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Lindsay Ellis goes on The Financial Diet to talk about the financial aftermath of being canceled “There were so many people who were waiting for the excuse to topple me.” [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:14 PM PST - 122 comments

Stephen Sondheim's least-performed (and perhaps most ambitious) musical Pacific Overtures [Wikipedia] premiered on Broadway in 1976 and ran for 109 performance and won two of the two Tony awards it was nominated for. The original production and cast was filmed and shown on Japanese television. It is also on YouTube [2h20m]
posted by hippybear at 7:13 PM PST - 17 comments

The KIMONO Project of Imagine One World for the Olympics.
"The project consists of 213 handmade kimonos, inspired by each country’s culture, history and scenery. Each kimono is created by a different artist or studio using traditional handweaving and dyeing techniques." [more inside]
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:33 PM PST - 33 comments

#WomenMakeSF is a project by Dr. Amy C. Chambers, where she intends to watch and review every feature film, short film and TV show created or co-created by a woman. She introduced the project in the blogpost Women Make Science Fiction: Gender is not a genre. There's also a podcast, cohosted by Dr. Lyle Skains, with eight episodes so far, which are most often discussions between Drs. Chambers and Skains about a small set of movies and a related topic. They have had two guests, Katie Heffner in a conversation about women in SF fandoms, and Cheryl Morgan, discussing trans representation across different forms of science fiction.
posted by Kattullus at 1:43 PM PST - 7 comments

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, hero of Portugal’s return to democracy, has died. [FT obit: archive version]
posted by chavenet at 1:16 PM PST - 7 comments

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posted by y2karl at 11:34 AM PST - 10 comments

In today's confusing news, Philip Morris wants cigarettes banned.
posted by Slinga at 9:13 AM PST - 50 comments