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"The day that will live in infamy" has mostly died of neglect.

Jill Abramovitz and Honor Blue Savage Join Betsy Wolfe in JOY: A NEW TRUE MUSICAL Two new cast members have been announced to join the previously announced Tony Award nominee Betsy Wolfe this summer in JOY: A New True Musical! Learn more here!

Jill Abramovitz and Honor Blue Savage Join Betsy Wolfe in JOY: A NEW TRUE MUSICAL

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer and influential performer, dies at 88 She died at home surrounded by her family, publicist Elaine Schock said in a statement. Flack announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and could no longer sing,

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits made her one of the top recording artists of the 1970s, died Monday. She was 88.

Lindsay Mendez, Jessie Mueller, LaChanze, and More Join BROADWAY’S LEADING LADIES Concert Initial casting has been announced for Broadway’s Leading Ladies, the upcoming one-night-only special being broadcast on PBS. Learn more about the concert here!

LaChanze, Jennifer Holliday, Lindsay Mendez, Jessie Mueller, Jennifer Simard, and more will star in Broadway’s Leading Ladies, a special concert coming to PBS! www.broadwayworld.com/article/Lindsay-Mendez-Jessie-MuellerLaChanze-and-More-Join-BROADWAYS-LEADING-LADIES-Concert-20250224

Disney's MOANA 2 to Premiere on Disney+ Next Month Moana and Maui’s latest adventure, Moana 2, will arrive on Disney+ on March 12. The highly anticipated sequel to the Walt Disney Animation Studios fan favorite is the #3 highest-grossing film of 2024.

Disney's MOANA 2 to Premiere on Disney+ Next Month

After Skyrocketing, Rents in Austin Have Dropped 19 Straight Months The reason is simple: A boom in apartment construction. Developers are pulling permits at a rate nearly triple that of San Antonio on a per capita basis.

19. Straight. Months.

That’s how long rents have been declining in Austin, Texas.

Behold the power of abundant housing!

Schmigadoon program

Cast of Schmigadoon takes their bows

Schmigadoon was an absolute delight and exactly the show we need right now and I need everyone to go see it so it goes to Broadway and becomes such a hit that some streaming platform has no choice but to pick of the show for a season 3

Every time you don't buy a book from Amazon, but use a good indie store who actually values the sale & treats you & your purchase with respect, the sun shines brighter, floofy puppies gambol in fresher grass, & Jeff Bezos's piles sting for just a biiiit longer.

Sounds GREAT to me.

Buy independent.

Black Doves is genuinely such a fun and interesting take on a very bloated genre. It took me a long time to come around, but the characters all were fun and believable and it wasn’t just an assload if boring white straight guys screwing their way to monologing villain. It’s so worth it.

@torbooks.bsky.social is running a 2.99 sale for Legends & Lattes in eBook through 2/9 across online retailers - so, approximately the price of 2 eggs. 🥚💲

1.5 million San Diegans all looking out the window this morning saying “ahhh, we really needed this” as a hundredth of an inch of rain falls over the city 🌧️🌧️🌧️

Colombia's Petro will not allow US planes to return migrants Colombia's President Gustavo Petro will not allow planes from the United States carrying migrants on deportation flights to land in the country, he said in a post on X in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemned the practice, suggesting it treated migrants like criminals. Petro said Colombia would welcome home deported migrants on civilian planes, saying they should be treated with dignity and respect.
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POLL: Worst Lead Character in a TV Series — Great Pop Culture Debate There are characters who were made to hate, and others we were meant to love, but who ended up driving us absolutely crazy. We aim to debate the best of the worst TV lead characters, and we need your ...

POLL TIME! Later this year we'll debate the WORST Lead Character on TV. Whether we're supposed to like them and they're insufferable, or they're supposed to be insufferable but we like them, we want to know your picks. VOTE NOW:

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#television #tv #poll

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

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REAL INTENSE CANCER DREAM LAST NIGHT. Because I was out of town my doctors sent me a scalpel in the mail and told me to cut it out myself.

As my son said to me when he was four, “why does my brain show me things I don’t want to see?”

Character Breakdown: SCHMIGADOON Cast Unpacks Their Roles Rehearsals are underway for the brand-new stage adaptation of Schmigadoon, which arrives at the Kennedy Center next week. Watch as the cast unpacks their roles in this video.

Character Breakdown: SCHMIGADOON Cast Unpacks Their Roles

Taurean Everett is taking us backstage at Death Becomes Her to share all the inside scoop! Read more about his favorite backstage routines, moments, and must-haves here: https://bway.world/tmcwf

📸: Jennifer Broski

My favorite 🧡

What Kumail Nanjiani Can’t Live Without “This complements the flavor of whatever I’m eating rather than fighting it. It doesn’t draw too much attention to itself.”

I did this thing and got way too nervous about my list and over thought it BUT now looking at it, I feel like I nailed it.

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Frankly there hasn’t been nearly enough discussion about how this season Tina Landau is directing both Woman in Tree and Man in Cave

THE GREAT GATSBY Will Launch a North American Tour in 2026 The Great Gatsby is hitting the road, Old Sport! BroadwayWorld has learned that the musical, which is now playing on Broadway, will launch a North American Tour next year.

The Great Gatsby is hitting the road next year! https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-Will-Launch-a-North-American-Tour-in-2026-20250124

In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)

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Photos: The Broadway Marquees of Spring 2025 If you don't live in New York City or frequent the Theater District, odds are you haven't seen Broadway's newest marquees! Check out photos of what has arrived so far here.

Photos: The Broadway Marquees of Spring 2025

Every time I open anything that has some kind of news related element… social media, Reddit, the weather app, or even IMDb… some horrible fresh news hell is delivered about the state of the world and some headline about fuckery that is probably going to kill us or take away our rights. I’m so tired.

I love my local library: free access to knowledge and entertainment for everyone.

If I can't find what I'm looking for at my library, I use Libby. It's an amazing free app.

#library #booksky #reading #libby

A long slender three-tined fork made of silver lies in a museum case. There is a separate piece shaped like the bowl of a spoon that slides on and off of the fork tines using little metal grippy brackets, so it can transform from a spoon to a fork. The handle is shaped like a Roman soldier. it is labeled with a card that says '"German, seventeenth-century, silver. Item number 914C."

It’s time for the RENAISSANCE SPORK!
And the fascinating problems museums face when dealing with objects no one expects. 1/?

Sharing for my countdown to the release “Inventing the Renaissance” coming Feb UK/Mar US https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS #HistoryPix

We had 200 followers on here when we woke up yesterday morning. Now we’re at 1000! IS THIS GOING TO BE A THING? ARE WE ALL BLUESKY FAM NOW?

Governor Proposes Extension and Expansion of New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit New York Governor Kathy Hochul has released her budget proposal for the 2026 fiscal year, which includes an extension of the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit for two years.

Governor Proposes Extension and Expansion of New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit

I mean this is a huge… misunderstanding… for lack of a better word, in our society. Most folks are only invested in the presidency and what that person does. They tend to forgo local elections and disregard senators and congressional folks because they fundamentally don’t understand what they do.