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Heckling Is Not Just Welcomed, But Encouraged

It's amateur night at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater, and if you don't make the cut, you'll get tap-danced off the stage. - The New York Times

Toronto Film Fest Loses One Of Its Biggest Sponsors

As Bell Canada pulls out after 28 years, that doesn't seem at all ominous for the international film fest's future. - Variety

Zadie Smith Returns To London, In Fiction And Reality

She once said she had to flee London in order not to write a historical novel - but now she's back, and thanks to pandemic walks, she's written just that. - The Guardian (UK)

Artist Spent Years Hand-Painting A Video Game Set Inside Monet’s Eyes

Players who succeed at solving the game's levels are "rewarded by a dozen or so pieces scrolling together to create one of the impressionist master’s full works." - Washington Post

How Our Brains Think They Know If Something We See Is Real

Basically, "why aren't we constantly hallucinating?" - Wired

The British Museum’s Reputation May Never Recover

Oops: There are "reports of theft every single day from various museums, cultural institutions, churches around the world. What surprised us was the fact that it was the British Museum, one of the most important museums in the world and a benchmark in security." - The Observer (UK)

What We Know About The British Museum’s Missing Items, So Far

The twists and turns are intense - and ongoing. - BBC

Why We’re So Sad About The End Of The DVD

Basically, memory: "The bouncing DVD logo is my Proustian madeleine." - The Atlantic

The School Where Choreographers Learn To Dance With Spreadsheets

The whole idea is "that choreographers use their considerable creative powers to help imagine structures better suited to their needs." - The New York Times

The Pulitzer May Go International

Time to end the citizenship requirement? Said one writer, "I think you could almost make the inverse argument — that to really understand America, you have to understand what it means to be on the other side of that citizenship line." - Washington Post

Social Media Warps Our Worlds

And it's not exactly planned, but now not exactly accidental; there' a science to it. - Fast Company

Writers Love Instagram, But It Is Frankly A Weird Venue For Them

It's got its appeal. Amit Chaudhuri: "The publication of a book is a strange occasion for the author – a mix of disengagement and nervous anticipation. What happens in the long aftermath is another matter. " - LitHub

Can This Violent, Funny, Queer Comedy Break Through Summer’s Doldrums?

Possibly, Bottoms - being released in a post-Barbie world - can win through where Joy Ride (equally raunchy, but not violent) and No Hard Feelings (had J-Law! And Ferris Bueller!) did not. - Los Angeles Times

The Deep Thrill Of Watching A Film That Is Streaming Exactly Nowhere

"We often let ourselves believe that everything, now, is available to us — that nothing is lost and every experience can be accessed and repeated." But no. - The New York Times

Why Would Writers Destroy Their Own Work?

Ask Sylvia Plath - or French writer Barbara Molinard, who ripped her finished stories into shreds and fed them to the fire before rewriting them from scratch. - The Atlantic

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