The hosts of the podcast Were You Raised by Wolves? used to answer questions about the etiquette of using your cell phone flashlight to read restaurant menus. Then things they answered at the beginning of the pandemic were more focused: How do I decline a real-life hangout with a friend? Now, as the Wolves cohosts work from home, they say the questions are returning to normal. (By the way, they split on the flashlight question.) – Los Angeles Times
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The Apocalypse Tapestry May Be Perfect For Our Current Lives
The tapestry, which depicts in 100 medieval panels the Book of Revelations, is a vivid glimpse into how people lived through plague and war. And: “It is remarkable that the tapestry still exists, given that during the French Revolution it was looted, cut into pieces and used as floor mats and blankets for horses.” – The Guardian (UK)
When Will Blockbusters Return To Movie Theatres?
It’s going to be quite some time. Why? “‘New York and Los Angeles are going to take a lot more time [to reopen] than Montana,’ predicts Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations. ‘Nobody is going to open Mulan or Tenet if it’s just submarkets.'” (Sorry, Montana.) – Variety
The 700 (Formerly) Hidden Paintings Of An Inventive Chef
Ficre Ghebreyesus, a chef who combined Eritrean and Ethiopian food, kept a studio where he painted, but didn’t exhibit his work. His widow: “The thing that was cool about Ficre as a chef is that to him it was making art. It’s like the dreaminess of the paintings. There’s something remembered and something invented.” – The New York Times
Inside The World Of Harry Potter Design
The MinaLima Studio worked on the Potter movies, founded a popup gallery that has become permanent, and now designs not only the Fantastic Beast movies but also fairy tales and a variety of other books that are Potter-related. They didn’t quite know what they were getting into: “We were tasked by Harper Collins roughly 10 years ago to do a celebration book of Harry Potter and blindly said yes.” – The Observer (UK)
Broadway Actor Nick Cordero To Lose A Leg To Coronavirus Complications
The actor, a Tony nominee and Broadway regular, has been through a lot while fighting the virus. Now, doctors had to amputate his right leg to stop clotting. – Variety
Live Nation – That Is, Ticketmaster – Is Reconsidering The Policy That Had Everyone Furious
In other words, they weren’t going to issue refunds – but the “everyone” who was furious started to include lawmakers, things changed (to be clear, the company claims the change had been in the work for weeks before a request to the New York attorney general to look into Live Nation’s business practices). Suddenly, refunds will be available for canceled shows, and exchanges for rescheduled shows. – The New York Times
The Halt Of Everything May Speed Up Writers Union Negotiations With Studios
This is not a great time for writers (or anyone else, of course). Before this plot twist, “many were predicting writers would stage their first walkout since 2007, but WGA leaders recently told members they would not seek a strike vote during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a devastating effect on Hollywood.” – Los Angeles Times
Climate Change Has Revealed An Ancient Norwegian Mountain Pass, And All Its Artifacts
Mountains were long thought to be impermeable barriers between ancient communities – but this one, with finds ranging from horseshoes and sleds to wool tunics and mittens, is one of many passes revealed by climate change to have been major thoroughfares to other lands. – Vice
French Intellectuals Recommend George Sand, Nabokov, And Other Classics For The Duration
Says Claude Romano, a French philosopher, “One can be tempted to read in order to escape, but one can also read to fully inhabit the present moment and make it the space of a meditation.” That’s why he recommends a Japanese work called The Interminable Rain. – Le Monde