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As Disney, Netflix, and Tubi aggressively cut deals with top creators, YouTube tries to remain top talent's primary home, with incentives and sometimes threats (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywo…

Disney and Netflix Are Courting Creators. YouTube Is Playing Hardball to Keep Them
The studios are offering rich deals to grow engagement on their platforms. The Google-owned video giant is punching back with its own offers — and threats.

Twelve, Neither More Nor Less
The jury box in a Florida criminal courtroom holds six chairs. In one of those courtrooms, in West Palm Beach, six people heard the state's case against a chiropractor named Hamed Kian, and they convicted him on every count....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/23/twel<…

A useful critique about why #MayorLurie's props D, E and F really don't clean up City Hall - but rather gives City Hall & the very wealthy more power. Please, if you're a San Francisco voter, vote NO on this power-grab trio
Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, & F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 

Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, and F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 
Mission Local looks into some of the dire warnings and big promises in advertisements for San Francisco's Props D, E, and F.

A useful critique about why #MayorLurie's props D, E and F really don't clean up City Hall - but rather gives City Hall & the very wealthy more power. Please, if you're a San Francisco voter, vote NO on this power-grab trio
Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, & F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 

Election ad fact-check: Will Props. D, E, and F really ‘Clean up City Hall’? 
Mission Local looks into some of the dire warnings and big promises in advertisements for San Francisco's Props D, E, and F.

The American Entertainment Alliance calls for a rule modeled on the old "fin-syn" law protecting creators' ownership of shows, along with a tax credit (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/american-entertainment-…

Agencies and Producers Back U.S. Tax Incentive as 'First Step'
A coalition of talent agencies and independent producers said Thursday that it supports the U.S. film incentive bill as a 'first step.

Nelda Damiano, the museum’s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, said, “I think what's going to be most apparent is the dramatic shifts in style from almost one decade to another or from a century to another. For example, saints were represented in a way that felt elevated and unrelatable in the 15th century to figures that were humanized and with whom viewers could identify with in the 16th century.”
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We are excited to host an exhibition of rare Biblical movie posters and ephemera spanning decades of Hollywood from the Silent Era to the the Golden Age. The exhibition will be open to the public during the fall semester. Opening presentation by curators Richard Lindsay '04 M.A.R. and Fr. Chris Renz.

An interview with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair about plans to offer financial services to its 2.5M active creators, a "pathway towards an IPO", and more (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/20/onlyfans-ceo-interview-keily-blair-ipo/

How OnlyFans plans to expand into financial services—and go public
CEO Keily Blair laid out her plan for OnlyFans' next chapter, including a possible IPO.

The Creator of ‘Smutstep’ Wants You to ‘Let Your Freak Flag Fly’ https://www.404media.co/smutstep-dubstep-booktok-growl-darq-dagr/

You Have to Drink Hot
The building had a service corridor on the ground floor, and at the end of it a room about the size of a closet with a hot plate, a percolator, and a folding chair that had been repaired with wire....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/18/you-have-to-drink-ho…