Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter!
Kevin Smokler
(Author of 'Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies. Regular: @salon Newsletter/Trapper Keepers: http://tinyletter.com/kevinsmokler)
Forty years ago, the summer movie season looked like a very different beast than the one we know today. Night and day, really. Back in 1980, as Memorial Day approached, there was only a small handful of sequels on the release schedule, but they…
The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid nationwide protests and calls for systemic reforms. In this short film, five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, 'What to the Slave is the Fourth…
WASHINGTON — After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it. Administration officials are planning to intensify what they hope is a sharper, and less…
The New York Times
–
Ginia Bellafante
– Jul 3, 2:00 AM
Three years ago, when the American workplace at long last began to clean house, sweeping away the vestiges of “Mad Men'' habits, WNYC, the most popular public-radio station in the country, pushed three of its leading on-air personalities…
WASHINGTON — Health officials across the country are urging Americans to scale back their Fourth of July plans as the coronavirus pandemic makes a frightening resurgence. Most politicians, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden…
