The museum was closed for five years – until this weekend, when it became the most recent expression of a long-distant dream: “Though it took decades to realize, the idea to design a building to house the collections of King Gustav III was first hatched in 1792.”
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Why Does Cinema Like To Torture Children?
Well, teenagers and other young people still make up most of the audiences for movies – “so it makes sense that cinema reflects problems that affect them – police racism and far-right violence, yes, but economic and environmental hostilities, too. In the tumult of 1968, there was talk of a ‘war against the young.’ Fifty years later, that just sounds like how it is – and a war creates war movies.”
Maryse Conde Wins The ‘Alt-Nobel’ Prize For Literature
The Guadaloupean writer, author of I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and other books, won The New Academy Prize in Literature, “a new prize established by a group of over 100 Swedish cultural figures as a substitute for this year’s Nobel in Literature, which was not awarded for the first time since 1949 because of a sexual misconduct scandal.”
The Showrunner Who Makes Hits By Ignoring All Of Television’s Trends
Jennie Snyder Urman is not interested in the kind of prestige TV beats that made massive cultural hits out of everything from Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones. Nope. Her show “Jane the Virgin is anti-prestige in every way, a show about admirable women full of brilliant color, bone-rattling twists, and goofy, sly in-jokes that regularly dives into unabashed emotional sincerity.”
Charles Aznavour, Master Of The Chanson, And Also Composer And Film Star, Has Died At 94
It’s nearly impossible to sum up the life of a man who toured as an international musician for almost 80 years, but here’s just a bit. “His accomplishments were prodigious: He wrote, by his own estimate, more than 1,000 songs, for himself and for others, and sang them in French, Armenian, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish. He sold well over 100 million records in his lifetime. He appeared in more than 60 films, beginning with bit parts as a child.”
Private-Label Teas Helped Women Win Suffrage In The U.S.
That’s right: Tea was part of more than one U.S. revolution. In California, it united disparate cities and rural areas. “There were women who refused to pay for their grocery bills if their grocer did not carry Equality Tea.”
Netflix Totally Misfired A Movie About Black Hair, But TV (Yes, Even Network) Delivers
It’s truly weird that Netflix can’t get it right in Nappily Ever After when shows like This Is Us and Grown-ish get it so right. Then there are the how-tos on YouTube for Issa Rae’s hair from Insecure, and the joys of Atlanta: “As they discussed child-care plans, Van took down her voluminous curls, which had been twisted into Bantu knots. It’s wasn’t the focus of the scene — and that’s precisely what made it so powerful.”
California Gets A Tough New Net Neutrality Law, And Trump’s Department Of Justice Immediately Sues To Block It
California isn’t into the new FCC rules that allow blocking or throttling of “lawful traffic. The law also bans paid data cap exemptions (so-called ‘zero-rating’), and says that ISPs may not attempt to evade net neutrality protections by slowing down traffic at network interconnection points.” Sounds good, right? Not to Jeff Sessions, of course.
A Grand Unified Theory Of Keira Knightley’s History Movies
Listen, you might think the actor’s movie choices are random. Au contraire, mes frères: The luminous star of the new Colette is (sometimes literally) sticking it to The Man. “In all of Knightley’s historical films, she is at the center. She is not relegated to the role of love interest; men are. Romances, marriages, children, and dalliances are all secondary to her own development — as a woman, but also as the protagonist in her own life story, no matter how tragic it may become.”
Goodreads Removes Issues Of Two Speculative Fiction Magazines That Focus On Authors Of Color, But Does Goodreads Even Know Its Own Rules?
Volunteer librarians run Goodreads, sort of. Or do they? And is it true that Goodreads doesn’t allow magazines without ISBNs, or are Goodreads’ rules somewhat, shall we say, open to interpretation? It’s a kerfuffle for the Amazon-owned site.