There are only 10 on the Register - nine in South Dakota, one in Arkansas - but the 50+-year-old brick rest stop near Alexandria "is considered a gem of 1970s modernist 'funk/revival.'" - MPR
Sure, it's become the classic holiday ballet (and moneymaker), but "if you look at some of the forces giving rise to it, and that still live within it, The Nutcracker isn’t all that sweet." - Washington Post
It’s not impossible to make your argument stick. And there’s been some good scientific work on this. Here are two strategies that, based on the evidence, seem promising. - Vox
On Friday, keen-eyed theatergoers discovered a website for the Broadway iteration, which announced that the murder mystery, whose London production holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest-running play, would make its Broadway debut some time in 2023. - The New York Times
Voting is now open online, and over the next two weeks English speakers can cast their vote, choosing from three words selected by Oxford University Press (OUP)’s lexicographers, each of which is believed to capture “the mood and ethos of the last year in its own way”. - The Guardian
While some with dementia can often feel trapped in the past, some researchers believe the act of creating music - as well as listening to it - can help to reconnect them to the here and now. A new BBC documentary follows the work of Manchester Camerata. - BBC
In recent years, especially in the months since it reopened after an extended, pandemic-forced closure, the tone of a visit to the Disneyland Resort had changed. One hopes that Iger and his new reorganized regime will take a close look at the current state of the parks and begin a reevaluation process. - Los Angeles Times
The musical was staged every year from 1965 to 2019, earning it recognition from Guinness World Records. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a two-year pause, but the musical returned this year. - Toronto Star
On that day, the heads of the major studios, with a few notable exceptions, agreed after a contentious two-day conference at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City to ban the Hollywood Ten and to not “knowingly” employ Communists. - Deadline
By creating a character who can’t be written off as another predictably problematic man, “Tár” draws our attention to how Lydia learned to become one. - The New Yorker
I do know that the word “accuracy” in the context of audio means reproducing the master recording faithfully, but this always seemed like an imaginary pursuit. Who, other than the artist, would know how a master recording was supposed to sound? - Harper's
One of the main determinants of the vulnerability of literary studies, and hence of the compensating over-ambitiousness of the justification offered for it, is the mismatch between literature’s suitability as a subject for teaching and as a subject for research. - London Review of Books
