"The sudden flashes of insight we have in states of meditative distraction—showering, pulling weeds in the garden, driving home from work—often elude our conscious mind precisely because they require its disengagement." - Open Culture
“The late-night categories are some of the most dynastic in Emmys history, but every reign has to end some time, and The Daily Show’s has never felt more vulnerable.” - Vulture
At the Gardner, it’s not easy to meet the city’s climate goals: “The building is strictly governed by Stewart Gardner’s will, which requires each gallery to remain exactly as it was at the time of her death.” - Boston Globe (MSN)
"When Daniel Day-Lewis read the name of Kathy Bates, there was some surprise in the Shrine Civic Auditorium. In the 1990 race to win the Oscar for Best Actress ... Bates was a virtual unknown. What’s more, she was nominated for playing a villain in a horror movie.” - El Pais
That’s what’s happening in Indiana, where "Valparaiso University has shuttered the Brauer Museum of Art and dismissed its director, Jonathan Canning, amid ongoing controversy over the university’s plan to sell three artworks to fund renovations of its freshman dormitories.” - Artnet
It took place the month after Woodstock, and it was in Toronto, but “the performances by each of the rock pioneers floored the young crowd, who had no idea of their power.” - CBC
She learned “to express my thoughts and opinions. I wasn’t used to that. I was never asked my opinion in India; I just kept quiet and listened to others. And then I’d go back to India and ... they’d all look at me and say, what’s happened?” - The Guardian (UK)
Though his publishing house has a massive influence, his histories of Paris may be more lasting. “Hazan’s passion derived in part from his despair over the disappearance of the old working- and middle-class Paris under a vast tide of tourism, gentrification and ostentatious wealth.” - The New York Times
“In an effort calls ‘Books Not Bans,’ she sends titles about queer history, sexuality, romance and more — many of which are increasingly hard to come by in the face of a rapidly growing movement by conservative advocacy groups and lawmakers to ban them.” - NPR
“As the raft bobbed its way across the many thousands at the Other stage, the band played the song 'Danny Nedelko,' which features lyrics that strongly condemn right-wing immigration policies and call for togetherness and compassion.” - BBC
Why is Blumhouse, so successful with horror flicks like M3gan, starting up a game division? Well … “It’s not just potential revenue. … It’s culture. It’s fishing where the fish are.” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
“For years, it was sacrilege at the Post to speak ill of Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon who rescued the paper in 2013.” But things have changed - dramatically - over the past two years. - The Atlantic
“Cross-border commerce platforms have suffered from the (correct!) perception that much of what they sell will end up in a landfill within a year and was manufactured by invisible workers laboring under poor conditions,” but the screens on everything model is winning out, even changing Amazon. - New York Magazine
“Murphy has been so famous for so long, occupying such a lofty place in the cultural landscape, that it can be easy to overlook just how game-changing a figure he actually is.” - The New York Times
