“This will be the first time that News Group Newspapers has had to defend itself against allegations that its journalists and executives across the whole organisation were involved in or knew about unlawful newsgathering techniques.” - BBC
So began “a ludicrous journey to making one of the weirdest versions of one of the most performed pieces of literature: a staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet entirely within the universe of Grand Theft Auto.” - The New York Times
“‘Marvel Snap’ players were shocked to wake up on Sunday and find themselves unable to access the speed-battle card game. They were greeted instead with a brief message about the game’s future when they opened the app.” - Washington Post
Those watching the movie should “expect to see a film that displays the city in a way it has never been seen before — a place where the official languages are Farsi and French ... and the local Tim Hortons serves up its hot beverages in a samovar.” - CBC
“Both activities involve storytelling. Both involve putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. And both depend on properly balancing evidence and emotion, comprehensiveness and concision, provocation, and restraint.” - Fast Company
And not just with The Brutalist, either. Recall: “There was a time, in the 1980s, when a writer in a national newspaper demanded that practitioners of brutalism be ‘taken out and shot.’”- The Observer (UK)
In Farewell to Manzanar, Houston “recounts the more than three years and about 10,000 other Japanese Americans endured at the camp until the war ended. Given its location, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, the weather could be fiercely hot or freezing cold.” - The New York Times
One fan’s contribution: “Whenever allegations come out about an artist whose work is important to me: I see the moment I learned of them as an inflection point. From that very instant, it's on me.” - NPR
“A game’s popularity often depends not on quality, Ingold said, but on the whims of the biggest Twitch streamers or the algorithm that drives Steam, the main distribution platform for computer games. Independent studios struggle to break through. Many close.” - The New York Times
“It was an improbable place. An artist collective known as JJU, or John Joyce University, hidden in the foothills of Altadena, resembled a 1960s fever dream of communal living.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
As author Brandon Taylor noted on social media, it’s a little disingenuous for The NYT to publish this article since it’s a whole newspaper that could focus more on books. Still, BookTok was special, and the BookTok goodbyes were intense. - The New York Times
Her neuroscientist friend Daniel Levitin believes "that music is a golden thread in the fabric of identity” - and that music therapy could help many other stroke survivors. - The Guardian (UK)
University of Georgia students did not like this sculpture: When it was “extricated from a concrete pad in a cornfield outside Athens for conservation, it was missing 32 pieces and bore decades-deep scars of etching and graffiti, and a bullet wound in its neck.” - The New York Times
“The lawsuit accuses the Broad of failing to take 'reasonable steps to prevent retaliation and wrongful termination against Walker who opposed discrimination in the workplace.’” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
