whatever the nyc realpolitik of this is, it's selling out the rest of the state

the City of Philadelphia has removed "unshovelled sidewalk" as complaint you can make online through the 311 app and web portal

the Rousseau exhibit at the Barnes presents a rare opprotunity to see the magnificent Rousseaus in the Barnes collection prestened in a way that doesn't fucking suck

if you like theater or if you like Aimee Mann, Pig Iron's POOR JUDGE, an Aimee Mann dance-theater-cabaret streams through Feb 22. The songs are beautifully arranged and beguilingly simply staged. wilmatheater.gumroad.com/l/poorjudge

saw a young woman reading Infinite Jest on the trolley... the world is healing

whatever the nyc realpolitik of this is, it's selling out the rest of the state

"Everyone with knowledge or connections to the museum actually hates the name change and rebrand" is not surprising but you've got to be a real tyrant of a boss to push through despite (or without realizing) it

A theater in Rhode Island announced today they are cancelling scheduled a production of Gunderson's "The Revolutionists" over her ties to Epstein

One thing I've never heard anyone talk about with snow removal, is that it is a giant waste of time and resources for snow clearing efforts to clean out the parts of intersections that neither people nor cars actually travel through. Bump outs make us safer and more resilient.

movies finally don't all look like the blue-gray color grading that was set off by Minority Report but unfortunately we are now living in the Minority Report world

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

For 2026, I am logging off. I may show up infrequently to post updates, but for now, please reach out if you need my contact info!

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus. The entire movie.

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

updated my letterboxd favorite movies

Why is this tiny gesture so funny

Had to track down the Rob Reiner cameo on 30 Rock.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

the good that you do persists in this world

This is a textbook case of political asylum.

Agree with Greg — this part has long confounded me. Abrego Garcia agreed to go. But the admin wanted him to suffer. These people are monsters.

Transport Workers Union Local 234 and SEPTA reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract on Monday after Gov. Josh Shapiro helped break an impasse in talks. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Andre Gregory wrote this in 1967 after he was fired from Theatre of the Living Arts, on regional theaters and board politics. Just as true today: "Most of the community stays away from the theatre simply because it does not like what is done there."

I thought the whole point of a review of a bad book is that you don't have to read the book

i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

This shit is just planned out and orchestrated out in public. Her mother is a fucking conservative podcast host and lawyer, this isn't some kinda quirk or accident, this paper was written with the express purpose to gin up another culture war about trans people in academia and it's working.

I am trying to expand my list of Movies With Plays In Them on @letterboxd.social. What is it missing? The play must be featured, somehow seen performed, not simply referenced or mentioned boxd.it/tpLw6

"High American construction costs are not downstream of high incomes, but rather of poor governance leading to low labor efficiency, poor procurement practices, nonstandard systems, and overbuilding." pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/30/i...

I left substack 4 years ago and Twitter about a year ago for ethical reasons and I am doing just fine. The fact that neither product does what they are supposed to do didn’t hurt the decision.

the entire beltway media complex is rotten all the way through, I truly believe Nuzzi's just the worst at hiding it

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

As a society, we should be more embarrassed by non-athletic outfits with sneakers

And the piece itself: www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though

I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Plant trees pet cats

I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

If I taught a modern theater history course, I would assign my students to make wikipedia pages for theaters because it is real bleak on there. All sorts of notable cultural work that is totally non-existent there.