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rfmcdonald ([personal profile] rfmcdonald) wrote2019-09-21 07:57 pm

[NEWS] News from around the world: Cheetos fashion, Gaspé yaks, NL slavery, Lebanon comics, Netflix


  • Oh, why not a fashion show organized around the theme of Cheetos? VICE reports.

  • A farmer in the Gaspé peninsula is trying to retrieve all of his missing yaks. CBC Montreal has it.

  • A Newfoundland researcher and artist is examining the relationship of the island with Atlantic slavery. Global News reports.

  • Atlas Obscura takes a look at the alternative comics scene in the Middle East, centered on Lebanon.

  • Vanity Fair shares an account of how Netflix tried to sell itself, and its model, to Blockbuster and failed.