Oops! Weekend links

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PLAYBACK

Snippets of streaming news — and what we’re streaming.

• SOS Deluxe: LANA by SZA (Spotify)

• First-person game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a love letter to art history (Vulture)

• The era of media arbitrage is dead…good! (A Media Operator) 

MIXTAPE

Good links from the Dirtyverse.

• “Those who know her well say the brand has no imagined customer: The MNZ woman is simply MNZ herself.” The Maryam Nassir Zadeh profile you didn’t know you needed. (The Cut)

• The Baltimore Banner seems to be a local media success story (Adweek)

• Panettone has always been chic to me (The Atlantic)

• W. David Marx visits designer Shinsuke Nakada at his Tokyo studio (Carhartt WIP)

• “I was at Whole Foods stealing the kind of prepared food that comes in little plastic containers and looks like slime when I saw Alex.” A new short story by Miriam Gordis in The Drift.

• “Giant 5kg mushroom feeds family for a week” SAY NO MORE (BBC)

• “It’s not just about the perfume but the ritual and the way it takes you through the year. I was literally just sitting in bed thinking it must be time for the next one.” Learn more about Ffern’s perfume subscription. (The New York Times)

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