Booksellers say romance’s mostly female readers are reaching out, sometimes in despair or exhaustion, looking for what they might call a safe space for women. And then there’s this: “Interest in politically minded heroes and heroines is on the rise and we expect to see an entire wave of books featuring characters who are fighting back and resisting in their communities.”
Tag: 09.30.17
The Battling Leonard Cohen Murals Of Montreal
Both are large (one is very large), but only one is backed by the city. “Those behind the earlier and smaller project – the nine-storey mural in Cohen’s old Saint-Laurent neighbourhood, painted by Kevin Ledo as part of the latest Mural Festival – say it was a complete surprise to them when Coderre revealed in April that a rival 20-storey mural would rise on a building near Montreal’s Golden Square Mile.”
The Opera Singer Who Needed A Double Lung Transplant
Soprano Charity Tilleman-Dick: “I went into the hospital with an epic set of cankles — my ankles were swollen to the size of pachyderm ankles. I thought that they were going to give me some diuretics and let me leave, but the following morning, I woke up. It was to the news that there were lungs, it was a match and we were going to Cleveland immediately to have a transplant.”
Yay For More Sex In Movies, But Can We Make It Fun?
You’d think it was 1811 at the movies, at least for women and their enjoyment of sex. “Female characters who have sex as casually as men have long been punished in popular culture, but a few decades ago things looked as if they were changing for the better.” (Spoiler: They didn’t.)
Lin-Manuel Miranda Says The President Is ‘Going Straight To Hell’
That, from the creator of Hamilton, comes after the man supposed to be running the country claimed that hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico “wanted everything done for them.” Miranda added, repeated his claim and added quite a bit more, and you can see it all (of course) on Twitter.
Monty Hall, Who Knew What Was Behind Door Number Three As Host And Co-Creator Of ‘Let’s Make A Deal,’ Has Died At 96
In more than 5000 airings of Let’s Make a Deal, Mr. Hall had quite a few jobs – traffic cop, smooth-talking salesman and more. “‘Monty had to be a very likable con man; he had to convince people to give up a bird in the hand for what’s in the box,’ David Schwartz, the author, with Fred Wostbrock and Steve Ryan, of ‘The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows,’ said in an interview.”