[ad_1] Compared with other widely spoken languages, English has few guardrails against the will of the masses. We have no governing body equivalent to the Real Academia Española, much less the notoriously hard-core Office Québécois de la Langue Française, and our self-appointed language police, the bow-tied vigilantes behind usage guides and dictionaries, have for the… Continue reading How Much Do Words Matter?
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Sundance Film Festival advice: ‘The Stroll’ directors on why festivals matter
[ad_1] (Illustration by Jess Hutchison / Los Angeles Times; Photographs by Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker look back at the Sundance Film Festival as a bit of a Cinderella experience. Their film, “The Stroll,” about the history of trans sex workers in New York’s Meatpacking District before its gentrification,… Continue reading Sundance Film Festival advice: ‘The Stroll’ directors on why festivals matter