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ICYMI: Kehinde Wiley To Paint Obama's Official Portrait
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- Kim Masters (Hollywood Reporter editor-at-large and break-er of the story that brought down Amazon exec Roy Price) pens a chilling Columbia Journalism Review essay about the "Gawker effect" and all the ways her Price story was silenced, at multiple outlets.
- Here are the New York Times' new social media guidelines for staffers (also lol @ the NYT's Deputy Managing Editor getting called out on Twitter for not knowing how to properly make a Twitter thread... when announcing the social media guidelines... on Twitter).
- On being a car-less protester in St. Louis, and the intersection of transit and social equity.
- Kehinde Wiley—a groundbreaking artist who "creates history as much as he tells it" with his Old Master-style portraits of African Americans—has been commissioned to paint former President Barack Obama's official portrait for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. God, we had it good for a few years, didn't we, America?
- The Catalina Express ferry is ending its free birthday rides program at the end of the year. Nothing gold can stay, not even free ferry rides on your birthday.
- The New York Times' Styles section has a story on neon signs as home decor, so I guess we can all agree that trend is officially o-v-e-r.
- Here is the heartbreakingly good opening credit sequence to Midnight Cowboy, complete with Harry Nilsson's heartbreakingly good rendition of "Everybody's Talkin'":
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