Lido Gone

from AP Show’s over for famed cabaret show at France’s Lido By JADE LE DELEY PARIS (AP) — It’s the end of an era for the famed Lido cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees. Amid financial troubles and changing times, the venue’s new corporate owner is ditching most of the...

Mort Janklow Gone

from The Washington Post Mort Janklow, literary agent who brokered gargantuan advances, dies at 91 His clients included Ronald Reagan, Al Gore, David McCullough, Barbara Walters and Danielle Steel By Associated Press Actor Michael Douglas and Mort Janklow in 2015...

Book Blobs

from Inside Hook Why Do All Books Suddenly Look the Same? The ubiquitous “blob” cover is a combination of content, design and, yes, clickability BY TRISH ROONEY Why are all books so abstract? / Getty, Riverhead Books, One World, Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book You...

AC GOOD BAD

from Vox The air conditioning paradox How do we cool people without heating up the planet? By Umair Irfan A woman fans her child with a sheet of paper as a fan sits idle amid a power outage during a heat wave in Jacobabad, Pakistan, on May 11. Aamir Qureshi/AFP via...

Dead Planes

from ABC 15 The Boneyard: World’s largest airplane graveyard is in Tucson, Arizona By: Kari Steele What happens to our nation’s militarized aircraft when it’s time to toss it? Welcome to the largest aircraft graveyard in the world, The Boneyard! See...