"The days of 'cripping up' - a term disabled actors regularly use to describe those with no physical impairment playing disabled characters - appear numbered now." - BBC
Or rather, the fashion of re-fashioning old things into new, what one might call the "use it up, wear it out, make it do" style, is back. And not just because of inflation, either. - The Observer (UK)
The boy band 4*Town (with five members) from Turning Red is so popular on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and the music charts (with music by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas) that it's getting a book of its very own. Who's to say what's real? - Variety
Can Los Angeles media ever represent the entire city - or even some of Black L.A.? "I remember begging news outlets to come and cover what we were doing for the kids. But the only time they would respond was when it was something that was negative." - Los Angeles Times
92NY's CEO: "The 92nd Street Y is a lot like New York City. ... Amazing things happen here. But, like New York City, for a number of years we underinvested in maintenance and capital." - The New York Times
"This right wing strategy of attacking visibility isn’t limited to LGBQT+ books. According to Ginny Wehrli-Hemmeter, director of events and marketing at Anderson’s Bookshop, a large independent bookstore in Naperville, Ill., 'Any book with a cover showing a person of color on it gets covered up.'" - LitHub
"We have seen so many screaming girls. Every time we see them, we’re like, 'They’re screaming.' And that’s it. Yet the screaming fan doesn’t scream for nothing and screaming isn’t all the fan is doing. It never has been." - The Guardian (UK)
Daniel Paisner: Ghostwriting has "helped me see what it takes to succeed at the very highest level—or, at least, they’ve left me thinking about it. Also: what it means to stumble, how to hold a dream out in front of you and find a way." - The Millions
Paul Haggis "is accused of sexually assaulting the woman over the course of two days while in for an entertainment industry event." - Los Angeles Times
More than one million subscriptions to Apple, Spotify, and other services have been cancelled - with a large percentage of people saying that's to save money. It's suddenly a nervy time to be in streaming. - BBC
"At the pop-up concert outside the cafe, wind threatened to blow sheet music away, and buses pulled in and out of the nearby terminal, but that didn’t deter the nearly 100 people who gathered to listen." - MSN (Boston Globe)
The competition was overshadowed by Russia's attacks on Ukraine; silver medal winner Anna Geniushene fled Russia for Lithuania and has been critical of the war, and bronze medalist Dmytro Choni is from Ukraine. Yunchan Lim, who won gold, is the youngest winner ever, at 18. - The New York Times
"The arrangement seems to have been made entirely at random, unless you know the quirk by which it was conceived. Books are placed next to one another for companionship, based on some kinship or shared sensibility that I believe ties them together." - The Atlantic
