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David Zwirner recently hired black gallerist Ebony L. Harris to run a new “all-black” commercial gallery in Manhattan. Major strides have been made towards getting black artists more attention, Zwirnertold the New York Times, but art world employment remains stunningly white.  Shouldn’t we then celebrate this announcement as what social justice for marginalized people looks like? Isn’t the world’s second-richest art dealer simply empowering Harris, and thus, empowering black people in the art world and beyond?

Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a celebrity pastor gets in trouble, a model has a birthday party (and gets in trouble), and Katie Holmes enjoys life. It’s the question that’s consumed the nation this week: What’s going on with Justin Bieber’s celebrity pastor friend? You’ve probably heard the headline by now — Carl Lentz, 42, the “hot” pastor at the evangelical powerhouse Hillsong’s New York City branch, was fired for “leadership issues and breaches of trust, plus a recent revelation of moral failures.

This weekend, for the first time in months (and what seems like years), I’m in between projects. I sent my agent my book proposal for my next nonfiction book earlier this week (more details coming soon). Next on my list: touching up a novel I’ve been working on off-and-on for seven years, an epistolary novel called The Letters. It’s supposed to go on submission this fall, so I feel an urgency to get it done (finally, finally, finally), but a friend told me to make sure I do something good for myself in between.

At the gym last week, I tuned in to a podcast from one of the great Bitcoin analysts and podcast hosts, Stephan Livera. (I need to update my recommendations, below, to include his pod, “Stephan Livera Podcast,” as one of my favorites.) His guest was the CIO of Swan Bitcoin, Rapha Zagury. Rapha has been a trader, investment analyst, and open source developer. His research on including Bitcoin in an investment portfolio is truly eye-opening.

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After writing 3,000 words already ranking every doughnut place in Metro Vancouver, what have we learned? In addition, we’ve also learned that any potential damage you inflict on a beloved Deep Cove small business will quickly be countered by John Cena. But we’re not looking at the past, we’re moving forward. After four months of eating doughnuts across Metro Vancouver and inputting in hundreds of scores into a overly complicated rubric, we’re here to scientifically declare the top 10 doughnut places in the region, definitely ending the debate once and for all.

As we reach the end of 2023, I thought I would take the opportunity to look back at some of my favourite moments and activations in sports marketing from the year. I hope you enjoy the selection and let me know in the comments below if I have missed any of your favourites! 1. Inter Milan and Paramount+ roll out a special front-of-shirt activation Maybe it’s because I feel equally nostalgic about Transformers in the 1980s as I do about Alvaro Recoba and Ronaldo terrorising Serie A defences for the Nerazzurri in the 1990s, but this front-of-shirt activation really caught my eye.

I’ve waited a long time to write these words: I say that without shame or reservation. I can’t tell you exactly when WEC and I first crossed paths. According to Wikipedia, The Road Runner Show debuted in 1966 and was merged into the hour-long Bugs Bunny Show in 1968 or so. I know that it was broadcast on WMT out of Cedar Rapids at 7am on Saturday mornings. Here was my magical Saturday morning routine back then.

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