Feel Good Friday

NYT (Gift Article): Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studio. “Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.” With a restroom and a built-in audience, it also could soon double as NextDraft HQ.

+ Bridgette and Paula Powers are the twins from Queensland, Australia who went viral for saying the same thing at the same time. The best part of the whole thing was Jimmy Kimmel interviewing them. It can’t be real. But it is.

+ Pedro Pascal wore a Protect the Dolls t-shirt on the red carpet and called out JK Rowling. It’s a reminder, especially now, not to be afraid to be a decent person. “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” My friend Nish Nadaraja explains it well. Pedro Pascal is already Mr. Fantastic. “Protect the dolls. Protect the humans. Protect the people who have already spent too much time trying to earn the basic courtesy the rest of us get for free.”

+ “Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display real-time speech transcription on their lenses—is a game-changing breakthrough.” The New Yorker:
Subtitling Your Life.

+ At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays.

+ WaPo (Gift Article): You can read with a cat on your lap at this bookstore, then adopt the cat. (I sometimes go to my local bookstore just to get a break from my cats.)