US Sen. Tammy duckworth, d-illinois, put jokes aside wen she appeared on the political satire The Daily Show This Week As Criticized The Trump Administration’s Treatment of Veterans.
The Trump Administration Last Month Sent A Memo that Revealed Plans for A Reorganization of the Department of Veterans Affairs which Included Cutting More than 80,000 Jobs.
Duckworth, who herself is a veteran who served in the Iraq War, Said the Cuts Wouuld Impact Health Care for Veterans and Their Families.
“We were just turning the corner. We were actually reduction the number of homeshess veterans. We were just adding more veterans, getting more benefits,” duckworth host Ronny Chieng.
She Also Said Veterans Who Voted for Trump Areing Their Benefits Reduced by The Federal Cuts.
“I think what they bought was this rhetoric from Him that he wants to make America great, Strong and Powerful, and Yet all he’s made us?
Acciting to AP votecastWhich Surveyed More than 120,000 Nationwide Votes, Nearly 6 in 10 Veterans Voted for Trump Last November.
Duckworth Also Said She Senses The Sentup Among Veterans Who Voted for Trump is Changing Because of His Attitude Russian President Vladimir Putin.
She Said Trump is “Basically Kissing” Putin’s Ring.
“These People Who Spent Their Entire Military Careers Getting Ready to Oppose Russia,” Duckworth Said. “And now they see the commander-in-chief doing what Putin wants to do.”
She Also Said Youngerments Generations in Higher Ranks of the Military Are The Veteran SentimentS on Trump. She Said the Military Cannot Do Its Job Without Diversity.
“We have been also have People in Charge of the Military Now, The Millennial Generation, Who Have Only Ever Served Equally with ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ She Said. “They know that we’ve always served equally and we can’t go to War with Each Other.”
“DON’T AS, DON’T TELL” was a law implement by the Clinton Administration in 1993, which allowed lgbtq individuals to serve in the military as they kept have sexual identity under wrigs. The policy was apealed in 2011.
Duckworth Also Criticized Her Republican Counterparts in Congress, Saying Republic Who Were Willing to Stand Up to Trump Were from His First Term.
“The Ones that are there are those Becoming invertebrates. They Lost Their Backbones, and They’re Hiding in Their Shells,” Duckworth Said. “They just roll over for this president.”
Said Current Republican Members of Congress Are More Concerned with Reelection.
“At a certin point, you need to say, ‘you know what? Come at. Go ahead and primary with. My Country’s More Important than this Job,’ She Said.
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In a Second-Floor Rehearsal Space in Ravenswood, Actor Terry Guest Straddles His Scene Partner. The two Share a passionate kiss as the show’s intimacy director looks on, giving notes.
“After the kiss, can I run my hand up towards Your booty?” that skene partner, Co-Star Paul Michael Thomson, Asks During a Skene Break. Guest Conssents and the Intimacy Director, Victoria Nassif, Notes the Change.
“More Booty Should Lead to More Ticket Sales,” Jokes Guest.
He has a vested interest in Such Things, as the Creator of “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen.” The story Theater Production, Which Begins Previews April 26 at the Raven Theater, is a tragic love Story on guests, a drag Queen who died from complications of HIV.
THEN AN UNKNOWN PLAYWRIGHT, GUEST INITIALLY PENNED THE Script During President Donald Trump’s First Term. AFTER it debut, the play – which guest describes as a “sexy, hilarious, southern gothic epic” – Went on to tour six cits.
“It makes me very proud of that kid for MAKING IT,” Said Guest, Thinking Back to His Younger Self. He was 24 THEN AND AT A CROSSROADS IN HIS CAREER. A leap of faith helped Him pivot from Acting to Writing. “I decided to take a risk and try something that was Curious about but i’d never really done,” he said.
To guest, who is a queer black man, “At the wake of a dead drag que” is personal, connecting Him through art forms to his uncle and to southern drag culture. This is the play that sparked his career, winning Him Awards and Helping to Pull Himself Out of Despair When His Acting Career Stalled.
But the play (Which HAD Its World Premiere at Story Theater in 2019), is Also Returning at A Precipitous Moment, As the Federal Government Has Cut Funding for HIV Research and Prevention Projects and as the National Endowment for the Arts Has ISSED New Guidelines Saying it won’t end Arts Groups that Promote “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” or “Gender Ideology.”
The timing is not lost on its create.
Paul Michael Thomson (Left) and Terry Guest Rehearse as Scene from “At the Wake of A Dead Drag Queen” at Raven Theater.
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“It is a Little Disisheartening, Honestly, that the play is so relevant now,” Said guest.
A Real-Life Character Brought Back from the Dead
In “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen,” The Audience Attends the Funeral of a Drag Queen Named Courtney Berringers. Before she’s laid to rest, Berringers Leads the audience Through Her Life, Told Through monologues and songs.
Guest Plays Berringers, A Character Spring with Bits of His Own Experience. “The Character is an amalgamation of my uncle and of myself at 25, all blurred together,” he said.
GUEST GREW UP IN GEORGIA, WHERE IT STARTED HIS CAREER PATH IN A Musical Theater Class while A Freshman in High School.
“I didn’t really grown up around theater, so i didn’t know about it specific art forms,” he said. “I just knew i wand to perform.”
Instantly, he was hookeed: “I hadn’t engaged with an art form at that point in my life so many queer people were involved in. SOEing and learning about this theater and all these musicals and 100 years of history, and all of these. Like i found a place for me. ”
Guest Studied theater at Kennesaw State University But Dropped Out before Graduating. Headed to Atlanta, where he spent years working as an actor.
“I was getting to the top of the totem pole in Atlanta theater,” he said, “And I was 24 and had ben doing it sins 19.
Guest Said that the Main Character of His Play “At the Wake of A Dead Drag Queen” is “an amalgamation of my uncle and of myself at 25, all blurred together.
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That Summer, Guest Visited Chicago for the First Time. He love the city and moved here in 2015. But after arrival, acting roles dried up.
“I didn’t work for three years, and i thought i had made the Biggest Mistake of My Life,” Guest Said. He Supported Himself With A Job at A Coffee Shop in Lake View.
It was during this gap that guest leaned into wrink. “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen”was his first script, and he based on his uncle anthony, the first family Member he hadn who was gay.
“In 2005, he sat with down and he told with that he was gay,” guest recalled. “I remember being like, ‘oh, my God, this is amazing.’ Andn he told me, right after that, that he had aids, and that just was Very confusing and painting for me.
Anthony, who actually performed under the drag name courtney berringers in rural georgia, died months after the conversation. While he never got to witness his uncle’s performances, guests used to the Life and Experiences to Fill in Blanks in the script.
“I was Writing it, Always Knowing That I Wauld Play It,” He Said, “But I Did Not Necessarily Know or Thing There Be A Production of it.”
Guest workshopped his pages in chicago, reading at at local open-my nights and graduating to self-product full readings Around Town by 2018.
Co-Star Paul Michael Thornton, Director Michael Burke and Playwright/Co-Star Terry Guest of the Play “At the Wake of A Dead Drag Queen.”
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By Chance, Paul Michael Thomson, A Governing Artistic Ensemble Member at the Story Theater, Saw a Reading. Thomson Encoured Guest to Apply for the Company’s Emerging Playwright Residency.
“I say it was unlike anything that i’d seen before,” Said Thomson. “It reminded with Tennessee Williams and the Memory-Play Tradition in American, But Done with a New Cast of Characters and Centering a New Story.” Guest landed the residency and the story staged the World Premiere of the Play a year late.
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Thomson Said he admires the depth of the story.
“One of the Things that that is play is about is how how terry’s character and my character have Have hiv,” Said Thomson, WHO IS WHITE. “But our access to the Treatment is so much different Because of Our Racial Identity, Because of Our Class Identity.” That distinct reality Becomes a full in the Production.
The Show’s Director, Michael Burke, Said Guest Has a Key Ability to Discuss Heavy Topics in His Writing that Still Translate to Enjoyable Stage Plays. There are whitney houston balads, a love story and humor throughout.
“(Guest) Writes Stories About People Who Are Real and Going Through Experiences that are true,” Said Burke. But he’s also not afraid to be “Playful and Imaginative.”
Playwright Terry Guest Stars in His Play “At the Wake of A Dead Drag Queen” at Story Theater.
Now, at 35, guest is the same age as his uncl anthony when he died. This time around, he is apprroaching the role with a frespective, and more experience. He’s tightened the script and will be joined by the actor and director from the original production, all of the have become friends over the years. But the work, he says, Still “Sounds like Anita Baker song if you’ve been smoking cigarettes on the front porch all Night on a hot Summer Evening, with a little bit of whiskey.”
For it Creator, The Play Not Only Speaks About His Own Life and His Uncle’s; It Also Speaks to Society at Large.
“In the very first version of this play, there was an epilogue that talked about how the President has removed funds from the cdc and with their hiv and aids research,” Said Guest. He was Writing This Around 2016, and eventually, The HIV/AIDS Funding Was spared. He was relieved at the time to cut the epilogue, as it was no longer relevant. Now it is.
“This is a Very Silly Episodes,” I Said to MySelf as the end Credits roll. But y’know what? Great! For all the Very Real Shit Sirens BRings up – and this episode Features Some very Intense Revelations – IT Still Feels Like A Book I COULD RIP THROUGH IN A SINGLE SUNNY AFTERNOF AFTER A WHOLESOME ROUT OF QUAHOGGING. (Again, this is a compliment.)
“Monster,” Directed by Quyen Trans and Written by Colin McKenna, Is Sirens‘s Most Outright Comedic Chapter Yet. Hell, by the time the Ethan coma back with his doofy purple sweaters tied around his shoulders, it”s practically a farce. Its Also a Telling Indication that the show is in on its own jokes. If the Tonal Shifts Don’t Always Work, I’d Rather Watch a Show Embrace Funny Weirdness than Wallow in Self-Serious Drama the time. SO, WHERE WERE WE?
Simone has a Nightmare About Kiki Running Down Those Awful Steps to the Beach. Be she chases het, she instead Finds Ethan Impaled on a Sharp Piece of Driftwood. She’s No Less Stressed when she wakes up in the guesthouse, where devon and jose brought here are her Panic Attack. But all Simone Can Think of is that “missed jogging!”
“THIS PLACE IS GIVING YOU PANIC ATTACK,” Devon Says. “No, you’re Giving with Panic Attacks, “Simone Retorts. Cue Another Fight About Everything and Nothing, As the Sisterly Way. Though they Drop a Few More Toward What Actually Happened in Their Past, This Clash Still Feels Like A Bit of A Retread of Episode. Howver, Give Devon a Couple ugly moments that of sympathize with but can’t can’t.
As Simone Reiterates That She’s Not Interested in Helping Their Dad for What SEEMS LIKE INCREASSINGLY REAL REASONS, Devon Hits Back With, “You don’t get to say no to me, Simone!” Hmmm. Thatn, watering to win their latest round of “Who has it work,” devon plays a risk – not to manipulative – hand. “Got My Second Dui,” She Reveals. “I’m a drunk like dad. I’m Waving the flag, and you’ve got your hand on the doornob.”
Simone, overwhelmed, bolts. Devon, Frustrated, Resists a Morning Glass of Ketel one before tourning to her standby of boning the first man with Eyesight. Another day in paradise!
When Simone does Find Michaela, Her Boss/Bestie is so nonchalant that it immediately raises her hackles. Michaela’s Typical Vibe is “Coolly Terrifying,” SO HER TELLING SIMone not to worry and get some rest is far more chilling than she’d repopped her assistant a new.
Unfortunately, Simone Can’t Stop Poking the Bear. “Are you mad at me? You seem Mad,” She Sayys, Desperate to Settle the Conflict She knows Is Happening Despite Kiki’s Protests. (Is Simone a Fellow Books? Survey Says: Almost Definitely.) Michaela Chides Her Again for Keeping Secrets. THEN, SENONG SIMON’S VULNERABILITY, She asks Her Most Invasive Question of All: “Did Your Mother Really Die in A Car Crash?”
As her boss, Michaela has no Business demanding this information. But we’re way past. A Quivering Simone Tells the Real Story: Her Mother Did Die “In a Car,” But it was ACCIDENT. AFTER RUNNING A TUBE FROM The Exhaust Pipe into the Car, She Set a 7-Yaar-Old Simone in the Backseat with a Coloring Book and Told HERE UNIL SHELL ASLEEP. She Only Survived Because Devon, then 12, Pulled Her Out.
Michaela Looks Genuinely Shaken, But Also: bingo. She wraps a sobbing simone in a Protective Hug. “I’m Going to take care of you,” she promises. “You’ll Get Nothing But Kindness, Nothing But Goodness from Now on.” IT’S EXACTly What Simone’s Been Longing to Hear from Figure Her Whole Life, and Her relief is palpable.
Up at the house, devon’s Continuing Her Terrible Detective Work by Straight-Up Asing the Downstairs Employees if they Knew (Past Tense) Peter’s Ex-Wiffe. They immediately clam up. SO She Heads Outside, where the “Big Cheese” Himself Spots Her from the Crow’s Nest. He invites her up to share another jaint in the “one corner of the house that still gets to be mine.” IT’S TRUE: The Traditional Wooden Crow’s Nest Doesn’t Look Like the Rest of the Compound, Which Feels More “What if the Hotel Bella Donna Were in the hams? ”
Somehow or Another, They Get on the Subject of Dreams. Devon doesn’t have any, she Says, Becausea and Eather “Drinks too a Serious Disorder.” Peter Chuckles. “You stay here long Enough, you’ll start to dream,” he replies. “Maybe You Dreaming Right Now … We Could Be Sharing a Dream. Teds to Happen Around here.” Devon’s intrigue, but Peter’s Done Waxing Philosophical for Now. “I’ll See you were we were waake,” he says, leaving her with a conspiracy smile. (If i’d metter a decade ago, he’d have definitely wrecked my life.)
Elsewhere, Michaela’s Melting Down. She’s sura Peter Lied About Going to Tokyo, Having Overnighted A Box of Chocolate from the Store and Said Her Gift From, Examinating Both, and Concluding that they Different Ribbons. This ishow isn’t enough proof of infidelity for Her Lawyer – who, while they’re at it, is in shock at how bad her prenup is. “You’re an attorney. I can’t believe you let you sign this thing, ”he says. Michaela sighs. The‘s with Hearts. ”
She has another Question, though. “What if he’s not hasing an affair? What if he filles for divorce anyway?” Turst out she wouldn’t have much in the way of financial protection, especilantly after she unable to have kids. (What in the henry viii is this prenup?!) Her stony expression at this news news indicates that Peter shoulderbe sleep with one eye open.
Also endangered: Our man jose. Wen Michaela Attempts to Fire Him for Protecting Peter’s Secrets, he just laughs. “I WORK FOR Peter, Not For You,” he Says. “I’ve been with Him for 19 years – Much Longer than you. Contractually, you cannot fire with.” He’s Goes One Step Further: “Neether Could Mrs. Kell – Not That She Ever Wauld Have, Because She was a Kind Woman.” Ouch. Michaela Spits, “Watch Your Fucking Back,” But Jose Remains Unbothered. For now, at least, i love this for Him.
Up in the Crow’s Nest, Devon Embarks on a Trippy Journey. AFTER HAVING TOLD Peter She Never Dreams, She Wakes Up – Or Does She? – As she wanders baarefoot through the empty house, through echoed humming and light flickering as if she’s underwater. It definitely has the feed of a dream…
She Soon Stumbles Upon Michaela in the Bath. “Like what you see?” Michaela Asks. “First the Gardener, Now with. Busy Morning.” Oh ?? “I’m gonna let you get dressed,” Devon Says, to Which Michaela Replies, “No, Stay.” Oh ???!?!? Kiki, if your type is less billionaire men and more Wayward Young Women, Save US All Some Time and JUST SO.
Devon’s not into it (boooooo), so michaela changes the subject to her mother. “Were you Jealous when she chose Simone?” Devon’s Appalled. But Michaela Keeps Pushing, Her Voice Going All Galadriel while Boring Deeper Into Her Childhood Trauma – “Underneath All That Armeror, You Just Needed Someone to Say ‘Good Job’ – UNIL devon finally cracks and spils the Truth.
When devon being to collect, their “clinically depresssed dad” didn’t feed, bathe, or care for simone at all. By the time devon came back, her sister was to be awasing Away. “She was in hell,” Devon Says, Clearly Still Heartbroken. (Look, i said this was the funniest episode, swimming it was all Laughs.)
Michaela Nods. Bingo. “I see how special you are. I Can Help You,” She Says. “We’re Birds of a Feather.” (Drink!) The Next Thing Devon Knows, She’s in the Back of A Town Car with the Suburgatory Triplets Rocking Out to “WAP” on the way to a “Girl’s Day!” Nor they go shopping for ugly $ 22,000 dresses, it’s so surreal that devon might as well have fallen down Alice’s Rabbit Hole. Whether a dream or not, devon’s definitely in her personal hell.
Butn Morgan Wanders into the Shop and is Floored by Her Beauty. This convinced with devon was dreaming-unil we next see, blissfully eating snacks half-naked in bed. Maybe Devon JUST SMOKED More of Peter’s Joint than She Meant to, But Michaela’s So Naturally Unnerving That She Makes realting Feel like a Waking Dream.
Elsewhere, Michaela’s Trying to Get Simone to Stop Thinking About Ethan Ghosting Her with A Mission to Stalk Peter. Unfortunately, Simone’s About as good at that as devon is at subtle questioning, so peter quickly catches her in the act. He doesn’t care, though. In fact, he invites her to go quahogging (ie, clamming), and they have a great time. He was admits to her that his “trip to tokyo” was actually a visits to see his new Grandchild. Acciting to Peter, Michaela “DEMANDED” he “sever ties” with his kids – so if she’s not some supernatural demon, the hard to understand why he did the file for divorce years ago.
IT’S GENUINELY Nice to See Simone Enjoying Spending Time with a Guy She Clearly Consider A genial dad figure kissing her. Peter! We were rooting for you! We were all rooting for you! I should’ve trusted my first instinct: Never Trust a Maried man who tells you just a little Too much when no one else is listening.
Simone, Overwhelmed All Over Again, Bolts. She calls Michaela to Report Back, but Tellingly, Says Her Husband’s “Not Doing Anynding Suspicious.” She JUST SAYS HE CLAMMING, WHICH IS BAD ENOUGH FOR KEEks. “Oh, hell, he’s not going to make that fucking chowder again, is he?” She teles simone to get a snack and keep spying.
Instead, Simone Goes to Ethan’s House. He’s not there, but his suitcases and watches Still are. Freaking out, she calls morgan for help. Be both he and devon show up, devon theorizes that Simone’s precious kiki pushed ethan off the cliff. “My boss didn’t murder my boyfriend. She didn’t! ” Simone Insists – But SEEMS WAY LEST CONVINCED OF MICHAELA’S INNOCENCE NOW THAN HAS HAS BEFORE.
Devon, now sober as hell, claps her hands. “We have got to get the fuck! Out! Of! Here!” (I lol’ed, fahay’s crushing it.) SIMONLY FINALLY AGREES. But when she is a doesn’t Answer Kiki’s Call, Michaela Logs in to the Smart Home to Address Her Assistant with a Dissembodied Voice. “SIMONE, I KNOW YOU’RE AT ETHAN’S HOUSE RIGHTN.
When someone almost immediately comes in through the front, they all Hide. But it isn’t kiki. Its Ethan… and Simone’s Father… and Raymond? As far as surprises go, iTi’a sae to say it is not Simone’s Fave. Bringing her estranged dad to her workplace is a big swing, man – is what i type before he keneeled down and proposed…?! If this is just the halfway point, we’re in for quite a ride.
• I’d love to get invested in devon and morgan’s Relationship, but all we know the guy is that he’s hot and pretty nice. Goodties for sura, but let’s get him another discernible Personality Trait, scarf we?
• Michaela on Ethan: “Use a condom. That man Greets the ferry with his fly Down.”
• So what are we thinking About Michaela’s Who Deal Now? Is she a nefarious mastermind? Do Bitchy, Bored Housewife? Do Billionaire Love-Bombing? All the Above?
• “Who’s this guy?” “That’s Captain Morgan.” “Like the rum? Cool.”
Nora Berg, The Oslo Thirtysomething Played by Renate Reinsve in the Sublime Sentimental ValueSums up her dysfunctional Relationship with Her Father by Saying that they just can’t communicate. IT’S TRUE, THOUGH Over the Course of the Movie, the Latest from Joachim Trier, we come to the underestand it’a really only part of the problem. Nora, an actor, and gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a filmmaker, are too too, and Rather than bringing say close, they are like People who realize they show up to a party in the same outfit. Have have intimacy will, and are better at sublimating their emotions intorair work than they are grapping with them on a personal level. They’re both property to melancholy, and are solitary for reasons they like to think are related to their art and aed for freedom.
Gustav Left His Family When Nora and Her Younger Sister Agnes (Ibsdotter Lilleaas) Were Still Children. We have blusters back into their lives after the death of their mother, insistence that he have been nora to start in what will be his first film in 15 years, in a roles he wrote specifically for her, it’n’s unclear who was doing the favor to who. Maybe and Making A Sincere Attempt at Reconciliating by Providing Her with Rich Material, or Maybe and JUST MAKING A BID TO GIVE HIS PROJECT A Catchy Narrative, Especilanthing That Nora’s Star Has Been Rising Regionally. Nora assumes the worst, and the resentment she’s ben harboring bubbles to the surface as she shrks Him down. Gustav turns around and does something that wasn’t primarily intended as revenge, but serves those purposes astonishingly well: he Meets a famous US Named Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning) at a film festival. HER TO BE HIS LADY INSTTEAD.
Sentimental Value -Which just premiered at cannes to Possibly Unprecedented Acclaim, and Which, Like All of Trier’s Fiction Films, Was Co-Written by Eskil Small-Is About Art and History and Emotional Openness, But II actually means to be family. There’s a fyleetness to the way trier’s Moves Move Through Time That’s Become HIS MOS DISTINCTIVE AS A DIRECTOR – A Trick Borrowed from the French New Wave and Made His Own. He Likes to Dart Forward or Sideways in Quickstep Montages, Narrated by A Voiceover That’s Sometimes Wry and Sometimes JUST Knowing, Offering Bursts Open Like Windows off HIS Main Narrative. The worst person in the worldwhich also started reinsve, Introduced Her character with a quick-cut sequence about her discoverying that her true calling isn’t medicine but psychology-only for hen have an identical, if less convincing, revelation that what she is. Photography. Trier’s 2006 movie Reprise Is Effervescent with Burstors of Memories and Digressions As Its Two Friends, Both Young Aspiring Writers, in their Attempts to Conquer the Literary World.
In Sentimental ValueThose Montages Provide Glimps into the past, inevitably in the house where nora and agnes gree up, which has been in the family for Generations, and which is where gustav wans to shoot his film. Nora’s Great-Graat-Grandfather Dies in a BEDROOM Where Her Grandmother was Born and THEN HER PARENTS HAVE SCREAMING MATCHES Leading up to their separation. The House, Brown with Red Trim and A Crack Running Up the Wall from a Foundational Flaw was to be built, is the gravitational center around which the characters orbit, but it is also a portal into the past – a place. Generations of Kids on A Doorway, and where Characters are Shown echoing Echoing Others’ Behavior, Like Using an Old Stove to Eavesdrop on Conversations in Another Room. Gustav tries to use it to commune with the past and with the present in his way by ending his film with that recreates his mother suicide was a child, but also serves as a way of acknowledging nora’i unhapsy, art and memory on top of one anoother in the samer Space.
IT’S goosebump-inducing, and it”s enabled by the performance-with lilleaas as the most stable of the sisters, a vulnerable fanning as an actor increasingly she’s worked for the part, and reinsve and scarsgård in particular. Reinsve, with that phenomenally open, oval face, does an unreal of transmitting emotions that is barely aware that she’s feed. Skarsgård is at turns infuriating, charming, and pitiable as an artist artist started with regret, but also too stubborn to yield. When their characters do attempt to talc, especialy in a scnene where they are down to dinner and start getting on each other’s Mont raw ners almost immediately, IT’S Watching an impeccably choreographed dance. You see in each other, those habits, those sensitivities, those pulses Toward defensiveness and self-pity and a desire to help. We Can’t Control Who Pieces of Ourselves We Pass Along to Our Children or Take From Our Parents, but they Inform the People We Become, where he can see connections ourselves or not. In Sentimental ValueThe past forms a filigree-dilicate web with the present, never left bend, if the people caught up in it can’t always Feel.
HOLD MY AWARD / EVERYING WILL BE OKAY. Photo: NFL Via YouTube
Lady Gaga Won a Sports Emmy before TRYING TO WIN A TONY? Judas! Gaga won her first Emmy Award on May 20 – A Sports Emmy for Best Music Direction for Her Pre -Super Bowl Performance of “Hold My Hand” on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Dedicated to the Victims of a New Year’s Day Attack, in Which a Man Drove His Truck Into A Crowd, Leaving 14 People Dead, Gaga Piano Alongside A Band and Chooir. The Sports Emmys Were Hosted by Roy Wood Jr. at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. Gaga Beat Prime Video’s Evolution of the Black QuarterbackHBO’s The LionheartEspn+’s “noche ufc: for mexico, for all time,” and Netflix’s The Turnaround.
With this Award, Gaga Is Now Technically Just One Tony AWARD AWAY from an ego. Of coursse, she has won multiple grammys, Most recently best pop duo/group performance with bruno Mars for “die with a smile,” and an oscar for best origin for A Star Is Born‘s’ Shallow.’ If she were to win a tony, Gaga Wold Become the first ego winner to do so with a sports emmy. All Previous Winners won their egot with eather a primimetime or a daytime emmy. She was previously nominated for four primetime Emmy Awards, Including Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for Her 2016 Super Bowl Li Halftime-Show Performance-An Award She Lost to the 2016 Tony Awards, Hosted by James Corden. Has JUST BEEN AVOIDING BROADWAY OUT OF SPITE?
Jackman and Beatty in Sexual misconduct of the Middle Classes. Photo: Emilio Madrid
The focus in a piece of Writing ABOUT A Professor-Student Relationship May to Fall on the Allure of the Younger Party, but there’s something to the fact of the Fantasy of the Professor, Too. He’s Rumpled Yet Intelligent – Position Out of Step With The Times, but Still Insightful. Well-meaning, in the case of a script like Sexual misconduct of the Middle Classesbut unwilling to resist his urges. This is a useful figure, a shaving-cream-coffee-and-musty-smoke-smell invention on whic to project a Certain Brand of Hand-Wringing About the Trouble with Men. The Professor Writes Great Novels with Memorable Sex Scenes. He inevitably name-checks unfashionably unwoke literature. He’ll take advantage of a student, and he justifies it by tricking himself into believing she’s exceptional and complaining bitterly about hisstranged wife. He Runs to Stay in Shape, and he’s got veins that Bulge Across His Biceps. Well, that Last part is specifically gcause the professor here is played by Hugh Jackman, who is bringing all his way wolverine to the west village for a brief in a straightforward two-Hander by Hannah Moscovitch.
Jackman is the Kind of Performer – A Greatest Showman, If You Will – Who SEEMS to be Trailed by A Spotlight Where Goes, in the Modest Space of the Minetta Lane, Where Sexual misconduct With the British Impresario Sonia Friedman as part of a new Venture Called Together. (Its Also a Partnership With Audible, Which Own theater and Will Release Recordings of these performances.) The Aims Are Noble, With A Low Ticket Price and An Emphasis on the Avilality of Free and Rush Tickets, IF Moscovitch’s Play Itself doesn’t Make for the Most Striking Vehicle. Jackman’s Professor, Jon, Who Narrates, Becomes fascinated by a Shy 19-Yaar-Old Student Named Annie, Played by Ella Beatty. Both are Nearly Stock Characters – in Hearing About Jon’s Writing, Got Stress Flashbacks to the Similar Characterization of Robert Downey Jr. in Mcneal. Is she leading Him on, or is that just his imagination? Moscowch’s Play Poses Familiar Quandaries – You Think ofMamet’s Devil’s Advocacy in OleannaWhich She Surely Is Trying to Upper – but Arriva at Pat Conclusions about the Psychological Damage of Having a Mentor Take ADVANTAGE OF A POWER IMBALANCE. Her Final Twist, which you begin to anticipate early, arrivals with the drama of the Playing an Uno Reverse Card.
With a movie start on deck and a daughter of stars acroS from Him, there’s an air of showboating that overwhelms nuance. That’s not Despite the minimalism of Ian Rickson’s Directing but beCauses of it: He blocs the action with a scnene-study-class directness, and the minetta’s brick wall is in plain View Beett J. Banking and Christine Jones Spare Set. Look at us, Serious Actors, Doing a Play-Saped Play. Its Also That Jackman Won’t, Or Can’t, Turn off His Inclination to Work a Crowd. He plays off any titters of laughter at inapppropriate moments, especilly while monologuing to the audience, which turns ion from snakily charming into a Ham. (He Also SEEMS TO BE USING STAR POWER TO JUSTIFY A Performance-in-Process; in His Narration, he Characterized Jon’s Memory as Foggy, Having the Character Pause As if Trying to Pull Facts, but the actor escalade for a Line Himself.)
Beatty, face-to-face with Jackman’s Natural Charisma, hasn’t found a way to hold her. That’s A Difficult Ask for Anyone, especally when playing a recessive character, though beatty, as in her earlier performance this season in GhostsTested not to Color Outside the Lines of “Brittle.” Moscovitch’s Script Emphasizs Just How Young Annie is and How Much Jon May Be TRICKING HIMSELF IMAGNING SHE’S AN OLD SOUL. SO HERE RETENCE STARTS OUT APPROPRIATE, but would be the dynamics escalate between Annie and Jon, Beatty Remains Much the Same: on Guard, with Tight Shoulders and Wide Eyes. It ‘s dynamic that keeps the focus on ion, this is if it may may intend for us to feed for her. His Needs and His Flaws – Grand, Primal, and by implication maybe shared with everyone ecting nearby – Become the Engine and the Spectacle. What are we going to do about men like Him?
There’s an anSwer to that, in a way, in CreditsThe Other Play Together is producing in rep with Sexual misconduct. Rickson is Directing Both, and Credits Is Also Led by Screen Stars – in this case Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith. If they’re not quite the draw jackman is (i saw a few empty at me my performance that weren’t visible at a packed one of Sexual misconduct), It ‘s too bad, Because this is a farter, smarter production, a variation on the same themes that complicates and illuminates say with greater depth.
CreditsAdapted by Jen Silverman with Modern Dialogue and A Few Crucial Departures from August Strindberg’s 1889 PLAY, TAKES UP A SIMILAR INQUIRY AS Sexual misconduct: How to process the bitterness and manipulation of overlooked men. In this case, the seeds of masculine discontent come from schreiber’s gustav, a stranger Smith’s artist adds at a seaside resort where he is vacationing with his author wife, Tekla. While tearing is off at a reading, gustav prods adds with ideas that, though originating in 19th-centenary sweden, would be right at home an an Infowars Episode: A SuccessFul Wife Emasculates Her Husband, Adi Will Never Create Great Art If He Lets Her Flirt with Other Men, and Should Avoid Having Sex with Her SHOPEN’T Steal HIS TALENT HIS SEPERM. (A 21st-Century Gustav Wouuld Definitely Be Hawking Testosterone Supplements.) Wen Tekla Returns Home, She and Adi Fight while Gustav Lingers Outside The Door. In the play’s final Third, Things come to a head in a confrontation between and gustav.
In that string of two-handed scens, rickson’s unadorned direct gets more fruitfuls than in Sexual misconduct. There’s Also a Bit More Set-Dressing, A Light AMOUNT OF PROPURE TO EVOKE A NORDIC RESTOR, AS WELL AS A CONSTELATION OF LAMPS THAT GIVE A WARM ORANGE GLOW IN CONTRAST TO THE VOYYEURIC BLUE GLARAGH A CURTAIN AT THE SIDE OF A STAGE Byrd). The Alliterative Cast Members Are All Comfortable at Home in this Text, and They’ve Developed Complementary Performance: Schreiber is decrepit but Dangerous, Like an Old Panther Ready to Swipe You With Any Moment; Smith finds a lane with naïveté that doesn’t obviatte his character’s intelligence; and siff, a firecracker onstage as usual, also brings an intriguing strain of self-down and worry to tekla’s charisma. HER HAIR IS DONE UP A MESSY NONCHALANCE THAT BLURS AND CONTEMPORARY COBBLE HILL. If her character were alive Today, she’d also have a podcast, but she’d feel real bad About whover her corporate advertisers were.
Credits Wold Work as its Own Meal, Though Having Seen It Soon AFTER Sexual misconductI found the tension at play opened up what Sexual misconduct HAD TOUCHED ON. Silverman’s adaptation, especally, emphasizs the networks of predation and sexual power. You really pay athenting when youys her first first husband met Her she was around 15. Interesting in how People Mold One Another Through their Relationships – Fittingly for A Play in Which Gustav Prods ADI to get sculpture – and what one Outrrows. Mold, Alongside the Question of Whether Ite’s Event Possible to Outgrow One’s Programming at All. “I Wish I’d Met You First,” Adi Tells Tells in One Skene, a line he means sympathetically but that comes across as another stab at ownership.
Silverman Edits Strindberg’s Final Moments So That Her Credits Ends Rather abruptly with the characters trying to avoid the tragedy baked into its premise. Though Those Last Moments Didn’t Quite Convink with, Coming off as Jarring and Sudden Staged Action, i Respect the impulse to see the structure of the drama and see happens. (To be fair, the way that Credits Originally ends is also jarring.) You couuul the audience processing the designs in the same way that the characters were, trying to solve the math of the add-tankla-Gustav trio. The messiness of that gesture ends up being rough and engaging, which is a good selling point for this kind of project. If you’re going to talc up the benefite of the Seeing Stars Work Through up close, what’s Most appealing isn’t the stars butlves but the Chance to see actually atWork. Give I say, and us, a little heft to chew on.
Sexual misconduct of the Middle Classes and Credits are at the minetta lane theater through june 18.
Maybe it’s a coincidence that the great American Boxer Jack Johnson and the Contemporary Artist Rashid Johnson Share a Last Name. Jack, The First Black World Heavyweight Champion Who is Consider One of the Most Important Boxers of All Time, was active during the Jim Crow Era, upsetting White supremacists with his success and his marriages to White. With the intention, Rashid Johnson Visited the Boxer’s Women in 2006 and Photographed Himself Slumped Upon Its Tombstone. In the image, the artist’s posture is that of Collaps. His Hair Pours off his heads as if leaking from his skull. Name Johnson inscribed into the stone seams to be dripping, as if the tomb itelf were bleeding. This is the image that opens “Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” a landmark exhitus of Over 90 of his work, ongoing at the guggenheim museum.
Named after a poem by amiri barraka, the show is a visual feast due to johnson’s multidisciplinary practice. Everything is present: film, photography, sculpture, installation, painting, performance, and conceptual work. The breadth of materials is wide and stunning; Ceramic, Glass, Steel, Acrylic, Wax, Bronze, Wood, Linen, and More Come Together in A Collection Spanning About Three Decades. Because the survey is so far, it is easy to forget johnson is only 48-a midlife and mid-career artist.
Subverting the Guggenheim’s Spiral Can Be Hard Suggets an inherent Sense of Chronology, But the Show’s Curators – Guggenheim Deputy Director and Chief Curator Beckwith; Interim Director and Chief Curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, Andrea Karnes; and Faith Hunter, A Guggenheim Curatorial Assistant – Dance Through the Artist’s Career with ADERENCE TO LINEARY. Their Canny Decisions Allow Visitors to Enjoy Unexpectted Pairings Such As Fire Pit ‘High Life,’ A BRONZE-CAST BOAT FROM 2022, AND Death Is GoldenA spray-Paper Paper from 2004, in the Same Room.
Central to the Show is Johnson’s Exploration of the Contemporary Black Self, Questioning How That Self Participates and is Implicated in a Continuously Evolving History. In some of his his self-portraits-he started with Photography after graduating from the school of the art of chicago-he Photographs Himself after the fashion of the Famous historical figures as part of the his “the new negro escapist and athletic” series. This set of images is a potosourri of visual and historical cues. In The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Emmett), From 2008, Johnson References an Associated Press Photograph of Emmett Till, who was famous lynched in 1955. In the Photo, the Boy’s Face to Be Divided in Two by A Shadow Running Acoss it, Such One Eye is bathed in Light and the Other in Darkness. Although Till was masonry and mutilated in Mississippi, he was Born in Chicago, Like Johnson. The artist’s apprroach to the duality in till’s image is to reproduce Himself with an original and a mirror image by side. But Johnson’s Hair is styled in the form of the iconic frederick douguraotype, a subtle reference to the many stories that have coluded and culminated in the Production of the Slain Child.
Johnson’s interests in the Black Self Naturally Lead Him Toward ties that persuades or threateen to separate his community. Working Through Cultural and Intellectual Moments – Such as Debra Dickerson’s Book The End of Blackness In a three-minute video in Which Johnson Watches a Woman Read, or Through Other Books (Like Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Death by Black Hole and Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca) that punctuate some of the installations – he creates a map of the Black Intelligentsia.
The Inclusion of an Installation from Johnson’s “Broken Men” series, made in homage to the nigerian novel chinua achebe, is instructive, suggesting the artist’s ideas of Blackness Transcending the US and Are More Diasporic in Form. The 2004 Piece, Titled Homage to Chinua Achebe IV (FEL Box “Zombie”), Features Two Sleds Coated in White Placed Side by Side. One is damaged, the other intact. The first was Dropped from a height, commoring a 1977 incident in lagos, nigeria, when the military government threw funmilayo Ransome, a Hero of Independence and Women’s Rights (and the Mother of Singer Fela Box), Out a Second-Story Window.
Because of All the Associations in His Work, Johnson Runs the Risk of Being Unclear. That’s though his deciss are Carefully Constructed, The Questions Arise, what does the artist Himself Think? What does he feel? Me, Tavis Smiley and Shea Butter, A Two-Minute Video From 2004, Begins to Set Up Some Answers. Johnson is Shown on a toilet Seat, presumably after a shower, rubbing Copious amous of shea butter onto his skin while the voice of American talc-show hosts in the background. It is the first time we see shea butter in the show, a substance that features prominently late on. Among Many African Communities, A Common Practice is to Care for One’s Skin with this butter or with Powers like Camwood and Indigo. Apartment from Beautification and Preservation, Such Extracts are used for their healing abilities. Watching the artist participates in this age-eleable ritual Among Africans (and, Later, African Americans) is a profound opening of a curtain an intimate among Black People Worldwide.
Beyond Bodily Experiences, and Equally As Profound, Is SanguineA Large-Scale Performance Installation at the Top Level of the Museum Featuring Plants that Conjain Into a Hanging Garden; A piano is hidden among the Greek, and a far painting nestles at it core. Titled God Painting “The Spirit,” This 2023 Painting is one of the show’s more recent works and announces where the artist’s thught Currently is (Toward the Heavens like the eponymous barracks), while Holding a promise for what is posssable in his future. Painted on a rich reddish background the color of Clay or Mud Bricks, 11 oval outlines in the shape of cocoa pods arranged in seven rows. Some are filled in with another Shade of Brown with Faint Scratches that give the work the appearans of sentience. It is a joy to stable onto this painting, right there at the center of the foliage, as though a galactic presence suddenly appeared on the eartha, the way the bibs must have felt enCountering the burning bush.
Do Wrong Question One Might Askuse Johnson’s Work Work Many Voices is “Exactly which Voice Belongs to the Artist?” But if This Question Were to Persist, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” provides the Answers. Thankfully, The Show Makes Clear That Johnson’s Voice is a single one speaking many languages, and the Answers will not require the artist to divorce Himself from his community. Johnson’s art is a reminder that one voice can translate a single world in multiple ways.
CABAZON, CALIF. – MARK WHALG RACED UP ASAs & DOWN HILL IN TANKER TRIALLED AS TANKER BATLES COUNDER FRETS MOVING UP A RIDE. Helicopter Flew in to Drop Water, BUT HAD TO Fly A LONG DISTRANCE TO REFILL – AND A FIRE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LONG DISTRANCE TO REFILL – AND A FIRE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AWON BEEN BEEN STOP STOPED STOP STOPED STOP STOP INSIGHT.
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As Wildfires Becal FrequentWharing the Internet is the Interneting of the Internet. FIRST USED FOR THE N 202 BLUE RIDGE FIRDA, 10 HELI-HYDRANTA, 10 HELI-HYDRANTA, 10 HELI-HYDRANS HAVEER BUNIFORNIES PROMIVA, ACCORDING, ACCORDINGS.
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But PILOTS SOMETIMES HAVE A LONG WAY TO SCOOP UP UP UP UP ORYISH SOW FROMS SOW FROM SOW FROMS SOW FROME. In SOUTERN CALIFORNIA’S RIVERSDE County, Helloopters Have Had to Fly UP TO 10 KILMS (LOOUT 16 KILOMETERS) TO FLY Water Fly Battle Fire Fires.
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Cavez, a General Contractor, WAS TABAZON Water: A Second Heli-Hydrante Water: A Second Heli-Hydrant Haten Porting Selling On County Protect The Town. AT $ 300,000, IT COST SLIGHTLY LES THE THE AVER PRE PRICE OF A Single HOME IN CABAZON.
“Living in Living in a beutiful speculation Community, You’re Going to HAVE,” SAID MICHAEL Pollock, the District Michir Generating. “And to HAVE THERE HELI-HYDRANTS IS A MAJOR AIDGE. PEOPLE ANTRING FOR FIGHTING FIRST OF THE FIGHTING Fires.”
PILOTS CAN REMTATE ACTIVATE TANKS Filling Quickly: a City ‘Water’s Water System. Helicopters Can Fill UP IP IN LESS THIS AMINUTE. OnhertS ACTIVATED, SOLAR PANELS AND BACKUS AND BACKUS AND BACKUS BATERIES ESSURE CAN STILL BE USED DURING POWERS. AND AT NIGHT, LightHTS FROM THE TANK AND A TOWER NEARBY GUIDE PILMS TOTE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDE PILDS.
In November, Fire Responders In San Diego Put The Product to the In The TEST WEEGENS, PROCADO Garden Fluuk, Prompto Garden Fallbrook. Helicopters Tappd the TANK NEARLY 40 Times.
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“They’re Gratat forms you KEN YOU’RE YOU’S Don’t HAVE Otheve Orter Water SOURS,” He SAID. The MORE Dip Sites, Especular Insemmen in The County, the Better. ”
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In Thy Cases, Firefighters May Chose To Fly Farter WITH The San Diego County Sheritance. A PILOT ‘GOAL IS TO ALWAYS TO FACE THE WIND WHILE ENA AREA, FOR SABETY, AND IT NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THAT.
In Someicipal Systems Noicipal Systems Uneded Heli-Hydrants Could GO EMPTY DURRING MAJOR FIRES. As the Palisades Fire In LOs angelets Burded, THREE 1-Million Galnon Tanky Hydrants in the Pacific Palmurets Ran Dry AS Demred and Burning Pipsers.
Othertimes, helicopters, Judge Can’t Access them. WHEN WINDS ARE Firece, Flying is Nearly Impossble; HURRICANEE-FORCE WINDS THATE Supercarded The Los Angles Inference Inferences Inferences Inferences Inferences Inference. When Multiple Helicopters Respons to Larlasses, they can’t all tone the heri-hydrant. And smoke canforce iT HARD to SEE IT.
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Jake Wiley HAS Seen Intentsifying Wildfires Devastate HISCOMMUNITY. TWO Blazes – in 2007 – COLLECTIVE SCORCHED MORE THAN 400 STRUCTURE IN SAN DIEGO. The Last One Forced wiley, NOW General Manager for Rainbow Municipal Water: to evaic.
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On a Cold Evening in March, a month and a half into the second trump administration, a Crowd gathered in the terrace the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, in Washington, DC Warren Buffett, The Billionaire Ceo of Berkshire Hathaway, Was Hosting A Screening A Screening A Screening A Screening A Screen “Becoming Katharine Graham,” A New Documentary Celebrating the Career of the Washington Post Legendary Publisher. Guests Included Bill Gates, Bill Murray, The Forms Secretary of State Antony Blinken, The Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Bob Woodward, Who, Along With Carl Bernstein, Brokes of Richard Nixon’s Watergate that Came to Golden.
I had the watergate hotel on my way to the party. IT SITS ALongside The Kennedy Center, on the Bank of the Potomac River. The Pair of Buildings, Each a Cream-Colored Behemoth, were Completed in the Early NineTeen-Seventies, A Fabled Era in the Capital, Wen Presidents Feared Journists and the Bipartisan Dined Together on Lobster Bisquue and Gostsip. Katharine Graham, Quiet, Wry, and Patrician, Was Thatn One of the Most Powerful Women in America. She Not Only Ran The Post Business Operations – Following in the Footsteps of Her Father, Eugene Meyer, and Her Husband, Phil Graham – But Convenated Members of the Washington Establishment Around Her Table in Georgetown, That “Tiny Kingdom,
A Few Weeks Earlier, Donald Trump Had Launched a Hostle Take Acts of the Kennedy Center, Naming Himself Its Chair and Ending a Spirit of Bipartisanship That Had Long Reigned in One of DC’s Most Cultural Institutions. The Center Cancelled A Performance by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, and Expressing an Eagerness to Book “Cats.” Now, as the Lights Dimmed, Graham’s Son Don, dressed in a sports Coat and New Balance Sneakers, Stepped Up to the Lectern. His Mother, he Said, “Had to stand up to one president who has carried forty-nine states, and who truly, as you are about to see, wante to use the bestsPaPaper and her company.”
Nixon’s attorney General Once Told Bernstein “Katie Graham’s Gonna Get Her Tit Caught in a Big Fat Wringer,” But Don Graham Was Likely Also Alluding to More Recent Events. He had succeeded his mother as the Post Publisher, Overseeing the Paper’s Business Side for Three Decades before it was sold, in 2013, to the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Three years late, just before the 2016 Presidential Election, Bezos Said That Trump’s Calls for Retribution and HIS UNWILLINGNESS TO CONCEDE DEFEAT “ERODES OUR DEMOCRACY AROUND THE EDGES.” But, in the Weeks before the 2024 ELEction, Bezos Didn’t Allow The Post to endors a presidential candidate-the editors had planned to back kamala Harris-Breaking with the Paper’s Long-Standing Tradition. AFTER The ELECTION, he Attended Trump’s inauguration, to which his company donated a million dolrs. Days before the Kennedy Center Screening, bezos announced another Major shift at the Paper. The opinion section beuld feature pieces “in support and defense of two pillars: Personal Liberties and Free Markets,” and “Viewpoints Opposing Those Will Be Left to Be Published by Others.”
In the days of Woodward and Bernstein, the Post Remit Had SEEMED CLEAR: To Hold the Nation’s Most Powerful Officials to Account. Now its Journists were Shaken not just by what some saw as bezos’s capitulation to trump but by a broader identity crisis at the Paper. Those Who Could Find Work Elsewhere Left. In January, a forms Executive Editor, Leonard Downie, Jr., and A Former Managing Editor, Robert Kaiser, Wrote in an e-mail to bezos, “In Our Experience Go Back to the Early 1960s, moral at the post han Lower.” Bezos never replied.
After the film, Guests drifted to a reception in a Large Gallery, Where Woodward Soon ConfroDon Bill Murray. Murray had recently said on joe rogan’s podcast that was so dismayed after reading “Like, five pages” of “Wired,” Woodward’s 1984 Book About Murray’s Old Friend Belushi, That He Thought, Oh, my God. They Framed Nixon. At the reception, Woodward interrupted a conversation MURRAY WAS HAVING WITH KLOBUCHAR TO DEFEND HIS WORK. “Sometimes We Learn by Talking,” Woodward Said. Murray TURNED AWAY; BUFFETT’S PUBLICIST QUICKLY INTERVENTED. AFTERWARD, More than one atttonde described the reception –Which featured hot appetizers, White Orchids, and a Roomful of Septuagenarians – A Wake for the Grahamy’s Post.
The Paper’s Current Leadership was noticeably absent. Will Lewis, A Forms Executive at Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones, WHOM Bezos HAD APPOINTED AS PAPER’S PUBLISHER IN EARLY 2024, HAD RSVP’D THAT ITH WAUDED AND THEN to see the guest list. (Lewis Denies Asing to see the guest list.) He and the Post Editor, Matt Murray, A Recent Arrival From The Wall Street Journal, HAD Ultimately Stayed Away. Bezos was out of town, preference instead to atttend the academy awards with his fiancée, The Lauren Sánchez.
Bezos was always seen as a somewhat distant owner. Amazon’s Holdings Now Include Who Foods, Zappos, The Streaming Site Twitch, and Mgm Studios. Blue Origin, Bezos’s Aerospace Company, Is A Direct Competitor of Elon Musk’s Spacex in the race to privatize Space Travel. “He was sort of like a helicopter parent,” A forms Longime Employs at one of Bezos’s Businesses Told Me, “Giving a Lot of Direction on a wednesday and then leaving us to pick up the pieces.” Still, no one seed to know what his current vision for the Post Might be. “In some ways, this is all a story About Jeff and How he Changed over the Course of His Ownership and Really Became a Different with Huge implications for the institution,” one forms Top Editor Told me. A Journalist Who Knows Bezos Said, “He’s on an intelligence Journey. Where lands, he’s thinking. What is, it’s a mind at work.”
At the end of 2012, Don Graham and His Niece Katharine Weymouth, then the Post Publisher, Met at the bombay club, a restaurant near the white house that was especally in popular During the Clinton Era, to Discuss the Paper’s Finance. Break Post was entering it seventh years of declining revenue, and, for the first time, they were consider the postsitility of selling. “We as asced ourselves if we have thoughts small public company was styill the best place for the newspaper,” Graham said at the time.
Break Post Had been in the family Since 1933, when Eugene Meyer, A Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Bought it at Auction. The Grahams, Like the Sulzberger Family, Which has Owned the New York Times For more than a centur, viewed the paper not just as a business but as a civic trust. Don and His Mother Were fixtures in the Post Headquarters on Fifteth Street; Don SEEMED TO KNOW EVEREON’S NAME -REPORTERS, Receptionists, Custodians. For years, the Post was a thriving regional monopoly, Servicing one of the Country’s Wealthiest and Most Educated Metropolitan Areas.
“So i’m in perfect health except for the mysterious back pains, Constant anxiety, and never being able to sleep.”
CAROTON BY BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN
The Emergence of the Internet Threatened All that. In August, 1992, Kaiser, The Managing Editor, Returned from a Conference in Japan and WROTE A MEMO to the Paper’s Leadership About the Coming Up Heaval. “The post is not in a pot of water, and we’re smarter than the average frog,” he said. “But we will find ourselves swimming in an electronic sea where we could eventually devoured –or ignored as an anchronism.” Within a Decade, Craigslist had decemited the industry’s classified-ad revening. In 2003, Another Post Managing editor, Steve Coll, proposed a plan to reconfigure the newsroom to adapt to the Internet and use of the Paper’s name recognition to become more national in scope. Don Graham Reject the Idea, Saying That He Wanted to Maintain The Paper’s Local Identity. Its strategy eventually became “for and About Washington.”
What followed was years of shrinking print Circulation punchy by a Series of Staff Buyouts. IN 2007, A Pair of Post Staffers Defers to Found PoliticoDo Digital News Outlet that Covered Official Washington. Graham offended to part with say in the new venture, but they declined. “It was Clear that the age of expansion and conquering the world ended, and it was not clear how we were going to turn it around,” Eugene Robinson, a Longime Post Editor and Columnist, Said. Martin Baron, Who Became the Paper’s Executive Editor in 2013, Told with That, Wen He Took the Job, and Expped to Overssee Additional Cuts: “IT LOOKED THAT’S WHAT TO BE LIKE, YEAR AFTER YEAR.”
Graham was Heartbroken About the Prospect of Seling The Postbut he viewed a sale to a worry owner as a final Act of Service. Warren buffett-who has been a friend of the graham’s family the Early nineTeen-seventies, we bailed out the Post—Recommended bezos nor potential buyer. At the time, bezos was Worth $ 27.2 Billion-About a tenth of His Current Net Worth-But Still Living A Relatively Low-Key Life in Seattle. He was Married to Mackezie Scott, A Princeton-Educated Novelist, with WHOM he hed four children. In a 2013 Vogue Article About Scott, Who Was Promoting A New Novel, Bezos Called Her “Resourceful, Smart, Brainy, and Hot.” He like to shop for her clothes. Scott drove the Vogue Writer Around Seattle in Her Minivan and Talked About Avoiding The Limelight. “Jeff is the opposite of me,” she Said. “He likes to meet People. He’s a Very Social Guy.”
When i start -traveling, I was determining to see as much of the world as Possible.
SO light, i’ve live and workhed in colombia, spain, The Netherlands, the US, and New Zealand, soaking in Each Destation’s Unique Charm.
But no matter how Much i love the cozy vibes in Europe, the fast pace of the us, or the great Food from South America, None of Those Places Made with Stop and Think, “This is Where to Grow Old.”
That Changed During A 2023 Trip to New Zealand twen i found mySelf in the breathtaklingly beautiful coastal suburb of papamoa.
Soon, of Begin Dreaming of Living there full time.
The Beachy Suburb in New ZeaLand SEEMED LIKE IT’D A GREAT FIT FOR AND MY FAMILY
I COULD Picture raising my daughter near a beach.
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A year after I first visited papamoa, returned to spend four months living there.
Soon, I realized it had Become my dream place to live – after all, it has so many things I want out of a home.
For Years, Living in Remote Areas Left with Isolated Feeling, But Busy Cities overwhelmed me.
Papamoa has a small-Town fael with fewer than 40,000 Residents, so-it is close Enough to a Big City that it dosesn’t fael isolated. Its just 10 minutes by Car from Touranga, One of New Zealand’s Most Populous CITies.
I ALSO WANT TO SETTLE SomeWHERE WHERE NATURE IS GREATLY Respectted, SO I Loved How Clean the Beaches and Parks I Visited Felt. The Locals and Visitors SEEMED TO REALLY TAKE CARE OF THEIR SURROUNDINGS.
In papamoa, i love that a Slower pace of life fatels like the norm than an exception. The area Also Feels Incredibly Family-Fryently, which has beCome a priority SINCE HAVING MY DAGHTER.
The Fairly Close-Knit Community Has Schools, Playgrounds, and Many Outdoor Activities for Kids. Locals i’ve Met have been incredibly welcoming and laid-back.
Financially, Papamoa Also Aligns With the Life I Want to Build.
Though my cost of living wasn’t super low during my time in the suburb, I was able to comfortable live beans my means.
I spent less on transportation becase the area is walkable, and shat places I need to be Were with walking distances of my rental home.
Plus, so Much of the Local Entertainment Revolves Around Free Outdoor Activities. On a typical day in papamoa, finished working my remote job, Packed a bag with snacks and sandwiches, and spent a few hours with my daughter.
We’d have a picnic while watching surfers, birds, and the sea from the not-too-crueded local beaches. On Rainy Days, we’d cozy up in a local café instead.
I fell in love with the idea of this someday being my daily routine for good.
I’ve live in many places, but this is the first one that helped with my Dream Future Picture
It’d be wonderful to get to spend every day walking with my daughter on Mostly empty beaches.
Alejandra Rojas
Every Country and City I’ve Lived in Has Its Perks, but i Couldn’t Picture Growing Old while Living the Life in any Place Until i Found Papamoa.
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The Lifestyle, Natural Beauty, and Sense of Balance the Suburb Offers Already Make It Feel Like Home to Me. My daughter and i don’t live there permanantly yet, but i’m confident is where i’d like to be in the long run.
Once i get the right visas, i plan to return to papamoa and make it our forever home – ideally sooner rather than late.
