Matt Mullenweg “has muddied the boundaries between three essential entities that lead a sprawling ecosystem powering almost half of the web. To Mullenweg, that’s all fine.” - The Verge
“People are looking for serious change in the approach to the environment around us, and yes, there is an appetite to see design charting new approaches to our public domain. We want to be excited by our shared spaces.” - The Guardian (UK)
“The subject matter is politically fraught, but once upon a time, American film distributors and exhibitors embraced controversy — especially when it came to acclaimed movies whose controversy was inextricably intertwined with their humanity. Are these companies holding back out of budgetary reasons, out of cowardice, out of political disagreement?” - Vulture
“The story began when Spanish pharmacist Leonardo Gutiérrez-Colomer met historian Alberto María Carreño in Mexico in 1946, who told him a secret: the body of the conquistador was hidden in a niche in the Church of Jesús, in the center of the Mexican capital.” - El País
“They’re like, ‘Do you have a place where you can have a confidential conversation?’ So the next day I had a meeting, I was in my backyard, it was confidential. And they said ‘We’re sorry, we kind of made this ruse, but you’re the artist that we are recommending.’” - OPB
“It’s grimy and chaotic: people pick over dead bodies for valuables, fire crews wrestle with out-of-control hoses, while others find sexual freedom in the fog of war – it all happens.” - The Guardian (UK)
Lore Segal, at 96, “still approaches everything in life and her writing in the same way: as something interesting, something to be dealt with as directly as one can manage.” - The New York Times
“Van Gogh would regularly walk for an hour or more, through the agricultural land that supplied the Saturday market to the Romanesque abbey Montmajour, not to sketch the vast and picturesque ruins, as many artists would have done, but to capture the landscape around.” - The Observer (UK)
On stage in DC: Two timpanists, seventeen timpani: “Rhythmic and melodic material is split between the two soloists — each surrounded by drums and navigating the placement and tuning of each note.” - Washington Post
Then Hurricane Helene hit - and hit hard. In Asheville’s long-gestated River Arts District, the president of the District’s art group describes “the current scene as ‘near apocalyptic,’ adding that ‘two-thirds of the district has been either washed away or is in rubble.’” - The New York Times
Andy Newbery, season three’s helmer: “Hopefully, shows like this will make it easier for the next generation coming through... to hopefully accept themselves a bit more easily and a bit quicker, and maybe some of that shame won't exist in the same way like it did for a lot of us.” - BBC
In its funding, anyway. “There are so many people who just need a first chance to make a smaller-budget film,” she says, pointing out that often, women don’t get the chance to make a second film if the first isn’t a huge success. - The Guardian (UK)
“My husband tells me, ‘You are a nicer person in Hindi than you are in English.’ I believe him. For everything that English has granted me, it has also been the language of competition and of getting ahead in life.” - LitHub
