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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Printed
Charlie Kaufman’s New Quick Movie Is Coming to a Public Library Close to You
I had by no means thought-about a straight-to-library streaming deal. Maybe I ought to have. As a result of Charlie Kaufman’s new quick movie goes proper to Kanopy, the movies-and TV-service that libraries can use to get non-book digital media to their debtors. I doubt Kanopy is ever going to compete with issues like Knives Out or Ok-Pop Demon Hunters, however there’s a cohort of creators that is perhaps a terrific match for library-first stuff: all of the folks and tasks that all of a sudden discover themselve de-funded by cuts to NPR, PBS, and Voice of America. Libraries are topic to governmental funding whiplash themselves, however it may be extra locally-determined. This can be a information level price watching.
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White Home to conduct assessment of Smithsonian museum exhibitions to make sure they match with Trump’s view of American historical past
My household had a terrific time touring the Library of Congress and darn close to all the museums of the Smithsonian on a visit this summer time. And I had this thought no less than a dozen instances: do the Trump folks learn about this? Concerning the statue of Charles Darwin we took a household selfie with? The shows on slavery and Jim Crow within the African American Historical past Museum? The collection of maps exhibiting compelled removing of tribes from mainly day 1 of what would change into the USA? And it seems they do. And like different organs and conduits of something resembling reality, they don’t seem to be comfortable about it. Whoever you’re within the bowels of those locations that may discover any manner you may to withstand this crap, I’m pulling for you.
