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How To Disappear All Of The Taxis From New York

This isn’t, like, for Uber and Lyft - but for making the city look like Southern California. - The New York Times

Why Did Warner Bros Make A Joker Musical That Didn’t Actually Want To Be A Musical?

This is just confusing. “The film stages each number with curious hesitancy, as though it were embarrassed to go full Sondheim. Phillips has made a jukebox spectacle that’s bold in conception but oddly cautious, even timorous, in execution.” - Vulture

The Mystery Of What Happened To The Honor Guard ‘Hat Sculpture’ Around JFK’s Grave

“They came in at night. Left at night. And back then, we didn’t ask no questions." - Smithsonian Magazine (MSN)

All Appalachian Writers Are Environmentalists

Well, maybe not J.D. Vance. But everyone else, thanks to decades - a century - of devastating floods and mudslides, mountaintop removal and mining disasters. - Book Riot

Pushing Back Against That Long Atlantic Freak-Out About Students Not Being Asked To Read Books

Maybe the problem is the reporter’s clickbait comprehension? “Young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding a seat at the table where decisions about texts are being made.” - Teaching & Learning

In Australia, Aboriginal Designs May Replace Government Housing

And, perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, the housing designed by the people who live in the space may help solve some public health crises. - The Guardian (UK)

David Garrard Lowe, Historian And Defender Of Neoclassical Architecture, Has Died At 91

Lowe’s "passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the tide of urban renewal that was leveling large swaths of American cities in the decades after World War II.” - The New York Times

Suddenly, We All Understand Bridges

Bridges in music, that is. And, of course, that’s thanks to TikTok. - El País

The Apprentice’s Distribution Troubles Point To A Very Problematic Future For Political Films

“If you have companies, in this case the big corporate distribution system, that  willing to let that sort of culture of fear and intimidation govern their choices, then that's a particular kind of world to live in.” - CBC

As Broadway Adjusts To Public Outcry, The Question Of How And When To Dim The Lights Goes On

“The lights-dimming ritual, which goes back decades, has been an increasingly fraught one for the nine entities that own and operate Broadway theaters.” - The New York Times

Booker Shortlist Authors On The Moment Inspiration Struck

“It feels incorrect, to have inspiration strike in the midst of grief, but what probably happened was that I was trying to get away somehow, to tell myself a distracting story. And a distracting story it was.” - The Guardian (UK)

Dudamel In New York

LA Phil Dudamel in New York, offering a glimpse of what is to come. “You have the vision of a maestro who at least wants to try, who isn’t content with the base line of a symphony concert. And that is something to be excited about.” - The New York Times

Why Doesn’t Being A Good Writer Equal Being A Good Public Speaker?

Often, it’s an inverse relationship, as anyone who has gone to too many readings can tell you. - LitHub

A Time To Mourn, A Time To Publish

This is a tale of Walt Whitman’s influence on an AIDS activist, his partner’s devotion, and a posthumous novel. - NPR

Dancing On An Island In New York

No, not Manhattan. “On Governors Island, audience members gathered on the grass for Analphabetes, uncertain where to look for the performance or how to distinguish the performers from passers-by. Then four figures appeared on a hill in the distance, wearing retro windbreakers.” - The New York Times

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