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Social Media
White Instagram Influencers’ Latest Bid for Clout: Pretending to Be Black
The Daily Beast - Libby Torres
At first glance, Emma Hallberg’s Instagram page looks like that of any other young, pretty social-media influencer of a certain age. Most of her …
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Netflix
Netflix’s Godless delivers what the Coen brothers’ new film first promised
The Verge - Noel Murray
Ballad of Buster Scruggs wound up not being a serial Western, but Godless is, and it’s terrific There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that hard
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Drawing
Ceramist Anna Whitehouse Created 100 Unique Clay Vessels in 100 Days | Colossal
thisiscolossal.com - Kate Sierzputowski
U.K.-based ceramic artist Anna Whitehouse set a goal on January 1, 2018 to create a new bottle each day for 100 days. By limiting herself to a …
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The Arts
The Story Behind the David Hockney Pool Painting That Just Sold for $90.3 Million
observer.com - Helen Holmes
British artist David Hockney, a multidisciplinary master who helped usher in the Pop Art movement midway through the 20th century, has broken a …
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Books
'Death And Other Holidays' Is A Perfect Literary Break
NPR - Lily Meyer
Consider the novella. It's a tricky form. Too short, some might say, or too long, or — what is a novella, exactly? A big story? A small book? Maybe you've read Ian McEwan's declaration that the novella
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Book Reviews
Book Review: 'My Sister, The Serial Killer'
NPR
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Nigerian author Oyinkan Braithwaite about her new book, "My Sister, the Serial Killer."
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Art
Cats Just Want to See Art
neatorama.com - Miss Cellania
The Onomichi City Art Museum in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, has an ongoing battle with unwelcome visitors. Two of them, to be exact. They are Ken …
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World News
Ancient Babylon In Iraq Restored
NPR - Jane Arraf
The ancient site of Babylon in Iraq has undergone a lot of damage in recent years but archeologists hope it will still get special status.
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Steven Spielberg
FlimStruck is dead, but the Criterion Channel is coming in 2019
slate.com
Neither a fan campaign nor a petition signed by the likes of Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, and Paul Thomas Anderson was enough to save …
WIRED
Time Capsules
FilmStruck Has 2 Weeks Left—Spend Them With These 10 Movies
WIRED - Brian Raftery
Unless a moviegoing-miracle occurs, you have just a few days left to become FilmStruck: On November 29, the movie-streaming service—which hosts …
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History
How Poetry Soothed a Nation in Mourning for John F. Kennedy
smithsonianmag.com - Alice George
On that unsettling day 55 years ago this month, the nation began a pageant of tears. President John F. Kennedy was dead of an assassin’s …
Unbound Worlds
Books
50 Page Friday: HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON by Naomi Novik
Unbound Worlds - Brian Ronan
Every Friday, we here @ Del Rey Spectra will place a 50 page excerpt of a selected title on Unbound Worlds. Whether it is science fiction, epic …
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Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande’s ponytail: An “In Memoriam” montage.
slate.com - Hailey Gavin
The entertainment world was shocked this week to learn of the loss of one of its most beloved icons: Ariana Grande’s high ponytail. The butt-length …
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Archaeology
Tinder Fungus
Atlas Obscura
Fungus was one of the earliest fire-starting “technologies.” While it might be strange to consider the living landscape a technology, when a natural …
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Smithsonian
Smithsonian Adds Arthur Jafa’s “Love is the Message, The Message is Death” to the Collections
smithsonianmag.com - Bianca Sánchez
Arthur Jafa’s 2016 video Love is the Message, The Message is Death is a striking seven-and-a-half-minute display of the power and perils of the …
Art
Be Transported to 1970s Harlem by This Award-winning Director's Adaptation of a James Baldwin Novel
departures.com - Julian Sancton
While Barry Jenkins was writing the screenplay for Moonlight, which ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, he was also working on an …
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Philharmonic to Perform a Piece of Music that Involves Dropping Melons on the Ground
mentalfloss.com - BY Lucas Reilly
This weekend, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform a piece of music that involves dropping melons from a great height and listening to the sound …
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The Arts
Music also matters in the real world |
Salon - Edward R. Howe
But band is on the verge of extinction in many schools. Students, parents and administrators increasingly see band as a “frill.” Music education is being drastically cut and is not valued by many as it
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama tells Jimmy Kimmel about a time when First Ladies could be friends:
slate.com - Hailey Gavin
The book allowed Obama to reflect after eight hectic years.
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Offbeat News
Diving Artist Paints What She Sees While Under Water
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Olga Belka, a Russian born diving instructor and artist who lives in Thailand, creates absolutely beautiful portraits and still life paintings of …
Book Reviews
Children's Book Review: Because by Mo Willems, illus. by Amber Ren. Hyperion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-136801901-9
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Because Mo Willems, illus. by Amber Ren. Hyperion, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-136801901-9 More By and About This Author A quiet Willems book traces a child’s …
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Books
William Goldman Dies At 87
NPR - Scott Simon
Writer William Goldman died this week — he had an outsized influence on films, and the way we talk to each other. Scott Simon remembers the screenwriting giant.
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Nicki Minaj
Zayn and Nicki Minaj Can't Handle Liars, and Katy Perry Gifts Us a Cheap Christmas Song
Jezebel - Clover Hope, Maria Sherman, and Rich Juzwiak
Y/NY/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. Will pass: Zayn Malik and Nicki …
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Online Life
William Goldman’s The Season is the best book ever written about theater.
slate.com - Jason Zinoman
When I started working at the New York Times as a 27-year-old Broadway reporter, I had never met a commercial producer, thought much about box-office …
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Creed II
Creed II is a throwback to an older kind of sequel:
slate.com - Sam Adams
If only this were a good thing.
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Neil Gaiman
William Goldman death: The Princess Bride director Rob Reiner, Neil Gaiman, more pay tribute.
slate.com - Marissa Martinelli
William Goldman, the Oscar-winning writer behind Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, and many others, has died at age 87. …
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Fabiano Caruana
Is Fabiano Caruana the next Bobby Fischer? Is anyone?
slate.com - Stefan Fatsis
On this week’s edition of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis described the perpetual search for the “next Bobby Fischer.” An …
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Asymmetry
Author Lisa Halliday reads from her debut novel Asymmetry and discusses her friendship with Philip Roth:
slate.com - Politics and Prose
Seemingly unrelated narratives come together in Lisa Halliday’s debut novel Asymmetry.
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New Albums
Mariah Carey's Glitter soundtrack album reaches No. 1 on iTunes.
slate.com - Hailey Gavin
Mariah Carey’s 2001 album Glitter always seemed doomed to fail. It premiered as the soundtrack of a semi-autobiographical musical rom-com with the …
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Fantastic Beasts
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald review: The worst Harry Potter movie ever.
slate.com - Dan Kois
Congratulations to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald for being the first flat-out terrible product of the Harry Potter expanded universe. …