"We’ve got lots of old Victorian statues of men, particularly in Leeds, and I think there was an ambition to redress this gender imbalance in public art in the city.” - The Guardian (UK)
That was when he used a generated voice for Anthony Bourdain. "I was like, ‘Oh, it'd be fun to use this, and it'd be a funny thing to talk about when we do.’ … Then the shit hit the fan.” - Wired
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
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
“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
