This isn’t as unfair as it might sound: the money is mostly going to improving city infrastructure and maintenance in the area around the church, which gets more than 3 million visitors each year.
Tag: 10.26.18
A Big TV Production Boom In Toronto. But Will It Bust?
There are more than 500 new scripted shows being produced in North America this year, a record number not including reality, sports or returning series. Many of those shows are filmed in Toronto; currently shooting in the city are Season 8 of Suits, and the second seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and American Gods.
Science Shows How We Should Teach Reading. But We’re Not. Why?
What have scientists figured out? First of all, while learning to talk is a natural process that occurs when children are surrounded by spoken language, learning to read is not. To become readers, kids need to learn how the words they know how to say connect to print on the page. They need explicit, systematic phonics instruction. There are hundreds of studies that back this up. But talk to teachers and many will tell you they learned something different about how children learn to read in their teacher preparation programs.
Growing Consensus In Tech World About The Mal-Effects Of Screens On Kids
Some of the people who built video programs are now horrified by how many places a child can now watch a video. For longtime tech leaders, watching how the tools they built affect their children has felt like a reckoning on their life and work.
What’s The Matter With Fiction Sales?
No, it’s not just the political climate that’s making fiction sales dive – that’s been going on since 2013 (with a blip in 2015 for Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman). What are the causes of the rise of nonfiction and the fiction tumble?
The Woman Who Runs City Lights Has Seen Just About Everything
Elaine Katzenberger runs the bookstore founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and she oversees the publishing wing too – the one made famous in the 1950s for the publication of Allan Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems. She’s glad indie bookstores seem to be holding their own, for now.
Let’s Really Talk About The History Of Blackface And Entertainment In The United States
Even light-skinned African Americans were asked to “cork up” for roles in the 19th century (and on into early movies), because the history of minstrelsy, in which white men clowned in blackface as their interpretation of Southern Blacks, established what “Black” meant in the U.S. But it’s unsettling to watch this history in 2018.
You Think ‘The Good Place’ Is About Heaven And Hell, But It’s About The Internet
And that’s both ends of the divine, of course. “The ground beneath the characters’ feet is constantly shifting, just as the show’s very concept shifts with every season — and, to some extent, nearly every episode, a tactic that mimics the immeasurable expanse of online space.”
An Argentine Publisher Has Translated ‘The Little Prince’ Into Gender-Neutral Spanish
Though some speakers have begun using x in place of gender markers a or o – Latinx instead of Latina or Latino, for instance – this publisher took a different tack: “The book doesn’t use the X and instead uses an E (for example, todes instead of todas or todos, and les instead of los or las).”
‘Chat-Fiction’ Goes Longform With A Science Fiction Story Told In Bits On Snapchat
Nothing is completely new, but this is a blend of media and writing that might change the genre: “The multimedia series … blends the chat-fiction format — presented as a text-messaging thread — with custom illustrations and a voiceover ‘reminiscent of 1940s radio dramas,’ according to Hooked. ‘Dark Matter’ is longer than Hooked’s usual fare: The pilot clocks in at about 4,700 words, with 32,000 words total for the series. Most Hooked chapters are around 1,000 words each.”