What’s better than Broadway, baby? Theater’s best and brightest were honored last night at the Tony Awards, held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and hosted by Wicked superstar Cynthia Erivo. Check out a roundup of the best red carpet looks and a list of who took home awards after the star-studded evening.
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Christening this year’s U.N. Ocean Conference, dozens of vessels set sail across France’s Bay of Angels yesterday in honor of World Oceans Day
Denali National Park’s Sled Dog “Puppy Cam” Is Live: Meet This Year’s Litter
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Stop the presses! There’s another animal live stream to get glued to, and this one features some adorable future heroes: the next generation of sled dogs at Alaska’s Denali National Park. The Denali Sled Dog Kennels’ seasonal “Puppy Cam” is turned on when the newest recruits to the mushing squad are old enough to wander around and play on their own. This year’s litter was born May 3, and the cam went live May 30, introducing viewers everywhere to pups Storm, Squall, Graupel, Fog, and Dew. Filling the open spots of the squad’s retirees — when Denali’s dogs reach age 9, they move to private homes to live out their golden years — the puppies were named in honor of an important milestone. In 2024, the Kennels and the National Weather Service marked 100 years of the mushing rangers collecting weather data, so the “Weather Litter” puppies were all given monikers representing “the diverse and sometimes dramatic ways water influences our weather,” per a news release. When they’re older and have gone through training, the newcomers will join the rest of the squad. Together with human rangers, the mushing dogs help preserve and protect Denali National Park by patrolling over 2 million acres of federally designated wilderness. Meet the puppies.
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Nasal Spray Offers a Novel Approach to Slowing Down Alzheimer’s Progression
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A new nasal spray is being studied not to relieve congestion and dryness, but to slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers are currently testing it on Joe Walsh, a 79-year-old who is receiving experimental therapy after his Alzheimer’s progressed to the point where he no longer qualified for most clinical trials. “I think this is something special,” Howard Weiner, a neurologist at Mass General Brigham who helped develop the nasal spray, told NPR. Unlike many existing treatments that focus on preventing or clearing the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain, this trial aims to address Alzheimer’s-related inflammation: a sign of disease that becomes more intense as it progresses to later stages. Six months into the novel treatment, the drug, which contains a monoclonal antibody called foralumab, has significantly reduced the inflammation in Walsh’s brain, but it’s still too soon to tell if his memory and thinking have improved. Though his wife, Karen, says he still struggles to find his words, she has noticed improvements when it comes to his engagement in social activities. As for Walsh, it seems to be a nonissue to stay on the drug: “It’s easy enough to take it, so I do it, and it feels good.”
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“Incredible”: California Returns 47,000 Acres of Land to Yurok Tribe
Peter Marbach / Western Rivers Conservancy
In California’s largest land-back conservation deal to date, the Yurok Tribe is getting some of its home back — and by that, we mean 47,097 acres of forested land around the Klamath River (an area roughly three times the size of Manhattan). The historic move comes more than 150 years after Indigenous people were displaced during the Gold Rush and had 90% of their territory stolen. “To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,” Barry McCovey Jr., director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, told the Associated Press. The site, previously owned and managed by timber companies, is now called the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and Yurok Tribal Community Forest. With regained ownership, the tribe has hefty plans to heal the land. One of its goals is to establish a “new salmon sanctuary,” which is aptly timed given that the Klamath River was recently the site of the largest dam removal in U.S. history. The Yurok also intend to revive other wildlife populations and historic prairies, as well as plant trees, remove invasive species, and reintroduce prescribed fires as a forest management tool, all in hopes of restoring the land to what it once was. “And maybe all that’s not going to be done in my lifetime,” said McCovey. “But that’s fine, because I’m not doing this for myself.” See more photos of Blue Creek.
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Game, set, match: Three years after losing the French Open final, Coco Gauff just became the youngest American to win the Roland-Garros singles title since Serena Williams’ showing in 2002. The 21-year-old clinched the victory, the first French Open singles title of her career, in the Saturday final against previous world champion Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus. “I guess I got the most important win — that’s all that matters,” Gauff said.
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“Untitled #577” by Cindy Sherman (2016) At yoga classes and meditation sessions, the sentiment is that showing up is the hardest part of the practice. There is so much truth to that. Showing up is adhering to the responsibility of this life. But also pausing the activeness of our hour, day, or week and doing something centered on self-care and wellness takes intention and commitment. Equally, showing up not just for ourselves but also for someone else when we’re needed comes from that same place of being available. Life (and love and work), in challenging times, is even more complex. That’s why who we show up for, and who shows up for us, will likely never be forgotten. I repeatedly say that I think all works of art are self-portraits. Some are obviously more so. Cindy Sherman appears in every photograph she has ever taken. The diversity of personalities she depicts is profound and offers interesting insight into how many different selves we harbor. And when the personal or cultural inclination is resignation, Sherman suggests that how we show up is less significant than simply showing up. Living with a bearable lightness of being is countercultural. Interested in adding a little more art to your day and learning how to live artfully? Sign up for the About Art newsletter.
Written by Heidi Zuckerman
Heidi is the CEO and director of the Orange County Museum of Art and author of Why Art Matters: The Bearable Lightness of Being.
