Isn’t reading mainly a visual skill? Not only. To pair letters with speech sounds, we first need to be aware of the sounds of the language.” - Wired
Sign language poetry, which is similar to but not the same as American Sign Language, is "a well-established artistic form within Deaf culture that has received little recognition among wider audiences.” Until now, that is. - The New York Times
“Tomlin is proudest of the live Broadway production, but grateful that the 1991 film has been restored. ‘You’re never satisfied,’ she said. ‘That’s why I like to work live.’” - Variety
“Culture shock is a constructive thing. It’s the growing pains of a broadening perspective. ... I want to go home a little bit different, a little less afraid, a little more thankful, a little better citizen of the planet.” - The New York Times
