Did you read about Saravana Bhavan, Bernie Tiede, and Jack White?

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• A dosai chutney at Saravana Bhavan

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

Hey, did you read:

• That video-on-demand is hurting foreign-film distribution in the United States? (“Netflix is the industry’s leading VOD powerhouse—and the popular streaming service has been steadily abandoning foreign-language films.”) —Drew Hunt

• About Saravana Bhavan, India’s largest fast food chain, and its founder/potentate P. Rajagopal, a convicted murderer? —Aimee Levitt

• About reading The Count of Monte Cristo and other literature in prison? —Mick Dumke

• John Jeremiah Sullivan on the poet Frederick Seidel? —Tal Rosenberg

• That convicted murderer Bernie Tiede, the subject of Richard Linklater’s Bernie, may be released from prison on the condition that he live with the director? —Brianna Wellen

• About the big book of color variations, written (and mixed) by a 17th-century Dutch watercolorist? —Tony Adler

• Yet another reason why records triumph: Jack White’s Lazaretto vinyl will create a hologram when it spins? —Lisa Schulz

• Missed connections for a-holes? —Steve Bogira