Rebecca J. Ritzel

Ares, God of Major Combat Operations

I saw the Ponomarenko/Carreira ice dance version of "Perfume" four times, including once live. I'm good.

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

(altho I still think it would have been more fun in Bowen came back to do a sketch with Connor Storrie and then midsketch Hudson comes in and pushes Bowen out of the way and steps in) #SNL

From my annals of lowest Lebrecht hits: Announcing a woman's appointment to run an orchestra by mocking her blazer.

Billboards (ballet) - Wikipedia

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You guys, my niece danced a solo in her school talent show tonight set to "Baby, I'm a Star" by Prince.

She's 10. Was not present but confident it was the best thing since Billboards.

Exclusive: BBC Radio 3 has ended its relationship with Norman Lebrecht following an email to Yuja Wang the pianist described on Instagram as "derogatory misogynistic bullying."

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

The Kennedy Center posted video footage of someone who might have thrown goo on last weekend's temporary ice rink and o.m.g. the comments.

I read this like you meant yelling "O" at an O's game.

Keep scrolling for the Jamaican bobsled team (not actually fiction?) and BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM.

Prayers up/melotonin chews for DC dogs who hate low-flying SOTU helicopters!

Trump pointing out that snow-shovelers in New York needed to show two forms of ID to get paid is indicative of a man who has never in his life been hired for a real job. #sotu

US men's hockey team visits Trump at the White House on its way to his State of the Union The gold-medal-winning U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team landed at Joint Base Andrews and visited President Donald Trump at the White House before attending his State of the Union address on Tuesday nigh...

I'm hearing that American medalists on the Montreal Metros and Boston Raiders plan to skip the SOTU. apnews.com/article/stat...

Kennedy Center president Rick Grinnell to the person who poured goo on the Kennedy Center's temporary ice rink: "It's a slippery slope."

NM. I see Terryberry attended an evangelical college on top of a mountain in Tennessee.

How is Paige Terryperry a real person working for a newspaper?

I am very excited that my arts journalism project has caught on with many on-campus collaborators but there are so many emails.

Intense Game
Richard Brodeur
n.d.

If you know Eva Cassidy's music, and recognized her voice when Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier skated today, you have American skating legend Michelle Kwan to thank.

A Chronicle of Higher Ed reporter did go on NPR recently and included Botstein. That was... something.

Burnout Paradise NYC | A New Off Broadway Show | Official Site Get tickets for Burnout Paradise, the experimental, high-speed production from Australia’s acclaimed company Pony Cam. Now playing Off-Broadway in New York City.

Regret to inform everyone that BURNOUT PARADISE (opening off-Broadway March 5) is not a docudrama about 2022 Broadway disaster PARADISE SQUARE.

"Ciao! Sì. I'd like to report a Sondheim emergency in Milan."

I'm sort of astounded -- but also not surprised -- that Purcellville's neo-con history isn't in this story. This is the home of Michael Farris, the Home School Legal Defense Fund and Patrick Henry College. Of course there's an incredibly messy conservative local government.

Metric, Broken Social Scene And Stars Announce ‘All the Feelings Tour’ Across North America This Summer - Live Nation Newsroom Today, longtime friends and acclaimed bands Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars announced the All the Feelings Tour, bringing their collective talents to stages across North America this summer. Th...

2026 is the summer of the Canadian supergroup invasion. 🎆

Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days Free condoms for competitors at the Winter Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days

Every Olympics, some version of this story.
I suspect Olympians, like regular-tier twentysomethings backpacking around Europe, like free useful stuff and/or fun novelty items they can bring back home to friends. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

New IMLS Guidelines Echo Trump's Vision for American Culture The IMLS is recommending grant applicants read up on President Donald Trump’s executive orders to align with his vision for U.S. culture.

"Under Trump ... 'museums may be forced to retreat from their most basic and precious function: capturing the past as it actually happened and the present as it actually is.'" news.artnet.com/art-world/im...

Because art requires empathy.

I’m often asked “What did you think of the movie?” on my way out of a theater, and while I dislike that question on principle, I am fortunate to know I am speaking the truth when I say “I won’t know until I’ve written about it.”