Remember Encarta? That was a Microsoft product. But in 1994, even "the oldest-school tech giant of them all, IBM, found the strangest of bedfellows in Playboymagazine, whose famous interviews it collected on disc.” But the internet was coming. - Fast Company
If you loved Appropriate? Well, it’s got to be Mat Johnson’s Loving Day. You’re an Outsiders fan? How about you take a look at Justin Torres’s incredible We the Animals. (These are eerily accurate.) - LitHub
“Go to any awards show red carpet and you will find teams and teams of people clutching clipboards. You know what’s on those clipboards? Hundreds and hundreds of pictures of people’s faces with their names underneath. ... What hope does a poor vox-popper have in comparison?” - The Guardian (UK)
Elizabeth Horan would really like us to know the name - and work - of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, "the first and only great Latin American writer of the 20th century to declare her peasant origins and to describe herself as mestiza.” - El País
Indeed, he compares the Ottoman Empire giving away anything from Greece to Nazi Germany giving away French monuments. And it’s not the first time he’s hoped to push Britain into giving them back to Greece. - The Guardian (UK)
Now the book club - for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color - has more than 1300 members, and it’s about way more than books. - Oregon ArtsWatch
That’s right: Parents who love Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR for those in the know) series haven’t learn from the Game of Throne baby names brouhaha. Now it’s all Rhys and Cassian and Feyre, and etc. - CBC
The story “began with a brazen plot that made international headlines in May: Naussany Investments, a company that did not seem to exist, run by people who did not seem to exist, had filed a claim seeking control of Graceland over what they alleged was an unpaid debt.” - NBC News
One of the biggest surprises of the night came near the end of the show, with The Outsiders winning four categories, including Best New Musical. - Playbill
“It used to be that Broadway didn’t use microphones. Actors simply projected. … But now actors and musicians have microphones, and speakers are everywhere. Keeping that sound crisp for the audience are the sound mixers.” - NPR
Their letter: “We refuse to be placated by images and objects while artists in Gaza, like Heba Zagout, are murdered everyday. … We refuse to hide behind the safety of four white walls while the Rafah Museum remains in ruins.” - Hyperallergic
To teach … about food safety, that is. “Science and art have several things in common,” says Eleonora Moratto, “and specifically ballet and science have storytelling.” - BBC
Maybe! There’s “the sense that the theater has so fully reconciled with pop, rock, R&B and country — you know, the music that’s been filling the Billboard charts since the mid-1950s — that it’s finally comfortable enough to take liberties with them.” - Washington Post
