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Rare Watercolor by ‘Wuthering Heights’ Author Emily Brontë Will Go on Public Display for the First Time
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-watercolor-by-wuthering-heights-author-emily-bronte-will-go-on-public-display-for-the-first-time-180986423/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival starts tomorrow, with headliners including Lady Gaga, Green Day, Charli XCX and Post Malone. Here's a look at the history of the Coachella Valley and Coachella city, which was established in 1901 and owes its name to a typo.
#Music #Festivals #MusicFestivals #Coachella #History @histodons
The CEO of U.S. retailer Target plans to meet with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton this week. Target eliminated some of its diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs after President Donald Trump's inauguration, and has experienced declining footfall subsequently. Rev. Sharpton's National Action Network has encouraged consumers to avoid retailers that scaled back DEI initiatives. While he hasn't called out Target specifically, he has said he will consider it if the company doesn't reaffirm its commitment to Black businesses, employees and consumers. Here's more from CNBC. See the Retail Wire story at the second link for info on Target's current downturn.
#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #Retail #Lifestyle #Target #DEI #USPolitics #AlSharpton #RevAlSharpton
"This is a quiet photo that speaks loudly," says World Press Photo executive director Joumana El Zein Khoury of the World Press Photo of the year. The portrait of nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both arms in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City in March 2024 was taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times. Learn more about the winning image, runners up and regional winners from @BBCNews.
Students sue Department of Defense for pulling ‘DEI’ books from its school libraries
https://19thnews.org/2025/04/aclu-students-lawsuit-defense-dei-books-school-libraries/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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When artists imagine the future these days, it looks bleak and dark — and actually, fair enough. But for Boomers, it was colorful, shiny, and sometimes sexy — and that's at least partly down to the late Syd Mead, the concept artist who worked on "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," "Tron" and "Blade Runner," and also depicted futuristic vehicles and alien vistas, imbued with optimism rather than evil. Six years after his death, Mead has his first retrospective, Future Pastime. Read more about it in the Art Newspaper's story here, and see it in New York until May 21. Story may be paywalled.
#Art #Movies #Film #ScienceFiction #Futurism #Dystopia #BladeRunner #Tron #StarTrek #SydMead
Michelle Trachtenberg's death in February was due to complications from diabetes, the New York medical examiner's office says. The "Buffy" and "Gossip Girl" actor was 39. A source told NBC that she had recently received a liver transplant.
#Entertainment #MichelleTrachtenberg #Buffy #GossipGirl #RIP #InMemoriam
We know that fediverse folk love books, but it seems like most of them enjoy reading as a solitary activity — 60% have never been in a book club.
COVID-19 put paid to a couple of commenters' clubs, while @EllenInEdmonton pointed out: "Unless you know the participants well or have very common interests, it's hard to dedicate enough time to book club reading while pursuing your own reading interests."
We'd love to attend a meeting of the article writer's Sherlock Holmes-focused club.
"At times, we dig so deeply into these stories that it feels like we are in a Richard Osman novel, trying to solve something that is just beyond our grasp. One member observed that when she sees us drilling down into the text, she is reminded of 'Holmes, prone on the grass with a magnifying glass.' The way we discuss him sometimes, you’d think he was a family member who’d just left the room, pipe smoke lingering."
Next time, invite us along — we'll partake of the wine, but no opium, thanks!
Is Fyre Festival 2 on or off? No one knows, though we'd put money on "off." NBC says the website was updated earlier today to say the festival was postponed. Shortly after that, the site was changed to say tickets are "currently not available." Billy McFarland, who went to prison for wire fraud and other crimes related to the first Fyre Festival in 2017, had claimed he was working with officials in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico to get permits, but the officials said there was no record of the event. No performers had been announced for Fyre Festival 2, which was scheduled for May 30-June 2, with ticket packages ranging from $1,400 to $1.1 million.
#Music #MusicFestivals #Entertainment #FyreFestival #BillyMcFarland #Celebrity #Lifestyle
Organizers of a Fyre Festival sequel said Wednesday it will no longer take place in the Mexican resort town of Playa Del Carmen after its website momentarily announced the event had been postponed, sparking confusion among ticketholders.
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