1. I was rather impressed with Frank Mosley’s Hold, which showed at the Dallas International Film Festival and was written by and starred Robby Storey. This is the first time I’ve heard that Storey is blind, which is absolutely phenomenal, considering his performance was the movie’s highlight. Turns out the filmmakers deliberately kept Storey’s disability quiet so that their movie wasn’t pigeon-holed as the “the one with the blind guy.” Much respect.

2. A couple of weeks ago the New York Times wondered if unpaid interns are legal. Now the Guardian follows-up by looking at the vital role internships play in the arts, and the question’s two-sides: the potential exploitative nature of internships, and their necessity in continuing education.

3. Why is anxiety about American cultural imperialism waning in Europe? Michael Kimmelman suggests an answer in the New York Times:

Nationalism, regionalism and tribalism are all on the rise. Societies are splitting even as they share more common goods and attributes than ever before. Culture is increasingly an instrument to divide and differentiate communities. And the leveling pressures of globalization have at the same time provided more and more people with the technological resources to decide for themselves, culturally speaking, who they are and how they choose to be known, seen, distinguished from others.