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ICYMI: Donald Trump Apparently Once Tried To Ask Out Emma Thompson
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- President Donald Trump apparently once sort of tried to ask out actress Emma Thompson in the late 1990s, but she declined.
- Coca-Cola has finally caught on to Frank O'Hara's 1960 poem "Having a Coke With You"... and is now using it to promote Coca-Cola on their website, because better late than never in Capitalist America.
- This dictionary will help you practice your "Canadian English" while you're waiting for your visa to come through.
- The artist recipients of this year's Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts grants have been announced, and all the projects sound extremely cool.
- Mayor Eric Garcetti talked about how L.A. is building the nation's first EV car sharing system for low-income residents while giving the keynote at Thursday's Environmental Media Association Impact Summit.
- The full trailer for Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale is here:
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