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Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Feb 17

The inimitable Jill Scott has finally paid a visit to @npr's Tiny Desk studio. Here's her full set. https://flip.it/7bIdE1 #Music #TinyDesk #JillScott

Image of Jill Scott, a Black woman wearing a red hat. She is with two Black men and and all three are in the Tiny Desk music studio.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Oct 24

No one should be surprised that Guillermo Del Toro, master of craftsmanship and practical effects, eschews AI, but it's still nice to hear. The Oscar-winning filmmaker, whose new take on "Frankenstein" is in theaters now, told @npr's Terry Gross that he […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Isaac on the set of "Frankenstein." Del Toro is putting finishing touches to what appears to be a model of Frankenstein's monster, while Isaac looks on.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Oct 1

More than 500 celebrities including Jane Fonda, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee and Billie Eilish have relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded during the McCarthy Era. Here's more from @npr. https://flip.it/y3AuUt #Entertainment #Celebrity #Hollywood #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech

Head shots of Jane Fonda, John Legend, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, Billie Eilish and Whoopi Goldberg.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Sep 19

It's Friday! It's Latin Music Month! Here's an @npr Tiny Desk Concert from Fito Páez, an icon of Argentine rock who's been making music for more than 40 years. Link: https://flip.it/6dfH4Z #Music #TinyDesk #LatinMusicMonth #HispanicHeritage #Argentina #FitoPaez

Image of Fito Páez performing in Tiny Desk studio.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Jul 11

It's Friday. Our day is almost done. What better way to kick of the weekend than with a Tiny Desk concert by Clipse? The Thornton brothers have been on hiatus for 16 years, but they're better than ever. "The first half of the year in hip-hop hasn't been the […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of brothers Gene "Malice" and Terrence "Pusha T" Thornton, two Black men who form the band Clipse, performing in NPR's Tiny Desk studio.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Jun 7

This Black Music Month, @npr's Tiny Desk is honoring the anniveraries of landmark albums. 20 years after "Touch" dropped, Amerie performs a set including songs from her 2001 debut album, "All I Have," her latest single, "Mine," and hits from "Touch." She's […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of R&B singer Amerie, a Black woman, performing in the Tiny Desk studio.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· May 20

Does a "made in the USA" label affect people's purchasing? Ramon van Meer, a showerhead salesman from Texas, decided to conduct an experiment by labeling one item on his website as imported, costing $129, and a domestic version costing about $100 more. "Of […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Several red items with Make America Great Again text on them.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· May 5

This evening is the Met Gala in New York City, a benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, and fashion's biggest night out. For 2025, the exhibition's theme is Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, guest-curated by Monica Miller, who wrote […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

An image of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky (a Black woman and a Black man) posing at the Met Ball 2023. A$AP Rocky is one of the co-chairs of this year's event, which has the theme Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· May 2

Anyone feel like listening to some music that's joyful, buoyant and upbeat as we head into the weekend? Here's PJ Sin Suela for @npr's Tiny Desk. The proud Puerto Rican rapper, doctor and author exudes enthusiasm and smiles, accompanied by vocalists, flute […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

A group of people performing in the Tiny Desk studio — rapper PJ Sin Suela and his band and sign-language interpreter. Sin Suela, in a plaid shirt, is smiling, The shelves behind him and his bandmates are crammed with books and memorabilia.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Apr 29

80 years ago, the 855 members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, headed to Birmingham, England, to sort an enormous backlog of mail. They were faced with millions of letters and packages addressed to American […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

An image of women in military dress walking down cobbled streets. This shows the personnel of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion taking part in a parade in honor of Jeanne d'Arc in Rouen, France, 1945. The predominantly Black Six Triple Eight was the only all-female unit to serve overseas in WWII.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Apr 25

It's the weekend! Hooray! You made it! Here's a sublime @npr Tiny Desk concert, featuring Audra McDonald and some of the rest of the cast of the Gypsy, which is currently on Broadway. "McDonald's enthralling performance of "Some People" closes out the show […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of Audra McDonald performing in the Tiny Desk studio, with Danny Burstein ("Herbie") and Joy Woods ("Louise").

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Apr 17

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Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Apr 10

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” "The Great […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of a hardbacked book titled "The Great Gatsby," which has a woman's face floating above the lights of New York (the famous image by Francis Cugat, who designed the cover for the first edition of the book).

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Apr 9

The original cast recording of "Hamilton," the score of the videogame Minecraft, Tracy Chapman's eponymous debut album, and a milestone 1970 album by Miles Davis are among 25 additions to the National Recording Registry. @npr reports: Link […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of Tracy Chapman, a black woman with long hair, playing acoustic guitar on a stage. This is a shot from the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, taken by Amy Sussman and credited to Getty.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Apr 1

And so say all of us, @brianbilston #Poetry #Culture #BrianBilston #Poem

A poem, black text on white background

Prayer for Uninteresting Times

Send me a slow news day,
a quiet, subdued day,
in which nothing much happens of note, save for the passing of time,
the consumption of wine,
and a re-run of "Murder, She Wrote."

Grant me a no news day,
a spare-me-your-views day,
in which nothing much happens at all, except a few hours together
some regional weather,
a day we can barely recall.

Brian Bilston

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Mar 28

More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif., during World War II. Playing and watching baseball was one of the ways these Americans tried to retain some sense of normalcy. Dan Kwong is a longtime volunteer at […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of a baseball field in the middle of the Sierra Nevada region of California, with mountains looming in the background.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Mar 17

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's your annual reminder. Also, this ☘️ is a shamrock (Irish) and this 🍀is a four-leafed clover (not particularly Irish).

A poster headed Paddy NOT Patty

On the left is a picture of a boat with the caption:
Paddy arrived in a boat
On the right is a picture of a burger with the caption: Patty arrived in a bun

On the left is a picture of a man in a green bishop's mitre and robe (St. Patrick) with the caption, Paddy brought Christianity to the Irish.
On the right is a picture of a beef patty and a piece of paper with the caption, Patty got some grease on a pamphlet.

On the left is a picture of St. Patrick with a shamrock with the caption, Paddy made the shamrock a symbol of Ireland.
On the right is an image that says Patty tried to make it a garnish

On the left is an image of St. Patrick with a staff and squiggly lines with the caption, Paddy drove the snakes out of Ireland
On the right is an image of a meat patty with a sign that says F** off and a snake with the caption, Patty gave it a go.

On the left is a caption that says Paddy was made a saint and is remembered on March 17
On the right is a caption that says Patty got eaten by a goat. He didn't mind.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Feb 20

Is this the perfect soundtrack to a quiet Thursday afternoon? R&B artist Leon Thomas' first @npr Tiny Desk appearance comprises five songs — three from his new album, "MUTT," and two from 2023's "Electric Dusk" — and showcase his beautiful voice to a tee […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of Leon Thomas in the Tiny Desk studio — a Black man playing electric guitar against a backdrop of shelves stacked with music memorabilia.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Feb 6

The Sims is 25 years old. @Smithsonianmag takes a look at its enduring appeal and cultural impact. Link: https://flip.it/X-lMNF #TheSims #Videogames #Gaming #ElectronicArts

A clip of Sims 4 being shown at the E3 conference in 2014.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Jan 23

@brianbilston knows what's what. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BrianBilston #January

An image of a poem by Brian Bilston

Mnemonic

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
Unless a leap year is its fate,
February hath twenty-eight.
All the rest hath three days more,
excepting January,
which hath six thousand,
one hundred and eighty-four.

Brian Bilston

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Jan 2

Copyrights expired yesterday for a wealth of books, films, comic strips, musical compositions and other works from 1929. @Smithsonianmag breaks down what creations are now in the public domain, from Popeye to Ravel's "Boléro." Link: https://flip.it/T.Mvcf […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Images depicting works entering the public domain include The Sound and the Fury, the first recordings of Rhapsody in Blue, Popeye, Tintin and The Broadway Melody. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Wikimedia Commons; Gabriel Hackett, MGM Studios, Movie Poster Image Art via Getty Images.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Dec 11

If you want to glimpse into a world without modern medicine, just pick up a Victorian book. In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn't live past the age of five. Kids were dying of diseases that are now […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Illustration of an elderly man leaning over a young girl, devastated by grief at the death of the child. This is Thomas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop."

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Dec 10

Poet Nikki Giovanni died on Monday at age 81. Read @npr's tribute to her, from her first collection, 1968's "Black Feeling Black Talk," to her upcoming "The Last Book," and watch a video of her in conversation with James Baldwin. "Her language is sometimes […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

American poet Yolanda Cornelia 'Nikki' Giovanni leans on her desk beside a typewriter, in front of a wall decorated with photos, 1973. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Dec 9

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "blackbirders" lured, coerced and kidnapped thousands of Pacific Islanders for forced labor in Australia and Fiji. @Smithsonianmag explains why. https://flip.it/JrNm4C #History @histodons #PacificIslands #Australia #Fiji #BritishEmpire

Image of a group of people at a plantation in Queensland in the late 19th century.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Nov 14

Time to add some poetry to your feed! Here's a little something by @brianbilston, the Banksy of the poetry world, about monetizing your followers. #BrianBilston #Poetry #Humor #Humour #Monetization #SocialMedia #Monet

A block of text (a poem) that says the following:

Monetisation

The advert said

MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought

he would respond;

by painting them

in the changing light,

like waterlilies

in a pond.

Brian Bilston

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Nov 13

The English translation of Haruki Murakami's first novel in six years is set for release next week. Called "The City and its Uncertain Walls," it's another genre-defying book, with some of Murakami's trademark motifs including jazz, coffee, and the Beatles […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of Haruki Murakami, a Japanese man who is 75 years old.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Nov 6

Here's a beautiful Tiny Desk concert from @npr by Grammy Award-winner Meshell Ndegeocello. It includes three songs from her new album, "No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin," including “Thus Sayeth The Lorde” which references the writings of Audre […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of singer Meshell Ndegeocello with sunglasses singing and smiling. There is a man beside her singing with his eyes closed.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Oct 3

Last year, the American Ornithological Society announced plans to rename over 100 North and South American birds. The goal was to do away with all names that honor people, purging links to racism and colonialism without the need for conversations about the […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

Image of the Steller’s Jay, a bird with a blue body and blackhead, neck and beak with a black crest. It, and dozens more could get a new name soon under a proposal by the American Ornithological Society to re-name all birds named after people.

Flipboard Culture Desk@culturedesk· Oct 1

22 "exceptionally creative people" will each receive no-strings-attached grants of $800,000, the MacArthur Foundation announced. @npr breaks down who's on the list, from disability justice activist Alice Wong to "Reservation Dogs" co-creator Sterlin Harjo […] [Original post on flipboard.social]