Blame Gen-X, sure, but there's more. "These movies have to do something smart: tap our innocent joy around old computer games and junk food, while also letting us feel we are more knowing now." - The Guardian (UK)
Both sides have a point, but both sides are also, let's say, a bit touchy. Why? "Coming out against libraries making books more accessible looks miserly, but so does protesting against authors getting paid what they deserve." Meanwhile, the publishers are the problem. - Wired
"The choice to vandalize Van Gogh’s Sunflowers suggests that beauty does have a role to play in the fight to save the planet. In the act of protest, the painted sunflowers become a stand-in for life on earth, not a distraction from it." - Los Angeles Review Of Books
"I wrote Judy a letter telling her how impactful her work was for me and how passionate I was about Margaret in particular. ... The next day, there was an email from Judy Blume in my inbox. I was so stunned, I almost passed out." - LitHub
The Scottish Ballet's artistic director says that ballet "can inhabit the space between the words, the unspoken, and it can often delve into the predicaments the characters are in." Thus Anna Karenina, The Crucible, and more new story ballets. - Washington Post
"The world after the pandemic just got worse. And I thought, I just want to write something lovely, where the stakes are kind of low, except on a personal level. So I started writing another love story." - The Guardian (UK)
"The venue had the clandestine air of a speakeasy. Notice of its existence was passed along by word of mouth. Guests stuffed cash into a cardboard box marked 'donations' to receive canned Modelo from a fridge. There were readings, screenings and music shows." - The New York Times
"When the curtain comes down on the Music Venue Trust’s (MVT) #OwnOurVenues fundraising drive, it is expected to have raised close to £2.2m, a hemi-demi-semiquaver away from the £2.5m that it set out to achieve." - The Guardian (UK)
The Apollo Theater was hosting four heavy metal bands - meaning the audience and bands may not have heard the sirens - before the roof collapsed in on the venue on Friday night. - Variety
Amazon claims the three groups "were abusing its takedown system by filing thousands of illegitimate copyright complaints against other products in a bid to get people to buy their merchandise instead." Those attempts included images scraped from Amazon itself. - The Verge
"The Gilbert and George Centre, which they have planned for years, is a built representation of their slogan 'art is for all' and designed as a gift to the community they have lived and worked alongside together for most of their working lives." - The Observer (UK)
"I required a reminder that there were quick and even wise people in the world with ideas, quips, even lectures that would force me to learn something. ... The connection I sought would need to be bracing, nonintimate, and entirely unmaternal." - The Atlantic
Wow, OK: "Disney can hold on to power of this land for possibly the next 100 years, if one of King Charles III’s grandchildren lives to be 80. Oh, and the agreement also bans DeSantis’ new board from using Disney’s name or any of its characters." - Slate
