Our weekly recap highlighting the best feature stories from around the internet.
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Bill Murray Just Needs To Start Making Good Movies Again – by Mike Ryan, Uproxx
“Bill Murray has quietly made a lot of bad movies since Lost in Translation, and no one has noticed because everyone is so damned enamored of Bill Murray “being Bill Murray.” You are not helping him. You are enabling him.”
Zola's Twitter Tale of Strippers in Florida Is Easily the Greatest Thing You'll Read All Week – by Frazier Tharpe, Complex
“Last night a young lady by the Twitter name of @_zolamoon randomly decided to bless her timeline with an absolutely ridiculous, absurd, so-outrageous-it-can't-be-true-which-probably-means-it's-very-true tale of strippers, Hooters, Florida, and murder. To quote Zola herself, “this story long but it's full of suspense.””
Has ‘Diversity’ Lost Its Meaning? – by Anna Holmes, The NY Times Magazine
“Talk is cheap, of course, and sometimes you get the sense that the people talking the most about diversity are the people doing the least effective work on it.”
How Grantland's Shea Serrano Became a New York Times Best-Selling Author – by Chris Gayomali, GQ
“I just started calling up local newspapers and telling them I was a writer. That's really all you have to do: You just gotta say you're a thing, and people will think you're that thing.”
A Patriotic Hero’s Quest to Survive a Day on Only Official All Blacks™ Products – by Calum Henderson, The Spinoff
“I went to the supermarket on my way home from work on Friday and bought every All Blacks branded product I could find. The following day I set out on a courageous journey, to find out what it was like to live as an All Black, and consume only Officially Licensed All Blacks™ products.”
Part of God's Plan: How Vince Staples and Kendrick Lamar Portray Black Faith – by David Turner, Pitchfork
“Rap is inherently a nihilistic art form. What else could one expect of music from the disenfranchised that primarily concerns itself with examining a world that doesn’t care about them? Yet the nihilism is curtailed when an artist offers a way out of the pain.”
Wearing a veil is a feminist choice – by Donna Miles-Mojab, NZ Herald
“If you agree that the choice to cover less does not lead to liberty, then why assume that the choice to cover up more leads to oppression? Surely, what is most problematic is the removal of choice and the imposition on women to conform to externally constructed expectations and views.”