“Three of Pittsburgh’s most venerable troupes announced they are looking into ways they might join forces to survive. The announcement by Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre and Pittsburgh CLO came in the form of an email to subscribers and other supporters.” - WESA (Pittsburgh)
“Someone could make the right comment on the right day or reply to a story in the right moment and get inside the head of someone who seems completely inaccessible otherwise.” - Washington Post (MSN)
At least, not by official box office receipts, though estimates (including one that says it “set a box office record”) have some pretty strong claims. What’s the deal, Netflix? - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
This is a playbook we’ve all seen before. Rigoberto Gonzalez, whose painting about refugees crossing the border wall was deemed “objectionable,” says that “the White House list reminds him of the 'degenerate art’ exhibitions in 1930s Germany.” - NPR
The remains of the sunken city include "partially preserved pre-Roman statues of sovereigns and sphinxes, such as a beheaded Ptolemaic granite sculpture and an incomplete sphinx with a cartouche bearing the inscription of Ramesses II.” - Hyperallergic
Sure, yes, so is the language part. But: “The game is filling a hole for this type of instruction; there aren’t many programs that teach basic chess.” - Wired
“Guédelon has quarriers, stone cutters, masons, joiners, blacksmiths, tilers, painters, carpenters, ropemakers, wheelwrights, carters and basketmakers – 60-odd artisans in all – building cob and rubblework walls, firing tiles, blending dyes and pigments, braiding rope and forging and beating nails, hinges and decorative ironwork.” - The Guardian (UK)
“I look for anything that is mindlessly fun or otherwise engrossing enough to help me forget that I am hurtling through the air in a bus with wings. I probably will not watch anything worthy of the Criterion Collection.” - The Atlantic
"Cheap and easy, at least five hundred lesbian-themed paperbacks sold millions of copies nationwide between 1935 and 1965. That’s a lot of lesbians.” - LitHub
In 2001, thanks to foot-and-mouth disease, “the Rothbury Highland pipe band embarked on a tour of the Coquet Valley in Northumberland.” And they haven’t ever stopped. - The Guardian (UK)
Doyle was “a multimedia artist who made poetic and beguiling pieces — exquisite animated work that explored ideas about civilization and evolution.” - The New York Times
The film premiered in June on Netflix to little fanfar. But “given the way that Demon Hunters has broken out, the streamer would be remiss not to give it a major push.” - Vulture (MSN)
