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The checkered print is by no means a novel pattern it s been around since the invention of chess in the 6th century (Netflix s
The Queen s Gambit really couldn t have been better timed). It s appeared in tiling and flags that date back to the 1600s before showing up in fashion in the 1950s and 60s, gracing the pages of
Glamour. Most recently, those classic black-and-white squares have swept the runways once more, showing up in the Fall/Winter 2020 collections of Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Erdem, Eckhaus Latta, and The Elder Statesman.
The ubiquity of checks, especially among the Instagram influencer set, is felt even with a simple, cursory scroll. We get it, Instagram was invented for that very reason: to show off what you love and to have that love validated with copious likes. But when there s a tidal wave of people who all love one thing at the
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I’m not a
Radiolab listener so I had no idea that the New York Public Radio show’s director of research, Latif Nasser, had a docuseries quietly debut on Netflix in August. On
Connected: The Hidden Science Of Everything, Nasser explores broad topics like surveillance, dust, and even poop sharing how things that we never realized are related can have an impact halfway across the globe. Did you know, for example, that observing the behavior of birds in Delaware is helping scientists get more accurate hurricane season predictions?
Connected’s six-episode season was the perfect find for me, since I still lament that we haven’t gotten more of Steven Johnson’s PBS series,
MLK/FBI (2020)
Another record-breaking, history-making week in America has managed to squeeze in a bit of movie news as well. Specifically, festival news. Bong Joon Ho, whose
Parasite won the Palme d’Or in 2019 and four Oscars last year, will preside over the jury in Venice. The seventy-eighth edition is set to run from September 1 through 11.
Sundance, whose hybrid 2021 edition opens on January 28, has added two films to its lineup. Shaka King’s
Judas and the Black Messiah stars Daniel Kaluuya as Black Panther party leader Fred Hampton and Lakeith Stanfield as the man the FBI has sent in to track his every move. And Ali El Arabi’s documentary