Stories

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

“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

“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

“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)

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

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

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

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