The new parlance is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida, a lingo-infusion born out of decades of immigration from Spanish-speaking countries, most notably Cuba since the end of the revolution in 1959. - IFL Science
"In deference to this milestone, the film’s enduring appeal in J-school classrooms, and its rent-free existence in the backs of reporters’ minds, Poynter spoke with more than a dozen people involved in either (Stephen) Glass’s rise and fall or the making of Shattered Glass over three months." - Poynter
With the addition of Spotify, the audiobook sector grew by 28 percent in that period, the company said. Using figures provided by Spotify, Bookstat estimated that Spotify had a market share of 11 percent, putting it ahead of Apple and behind Audible, which has long been the dominant player in the medium. - The New York Times
"The viral videos and popular conspiracy theorists are, of course, important. But the reality is that the number and perhaps even importance of those videos is dwarfed by hours-long church services, condo-board meetings, and other miscellaneous clips. … For many people, YouTube is now … infrastructure." - The Atlantic (MSN)
Dozens of cities and states across America are overhauling the way their schools teach reading — attempting to close gaps exacerbated by the pandemic. - Axios
"The shuffling and reshuffling has reached the point where Condé is now spitting out the people who were brought in to replace the prior generation of people it spit out. … Says senior correspondent Delia Cai. 'You would be shocked at how few people are holding it up.'" - New York Magazine
"(As) editorial director of Bantam Books, … he oversaw a boom in paperback publishing beginning in the 1960s, putting out hitmakers from The Catcher in the Rye to Jaws" to rapid-turnaround books about the Entebbe hostage rescue and the Jonestown massacre to novels by Judith Krantz and Louis L'Amour. - The New York Times
"In a studio theatre tucked into a courtyard behind Kyiv’s main Khreshchatyk Street, six playwrights and six directors were hammering out a fraught question: how to write plays about war, during the war. One unexpected outcome of their workshops was: through jokes." - The Guardian
"The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay this fall because of finances. The work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University" ahead of a planned run at the Met during the 2026-26 season. - AP
"An author, literature professor and member of the Kiowa Indian tribe who became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize — for his 1968 debut novel, House Made of Dawn — (he) helped inspire a flowering of contemporary Native American literature." - The Washington Post (MSN)
The Musicians' Union and Equity, which represents the company's chorus, put a hold on the planned strike after Equity announced that it has reached an interim settlement with management. At issue are the company's plans for employing union members during and after its move from London to Manchester. - The Guardian
"Pompidou workers went on strike in mid-October over concerns for job security while the center closes for renovations for five years, starting in 2025. … The union sought written guarantees from administration that there was a plan for (museum) staff, collections, and usual programming." - ARTnews
Is it possible, then, that we so fiercely police the distinction between what Large Language Models can do and human creativity because we’re… touchy about it? - Unherd
The office has suddenly found itself in the spotlight. Lobbyists for Microsoft, Google, and the music and news industries have asked to meet. Thousands of artists, musicians and tech executives have written to the agency, and hundreds have asked to speak at listening sessions hosted by the office. - The New York Times
