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PLAYOFFS IN BROOKLYN! NETS CLINCH FIRST PLAYOFF BERTH SINCE 2015 - NetsDaily 🔗 🏀 🗽

The word culture isn’t something to be tossed around lightly. It means something in Brooklyn, where players have revitalized their careers and the narrative on the organization has shifted 180 degrees. It wasn’t long ago the Nets were the laughingstock of the league for having zero picks. Now, they’re a breath of fresh air for the league. And it’s only just the beginning with three draft picks and enough cap space for a max free agent in the summer of 2019. But for now, let’s enjoy this one.

How A Clockwork Orange set the scene for punk - BFI 🔗 🎥 🎵 🇬🇧

In the early 1970s, A Clockwork Orange offered a vision of anarchy in the UK that got under the skin of British teenagers who’d been shut out of the hippy dream. Did Stanley Kubrick predict punk?

‘The 70s were very violent; people tend to have forgotten that,’ Savage says. ‘The gloss of the swinging 60s had disappeared, and everything was sliding downhill.’

Happy to see the Toffees ending this season with a little spark of life.

Everton 1 - Arsenal 0 🔗 ⚽️ 🇬🇧

Fascinating!

Casimir Pulaski may have been woman or intersex, study says - BBC News 🔗 🇵🇱 🇺🇸

Pulaski, a nobleman who joined George Washington’s army and fought British troops in 1777, is considered a war hero in both Poland and the US. Scientists first found that Pulaski’s skeleton had female characteristics about 20 years ago, but were unable to prove it was definitely him. But DNA testing has now confirmed the female skeleton was indeed Pulaski’s.

The peerless Geoff Dyer, giving a reading/talk on WHERE EAGLES DARE, as he stands before a slide filled to brimming with movie nazis. #graygram 📷 🗽 ✍️ 📚

Friday night at the Center for Fiction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Geoff’s new book: ‘BROADSWORD CALLING DANNY BOY’

“A photo by Harold Feinstein, Coney Island, New York, 1949. This was a ride called the Gyro. You sat on a bench on the inside perimeter and got whirled around and upside down. This was either exciting or made you ill, depending. It was a big hit. Closed 60 years ago.” — We Had Faces Then 📷 🗽 🎡

Luck shapes every human life. That has radical moral implications. - Vox 🔗 🍀

It’s not difficult to see why many people take offense when reminded of their luck, especially those who have received the most. Allowing for luck can dent our self-conception. It can diminish our sense of control. It opens up all kinds of uncomfortable questions about obligations to other, less fortunate people. Nonetheless, this is a battle that cannot be bypassed. There can be no ceasefire. Individually, coming to terms with luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening, the first step in building any coherent universalist moral perspective.

Intolerance - By Kent Jones - Film Comment 🔗 🇺🇸 🎥 🍿 🐴

On Westerns in general, John Ford’s in particular, and why Quentin Tarantino shouldn’t teach film history

Why would Quentin Tarantino, of all people, buy into such a frozen, shopworn image of Ford and the pre-Sixties Western genre, an image that is now six decades old and more of an antique than anything Ford ever directed?

Rally & Wake for White Horse - Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York 🔗 ✊🏽 🗽 📢 🍽

A virulent trend has been sweeping the Village, and the city, in which upscale restaurateurs take over vintage spots, refurbish them, and turn them into exclusive locales, keeping their names and capitalizing on their history. It’s an invasion of the body snatchers. The old places look like themselves, sort of, but there’s no soul inside. The blog Grub Street called the trend ‘fauxstalgia.’ It first happened to the Waverly Inn and the Beatrice Inn, prompting the Times to write about the practice in 2010.

Inexcusable.

Boeing Told 737 MAX Pilots to Follow Instructions After First Fatal Crash. They Did and Died Anyway. 🔗 ✈️ 🇺🇸

Boeing implied – amazingly – that even with the problem left unfixed the airplane remained safe to fly.

New Law To Forgive Student Debt For College Graduates Once All Their Dreams Shattered - The Onion 🔗 💸 😂

The Famous Actress Who Loved Playing a Rooster - Atlas Obscura 🔗 🎭 🇫🇷 🐓 🗽

Maude Adams was known for being Peter Pan, but her favorite role was that of a preening French rooster.

When CHANTECLER finally opened in New York, after months of rehearsals, including special instruction for the actors on making proper fowl-like noises, Adams first appeared on stage in evening dress, to deliver the prologue. After she disappeared backstage, the curtain rose on an oversized barnyard, with a haystack towering over the stage. The sets had been created by a star-studded team of designers, who’d worked on some of the city’s great monuments—the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, the vaulted ceiling at Grand Central Station. When Adams reappeared, fully feathered, as the Rooster, she would have been dwarfed by the sets, made to seem smaller than human, akin to actual barnyard creatures.

Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed - The New York Times 🔗 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 📰

At stake in the dispute — the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel’s office — is who shapes the public’s initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history. Some members of Mr. Mueller’s team are concerned that, because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel’s findings, Americans’ views will have hardened before the investigation’s conclusions become public.

Lori Lightfoot elected Chicago mayor, making her the first African-American woman to lead the city - Chicago Tribune 🔗 🇺🇸 🗳

Lori Lightfoot won a resounding victory Tuesday night to become both the first African-American woman and openly gay person elected mayor of Chicago, dealing a stinging defeat to a political establishment that has reigned over City Hall for decades.

In Praise of Public Libraries - by Sue Halpern - The New York Review of Books 🔗 📚 🇺🇸

A public library is predicated on an ethos of sharing and egalitarianism. It is nonjudgmental. It stands in stark opposition to the materialism and individualism that otherwise define our culture. It is defiantly, proudly, communal. Even our little book-lined room, with its mismatched furniture and worn carpet, was, as the sociologist Eric Klinenberg reminds us libraries were once called, a palace for the people.

Hip-hop taught Andre Vasquez about community—and he wants to take those lessons to City Hall - Feature - Chicago Reader 🔗 🎤 🗳

In the 90s he rapped as Prime and joined underground collective the Molemen. Now he’s a socialist candidate for 40th Ward alderman, hoping to unseat entrenched incumbent Patrick O’Connor.

Goldy is on pace to hit 243 home runs this season. 😬

‘Comeback player of the day’: After 3-K debut with Cards, Goldy belts 3 homers off Brewers - St. Louis Cardinals - stltoday.com 🔗 ⚾️ 3️⃣ 🚀

In his second chance to make a first impression with his new team, the Cardinals first baseman hit three home runs off three pitchers. He drove home five runs to clean-and-jerk the Cardinals to a 9-5 victory against the Brewers.

Chris Marker, Always Moving - by Max Nelson - The New York Review of Books 🔗 📚 🖼 🎥

Chris Marker, les 7 vies d’un cinéaste — Catalog of the exhibition edited by Raymond Bellour, Jean-Michel Frodon, and Christine Van Assche — Paris: Cinémathèque française, 400 pp., €45.00

Marker kept returning, across the vast body of films, writings, photographs, and multimedia projects he produced between the 1940s and his death in 2012, to the matter of what it meant to live a happy life. In an early essay about the novelist and playwright Jean Giraudoux, he quoted Sartre’s insistence that at certain moments the streets of Paris turn ‘fixed and clear’ and offer up ‘an instant of happiness, an eternity of happiness.’ The challenge, Marker thought, was to put such instants in a pattern, ‘to make the feeling of those privileged moments into a permanent conviction.’

Firefox Send is a Free, Encrypted File Transfer Service from Mozilla - Beautiful Pixels 🔗 🖥 📁 ↔️ 📁 🖥 🔥 🦊

Firefox Send is a new web-based secure file transfer service that allows users to upload and share multiple files with anyone. The service has been built and promoted by the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit behind the popular browser and several other initiatives that make the web a better place for everyone. Firefox Send is free, secure, encrypted and open-source file transfer service that works across all modern browsers, not just Firefox. It allows anyone to upload and share files up to 1GB without creating an account, or up to 2.5GB after signing up for an account. The service has been available as part of Mozilla’s ‘Test Pilot experiments’ and the organization is graduating the service today (March 14, 2019).

Mookie Wilson patch: Deep thoughts 📷 ⚾️ 🗣 😵 🦕 🦖

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Happy opening day, everyone!

The St. Louis Cardinals Were Barely Gone—but They’re Definitely Back - The Ringer 🔗 ⚾️

…The St. Louis Cardinals ran this division from 2000 to 2015. Over that 16-year span, St. Louis made the playoffs 12 times, won four pennants and two World Series, posted three 100-win seasons, and played the Dodgers in the NLCS roughly 40 times. The Cardinals were a fixture in the postseason for so long, it feels strange that they’ve missed the playoffs three years in a row, tying their longest postseason drought since the late 1990s. With the Cubs and Brewers soaking up headlines over the past three years, it’s been easy to forget the division’s longtime powerhouse.

Mueller Report Exceeds 300 Pages, Raising Questions About Four-Page Summary 🔗 📰 🇺🇸

The total of 300-plus pages suggests that Mr. Mueller went well beyond the kind of bare-bones summary required by the Justice Department regulation governing his appointment and detailed his conclusions at length. And it raises questions about what Mr. Barr might have left out of the four dense pages he sent to Congress. Answering those questions is likely to prove difficult for lawmakers and the public….

Writers Guild Plans for Expiration: ‘There Will Be Difficult Moments’ – Variety 🔗 📺 🎥 ✍️

‘We have a plan,’ the letter continued. ‘We know we cannot replace agents. There will be difficult moments. But our goal is to get through staffing season and whatever period of time it takes to make a fair deal with the agencies.’ ‘Our industry will not grind to a halt. Studios and producers will still need writers,’ the committee added. ‘Writers on staff and working on projects will still go to work. Feature scripts will still get sold, and TV shows will still get staffed. Our ideas and our words will still have enormous value, and the work we all love to do will continue.’

How America’s Biggest Theater Chains Are Exploiting Their Janitors - Variety 🔗 🎥 🍿

‘The day my son passed away, I asked for the day, and they did not want to give it to me,’ she said through tears during a labor hearing in 2017.

Listening to “Tempo,” by Lizzo (featuring Missy Elliott) #nowplaying 🎶 🎵