Strands #853 “Happy 4th of July!” 💡🎆🎆🎆 🇺🇸🎆🎆

We all have that one follower whose Like feels like this:

Borrowed the Five Films by Cassavettes box set from the library. Was told his work was “fundamental”. Watched Shadows yesterday and enjoyed it, though it was kind of all over the place. Watching Faces tonight and it’s a big improvement: touching and funny and great performances.

This song is perfect for these times. By T Bone Burnett & Elvis Costello. Here sung by Renee Fleming and Vince Gill. “Man goes beyond his own decision Gets caught up in the mechanism Of swindlers who act like kings And brokers who break everything….” open.spotify.com/track/1iL9qW...

This gorgeous new album playing on repeat. Watching birds out the back and writing.A cuppa. Happy. @belafleck.music-social.com Renee Fleming

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers. n.pr/4fWKanh

Telluride Bluegrass is one of just a few places that soprano singer Renée Fleming and banjo player Béla Fleck will perform their new album, “The Fiddle and The Drum.”

please listen to this absolute banger and enjoy tyler childers in drag youtu.be/DrHd3nkCIz4

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Tonight I got to hear F Murray Abraham say “Eliza, where the FUCK are my slippers?” #MyFairLady

New York, you'd better boo the SHIT out of the president. It's your only job.

Fuck, not Giles! RIP Anthony Head 😭 deadline.com/2026/06/anth...

Don't just stare at him, say something! 👀

Six the Musical Megamix 5/31/2026 Dylan Mulvaney’s Final Performance

#AnimalWisdom Off Broadway last night

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King have won this year’s International Booker Prize with TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE! Congratulations to both author and translator! This marks our second International Booker win in a row, following the success of Deepa Bhasthi’s translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP in 2025.

TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE WON THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

My director is telling me not to talk to you anymore.

Does “Things in Nature Merely Grow” by Yiyun Li count as a Mother’s Day read? Yes I think so.

Better put the car in Park. We’re gonna be here for a while.

youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?... #TheLibrarians #NationalLibraryWeek

Daisy Ridley 🫡🫡🫡🫡

Need more Hootenannies in my life.

In Minnesota, we stand tall with our neighbors in the face of hatred.

Why can’t someone pay me to see Broadway shows?

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Sigourney Weaver tells Kate Hudson to keep away Grogu at the Oscars. “Get away from him, you bitch!”

Why did I have to find out for myself how good The Porch on Windy Hill was? Not enough love for off-off Broadway shows like this.

The Simpsons predicted everything. EVERYTHING.

He's baacccccckk 🙏

This is so f---ed up 🤬

Just a few hours away from watching Kind Hearts and Coronets… I mean A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.. I mean How To Make a Killing.

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Call your Senators. Tell them to vote NO on the SAVE act!

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Join Sing in Solidarity for a night of music by and for the working class! Bring your friends, bring your instruments, and most importantly bring your rowdy singing voices.

The only Mr. Beast I recognize:

Billionaires are fearmongering about California’s proposed billionaire tax. Baloney. Just look at what happened when Massachusetts raised taxes on the rich.

Saw #Ragtime at Lincoln Center today. I saw the City Center Encores production back in 2024. I starting sobbing at the Act 1 Finale Til we Reach That Day. It was incredibly cathartic for me to express the emotions I’ve been feeling with recent events. And they sang it so well. (1/2)

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