Or so says Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who said, "maybe some people don't realise how uncomfortable a song like that can make a lot of people feel, even if it makes them feel good." - BBC
With some actors and directors from the festival, around 200 protesters shut down Main Street. "'We are not protesting Sundance,' said the action's first speaker, Dalia Salloum. ... 'We are protesting the complicity of mainstream media and their ability to not cover this genocide.'" - MSN (Los Angeles Times)
""Baldwin has maintained all along that he did not pull the trigger that day as he rehearsed a scene in which he draws a revolver, saying that the gun discharged after he pulled the hammer back and released it." Investigators disagree. - The New York Times
Slamming Millennials, talking about Meghan Thee Stallion's posterior - Regina George, a singer and actor who is one of the new Mean Girls movie's stars, might be selling a particular brand of candor designed for our times. - Slate
The trail of evidence sounds strong. "Italy’s art theft police that they believe that the painting reported stolen from the castle in Piedmont and the painting Mr. Sgarbi exhibited are one and the same." There's a former friend, a theft, a restorer ... and a torch. - The New York Times
But this fascination may not be enough to change the industry. Juliet Godrèche, writer and director of the dark autobiographical tale, says, "People who are still in this industry are still not coming forward. ... The omertà in the industry is still so strong.” - The Guardian (UK)
"The now-infamous round of cuts drew widespread media attention when libraries were forced to close their doors on Sundays. Despite museum leaders’ outcry, Adams slashed DCLA spending again on Tuesday." - Hyperallergic
"The dull gray masses which popular imagination associates with twentieth-century totalitarian rule were never really unified, Arendt tells us. Mass movements were created out of isolated loners and democracy’s losers." Well. That sounds familiar. - LitHub
"After a years-long search process, the festival announced that Jos van Veldhoven, the longtime artistic director of the Netherlands Bach Society, and Conspirare artistic director Craig Hella Johnson will be the festival’s new 'artistic partners,'" along with not one, but four other "artistic partners." - Oregon ArtsWatch
The best children's books aren't meant for teaching, and "aren’t advertisements for anything—not even the important things. They’re an advertisement for reading itself; for the entertainment value of the world itself." - The Paris Review
We can, partly, blame social media. "One of the requirements for fun is that you be completely present and that your inner critic is silent. And if you're performing, then you're not fully present and you probably have your inner critic on." - NPR
This time it's Sports Illustrated, which had been gutted but not completely demolished. The layoffs of what may be the entire staff "come after Sports Illustrated’s owner, Authentic Brands Group, revoked another company’s publishing license." - Los Angeles Times
Diana "is still too blazingly alive to be dragooned into trauma porn, mauled with the excuse of reincarnating her." But the last few years have been relentlessly Diana-focused. Why do we think we own her? - The New York Times
