Emphasis on that radical, please, when you’re talking about author Carol Shields. – The New York Times
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The Traditional Ice Cream Truck Song Has Racist Roots, So Good Humor Asked A Musician To Create A New Song
But will New Yorkers accept the new song? Musician RZA: “I can assure you that this one is made with love.” – Gothamist
Think School Testing Is A Mess In The US? Take A Look At How The UK Shafted Students In The Pandemic
This is not to excuse the United States’ patchwork of school tests, the weirdness (and inequity) of the ACT or SAT, but … wow. “The coronavirus pandemic means exams were canceled and replaced with teacher assessments and algorithms. It has created chaos.” – Wired
Julia Garner’s Newfound Netflix Fame And Lockdown Angst
A casting director’s dismissive “You should try indie movies, honey” changed Garner’s career, and life. – The Hollywood Reporter
Congress Adjourns With No Help For Live Music Venues (Or Anyone At All)
That likely condemns a lot of venues to closure. “‘It’s shocking that they don’t just stay until they figure it out,’ says Audrey Fix Schaefer of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA).” Small music venues and theatres are truly at dire risk. – Variety
Brent Carver, Tony Award Winner For ‘Kiss Of The Spider-Woman,’ Has Died At 68
Carver, one of Canada’s great stage actors, “was an artist who demanded the most from himself, opening up his heart to reveal the pain and beauty of life. He was an inspiration to everyone who knew him.” – CBC
Even When We Can’t Travel, Postcards Exist Outside Of Email And Texts To Create Connection
“Maybe you’ve learned the seasons in a new way. Perhaps, in some way, you are a visitor in your city, state, land.” – The New York Times
Our Collective Dreams Of Rome
So many legends, so much art, and yet … “Rubbish collects in gutters, litter spills from over-stuffed communal bins, pigeons scavenge among fallen, leaking garbage bags. People walk casually past the trash, a symptom of ineffectual politicians and waste plants straining for space. La grande bellezza is looking like shit.” Then the virus came. – The Guardian (UK)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Shirley Grau Has Died At 91
Grau, who won the 1965 prize for her fourth book, The Keeper of the House, wrote “stories and novels [that] told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South.” – Los Angeles Times (AP)
Raphael Probably Was Buried At The Pantheon
In the year of the 500th anniversary of Raphel’s death, a 3-D reconstruction of his face, using a plaster mask of his skull, provides what may be “concrete proof that the skeleton exhumed from the Pantheon in 1833 belonged to Raffaello Sanzio and [may open] the paths towards possible future molecular studies aimed at validating this identity.” – The Guardian (UK)