"Moore, best known as a short-story writer, won the fiction prize for her novel, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home. … Blume was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award … (and) the American Library Association was given the Toni Morrison Achievement Award, established to honor institutions." - AP
The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction and eventually, more than 200 other community boxes had opened from Louisiana to Canada and even Britain — though it is unclear how many of them remain operational. - The New York Times
Cast your eyes across this burgeoning literature of cultural stagnation—now so voluminous it counts as an authentic subgenre in its own right—and you won’t find much acknowledgment of the critic’s role in all this. - The New Republic
Johan Röhr is behind over 2,700 songs that have been released under various fake artist names on Spotify. His music across all of these pseudonymous artist accounts on Spotify, according to DN, has been streamed approximately 15 billion times. - Music Business Worldwide
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what it is, what it does – have been with us since the first photographic images were produced in the early 19th century. - The Easel
The news ends a deep and decades-long relationship between one of the world’s largest news organizations and one of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers. - The Wrap
Never is it discussed that a cordoned-off, highly policed, highly regulated urban fabric of the kind that exists in every metropolitan center in the Western world is created in the image of the people who dominate that world, at the expense of those who don’t. - The Nation
As a tween, Sunny Choi was a serious gymnast on an Olympic track but decided she should get a real education and job — eventually becoming a senior exec at Estée Lauder. But when breaking was admitted to the Olympics, she decided to compete full-time. She's now ranked no. 1. - The Cut (MSN)
In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device. - The New York Times
The American Youth Symphony, which shut down on Friday, is — or rather was — one of the few large national organizations involved in the vital transition between studying and starting a career in music. - San Francisco Classical Voice
"Museums have tried and failed in the past to assemble the (surviving) eight panels, spread among five museums in Europe and the United States, of the original 30-piece polyptych." The paintings are currently being exhibited at the Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. - AP
"Choose-your-own” subscription packages, in which attendees can opt for a handful of performances instead of an entire series, and membership models, wherein attendees pay a flat rate for access to shows, have leapt in popularity and could make up some of the lost subscription revenue. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The Floyd County (Va.) Public Schools have suspended a One Division, One Book community reading of Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree following complaints that the middle-grade novel depicts a monoecious red oak, a tree with reproductive parts that can pollinate and flower simultaneously." - Publishers Weekly
Player Kings, adapted by director Robert Icke from both parts of Shakespeare's Henry IV, is currently in Manchester and will run in London's West End from April through June before touring four other English cities in July. This is McKellen's first time in the role. - The Guardian
