J. Clara Chan

3 weeks ago | readtailmail.com | J. Clara Chan

Tail Mail is making this piece available to all subscribers for a limited time. To continue receiving original reporting like this, please consider upgrading your subscription to the paid tier. There’s no way to sugarcoat this: Chickens and dairy cows are getting sick with a bird flu virus that’s making its way into the pet food supply chain, leading to the infections and deaths of some household cats.

Dec 23, 2024 | wired.com | J. Clara Chan

It was the summer of 2013 when a group of teenagers decided to take matters into their own hands. Disney had just announced the company was going to shutter Toontown Online, a massively multiplayer online game for children and families in which players become cartoon animals tasked with defending their colorful world from gray, no-fun-allowed business robots.

Jun 2, 2024 | newsexplorer.net | J. Clara Chan

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May 27, 2024 | theatlantic.com | J. Clara Chan

Earlier this year, I was scrolling through TikTok when the sound of a piano, accompanied by a baby bird chirping, stopped my thumb mid-air. In the video, a little green puppet girl with big eyes and two tufts of hair holds a yellow felt bird in a blanket. “Hey, birdie. It’s okay, birdie,” she coos. “I’m gonna take care of you, birdie.” My mind went back to the difficult year I’d just had: the loss of my father to cancer, two consecutive layoffs from jobs I loved.

Feb 11, 2024 | sandiegouniontribune.com | J. Clara Chan

At a time when studios are zeroing in on existing intellectual property and tried-and-true storylines to fill up their film and TV slates, Hillman Grad is looking in the opposite direction. The production company, led by writer-producer-actor Lena Waithe and Chief Executive Rishi Rajani, has put its weight behind projects from emerging and first-time filmmakers, including Jingyi Shao (“Chang Can Dunk”), A.V. Rockwell (“A Thousand and One”) and D.