The crowd addicted to slander and the crowd addicted to censorship are displaying at high visibility the symptoms of what psychologists call disinhibition. When people feel themselves entirely at home, with a group they are sure of, they shed the restraints that are useful in securing a minimal self-censorship in mixed or uncertain company. - Compact Magazine
“Rey says that instead of eating enough and regularly I have been particularly sustaining myself with coffee and alcohol. I admit all that, but it will still be true that I had to key myself up a bit to reach the high yellow note I reached this summer.” - The Art Newspaper
To reach affected audiences, the Tribune printed 500 flyers and 1,000 postcards in English and Spanish. Journalists knocked on doors in the neighborhoods where they’d reported and made additional stops in school pick-up lines, churches, grocery stores, laundromats, and other spots where residents gather. - NiemanLab
The prize was established in 1988, initially as a biannual event, and was then awarded every year from 2007, other than in 2020 due to Covid lockdowns. But the prize was not given out in 2023, though no announcement was made that it had been cancelled, and it will not reappear in 2024. - The Guardian
“We’re still here,” Adam Aron says of Kansas-based AMC, which operates 895 theaters globally. “When you think about what we’ve been through the past four years, it’s kind of a miracle. It could have gone kaplooey 10 times, but it didn’t. And good for us. We’re almost finally through it.” - Variety
The bread scent comes from microcapsules embedded in the ink. The major challenge was to get the ink onto the stamps without breaking those microcapsules before customers ever got to sniff them. - Dezeen
Social platforms can have a radicalizing effect on fandoms. When we study algorithmic radicalization, we tend to do so in the context of politics, but the same systems might also calcify our beliefs about cultural products. Yet we still have a fairly limited understanding of how all of this works. - The Atlantic
"During the audition process, as characters recited certain lines over and over, Adjmi realized the play had become autobiographical. At one point, he felt physically sick. … Even now, Adjmi said he has a hard time watching the play, comparing it to 'having people watch you take a shower.'" - The Hollywood Reporter
Researchers found that groups of male dancers were perceived as having higher coalition quality compared to groups of female dancers, regardless of the synchronization level of their movements. - Psypost
Live Nation is essentially a monopoly, the government argues. Its complaint notes the concert giant directly manages more than 400 musical artists, controls around 60 percent of concert promotions at major concert venues across the country, and owns or controls more than 265 concert venues in North America - Washington Post
When it fully opens later this year, 1¼ miles north of the Pyramids, the GEM will be, at over 5 million square feet, the world’s largest museum devoted to a single civilization, with a large and well-staffed archaeological research and conservation center. Can GEM change the course of an entire field? - Nature
“Don’t fixate on its ability to be disruptive — fixate on ability to make us better and tell better stories. Not only better stories, but to reach more people,” Iger said. - Variety
Netflix’s VP of Latin American content. asked if the miniseries will work out like those multi-generation-family hits Game of Thrones and The Crown, replied, "Well, the Buendías are certainly more fun than the Windsors." As Gabo knew, the raw material is there and the execution is the hard part. - Vanity Fair
The ensemble’s playing, across all instrumental choirs, sounds richer and more flexible than it did before his tenure. So what Mr. Dudamel stands to inherit largely bears Mr. van Zweden’s stamp. - The Wall Street Journal
After Super Size Me, in which he ate only at McDonald's for a month (and suffered for it), Spurlock was for a time as prominent a documentarian as Michael Moore, producing 70 films on subjects like consumer susceptibility to marketing (The Greatest Movie Ever Sold) and minimum wage labor (30 Days). - Variety
