In case you were wondering how the budget cuts and strip mining of government was going to literally kill people, Exhibit A is Texas. Don't miss the local NWS offices were empty in a region known as "flash flood alley" lede. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

A new crop of reviews from NYC and London and a couple of important meetups and conferences

If there have been no other sunshine or rainbows in your day today, you can sleep well tonight knowing that a serial liar, sexual harasser, and opponent of ethical oversight will NOT be the person you are forced to swallow as the Democratic nominee for mayor of NYC. gothamist.com/news/nyc-pri...

Fuck this deliberately cruel and hateful administration forever. May they rot in the hell they pretend to believe in. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

In case you were wondering what local collaboration with our fascistic federal policy looks like, Mayor Adams NYPD at work: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-arrests...

A couple of reviews and the spectrum of good and bad of immersive and concerts I (and potentially you) have in store for the coming weeks and months. open.substack.com/pub/nicholas...

A quick update on NYC and LA immersive with some heavy hitters. It truly is an immersive flowering this spring. open.substack.com/pub/nicholas...

However rightfully concerned about fascism and misogyny and corruption you are regarding this administration, remember first and foremost that they are unbelievably incompetent. We are being run by idiots. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A statement from (some of) the faculty at Teachers College Columbia University docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Every single non-US academic should cancel everything they are doing in or with the US until this policy is permanently rescinded. This is fascism

A round up of some promising and some disappointing immersive work and news about things on the distant horizon. open.substack.com/pub/nicholas...

A bunch of festival reviews from Under the Radar/Exponential/Prototype and a slew of small immersive shows coming up in the next few weeks. open.substack.com/pub/nicholas...

Let's see. WHO exit, Jan 6 pardons, promise of 25% tariffs to Mexico and Canada, end of tests to reduce drug costs for Medicaire. Yup, as bad as we thought. Part of me wishes I understood why people wanted this but more of me wants nothing to do with anyone who didn't vote to stop this, ever again.

Year in review and surprising amount of new immersive stuff in NYC coming in January. open.substack.com/pub/nicholas...

Fascinating analysis of industrial agriculture that offers hard facts (that I didn't know) on climate and farming. Tl;dr all farming is a necessary evil. Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...

In case you're curious about the form, my and the No Proscenium team's list of the best work in immersive in 2024.

Because, as we have just demonstrated, millions of Americans are willful idiots who can't absorb an ounce of public policy complexity, why vaccines are important via NYT. The tl;dr version, Google polio. Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Did you know I have a newsletter of upcoming immersive events and reviews of things I've seen? Well, I do and I just posted my latest after a disappointing-in-so-many-ways month. Several reviews I've been sitting on, and lots of new immersive things to see in NYC. open.substack.com/pub/nicholas...

Spread this as far and as wide as you can. Now that I am deep in the health care machine with my family, it is breathtaking how inefficient and corrupt private insurance is, and you need every tool to fight it until we kill it

Why do I want nothing to do with people who voted for Trump this time? Maybe it's this... www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is why I have made the decision to not engage with Trump supporters after this election. I don't know what to say to people who deny what they were directly shown. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Congratulations, NYCLU, on ending abuse of peaceful protest. N.Y.P.D. Must Rewrite Rules for Policing Protests After Sweeping Deal www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/n...

The stories we should watch in red states. These are the small steps that lead to fascism