Charles Aznavour, Master Of The Chanson, And Also Composer And Film Star, Has Died At 94

It’s nearly impossible to sum up the life of a man who toured as an international musician for almost 80 years, but here’s just a bit. “His accomplishments were prodigious: He wrote, by his own estimate, more than 1,000 songs, for himself and for others, and sang them in French, Armenian, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish. He sold well over 100 million records in his lifetime. He appeared in more than 60 films, beginning with bit parts as a child.”

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Private-Label Teas Helped Women Win Suffrage In The U.S.

That’s right: Tea was part of more than one U.S. revolution. In California, it united disparate cities and rural areas. “There were women who refused to pay for their grocery bills if their grocer did not carry Equality Tea.”

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Netflix Totally Misfired A Movie About Black Hair, But TV (Yes, Even Network) Delivers

It’s truly weird that Netflix can’t get it right in Nappily Ever After when shows like This Is Us and Grown-ish get it so right. Then there are the how-tos on YouTube for Issa Rae’s hair from Insecure, and the joys of Atlanta: “As they discussed child-care plans, Van took down her voluminous curls, which had been twisted into Bantu knots. It’s wasn’t the focus of the scene — and that’s precisely what made it so powerful.”

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California Gets A Tough New Net Neutrality Law, And Trump’s Department Of Justice Immediately Sues To Block It

California isn’t into the new FCC rules that allow blocking or throttling of “lawful traffic. The law also bans paid data cap exemptions (so-called ‘zero-rating’), and says that ISPs may not attempt to evade net neutrality protections by slowing down traffic at network interconnection points.” Sounds good, right? Not to Jeff Sessions, of course.

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A Grand Unified Theory Of Keira Knightley’s History Movies

Listen, you might think the actor’s movie choices are random. Au contraire, mes frères: The luminous star of the new Colette is (sometimes literally) sticking it to The Man. “In all of Knightley’s historical films, she is at the center. She is not relegated to the role of love interest; men are. Romances, marriages, children, and dalliances are all secondary to her own development — as a woman, but also as the protagonist in her own life story, no matter how tragic it may become.”

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Goodreads Removes Issues Of Two Speculative Fiction Magazines That Focus On Authors Of Color, But Does Goodreads Even Know Its Own Rules?

Volunteer librarians run Goodreads, sort of. Or do they? And is it true that Goodreads doesn’t allow magazines without ISBNs, or are Goodreads’ rules somewhat, shall we say, open to interpretation? It’s a kerfuffle for the Amazon-owned site.

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The Wild Review Of ‘The English Patient’ That Left Its Writer Bereft, Twenty Years Later

This is a cautionary tale of lying – to oneself and to editors – and where that road leads. Also, this is a severe skewering not only of the movie The English Patient but also of the book. “Sometimes, when I met people, they’d say, ‘Wait! Aren’t you the movie girl?’ Sometimes they would say, ‘Do you like anything?’ A guy in a bar told me once that he and his friends called me ‘the movie assassin.'”

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