by | May 18, 2020 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Financial Times Letter: A book on the City of Angels fit for a prince From Lyndon Heal, Madrid, Spain While I wouldn’t challenge Janan Ganesh’s assertion (FT Weekend, April 25) that ‘the seminal book about 20th century LA by a London professor (Los Angeles:...
by | May 17, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from artnet Banksy Just Made a Surprisingly Earnest Painting of a Superhero Nurse and Donated It to a British Hospital as a Morale Booster The work will remain on view at the Southampton General Hospital until this fall, when it will go to auction. by Caroline...
by | May 16, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from CBS Dallas Born Into A Pandemic: Mother, Father Bring Identical Quadruplets Home Hudson, Harrison, Henry and Hardy were born at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on March 15, just one day before the mandatory stay-at-home and social distancing regulations...
by | May 14, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times When ‘Valley Girl’ (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood With no money or clout, what started as a cheap exploitation film managed to, like, totally click with a generation — and produce an unconventional superstar. By Ashley Spencer Four shots...
by | May 13, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Come On and Zoom-Zoom By David Kamp The transition from in-office meetings to at-home video conferencing has occasioned lots of memes and social-media posts about “my idea of a Zoom meeting,” usually accompanied by a grainy video or photo of...
by | May 11, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from AP ‘The grief is so unbearable’: Virus takes toll on Navajo By FELICIA FONSECA and TIM SULLIVAN Eugene Dinehdeal shields his face from the setting sun on the Dinehdeal family compound in Tuba City, Ariz., on the Navajo reservation on April 20, 2020....
