Happy Hump Day! For all our U.S. readers, I hope you had a great, long Labor Day weekend and caught up on some reading. It’s only a couple more days until Friday, so let’s hope these link provide a good distraction.
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Dancers invaded the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts for a beautiful photoshoot for a #CamerasAndDancers social media initiative:
Dancers from the Parsons Dance Company and the Paul Taylor Dance Company joined Jacob Jonas the Company, social influencer and photograper Dave Krugman, and a group of photographers and Instagrammers to put their own unique spin on the spaces in and around LPA.
With the social media initiative #CamerasAndDancers, Jacob Jonas seeks to encourage collaboration and exploration through the mediums of dance and photography, to help shine a new light on the world of dance.
Not only are there some beautiful photos, but there’s also a video with creators of the project and it’s so neat.
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Our next ad cycle begins this week, and we have availability starting at $35 for the next four weeks. Email Sarah for more details!
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Lyrical Press (Kensington’s digital-first imprint) has acquired its first work in translation from French-Canadian author, Chloé Duval:
Stolen Time is the story of how a letter from a stranger can change your life. Flavie, author of romance novels and sentimental to the core, cannot help being won over when one day she receives a mysterious letter, along with an apology from the Post Office for the delay in delivery… of forty-three years. Deeply moved by the somewhat tragic love story that unfolds within the letter, Flavie is eager to reunite the pair and hopes to reignite the decades-old love affair from its ashes. But Flavie’s quest to locate these two strangers leads her towards the one person she had lost all hope of ever finding.
Stolen Time isn’t due out until June 2017, so there isn’t any information up on Goodreads unless you want to check out Duval’s works in French. Stolen Time was originally released in February 2015 and titled Le Temps Volé.
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This next link is from Reader Janice! Wives of politicians are open to unnecessary scrutiny regarding their fashion choices. But now it looks like Great Britain’s “First Man” is getting the same treatment:
The man behind the UK’s most powerful woman looked on fondly as she addressed the UK for the first time as leader.
Oh, and let’s not forget those shoes…
Philip elongated his pins with a pair of black brogues as he accompanied his wife to step over the threshold of their new home – 10 Downing Street.
It’s pretty tongue-in-cheek and I laughed rather hard. Thanks, Janice!
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Broadway lovers can thank Reader Virginia for sending us this list of recommendations for all ages for those who love Hamilton over at the Nerdy Book Club blog:
More than a historical depiction of America’s forgotten Founding Father, Hamilton is a work of musical genius—sampling hip hop legends like Busta Rhymes, rhythm and blues elements, and classic Broadway shows like Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance—bringing together people from all backgrounds who can find something both accessible and completely new. Through its diverse casting, its mix of classic and modern elements, and its empowering reminder of our shared American Dream, Hamilton invites everyone to join the Revolution. How lucky we are to be alive right now.
Have you read any of the books on the list?
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We have a new recommendation feature! Sometimes we have things we love that don’t warrant a review but are so useful we want to spread the word. Special note: the link is affiliate coded so if you use it, many thanks! And if you’ve got something to suggest, please email Sarah!
Battery chargers!
Every few months a bigger, better, and lighter weight battery charger comes out. At this point I have 3 in various sizes—lipstick sized, 6.5oz, and the 12.5oz, which lives in our travel bag. I can recharge my kids' DS, tablets, my phone, etc, before it runs out of charge. - SW
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
I read this interesting if somewhat depressing piece about why video game designers hate women.
http://howtonotsuckatgamedesign.com/2013/12/marketers-fear-female-geek-2/
I detest rap, but I read about “Hamilton” about a couple of years ago and thought of buying a ticket (best ticket then: $100, now, with all the ridiculous fees: about $5,000). I decided it was too pricy to take a train to NYC (about $100). It’s right up there with my decision not to buy Apple stock at $35. So, I got the CD from the library and I LOVED it. Now, I have to settle for watching the clips on You-Tube and looking forward to the PBS documentary coming up. Eventually, the road show will come to my town. In about ten years.
Glad you liked the link! Someone has now done a similar one for Bill Clinton expanding beyond just wardrobe :-> http://time.com/4426219/this-is-what-it-would-look-like-if-we-treated-bill-clinton-like-a-first-lady/
I’m lucky enough to live in a city that is getting Hamilton for their 2017 Broadway series. Though I’m bummed to not have seen the original casts, I can’t wait to see this show live!
Oh, I didn’t realize a different We Love This! item would show up when I refreshed the page. Cool. I love some of those items already, and will check out the others.
I just spit coffee reading that article about the UK’s first man
One other thing to scratch the Hamilton itch, if you want to listen to your history but not have it sung, is the Revolutions podcast. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
He works his way through various revolutions (starting the English Civil Wars, the American Revolution is second). The episodes are nice sized chunks and while he takes the subject seriously he also works bits of humor in (He often refers to Cromwell as ‘obscure country gentleman Oliver Cromwell’ and during the American Revolution he talks about ‘gentleman Johny’s party train’ when discussing General John Burgoyne’s march down the Hudson).
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@LyndaX: My dad faced a similar decision when he saw that they were making a musical out of The Producers back in 2000. I think he paid $1000 for three tickets that would’ve cost three times that much had we bought them any later. I still wonder if I could’ve gotten him to do that for Book of Mormon.