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Every day the Good Good Good team collects the best good news in the world and shares it with our community. Here are the highlights for this week!If you want to get good news in your inbox every day, join the Goodnewsletter — the free daily newsletter designed to leave you feeling hopeful.‍The Best Positive News We’re Celebrating This Week —The Kansas Humane Society raised $8,000 by selling “feet pics” on social media With platforms like OnlyFans making adult content creation more accessible, memes about “selling feet pics” have become commonplace online — and the Kansas Humane Society took a…

Thomas Guggeis was a young repetiteur at the Berlin State Opera five years ago when he was asked a career-changing question: Could he conduct “Salome”?He had worked with the singers, but this new production of Strauss’s opera was meant to be led by the veteran maestro Christoph von Dohnányi — until a dispute with the director led him to back out mere hours before the final dress rehearsal. So Guggeis went on in his place. And he was back in the pit on opening night.“This was a situation of a star is born,” said Bernd Loebe, the general manager of…

At a fund-raiser, Coca Rocha, Rebel Wilson and Bebe Rexha revealed the most unglamorous thing about the film festival.The amfAR Gala in Cannes, France, may be the only social event to rival the Met Gala. Held at the sprawling Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc during the Cannes Film Festival, the event raises money for AIDS research. As guests were reminded multiple times throughout the evening on May 25, H.I.V. is not extinct (about 38 million people were living with the virus in 2021).So many models and actors showed up that the red carpet (this one was actually blue) lasted for more than…

In his new essay collection, “The Male Gazed,” the writer and film critic Manuel Betancourt explores society’s portrayals of masculinity.THE MALE GAZED: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men, by Manuel BetancourtToxic masculinity. Fragile masculinity. Like most pop-sociological truisms that gain traction on social media, these are great buzzwords but they fail to grapple with nuance. A slogan isn’t a thesis, of course, but I’ve always found these terms to be simplistic substitutions for more interesting conversations. Yes, masculinity, which is often a patriarchal institution that metes out seemingly impossible social expectations for men and…

With a retrospective in Philadelphia, Judith Joy Ross is still seeking to capture a mysterious moment.In a room hung with empathetic black-and-white photographic portraits for her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Judith Joy Ross, frail-looking and white-haired, was recently taking pictures for her next series. Posing a guard in front of her old-fashioned wooden view camera, she chattered on in an obscenity-laced monologue about her ineptitude.Seemingly to herself, she said, “I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve forgotten.” Then she looked up at the bald, bushy-bearded guard, who was standing compliantly where she had placed him. “That’s…

With the unofficial start of summer comes, for some, a scramble to secure a free getaway somewhere.Grace Palumbo, a kindergarten teacher in Denver, has one goal right now: to get access to a beach house.“A Hamptons house is one of the things I am manifesting, but I’m not picky,” said Ms. Palumbo, 26. “It can be Cape Cod, Long Beach Island, Jersey Shore.” Neither she nor her family owns this type of real estate, so she is actively seeking a solution.When she scrolls through men on dating apps, mostly Hinge, she searches for signs of summer homes. “Like, if they…

Domenico Starnone’s novel “The House on Via Gemito” is a searching work of autofiction about a family in postwar Naples.THE HOUSE ON VIA GEMITO, by Domenico Starnone. Translated by Oonagh Stransky.“Marriage,” wrote Cyril Connolly in 1938, “can succeed for an artist only where there is enough money to save him from taking on uncongenial work and a wife who is intelligent and unselfish enough to understand and respect the working of the unfriendly cycle of the creative imagination. … There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”No doubt Federico Starnone would agree. Federì,…

The “Cruel Summer” actor explains why Frank Ocean, ramen and “MJ: The Musical” are among her favorite things.As she was learning the part of Isabella, who she plays on the teen drama “Cruel Summer,” Lexi Underwood asked herself, “What would Pearl do?”Pearl is one of her previous television roles, from the 2020 Hulu mini-series “Little Fires Everywhere.”That character, constantly uprooted by her enigmatic mother, has some similarities with Isabella, the daughter of peripatetic diplomats. Both have complicated relationships with their parents. Both crave stability and normal lives, suppressing their pain while pretending that everything is fine.“I felt as though I…

72 years ago, Linnanmäki, a very unique kind of amusement park opened in Helsinki, Finland. Along with containing roller coasters, theme parks, carnival food and all that good stuff, Linnanmäki is owned and operated by the non-profit Children’s Day Foundation, which raises and donates money to Finish child welfare work. In 2019 it handed over 4.5 million of its hard earned euros, and to date has donated €120 million. READ how this unique park came about… (1950) An aerial view of Linnanmäki Finland – CC 3.0. Simbe In 1950, six child welfare organizations leased a small amount of land in the middle…

In a movie extrapolated from one of his stand-up bits, Bert Kreischer is dragged to Russia to face a gory but still comedic reckoning.The star of this picture, Bert Kreischer, is one of those popular stand-up comedians who’s not zeitgeist-adjacent enough to generate much in the way of think pieces or buzz. But in the late 1990s, as a student at Florida State University, he was the subject of a Rolling Stone magazine profile that named him “the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country.”The late 1990s were a while ago, and today Kreischer is a…