You see, "while modern Mickey is known for his charming personality, Steamboat Willie Mickey was more menacing with his propensity to use his fellow animals as musical instruments." - CBC
In Britain, the call has gone out for everyone to check attics, garrets, and old bookshelves: "The original score of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited was sold in 1915, but its whereabouts are unknown." - BBC
"At a time when the film industry is still struggling with deep existential anxieties, ... for many in Hollywood the impetus to look past the Globes’ rocky past is simply too strong to resist." Heck, there's even a new trophy. - Los Angeles Times
Quantifying my reading, whether by titles finished, pages read, or another metric, doesn’t capture the quality of my attention to each book. - The Atlantic
The scariest media moments of 2023 involved watching Internet-led disruption come for familiar forms of media, like late night TV and cable systems. - WBUR
If you look at the reaction to our robots, humanoids get 10 times the reaction to anything else. So if you care about people responding, you have to care about that. We got fantastic reaction to the “Do You Love Me” video, and contrary to what some people think, we did it for pure fun. - Wired
When Chrome’s cookies are fully removed the open web will have mutated from a place where up to 90% of users were in some way targetable by advertisers, to a vast desert in which most users are essentially invisible to publishers and their clients. - Press-Gazette
"I have so many things in my life that kind of fulfil what ballet has been, and ballet is still in that: it's the work I'm doing through my foundation, it's these incredible projects I'm creating with my production company, it's having a son." - BBC
eMuseum, the program that allows visitors to search an institution’s archives and collections suffered in the attack, as was a program named TMS, which stores donor names, loan terms, provenance records, the storage locations of artworks, and shipping information. - ARTnews
"It's worth asking now, five years after Roth’s death, whether they have eclipsed the actual work that Roth produced, or any true reckoning with the man himself. … Will (his) literary output enjoy the same immortality as that of the persona he created?" - The Atlantic (MSN)
Employment in motion pictures and sound recording climbed by 11,400 jobs to 463,000. After months of declines, industry employment began rising again in November. - Deadline
Last spring, the library in Lake Luzerne announced, as a one-time event, a drag queen story hour. After months of strife that included a bomb threat and a fistfight at a council meeting, most of the staff and board resigned and the library had to shut down. - The New York Times
Has comedy changed dramatically in purpose in our era? Or have its ideological trappings gone pious in ways that are at odds with what comedians have always done? - The New Yorker
