Hello again, Insiders. The heat was on literally and figuratively this week as the Annecy International Animation Festival and Cannes Lions took place under a scorching sun in Europe. Jesse Whittock here to guide you through the best of it. Sign up to the newsletter here. Animated In Annecy Deadline Studios turn up for toons:
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*** “Won’t Someone Think of the Children” Q&A  Literary Activism News you can use plus tips and tools for the fight against censorship and other bookish activism! Subscribe to Selected No Thanks Kelly: Creating leveled card access has been one avenue by which public libraries are “compromising” with those seeking to censor materials and hinder library
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning actress Julianna Margulies has signed on to executive produce Sister Senators, an upcoming documentary feature “about the only five women in the overwhelmingly male South Carolina State Senate, who defy party lines to fight for women’s rights.” Emily Harrold is directing the film that examines the unusual alliance between Republican senators Katrina Shealy,
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Less than 36 hours after announcing her long-awaited fourth album, Lost Weekend, Phoebe Bridgers has shared another preview of the Aug. 14 Dead Oceans release with the new single “Lost Boys.” It’s accompanied by a surreal Renaissance faire-themed video directed by Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat and co-starring Skyler Gisondo and the Knights of Debracey
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King Charles III’s tax bill amounts to 30 million British pounds (about $40 million), covering the three years since he ascended to the throne in 2022, Buckingham Palace announced Thursday. The news—the first time a British monarch has shared details about their personal tax returns—came as a part of a larger set of announcements about
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Credit: Getty Venezuela is making headlines worldwide after devastating earthquakes on Wednesday (June 24). What Happened in Venezuela? The main 7.5 magnitude quake is being described as the largest the country has seen in more than a century, since 1900’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake, based on data from the US Geological Survey, per CNN. There was
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Every week for the Tuesday edition of Our Queerest Shelves, I put together a list of the most exciting new LGBTQ books out that week. Since I first started keeping track of upcoming LGBTQ new releases, this list has grown and grown. I follow a ton of different queer book blogs as well as Bookstagram,
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This spring, beabadoobee and the Marías finally made good on their longtime mutual admiration with the dreamy single “All I Did Was Dream of You.” Now, the artist born Beatrice Laus is opening the next chapter of her own story. The singer/songwriter will release her fourth album, Pylon, on Sept. 18 via Dirty Hit and
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The swashbuckling performance of pirate movie The Bluff on Prime Video took its producer and star, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, by surprise. During a fireside chat today at Cannes Lions, the actor, producer and entrepreneur spoke about the Frank E. Flowers-directed and Russo brothers-produced pic’s success on Prime Video, topping the streamer’s global movie charts in
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