Subscribers, money, growth, live sports, Christmas Day NFL games … what is happening to the streamer that for a while seemed doomed to fall behind? - Los Angeles Times
"For every university student raising cash by sharing nudes, there’s a wholesome housewife uploading DIY tips or an up-and-coming musician posting his latest tracks.” Is OnlyFans the next TikTok? - Wired
Richter’s 8.5-hour Sleep, based on the neuroscience of sleeping, is 10 years old, and still popular. But the composer’s newest music is for a ballet based on Margaret Atwood’s 2013 book MaddAdam. - The Observer (UK)
Actor Naomi Scott, who didn’t go to drama school, would like to change the chances for young working-class Brits interested in acting with material support. “We can do our small bit to maybe help some people have a clearer path to what they want to do.” - BBC
“Fame, like football, takes a toll. The effects can be particularly destabilizing when the star in question is still just a kid. And all too often, the people who should be looking out for these valuable, vulnerable quantities are, instead, cashing in.” - The New York Times
He got The Grapes of Wrath; Sonora Babb’s novel contract was cancelled; and Steinbeck dedicated his book to her male supervisor. What would Tom Joad say? - The New York Times
The director: “Fear is its own form of censorship, it’s not deliberate, but it works out that way and the only people benefiting from that decision are the far right.” - Variety
But the U.S. comprehensively remade horror - particularly historical horror, starting, but far from ending, with the Salem witch trials: “The bad conscience of the colonizers that comes back to haunt their descendants is racialized.” - Slate
A historic neighborhood in the center of the city of Jodhpur is famous for the old homes and buildings clad in blue plaster. In recent years, though, the blue has been fading as the price of indigo has soared, making it too expensive for many to touch up their homes. - BBC
