Welcome to a scared Hollywood. “'I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like is putting forward any message,’ director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in Oklahoma’s tornado belt, told CNN.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof lay tens of thousands of charred books and printing machinery in smoldering heaps. … ‘The attack felt methodical and deliberate, like cultural genocide.’” - NPR
“Serenading an audience fresh from four days of divisive rhetoric, immigrant bashing and attacks on LGBTQ people with music from a sonic icon of Europe’s post-World War II quest for peace and dignity was either brilliant in its perversity or perversely hypocritical.” - Washington Post
When the Russians might bomb you out at any second, what’s the point, really? “People need some joy in their lives, even through these hard times.” - BBC
“The images are indelible: groups of soldiers sway and swoon in perfect synchronicity; top-hatted ambassadors from European powers squat barefoot on a tilted table or hang off its edges while discussing the fate of the Middle East; dancing girls tempt a drunkard in a tavern.” - The New York Times
“In a career-spanning six decades, Cheng burst on to the scene in the 1960s, becoming a star for Shaw Brothers Studios, the Hong Kong production company modelled on the Hollywood studios that became internationally famous for action films and period martial arts epics” (aka wuxia). - The Hollywood Reporter
"If a list so devoid of representation from small presses, working class writers, genre-fiction, and poetry is aggregated with contributions from ‘hundreds of novelists, nonfiction writers, academics, book editors, journalists, critics, publishers, poets, translators, booksellers, librarians and other literary luminaries,’ what does that say about ... American readership?” - Scroll (India)
And "Berlin-based artist Rheim Alkadhi says she will pull her work out of London’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) if the center does not take accountability for allegedly retaliating against workers who have expressed solidarity with Palestinians.” - Hyperallergic
“Part of trying to get on quietly and diplomatically in life and not clash with people is keeping up the pretence that fuckwits don’t walk among us in the world, but sometimes you just have to face up to the reality of the situation: Fuckwits do walk among us in the world.” - The Villager
Lesley Dumbrell "was shocked when the head of the painting department blithely told her that he was happy to have women in his class ‘because no doubt they’ll get married, and if they marry well they will become very good collectors of art.’” - The Guardian (UK)
“The movie’s writers say they hope it will reinforce the real story of the moon landing. But is that possible in a post-Covid age when conspiracy theories are amplified on social media?” - The New York Times
“His greatness was not necessarily the way he used sound or even the sound itself, rather why he used sound, where he used sound and how he interacted with sound. … Music also drove his video creation. And that creation has had a lasting effect on music.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Orlaine McDonald, author of No Small Thing: "I’m a painfully slow writer and can find it really hard to commit anything to the page without wanting to immediately revise and refine.”- The Guardian (UK)
Why is the State Ballet of Georgia travelling for a long residency in London? Well … “with the Bolhoi and Mariinsky - both of which used to visit London regularly - now persona non gratae in the West, there’s a void begging to be filled.” - The Telegraph UK (MSN)
Most unfortunately for young Floridians, this particular Florida man is also the state’s Commissioner of Education. “In Diaz’s defense, ‘freedom’ does appear four times , and there are a number of discussions of shooting guns.” - LitHub
