I got to interview PNB legend Lucien Postlewaite, and based on the enormous engagement this story has gotten I think we can safely say Timmy is wrong about ballet www.thestranger.com/dance/2026/0...

Maggie and I are back on our bullshit - we are SO CLOSE to finishing season 7, which is wildly uneven but has its moments. This week: an intergenerational road trip and an uncanny recasting substack.com/home/post/p-...

I liked that this year's Oscars had a little end-credits scene, let's do this again next year it's so much more fun than the explanation of how the ballot-counting works

to clarify: I don't want tips on creating better prompts for AI I don't want to incorporate AI into my workflow I don't want to delegate reporting to AI if you do these in the process of creating journalism, it is no longer journalism to me. if you don't want to write, don't be a writer

until AI can do my laundry I don't want to hear another word about it

I am so HAPPY that there is a Gentleman Jack ballet and so sad that it is happening in ENGLAND

how come the fourth season of Bridgerton was so much better than “Wuthering Heights”

the new Ballerina Farm ad is a rich text (derogatory) so I’m sorry to say this but I do think it’s good she hired real dancers from Ballet West. I’m not sure what’s in the collab for them tho

It's such a bittersweet symphony to love the princess sports and also want them to change, so I wrote about how exciting it is to finally see this happening in figure skating! Plus: the helpful practice of approaching every game like an exhibition game meganburbank.substack.com/p/alysia-liu...

just begging for newspaper websites to remember that yes I am already a subscriber

watching the new ANTM doc and horrified at how much footage I recognize because I watched it every week in college I love trash but this show? may have been a trash too far

happy twin peaks day!!! hope you celebrate with a damn fine cup of coffee and a slice of cherry pie. #twinpeaksday #twinpeaks

I love how an Olympic gala performance is either a beautiful, dignified goodbye skate or the campiest shit you’ve ever seen in your life, with no middle ground.

I take issue with Tara's "all joy and all fun" description of galas, because sometimes gala programs can be quite serious and emotional... ...I type as Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck come out in Spain soccer jerseys to skate to "Tubthumping" #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

I love the gala skate because everybody looks so much more relaxed and you get to see that actually their competition routines and outfits COULD be weirder

I’ve been trying to put into words one of the reasons I find Alysa Liu’s triumph so inspiring, and I think it’s because I take ballet and it is so meaningful to see someone excel in a similar sport while breaking the strictures of it

I love this figure skating intel 💕

isabeau did so well in her first time on olympic ice! amber got redemption and went from 13th to 5th!! alysa came back on her own terms and is leaving with an individual gold medal!!! our blade angels made us so so proud 🥹🩵 #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics

YES. And an athlete who has stated on the record that she was coming back to this incredibly gender-rigid sport only if she could pick her own music and not be starved. Her gold medal shows what's possible when athletes are allowed to be mentally healthy and treat every skate as an exhibition skate

I was crying (It's fine I cry at sports a lot it feels good!)

Alysa Liu saying "That's what I'm fucking talking about!" after a flawless free skate on live TV was the peak of my Olympics viewing also I am so happy for Amber Glenn and her triple axel. what a relief to see women skaters being themselves. the sport has changed so much since the 90s, thank god

I think it should be banned. I do not EVER want to watch a beautiful spin to a spoken interlude

very happy we are all talking about Wuthering Heights, gothic literature and the Brontë sisters. icymi we’ve been saying our forthcoming album is gothic in the Brontë sense for many weeks … and we were worried people would find that reference too obscure! Mtfog.bandcamp.com

Amber is part of a very small, elite group of women who have landed triple axels on Olympic ice. I hope she is able to be proud of that.

“Wuthering Heights” Sidelines the Novel’s Most Queer-Coded Character

The new Wuthering Heights does Nelly so dirty. Thank you @them.us for letting me yell about it! www.them.us/story/wuther...

42 may be old for a figure skater but it is not actually that old, and these commentators acting like Deanna Stellato-Dudek is some kind of tragic ancient invalid sound soooooo silly She's skating beautifully! She has gravitas! She wants to be here! I think that's very cool

I love cross-country skiing but I understand we have a branding problem. The Olympics commentary is almost entirely like "Jessie Diggins has bruised ribs and must ski 10km. Can we count on her famous pain threshold? We didn't do a mass start so we don't know who won and you don't either!"

When I get just a little too warm under the covers:

if you are doing pairs figure skating and you are very tall and strong and your partner is tiny maybe you don’t need to throw her into the air with that much force? just some constructive criticism

"For her shiny new take on “Wuthering Heights,” the writer-director Emerald Fennell has drenched the screen with torrential rain, filled it with pantomimes of passion and tried hard to compete with Emily Brontë. What a mistake!" brutal but fair, Manohla Dargis! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/m...

I'm sorry if I know you personally and I won't stop talking about Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte's version) this week (but only a little)

Shun Sato skating beautifully to Firebird 😭

I’m reading Wuthering Heights and it’s GOOD and I’m not sure what book Emerald Fennell read because it’s not this one open.substack.com/pub/meganbur...

“We’re the most powerful country in the world and we have the most obese, fudgy people.” The fatness claim is incorrect. The national rankings differ, but the US is usually in the teens. We’re on the high end, but we’re not the fattest nation on earth. I’ll take fudgiest, though

I feel like *all of this* could have been avoided if Emerald Fennell had just given this movie a different title If you want to incredibly loosely adapt Emily Bronte into dream smut with nonsense casting that ignores the book's class dynamics, that's fine! But you need more than quotation marks

She always reminded me *not* to call it the Jane Collective. That language came later and was imposed externally. It was just the underground abortion service and you called Jane for help

Beautiful tribute to elder Judith Arcana. She lived a such a rich life! I'm forever grateful to each and every JANE.

I interviewed Melinda Gates in 2021. It was a beast to set up but we had a good conversation about child care & birth control access - a big deal bc she had to square it with her religious beliefs. It's interesting to see her evolve and speak out more and more www.seattletimes.com/life/covid-1...

I have started my "if you have to be a hater be an educated hater" reading of Wuthering Heights and this book opens with Heathcliff's renter being like "my neighbors are weird and have no manners and the weather is bad and I got attacked by dogs my second day here" Heathcliff: worst landlord ever

I wrote about Judith Arcana, Portland's own underground abortionist-turned-poet. She was a legend. She was also my friend. Sometimes meeting your heroes is good, actually. www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/2026...

"We are supposed to have our constitutional right of the freedom to film, to be a member of the press. I don’t feel like I have my First Amendment right as a member of the press," Georgia Fort said. https://bit.ly/4qcOQHt

I’m reading a book set at a ballet school by a nondancer and it’s sooooo funny every other sentence is like “her feet were covered in blood and if she tied her pointe shoe on wrong she could DIE” I’m here to tell you that ballet is metal but it’s not that metal

"As journalists, we must remember that our responsibility is not to present both sides evenly; it is to make a determination about the facts that helps audiences understand a chaotic world." www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

It feels so rebellious to be a distance runner amid the great protein explosion. My preworkout is simple carbs and I will never change

I love Amy Poehler but two celebrities breathlessly complimenting each other over and over again has got to be my least favorite “interview” format ever

tell me again how well it works when billionaires who know nothing about the industry take over newspapers

Stories like this one are also part of reporting on reproductive health policy, and I really appreciate The 19th’s coverage of how a supposedly pronatalist administration is disrupting essential pregnancy care and separating families 19thnews.org/2026/01/preg...

spite book club starts now & yes my Christmas tree is still up

this is why the grift that AI is useful feels like such a mass delusion to me. but I guess “simple tasks done worse” isn’t very marketable