01 April - 07 April 2024
Photography
NY Times: An Idyll on the Shores of a Toxic Lake | text by Jaime Lowe, photographs by Nicholas Albrecht
NY Times Magazine: What to Know About Life-Saving ECPR | by Helen Ouyang - Photos Mark Peterson
Mikko Takkunen: Hong Kong (selected works)
Vann Thomas Powell: On Contentious Ground
Franck Doussot: El Dorado, 2010-Present. And more
Reading The Pictures: Israeli Military in Gaza: Are You Going to Believe Us, Or Your Own Eyes? | by Michael Shaw
Lenscratch: Shinichiro Nagasawa: The Bonin Islanders | by Aline Smithson
Shinichiro Nagasawa: The Bonin Islanders
Lens Culture: Alastair Philip Wiper -Unintended Beauty | by Marigold Warner
The Guardian: Chris Killip and Graham Smith - Boom and bust in the industrial north-east
Melissa Grace Kreider: “I will bite the hand that feeds” and “Remnants”
Fraction: Future Cities by Noah Addis
Huck: Inside a Texan neighbourhood Mexican wrestling club | text by Isaac Muk, photography by Tom “TBow” Bowden
NY Times: Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon | by Arthur Lubow
CNN: Anja Niedringhaus: Her photos captured the humanity of the Afghan people amid war | Photographs by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Story by Kyle Almond, CNN
Charles-Frédérick Ouellet: Le Naufrage
Ebrahim Noroozi: Mourners
Ninu Nina: No More Gentlemen’s Agreements - interview with Osheen Harruthoonyan
Then There Was Us: "White Fence Box", Graciela Iturbide's powerful photographs of a Los Angeles street gang
The New Yorker: Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere | by Nicholas Dawidoff
Culture, Art and Design
Washington Post: The common lesson from the MSNBC uproar and Trump’s Bible business | by E.J. Dionne Jr.
LA Times: The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive? | by Stephanie Yang
Creative Boom: F37 designs a typeface that embodies the 'charm and idiosyncrasy' of industrial Manchester | by Abbey Bamford
McSweeney’s: What to Say When Your Family Opens Your Uncle’s Casket During His Wake and Finds It Empty | by Tyler Gooch
The Guardian: The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement | by Rebecca Solnit
Huck: We Must Shut Off the war Machine’s Influence From Out Arts and Culture | by Samuel Sweek
Hyperallergic: As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure | by Angella d'Avignon
It’s Nice That: Matty Matheson’s new packaging is not retro, it’s 1930s can core | by Liz Gorny
Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: At the Edge of Town / A Song for Richard Manuel | by Martin Colyer
Creative Boom: Sam Rodriguez's graffiti-inspired portraits depict people in their unseen entirety | by Dom Carter
Design Boom: Madeiguincho repurposes cargo container as tiny house with sunken roof terrace | by Lea Zeitoun
Do The M@th: Interview with Albert “Tootie” Heath | by Ethan Iverson
thebluemoment.com: The Necks at Cafe Too | by Richard Williams
NY Times: Women Who Made Art in Japanese Internment Camps Are Getting Their Due | by Rebecca Carballo
Books
AnOther: Rahim Fortune’s New Book Is a Poetic Portrait of Black Southern Identity | by Elodie Saint-Louis
Stanley/Baker: Karen Knorr - Country Life
Podcast
The Moth: Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Letter from an American: Heather Cox Richardson March 30, 2024
10fps: Episode 100: Eugene Richards (Documentary Photography)
Headbanging Headlines:
Yahoo Finance: Jeff Bezos Buys $90 Million Florida Mansion To Live In While His Other Newly Purchased $147 Million Homes Are 'Demolished' For A Mega Mansion
Washington Post: “God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens.” — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on X.
Other Stuff
NY Times: A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong | by Dennis Overbye
Nautilus: The End of the Dark Universe? | by Sabine Hossenfelder
Washington Post: Google’s AI-‘supercharged’ Search Generative Experience, or SGE, sometimes makes up facts, misinterprets questions and picks low-quality sources — even after nearly 11 months of public testing. | by Geoffrey A. Fowler
Convergence: Conflict Could Upend DSA’s Big Tent—or Steady It | by William Lawrence
Aeon: Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | by Keri Leigh Merritt - edited by Sam Haselby
El País: Gisela Gaytán, candidate for mayor of violence-plagued town in Mexico, is shot dead | by Beatriz Guillén
World Central Kitchen: 7 WCK team members killed in Gaza
Rolling Stone: José Andrés Mourns World Central Kitchen's Israeli Airstrike Victims | by Larisha Paul, Ryan Bort
The Guardian: The Guardian view on the IDF’s killing of aid workers: a grim milestone in Gaza
Quartz: Google might charge for AI-powered search | by Britney Nguyen
+972 Magazine: ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza | by Yuval Abraham
Nautilus: Maritime Archaeologist David Gibbins on 12 Shipwrecks that Made History | by David Gibbons
Labor
Washington Post: Ready or not, self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America’s highways | by Trisha Thadani
The Nation: LA’s Forgotten Strike - Hotel workers have been demanding fair wages and benefits for months—and owners are starting to cave. | by Sasha Abramsky
Labor Notes: Our Class Has No Borders: Why the UAW Is Standing Up with Mexican Auto Workers | by Brandon Mancilla
Nautilus: The Plight of Japan’s Ama Divers | by Sofia Quaglia
Social Issues - elections 2024
Washington Post: America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws | by Lauren Kaori Gurley
LA Times: Trump could gut abortion access in California if elected. Here's how | by Anita Chabria
Letter from an American: Heather Cox Richardson April 3, 2024
MSNBC: Michigan police officers' union should be ashamed of endorsing Trump | by Frank Figliuzzi
Social Issues
NY Times: Woman Who Was Charged With Murder After Abortion Sues Texas Prosecutor | by Anna Betts
NY Times Magazine: Javier Milei Is a New Prophet of Apocalyptic Capitalism | by David Wallace-Wells
Washington Post: The underwater hunt for the lost ship of an American slave trafficker | by Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela
LA Times: Newsom has approved three California prison closures but resists pressure to shutter more | by Anabel Sosa
The Guardian: Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 | by Jonathan Watts
Dezeen: Mark Foster Gage designs 450-metre-long bridge hotel at Neom | by Tom Ravenscroft
Print: News from a Changing Planet: The Great Lakes Great Thaw } by Tatiana Schlossberg
Division Street
NY Times: Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes | by Amy Julia Harris and Jan RansomPhotographs by José A. Alvarado Jr.
Dezeen: Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America | by Ben Dreith
Mission Local: On Potrero Hill, squatters get scammed. So do landlords - months of complaints against the private management firm | Eleni Balakrishnan
SF Chronicle: Why one of S.F.’s biggest housing projects could shrink by hundreds of affordable apartments | by Roland Li
SF Chronicle: S.F. homeless housing nonprofit blasted for misusing taxpayer funds | by Maggie Angst, St. John Barned-Smith
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