"The class of 2023 are the children of “terror and the war on terror,' of credit crunch and austerity, too young to have known 'the brief period of hope' after the cold war – a funny way of saying they’re not always very funny." - The Guardian (UK)
The popular genre, derided and outcast from the movie theatres for a while, has made a return - but with different values, and often on streaming. ("Thirty-six new romcoms are coming out this year on film and streamed TV. That’s three a month!") - The Guardian (UK)
So are they Tubecasts? PodTube? Anyway, "more podcast listeners in the U.S. prefer to watch podcasts on YouTube than listen to audio-only version," and also, "people listening to podcasts on YouTube are more likely to be younger." No more "voice for radio" jokes. - Nieman Lab
"The strike authorization vote is meant to turn up the heat on companies such as Netflix and Walt Disney and convince them to raise the pay for writers, who say their compensation has suffered because of the streaming revolution." - Reuters
"Cutting off Americans’ access to one of their favorite sources of information and entertainment would be legally and constitutionally dubious. Worse still, it would be wrong on the merits." - The Atlantic
"The audience, which included Lin-Manuel Miranda, cheered not only the entrance of each principal performer, but also the first sightings of signature props, including the monkey music box and, of course, the chandelier." - The New York Times
Agents and publishers might quail, but "a good story conveys a sense of more going on in the background, more to be discovered. We choose to return to them because something in them—honesty, clearsighted wisdom, a sense of humor, surprising turns of phrase, depth of character—lingers, expands." - LitHub
The investigators "seized over 100 works from the Michèle Vasarely Foundation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which houses pieces by the late artist Victor Vasarely and his son Jean-Pierre." The seizures are, depressingly, "just the latest in a long and bitter saga." - Hyperallergic
Jamal's "trademark was an ingeniously airy approach to classic pop standards such as 'Love for Sale,' 'A Gal in Calico' and 'Don’t Blame Me' or in his own groove-inflected compositions such as 'Ahmad’s Blues,' a song that became part of the jazz repertoire." - Washington Post
"The dimly lit space, which is sandwiched between a former Victorian public baths and a burger shop in Clapton, east London, is a cinematic Aladdin’s cave, its floor reduced to a narrow path between stacks and shelves of film paraphernalia." - The Guardian (UK)
"CTG seems to have received the message that local knowledge of a sprawling, culturally complex city is necessary to rebuilding the communal connection that had been fraying for years." - Los Angeles Times
How Cecily Brown moved from working as a waitress, farmer's market worker, and animator to being a working painter celebrated at the Met. - The Observer (UK)
"It’s meant to give people that beautiful release and time together as an audience, getting to have a really good time in the theatre. But then also, to choose your metaphor, to have the uranium rods for afterwards. ... I’m trying to make these things all exist together." - American Theatre
