Hank Azaria has decided to give up voicing the character of Apu on The Simpsons as reported in The Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-01-18/hank-azaria-to-quit-voicing-apu-on-the-simpsons
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“Mixed-ish” is about identity and inclusion
The new ABC spin-off has its share of both praise and criticism as reported in The Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2019-11-12/abc-mixedish-karin-gist-greys-anatomy
“Dungeons & Dragons” game making a comeback
New fans joining old ones as reported in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/books/dungeons-dragons.html?searchResultPosition=1
The complexity of video games shows in “Death Stranding”
42 billion dollars spent on video games last year. From The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/business/media/video-game-death-stranding-advertising.html?searchResultPosition=1
The Marlboro man is dead, but not from smoking cigarettes
Robert Norris dies at age 90. From The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/us/robert-norris-dead.html
In 1969, Harlem Had Its Own Woodstock Music Festival
With the 50th anniversary of Woodstock in upstate New York, there is also one to remember that was in Harlem. Daphne A. Brooks reports in The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/arts/music/black-woodstock-harlem-festival-1969.html?searchResultPosition=1
“The Supremes” Now Setting Fashion Trends for the Millennials
The famous Motown group who became “agents of culture change in the 1960s” now appealing to Millennials as Christopher Petkanas writes in The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/style/mary-wilson-supreme-glamour.html?searchResultPosition=1
The First Woman Filmmaker Made a Film in 1896
The New York Times rediscovers Alice Guy Blache, the world’s first female filmmaker. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/obituaries/alice-guy-blache-overlooked.html
Hanes Joins Dove With an Ad Campaign for Men
Tiffany Tsu of The New York Times looks at how advertisers are trying to stop stereotypical notions of gender. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/business/media/underwear-ads-men-marketing.html?searchResultPosition=1
Companies Getting Into Podcasting and Consumers Are Listening
By David Yaffe-Bellany from The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/business/media/branded-podcasts.html?searchResultPosition=1