"If I have a rehearsal and she’s on spring break from school, for example, the dancers sit in the lobby and have lunch with her or play dolls with her. ... This is my tribe, and my co-workers are like aunts and uncles." - Pointe Magazine
"Because flint isn’t a resource native to Norway, researchers suspect the roughly 3,700-year-old dagger originated elsewhere, perhaps in Denmark. An excavation of the school’s grounds following Elise’s discovery unearthed no related artifacts." - Smithsonian Magazine
Isn't that just a little weird? "Nearly every single thing you learn about the origins of Peter Pan, Wendy, the lost boys, and Neverland makes what is marketed as an uplifting tale about innocence and imagination instead a sobering reminder of the inevitability of loss, decay, and death." - LitHub
The algorithm. The almighty, disgusting, algorithm, which prizes popularity above all things. So, for Netflix, the race to the bottom started with the success of Tiger King. - El País (Spain)
"Imagine you have no and that you were just as interested in music and pop culture as young people have always been and wanted a place that was a one-stop shop for that kind of news and information, but also politics and social issues." - Los Angeles Times
The Seattle International Film Festival announced that it had bought the theatre, which has been closed since February of 2020, from the estate of Paul Allen, and will reopen it later in 2023. - Seattle Times
"Pema Tseden rarely depicted Tibet’s Chinese population, which swelled after the Red Army seized Tibet in 1951. To elude Chinese censors, he eschewed references to the Dalai Lama. ... This allowed him to avoid overtly political critiques while still tackling broader themes." - The New York Times
"The rampant and vocal factions of dissent among the WGA ranks that we saw during the last strike are functionally nonexistent. The unity within the Hollywood labor community feels true and water-tight and only growing in strength." (But there's still guilt.) - The Hollywood Reporter
The protagonists are cut from the same cookie cutter mold. "Readers, let us all take a moment to silently contemplate her self-sacrifice, the definitive characteristic of exemplary single motherhood." - LitHub
The mashup of clips, interviews, and what the director called "a wild ride" is "genre-defying hybrid that uses Fox’s own film and TV work to creatively illustrate key moments of his life ... and even reveal long-held secrets." - The New York Times
"Behind the hubbub that surrounds performers such as Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran or Little Simz, hides a small group of hitmakers, co-writing hugely commercial songs and rarely making headlines. These are the music industry’s secret weapons." - The Guardian (UK)
How could Britain host (for Ukraine) with a smart, cheeky song and yet score so low? Mae Muller "kept up the UK's momentum of sending non-terrible songs to the contest. Some of the acts that placed ahead of her were objectively worse." Wow, high praise. - BBC
"I can’t see getting round the course again. This was quite a tough one to do. My short-term memory is fading and my eyesight is not what it was, and then there’s all the natural shocks that flesh is heir to. ... It’s a hard job to give up." - The Observer (UK)
