Rob Weinert-Kendt

OTD, 1953

(I demurred)

In an effort to save money, I once stayed in a hostel in NYC where I was offered crack by a young woman who said she babysat Sigourney Weaver’s kids

Steel worker, US Steel administrator

‘Maybe Happy Ending’ is a musical about robots—but it’ll make you feel alive With ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ two first-time Broadway writers take a big swing—and hit a home run.

This was my review: www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...

It's still so funny and soulful, dorky and suave, sweet and sad yet hopeful, and it still moves like a dream. I think it will be around for a good long while, and I'm happy to add it to the musical theater "canon."

I'm late to post about this but a few weeks ago I finally took my whole family to see MAYBE HAPPY ENDING. I'd loved it when I first saw it in late 2024, but this was the first chance we all had to see it (i.e., got snail mailed a discount code so it was finally affordable), and we all loved it.

If Mexico has a RITE OF SPRING, it is probably Revueltas's surging, cathartic LA NOCHE DE LOS MAYAS, which Esa-Pekka Salonen's LA Phil introduced me to, both live and on record. I can also recommend this rackety 2007 rendition by Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa. open.spotify.com/album/6quoTv...

Great convos every one, if I may say so myself

"The Babe Ruth Story" ~ Classic SCTV sketch starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty & Catherine O'Hara! #MLB #Baseball #Comedy #Legends

i'm not crying you're crying

Mitski's beautiful and haunting new record is giving me Magnetic Fields and Aimee Mann vibes, though after several listens the album's most Mitski tune, the jagged whirlpool of "If I Leave," is the one I find myself most drawn to. mitski.bandcamp.com/album/nothin...

In Japan, we have an expression that means “earning it with your feet,” getting results by showing up in person. I believe that even in a digital world, record stores and live venues offer experiences I can’t get anywhere else, and they always feed back into my music. I love things that take time.

Once again, excellent, important brass tacks reporting from Marisa.

It was the closing show, so you can no longer see it, but the Ulysses stage adaptation by Elevator Repair Service at the Public Theatre was one of the most thrilling works of theatre I’ve seen in a long, long time.

The Roman Arena Podcast Episode · In Our Time: History · February 26 · 50m

I miss Melvyn Bragg’s distinctive bluster, of course, but so far I’ve been enjoying In Our Time’s new host, Misha Glenny
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A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” painted above its door. And if you had decided to go in, there was a decent chance you’d know the pers…

This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

NPR and PBS would have to be much more robustly funded by the government than it was before. the problem is that the money + hands off the content approach has been largely a matter of norms. no norms will remain after trump.

propublica is vital, but here's the thing about them —

Excited to speak to these two writers

To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >

the whale has no voice

Ah, I miss the days when my kids still wanted to go sledding. Upside: They're old enough now to help shovel out our car

Ah thank you!

Same

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Delighted that a new generation is discovering the WTF pleasures of “MacArthur Park.”

This MINCEMEAT cast exit interview with @diepthought.bsky.social is a delight playbill.com/article/the-...