You didn’t know that a cover of The Sound of Silence was the most popular hard rock song of the last decade, did you? “It’s the long-distance runner of hard rock songs. It’s accruing its popularity week by week.” - Slate
Housing crisis, whatever: The mansion is set to become a (rather exclusive) AirBnB. “It’s not a museum. And if you’re going to call it a living house, you’ve got to make it a living house. And that involves having people in it.” - The Guardian (UK)
Forgive us, but Hacks and The Bear are “veteran shows”? Apparently so. Add in Only Murders in the Building and Abbott Elementary, and you have the windmills at which newer shows - Shrinking, The Studio - will tilt. - Vulture
“A turning point was a project with the artist Cecile Abish, who uses a wheelchair: ‘To get to the garden we needed to take her through the museum’s basement and out through our loading dock. … It threw into sharp relief how urgent this work was.’” - The New York Times
The space near the OSF campus “featured a raised stage area, intimate seating in-the-round on folding chairs, and ample shade from the surrounding trees. It served as a natural, open-air theater that felt both rustic and inviting” - and COVID-19 safe. - Oregon ArtsWatch
“The poems in Brontë’s Book of Rhymes were written in tiny script to fit on scraps of paper no larger than playing cards that were hand-stitched together with a carefully written contents page.” Now, everyone can read them. - The New York Times
"You can’t start orchestrating much before the rehearsals begin because things haven’t settled. Until you get into rehearsals, you may not know what key a number is in or how much intro you need. So we have a lot of time pressure, put it that way.” - American Theatre
“Her most recent film, The Cowboy and the Queen (2023), examined the unlikely friendship that blossomed between a Texas cowboy and Queen Elizabeth II after she learned of his unconventional approach to rearing horses.” - The New York Times
Might it be time to reread The Masses? "2025 isn’t the first time our neighbors have delighted in violence against a minority, it’s not the first time censors have told us what we can and cannot read.” - LitHub
Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In): “Pedro speaks about the characters as if they were people he has already lived with for years, people he knows very closely, who he loves and defends regardless of the role they play in his stories.” - The New York Times
Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there are also, you know, some facts.) - Nieman Lab
