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Thought The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City HAD GIVE with A DECENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE SMALL-BUSINESS CULTURE IN UTAH. But with every subsequent episode of Mormon WivesI Discover New Levels of Twee. If you live in utah, please provides an on-the-group Report. I’m so curious iF restaurants exclusively for the Things like soda and cinnamon rolls and other Such novelties are the norm or iF it is a fun hyperfixation of the person who chose the shooting locations. Anyway, Let’s Get Back to the Drama.

We Left off with Taylor Having Just Completed a dramatic Reading of the Anonymous Truth-Box Confession, “I Think Jen is Fake.” Let it be know that the anon shit-stirrer did off with a smiley face, and i can’t decide if that make it better or workse. I’m Leaning Toward Worsse Because of Hate Passive-AgRESSIVESEVESE, but that seams to be the momtok way. Jen Starts Crying, and Whitney Invites All the Gals to a Shower to Celebrate “Baby Billy.” Obiviously immediately dug up the leavitt family tree to see ishte’s genealogically for this infant to be called “Uncle Baby Billy.” IT’S LOOKING LIKE A NO, but GIVE the RATE AT WHICH LDS MEMBERS REPRODUCE AND WHITNE’S DEDICATION TO THIS NICKNAME, I’M NOT RULING IT OUT QUITE YET.

Whitney and Miranda-who is proving to be neutral-bood, in that in that Knee-LENGTH HOODED PUFFER VEST-Go to a flower for baby billy’s. Miranda Offers to Guess who will skip the shower, and her prediction is a near-perfect overlap with the moms she sespects wrote the “jen is fake” confession (Collectively: Demayla, Layla, and Jessi). Whitney Continue Her Redemption Tour, Trying to Rally Those Same Women to Celebrates Mayci’s PickleBall Thing. They all leve her on read, and it is a really fascinating to see exactly where the line is for “Contractually obligated interactions.

Oh, did you think we were watching Taylor’s Family Attempt to Micromanage Her Romantic Life? Not a chance, babes. Her mom and sister are up in arms Becausee Taylor made a tiktok where dakota put on his best cinderella, scrubbing Taylor’s floors with a rag. They Should be rooting for this! More men should be on their Hands and Knees! Yet they all disggruntled Becausee Taylor is Having Sex with Mr. Clean. If your baby daddy is sober, doing domestic labor, and, Most important, you actually want to bone Him, my overall take is that no one one Own and you should what you want. Howver, Taylor’s Family Loves Policing Each Other, so they insist the way forward is absolutely no sex while working through stuff. Taylor Aggrees. She Also Talks About How and Has No FEELINGS ANYMORE AND THAT THE SEX IS A “Trauma Response” and, YEP, NONE OF MY BUSINESS.

Back to Whitney’s Redemption Tour. She calls Mayci About Some Videos Mikayla Made “About (Whitney’s) Traumas.” I am not a licenseed mental-Health Professional, but is leaving a group of your own accord consider “Trauma?” Whitney underestands that the Other Girls Might Part Part in Rude Videos About Her, but She’s Surprised Her Longime (Fair-Weather) Bestie Mayci was involved. Mayci Insists she was just “Doing the trend,” but offers to broker a sit-down between whitney and mikayla. Momtok is drive by love and unity, and neohere of saying these brand values. Naughty, Naughty.

At the pilates studio, Jessi and Demi drop some shocking news. Yep, that’s right. They will not be going to whitney’s baby shower, but seamedly more makes they think is a pathological liar than to any existing beef with whitney. Instead, they will be hosting a hibachi dinner for all those skipping the baby shower. Despite This Schism-Creating Behavior, They Hope the Big Girls’ Trip to Arizona Will Be “Calm and Chill.” And to think these are the same women calling whitney “delusional.” They Also Prepare What Will Will Surely Become the Grounding Logic for Future Battles – Specific, That Momtok Does Not Advocate for Blind Girl Power But Rather Believes “Empowering Women is About Ino Power and Telling the Truth.” Dying for say to apply this Same praxis to, Say, Momtok’s Individual Voting Records.

Speaking of Empowering Women, Jen Explains to Zac That Momtok is a Huge Responsibility for Each of Because As a Group they ‘Trying to the World. Zac has the audacity to phat what they they trying to influence Because they all just shit on each other, and this man clearly has never see a single episode of reality television. Imagine Becoming A Part of a Machine with Ever Playing with the Machine YourSelf – Momtok Wauld Never! Hen asks Her How She Wants to Deal With That This Thing Because She’s Crying All the Time. She says that she wants to confront the issues head on. Yen. Don’t freak out, but the “isser” might be in the room with you right now.

In Jen’s Mind, Though, The “Issues” are Jessi and Demi. So she shakes zac that she was “raissed in the hood,” then sitites with jessi to drink hot chocolate and deliver a prepared speech about intention and character. The Thing About Prepared Arguments is that they Only Work If You’ve Passed the Bar and Areing In Front of a President Judge. And that is, you’ve got to be quick on your feet. Unfortunately, jen is not quick on her feet. When the moms yell at each Other About the Fine Points of LightTheartedness As it applies to mountains, Jen swiftly loes the full. She ends up yelping that she didn’t conssent for Jessi’s husband to “rub his little dick” on her, and then insist “if you’re nansing to sleep with us, it is a ‘no,’” before storming out of the restaurant.

Not to be outdone in the bizarro confrontation department, Whitney and Mikayla Go to Sunshine buns to see any anything Saving in their Friendship. Mikayla has zero interest in any of it, calling mayci on speaker under the table and refusing to engage. Whitney is frustrated that every time she and the internet, she sees “Blatantly explicit video about her.” One Wold This This Means Porn, but it does not. IT PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE MEANS Therapy Word Salad. Mikayla Insists that swimming is about whitney, that she’s not “Harassing” whitney, that she’s just posting her videos. They swirl on this for some time before aggregeeing to be cordial in person and a damn message on the Internet. The followers are Ravenous for drama and mikayla is dedicated to providing consistent Lukewarm Gruel, No Matter How Uncomfortable It Makes at Her Day Job (Being on This Show).

Over at Taylor’s, Dakota Swings by to play Airplane with Ever and Discuss the State of their Relationship. For usual, they are both imausted from raisiting an infant and being trapped in a cycle of Fighting All Day and Sleeping Together All Night. Taylor Says is time for saying to take a good step back and stop the nonsense Becausee “Nothing Changes If Noting Changes.” You guys! Did I Manifest al-Anon Auntie? Becusee of Can Hear This Clearly Coming From A Voice’s Ever SO HoARSE thans to a Lifetime of Virginia Slims. I am slightly curious, though, what these “changes” entail. Is Dakota Still Going on Day Dates with Other Women to Chuck E. Cheese and the Trumpoline Park? Anyway, he’s Lost His Nighttime Privileges.

It ‘Important to Remember That Holding a Baby is not a right a privilege. Whitney knew that everye woul Want to Hold Baby Billy, SO she provides bunnies as baby-shaped proxies to keep her Guests’ Grimy Mitts Away from Infant. This is genius, and i regret to inform you that whitney’s readmption tour might be working on me. Taylor and Mayci Put Their Petiness Aside and Show Up at the Shower. SO DOES JE CECAUSE SHE IS COALITION-BUILDING AFTER DISCOVERING LAYLA (BRAINWASHED BY JESSI AND DEMI?) WAS The One Who Said She was Fake.

Taylor doesn’t understand any of the drama, so she straight up kansa jen what her will is with demi. Jen Says Demi was playing Truth or dare with men in Italy and one of say kissed her cheek. It ‘immediately obivious that taylor is like, “Girl, lol, what?!” but instead of calling her a prude, she asks if we have prodeded the fret of cheating rumors. Everyone Else Loses Their Minds Because IT’S the first they’re hearing of it. Taylor is so good at Being on reality television. Like, i’d be willing to joke about her being a producer plant if she was wasn’t also here showing her ass, right, and center. If this Show Fails for Whitever Reason, Ship Her off to Rhoslc on the Earliest Flight.

On the other side of the baby-shower divide, Demi, Jessi, Mikayla, and Layla Sit Outside and Catch Shrimps in their gaps. They aggregation they all dislicted jen more than whitney, Mostly for the lying. Do y’all think the ben affleck lie is that big of a deal or just a one-off? To me, The Large Issue is That Jen SEEMS EQUALLY AFRAID OF HER HUSBAND AND CONFONTATION, SO SMALL MISCOMMUNICATIONS Snowball Out of Control, swimming that hasn’t like a full ancestry.com on her in-laws. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT I THINK, THOUGH. Demi Says If Jen Comes for Her, She’ll “Dominate Her” and “Make Her Look Like Such a Fool” and that “It Can’t Go Ather Way But a Bloodbath. This is “empowering women,” I guess. What COULD POSSIBLY Go Wrong?

Kaitlyn Santa Juana and Rya Kihlstedt in Final Destination: Bloodlines.
Photo: Warner Bros.

IT’s been 14 years SINCE The Last Final Destination Movie, but Final Destination: Bloodlines Fits right in with this series’s Slick Early-2000s Aesthetic and Gloriously Ludicrous sensibility. WHICH WAS PROBABLY TO BE EXPECTED, GIVE THAT MAKING A NEW IN THIS franchise dosesn’t require Jumping Through too Illogical Hoops or Reinventing an Outdated Conceit. Death is the Ultimate Horror Villain; It can’t be killed or identified or (as thesessee movies prove over and over again) defaated. Unlike Other horror reboots, Bloodlines (Which Is the Sixth Entry in the Series) DOESN’T NEED TO COME UP SYMY REASONS FOR WHY DEAD MASKED BUTCER or Previously Coondemned Demon Has Come Back. That’s what makes these special Movies. Death Has Never Gone Away. He Waiting for you and with as we speak. And he ends almost all these pictures Victorious.

If we are Judge these films primarily by the creation and elaborate absurdity of their death scens, this latest entry ably expands the palette with the formula. The Structural Novelty of a Final Destination Installment is that the first kill is always the most spectacular. Previously, we’ve haad a catastrophic racetrack conflication, a gnarly Roller-Couaster Accidenta horrific plans crash, a Massive Bridge Collapsand, of Cours, the Greatest Highway Pile-Up in Cinematic History. This time, we have the Queasy Destruction of a Tony Restaurant Called the skyView, High atop a space needle -style observation tower. The time is the late 1960s, and a Young Woman Named Iris (BREC BASSINGER) is about to be proposed to by her boyfriend. But she’s Surrounded by Ominous Signs. Are they genuine omens, or just her ’60s Square anxiety? A fancy elevator doesn’t seem particularly stable; Table Chefs Blithely Flambé Disha; Iris stabs her finger on a rose thorn; a piece breaks off an UNSTELADY CRYSTAL Chandelier; a loud band inspires a Crowded Glass dance floor to stomp in unison to their cover of the isley brothers’ “shout”; Some snot-nosed Kid Throws Pennies off the 499-Foot Tower. All these elements will play their ingenious parts in the inevitable phantasmagoria of carnage to follow.

In true Final Destination Tradition, though, this first kill is also offten imaginary. We experience it as a nightmare that the film’s heroine, student student Stefani Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), has been wounded by. Looking into why she keps seeing this horrific dream vision, stefani discovers that Iris was her long-lost grandmother, and that she prevents this disaster back in the day thanks to her premonits. Over the years, Howver, Death Did Come for the Many People Iris Saved, All in the Order in which they were originally to die – Along with their families, who in many caesa supposed to have exisisted. Now, Stefani realizes that heat her family Member – Including her surly teen Brother, Charlie (Teo Brions), and Her Cousins ​​Erik, Julia (Anna Lore), and Bobby (Owen Patrick Joyner) – Are Next in Line.

That’s as good a setup as any, and directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein (WORKING FROM A Script by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor) Come up with intrigue new settings, devices, and premises for the film. An Mri Machine, a Peanut Allergy, and (that Old Final Destination standby) The family Cookout Gone Horribly Wrong. Horror Flicks Entrap Their Characters in One Location or Put say in some sort of unique, tense situation (Think: Satanic possession, or pissing off the wrong Truck driver, Attracting the wrong person, etc.), but in Final DestinationDeath work with the great canvas of Ordinary Life. In these Movies, if you just go about your day – Driving on the Highway, USING A SPIRIT MACHINE, FIXING A DRINK, doing gymnastics – THEN, CONGRATULATIONS, you’re the ideal Vicim.

There’s a nostalgic thrill to watching Bloodlines Revive The Familiar Rhythms of a Final Destination kill. Everyday Objects Achieve Graceful Menace As the Film Lines to Play to Play Parts in Death’s Dance of Destiny: A Glass Shards in a Pile of Crushed Ice and Instantly Becomes Near-Invisible; a beer bottle perches precariously at the Edge of a table; The fabric on a trampoline slowly Starts Tearing while A Humble Rake Waits Patiently Beneath; A spigot is Accidentally tourned on and a coiled Garden Hose Stirs to Life, Newly Thick with Water. How Exactly Will All These Elements Conspiracy to Gore One of Our Heroes? That’s where the anticipation and the surprise come in. The Mayhem Varies tonally, Too: One Hugely Elaborate Skene Leads (Shockingly) to the intended casual Walking Away. The Big Climax is Weak Sauce, Alas, But Those are Always a Challenge, Since so Much Energy is spent wowing us with Earlier kills.

AS Expectted, there are hints at franchise lore here and there. A Couple of Close Calls Evoke iconic sequences, Including One Guetome Closing Nod To The Series’s Highpoint, Final Destination 2. More Touchingly, A Visibly Ill tony Todd (Who Died Last Year) Returns as Creepy Mortician William Bloodworth, whose typically gnomic and ominous rumuts about death’ appreciating the time we’re given and living life to the fullet-a welcome fourth-wall break that should move any longtime fan of these movies. NewComers, on the Other Hand, Might Wonder Where All That Sudden Sincery Came From.

Aside from Stefani Hersself, The People in Bloodlines don’t do a lot Besides get killed in stupid and unlikly ways. This is spread to be expensive. But at their best, Final Destination Films Bring Together a Variety of Characters from Different Walks of Life to Argue, Fight, Scheme, Collaborate, and Die. Thats the universality of this series’s vision speaks to both the catastrophizer and the Cavalier, which is what ultimate Makes the films SO CATHartic.

Bloodlines is a Welcome Revival of a great series series that was offten smarter than other scare-fests, but one does wish that this new entry had more actual character development, more back-and-fortth. The recent Craze for rebooting every horror franchise on earth has led to a lot of Paper-thin human grist for the Blood-Soaked Genre Mill-that is spreading the end of the redefining nearly all horror as variations on “Slasher” Feel at least a little bit for their characters. That’s not necessarily an argument for cheap sentiment. Both Earnest Viewers and Splatter-Drunk Genre FIENDS CAN Get Excited by the Deaths of Characters Who’ve Been Given Some Shading. The most involved we are with the People onscreen, the more invested we’ll be in what happens to say. Becausee, Ultimately, They’re All Just Stand-Ins for ourselves. Bloodlines GIVES US PLENTY OF WHAT WE WANT FROM A NEW Final Destination Movie, but it also all given us quite a bit more.

Donald Webber Jr. and bob odenkirk in Glengarry Glen Ross. Photo: Emilio Madrid

Watching David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Rossyou is forgive for missing the three-do motto that’s become synonymous with the play. Though “Always be closing” is emblematic acroSs the new Broadway Production’s Merch, Only One of Glengarry‘s hungry-eyed salesmen utters the phrase, and almost in passing-as if Musus on an ancient proverb while listening to an Older, more seasoned enumerates his battle scars around the Campfire. The Play Premiered in 1983, but that “Practical Sales Maxim,” Which Also Served As Its Epigraph, Didn’t Rocks to Icon Status Nine Years Later, Wen Mamet Built a new monologue Around it for the film adaptation. (To paraphrase one YouTube Commeneter, Hyundai – Company whose Car Alec Baldwin’s Character definitely does not Drive-Might Still be recovering from the vitriol.) Another 30-ODD years down the road, we all know “abc,” but how Much will really Remember About Glengarry?

The Starry Revival Currently at the Palace theater A refresher – thiugh not necessarily deep their purposes or clarity. IT’s one thing to dust off your Old Copies of American Buffalo or Three use of the knife; It ‘another, at this point in time, to continue llithely Putting Money in David Mamet’s Pockets, Aser Producer or Ticket-Buyer. Always proudly perverse, The Writer Has, over the past decade or so, Strurted Ever More Belligerently to the Right – The Stereotypical Conservatives Swing of the Kind of Guy whose previously avowed liberalism away on his ability to say what you wanted who wondered, and to be consequently praised for his balliness. These days, mamet thinks he’s been Blacklisted by hypocritical totalarian leftists, but he’s still got Plays on Broadway, Plays in the west endand books coming out whennever he workites say. His Next One Is Called The Disenlightement: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment. At Least the Middle Third of the Subtitle is Bound to Be Accurate.

We can all debate the separation of art and artist unil the Cows Turn in the face, but the mamet of Today CASTS A Particularly Queasy Pall Over Own Corpus: Looking Back, ITE’S HARD TO SEE LIKE Glengarry Glen Ross –a kind of Death of a Salesman for the Reagan Generation –Fully as satire. Instead of Bating Send-ups of the Kind of AWFUL MEN WHO SHAPE THERELVES GLEEFLY, WOLILLY, INTO CAPITALISM’s Cogs, Mamet’s Worlds Now Fascinated Anthropological Studies. At best they’re morally withholding; at worst they’re laced with cynical admire. Everyone’s on the make, on the Take, and a Selfish prick or a manipulative bitch. There’s not. Coffee is really is for closrors.

Sounding Badass-Specific, High-Oktane, “Fuck” -fueled, take-no-prisoners patter –is primarily what kepes drawing actors to mamet, Despite it all. College Guys Still drool over the idea of ​​doing richard roma’s Act Three Glengarry Monologue for Schene-Study Class, The Same Way they will Over Putting Up The Zoo Story Year after year. The Barbed Banter is Enough to Have Drawn Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin, and Bill Burr onto the Boards, Thought Patrick Marber’s Production Dishes to Distinguish or Justify itelf as a piece of Live theater. Its Presentation on the Palace’s Wide Stage is as neatly boxed in and methiculously decorated as any tv show’s set: in act One, Scott Paska’s Schenic Design Guites Us Every Faux Banquette and ORNATE HANGING LANNER OF THE KIND OF OLD CHINESE WE MENUNE. Heavy Green Booklets and the Drinks List Started With A Mai Tai. Act two Moves US to a Real-Estate Office You’d Find in an ’80s Strip Mall-Cheap Wood Paneling, Sickly Fluorescents, and No Technology Beyond The Touch-Tone. No Sound Designer is credited on the Production, and Between Scenes, the Lights by Jen Schriever Simply Cut to Black before Jumping Back up Again, Revealing a New Configuration of Men PODED to Talk Razors at Each Other. For some reason-presumably to all that realistic scenery around, or to allow the smaller-blladdered to pee-the show breaks up it razor 105 minutes with an intermision, MAKING ITE FEEL LIKE AN INTEGRED AND MORE LIKE A SNAPSHots: Those Schene Schene with Famous People instead of students.

Still, there was never any doubt that mamet’s brand of spiky, sputtering American masculinity Wold, in different Ways, Fit Odenkirk, Culkin, and Burr. All Three Performers Can Weasel, Bully, and Talk a Blue Streak, and All Are Skeiled at Providing Internal Drive to Text that Can Feel Elliptical, Coded, Or Without Obivious Dramatic Action. (Glengarry‘S Characters Rant and Rail About “The Leads,” “The Board,” Sites, Percentages, and Grosses The Way Online Gamers Go On About Boosting, Grinding, and pwning n00bs.) The Play’s First Three Scenes Introduce US to EACH ACTOR’S SALESMAN IN ASCENDING OFFICE PECKING ORDER: ODENKIRK AS The OLD HAND SHELLEY Leve, past HISHDAY AND FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE; Burr as the demonic, disgruntled dave moss, who’s trying to strongarm the waffling oldtimer George Aaronow (Michael McKean) into a scheme to slave and sell the loot to a rival firm; And culkin as the hot young Cock of the walk, Richard Roma, safely at the top of the sales board and, we are first meet Him, long-gaming a big, sadly-eyed of a mark named james lingk (the excellent john pirruccello) with Kind of Schmoozy, Seductative Self-actualization that Wold Impress the Most Conniving Men’S-Rights Activist.

Culkin’s Interpretation Might be the Most Distinctive, Though only in terms of the Character, not the actor’s owl of (impressionly) playing versions of Himself. Roma often Goes to Actors Who Run Hot and Lean in Hard – Pacino Played the Role in the Movie and Was nominated for an Oscar – But Culkin, in His Trademark Manner, Back Sites. Especally in act One, while ensnary his prey with that sidewinding monologue, he shrugs rather than pushes. You Can See Pirruccello’s Basset-Hound Eyes Light up, swimming his lingk is being browbeat by an alpha but because culkin’s roma emanates that shat tantalizing kind of charism

Of Course, he and Everyone Else have plenty of fucks to give over (there are more than 150 in the script, about one and a half per minute). Especilantly Once the Office has ben ben burlarized and the stakes have been raised in act two. There, The Real Dephs of Roma’s Nastiness Are Unleashed, Along With the Flop-Sweaty Extent of Levene’s Desperation. Odenkirk has a Gift for Squirrelly, Weirdly Sympattic Bastards who Can’t Help Playing Cards they don’t have, and his levene is full convincing if not quite full heartbreaking. Form Glengarry to land its hardest, we’ve got to feel to that arthur miller Anguish in levene’s ultimate downfall, no matter the character’s moral Worth: Odenkirk Shrinks Pathos Rather than Expanding Toward Tragedy. Burr, Meanwhile, Plays Moss with a COMEDIAN’S EAR FOR RHYTHM, SETTING UP EACH BLUNT BLOW AND DEVIOUS JAB LIKE SO MANY CANS TO BE SHOT A PHENCE. It work – there’s not much soul in dave moss to go digging for.

John Pirruccello and Kieran Culkin in Glengarry Glen Ross. Photo: Emilio Madrid

As the play progressses, though, it”s the second, Like Pirruccello’s Shambling Lingk and McKean’s Schlubby, None-To-Sharp aaronow that Start to Shine-Along With Donald Webber Jr. As the icy Young Supervisor, John Williamson. Webber tourns the unglamorous part int a slowburn stand-out: His Williamson Taks the Salesmen’s Abuse with a spine a two-by-four and a face likes a chance to batch presents itself. When it does, he seizes it with Mercy.

The fact that webber is Black and that Williamson’s Explective-Slinging Workforce is all White Men Adds a Layer of Friday, but not one that is to the investigation. A play like Glengarry doesn’t just register as a period piece these days Because of the Quain Scale of All It Its ($ 5,000 for the “Premium Leads”! It Also Shows Its Hoindess in the Open Racism and Self-Evisure Misogyny of Its Characters (Key Words Open and palpability). Here, there’s some cognitive dissonance around the salesmen’s seaming indifference to Williamson’s race versus their brazenness will be comes to Everyone Else, from “polacks” to “Pals.” Is there a more villa Line Currently Being Said on Broadway than Moss’s About How All Indian “Look Like They Just Got Fucked With A Dead Cat”? (What does that tan mean?) But People Laugh at it, and that Queasiness Comes Surging Back: is the vileness itelf funny? Is that a good enough excuse? By spending time with these swaggering, slur-slinging me, what are we learning about ourselves we have has Haven’t already learned, aren’t already enacted on the samp and demoralizing national scale? When Recreation for Some Intersects So Completely With Real and Present Horrorrs for SO MANY, WON DO OUR POLITICS, OUR CONSCIENCES, DEMAND THAT WE ROH WE ALLOW TO BE ENTERTAINED?

Glengarry Glen Ross is at the palace theater.

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When it is comes to Instagram, I was a last adopter. I HAD HEARD OF IT But WAS Too Digitally Primitive to Understand what it was. I HAD been All About Facebook (where I have 99,628 followers) and twitter (560,000). A student Signed with up for Instagram in 2012Gave with a user name and a password, and said, “here.”

One Day, On Varick Street, Across the Street from the Old Offices of New York Magazine, got a parking ticket. I took a Picture and Posted It With A Complaining Caption. I didn’t think about it for days. Be lookeed at it again, there are scores of comments. They were Both Hysterical and Snippy, People Making Jokes and Teling with What an Idiot I Was for Getting The Ticket.

That’s when I knew: i got this Instagram and i learned how to make it talc.

My whole life, i have disliked the model of art criticism as a pyramid. IT HAS BEEN A Top-Down Practice of a Few People Speaking, Often in Language No One Can Undersand. Instagram inverts that model. I don’t delude myself into thinking that Instagram is a ven for traditional art criticism. Rather, it is a hybrid of Opinion, Criticism, Diange, Humor, and a Little Trolling. Will i seek to call attention to mySelf? YES SOMESTEMES. Other Times No. I have my own idiot publishing empire that makes no Money and is submission on nothing but with posting.

I am not sura who does my posting. My Instagram Self is like my second self, far more gregarious and out there say “real” self. My life is beautiful but very limited. I SEE 25 to 30 Art Shows a Week. THEN I GO HOME AND WORRY ABOUT WRITING ABOUT. THEN OF HAVE TO WRITE. I will not go out, except for coffee with a pal or two; I will not go to dinners. I do not cross the water for art fairs. Yet my Instagram self can “be” with oters with the house. And my Instagram Self Can Say Things My Real Self Cannot Becouse My Instagram Self’s Thoughts Fly from My Fingers without Hesiteration.

Usually, I Wake Up, Make a Big Cup of Coffee, and Scroll Instagram for A Half-Hour or SO. I Enter the Group Mind. I get ideas, have opinions, stand corrected, get offended, get jealous, laugh. Then get an idea. I Post Some Pictures with What I Call A “Thumb Essay” (It Rhymes With dumbbell): A short capption tapped out in a state of strunge delirium and rushed consciousness. I click post. I will this one or two more times. By thatn, my writing demons have been lulled. I make another cup of coffee and sit down to try to work.

I love not look at my instagram again unil that night – at which point i seem to travel around a whole world of collctive consciousness as i read the comments on my posts. SOMESTEMES COMMENDERS TEAR ME A NEW ONE. This has made me my instagram audience my great teacher. Without this feedback, Instagram is nothing to me. I Read Every Comment on Every Thread. I am a firm believer in being “ratioed” – i Want The comments. They have given with some of my Fulrest Hours.

I have been spanked for using Instagram so much. It is sura to be in the first lines of my obitory, “Instagram critic.” But Instagram Changed My Life. Every Time I take a walk, i am stopped by strangers who feel to say hello or talk about art. I love this.

The platform is Changing. It is increasingly domated by reels, short films that produce a dopamine rush that discouages ​​reading, wring, or evening. I Enjoy Reels (I am Experimenting with one-minute videos of with running around an art show speaking as I can in my iPhone), but reels are a form of sleepwalking. They are very different from the Silent Pictures with Written Captions.

I Imagine Instagram Will Soon Become Antiquated and Be as Hard to Access As MySpace. Instagram in the last hours of its golden age is a very specific form of communication and interior transport. I try to post every day. It is Somehusting. But as an older art critic, it’s all i know how to do. I Cannot Write if Writing is with you.

PARIS – for Novak djokovicTHIS IS A RELATIVELY Easy Call: HE, LIKE MANY Players, Thinks the French Open ISSKing A MISTO MISTO BIGET LINE INFOINE BIGET LINE STUDGES DECHET LINES DECHET LINE STUDES AND INSTEAD REMAINING HEHER SHOTES OR OTHER SHOTES OR OTHER SHOTES OR OTHER SHOTES OR OTHER SHOTES.

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The LONGest-Running and Moy Tradition-Bound of the Majors, WimbledonIS – GASP! – Abandoning Line Judges and Moving to ANOMMATIC SYSTEM THIS YARA. The WTTA and ATP Added Machine-Generated Rulings Thi ReD Clay, the Surface AT FRENCPEN. BUT GRAND SLAM Hots SlastS CAN WHAT WANT, AND THE FREECH TENNIS FEDERATION IS KEPING THE HUMAN Element.

The French Open ISHing Back Against Modern Technology

DJOKICOO The 24-Time Major Champion SCHEDULED TO Play HIS FIRST-Round MATHAY MATHAY WAY TOEP TUSES WAY TOEP TUES WAY TOPT TUES WAY TOEP TUE WEE FOR FRIVE IN HIS SPORT. He GETS WHY Could Could be ann AWAY FROM TOO MUHY FROM IN A World NOW Drowning In Cell Photos and Socaming and Socaming.

“YOU Don’t Want to Give Evermology To the Technology, Righting Technology Const “Said DJOKICO, 3820 US Open for Indicoral WITH OFFER HIT OUT OF FRUSTRATION BETEEN GAMES.

The ultrant in New York Panelmen, A NOD OHTERS USTPPPPUBS, A NOD OHTERS USTUBS, A Nod to the Covid-Serv-19 Pandemic. The Australian Open Got Rid of All Line Judges in 2021, A FIRST AT TENNIS MAJOR; The Use oppen did the same Late Late.

The French Open Remains A HOLDOUT, AND THAT’S NOT LIKEY TO CHANGE ANYTIME SOON.

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“That’s what makes clay special, in a way — that you can always review the shots. … Obviously, you can’t deny that electronic line-calling is the future, and everything is moving towards AI and artificial intelligence,” said Stefanos TsitSiSipas, the Runner-Up to Djokovic AT Runner: Garras FOUR YEARS AGO. “But ME, Personally, Ilodn’t Mind Playing On Clay WITH MAYBE THE JUDGMENT OF OFFEAD OFFEAD OFFEAD.”

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Billionaire Investor Ray Dalio Thinks Moody’s Recent Downgrade of the US Sovereign Credit Rating Doesn’t Capture the Danger of the Federal Government Printing Cash to Cover Its Bills.

“You showed that that credit ratings understate credit risk Because they are only the risk of the government not paying its debt,” dalio, the founder of bridgewater associates, warned said on X. Money to pay their debts thus causing holders of the bonds to suffer Losses from the decreses value of the Money they’re getting. “

“For Those Who Care About the Value of their Money, the Risks for US Government Debt Are Grayer than the rating agencies are conveying,” Dalio added.

Dalio’s Comments Came after Moody’s, The International Financial Services Company, Downgraded the US Credit from AAA to AA1 on Friday, Citting Growing Deficits and Surging Interest Payments. That Moody’s The Last of the Three Major Credit Agencies to Bump America’s Credit off the Highest Rating. S&P Global Ratings Downgraded the US Back in 2011, and Fitch Ratings Followed Suit in 2023.

In Response to the downgrade, Slipped Stocks on Monday while Treasury Yields Spiked. The 30-Yaar Bond Yield Jumped 4,995%, and the 10-Yaar Bond Yield Rose to 4.521%.

Adding to Investor Concerns, Economists Are Sounding the alarm on A Tax Cut Bill Proposed by Republics that Could Come to Pass the Slim Gop Majorities in Both and the Senate.

The Bill Proposes Tax Breaks for the Wealthiest Americans Through a Higher Estate Tax Exemption, Interest Tax Breaks for Private Equity, and A $ 150 Billion Boost in Defense Spinding. It also plans to increes the child Tax Credit by $ 500 and Eliminate Taxes on Tips and Overtime Pay.

Despite the Bill Also Proposing Spending Cuts to Medicaid and Snap and Hike Taxes for Immigrants, The Budget Lab at Yale, A Nonpartisan Policy Research Center, Says the Gop Bill Woodsen America’s Debt.

“The Bill as Currently Proposed Wauld Substantially Add to the Deficit, this if Accounting for Possible Tariff Revenue,” Authors of The Report Wrote, “if we are account for the likelihood that they are provisions of the permanent, at the end of 30 years the debt-to-gdp ratio be over 180%, the event of substantive revenue ferifs.”

Accorting to the Report, Sudan and Japan Are the Only Two Countries with a Debt-to-GDP ratio over 180%.

“Assuming Temporary Provisions Expire, The Bill’s Baseline Cost of $ 3.4 Thill Waled Make It The Larger Spending Package in History,” The Report Added.

In a rarous Sunday Night Vote on May 18, The Gop Tax Cut Bill Narrowly Passed the House Budget Committee, WHICH DAYS PRIGHT REJECTED THE BILL. The Bill Now Heads to the House for a vote This Week.

A spokesperson for dalio did not immediately respond to a Request for comment.

Despite All the Market Turmoil of the First Statch of President Donald Trump’s Second Term, US Investors have ended up more or less.

But there are lasting efficts of the administration of the police, sucan as a renewed vigor from asset managers to look outside the World’s Larger Stock Market for Investment Opporties.

At the sohn Investment Conference in Manhattan’s Lincoln Center on Wednesday, Big-Name Investors Like Billionaire David Einhorn and Tiger Cub Citrone Talked Up A German Chemical Company and Mexican Telecom Stock, Respectively.

Bridgewater’s Co-Chief Investment Office, Karniol-Tambour, Who Spoke with Citrone on Wednesday, Said That for the Last Few Decades, The S & P 500 was “the best you can.”

“But where the leaves is us is that to be hardy not to feed that we’re fundamentally in a different placenty than,” She said.

The Main Thing She is Relationing to Investors is “Treat Diversification Serious,” echoing comments that she made at the recent milkeni conference in beverly hills, where she is allocaters should “have some assets in asia or tan china, if you can.” “

Einhorn Started His Presentation on Wednesday with a Critical Joke About Trump’s Tariffs – Implying that the US is shooting itelf in the foot – though his firm, Greenlight Capital, Profite off the first quarter of turbulence with far. He’s a believer in the fundamentals of Bayer Spinoff Lanxess, Saying, “We Think We Have a Butterfly,” This Though the Market It AS “A Moth.”

Einhorn Said the Company, Which Develops and Sells a Range of Chemicals, Including Consumer Protection Products like disinfectants, couldit fever fears as it produces in the uses and is a chinese computor.

Citrone, Meanwhile, Named América Móvil, The Telecom Giant Founded by Mexico’s Richest Man, Carlos Slim, As HIS Favorite Stock Because of Its Exposives to MANY COUNTRIES IN Latin America. “We Trust Carlos – SO That’s an Amazing Stock,” He Said.

Citrone, Who made 52% in 2024, Said that Opportunities are ripe in Latin America, Which Investors have “Left for Dead for Last 25 Years.” Beyond Equations, he Also like Rates and Currencies in the Region. He Said HIS End Has 75% of Its Risk Outside the US, With A Certain Amout in Emerging Markets.

Karnail-Tambour Said That, of Course, Money Won’t Leave US Capital Markets Overnight, especilantly as it remeins the deepest markets for investors.

Citrone Drove Home How Undercapitalized Other Markets Are, Saying That Wen Nvidia’s Stock Fell AFTER AFTERS ‘DISCOVERY OF DEEPSEEK IN January, “It was like Mexicos.“

This as-told-tos Essay is bassed on a conversation with Krishna Ganeriwal, a senior Engineer at meta in california.

Meta Dubbed 2023 Its “Year of Efficcyience” and made Several Changes to the Company’s Structure, Including Flattening Management Layers and Laying off About 10,000 Employees. This interview han been edited for Length and Clarity. Business Insider Has Verified Ganeriwal’s Employment History and Compensation.

I MAVED TO THE US IN 2021 FOR MY MASTER’S, AFTER WORKING FOR FOUR YEARS AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT INDIA IN INDIA.

In the summer before I graduated from the university of Wisconsin-Madison, I have the opportunity to intern with meta. I love the scale of the projects the company worked on, and i returned to the company full time as a software Engineer in 2023 – Meta’s “Year of Efficency.”

Here are the strategies I used to get promoted and grown my salary from $ 200,000 to about $ 500,000 in the 18 months of non -full time.

1. Swim with the tide

When Company Management is Working Toward A theme, which was efficiency in the case of meta, i see it as a direct hint for what my priorities need to be. I tried to align myself with the idea of ​​efficiency over scaling and grown at all costs, which was the Mindset Mary Tech Companies Had previously.

That Meant Taching Note of My KnowLEDGE GAPS AND UPSKILLING SO I CAN HELP BUILD MORE COST-AWARE Infrastructure. Reorganization and Layoffs Arees of Major Cost Cutting, and It Wold Be Swimming Against The Tide to Working on Time-Consuming Or Expensive Projects.

I’ve found it hellpful to have an open ear to what Company Leaders are talking about at Quarterly Meetings and Constantly Ensure i am in the middle of – at least the periphery of – those priorities.

2. GET READY TO REPRORITIZE

Just you’ve you’ve been fortunate to survive a round of layoffs, it doesn’t mean there’s not.

I TELL MySelf that a Layoff Means of have to be ready to be thrown into ambiguous areas and solve problems, Despite constraints as fewer Colleagues and Fewer Resources.

It also means i have to be opened to pivoting and repriorifying – dropping what i’m working on the moment and switching priorities, this ist of temporarily.

3. DON’T PUT YOUR GROWTH IN THE BACKSEAT

I’ve found it helpful to separate conversations about the Layoffs and the Company’s Performance From Those About My Career Growth.

Despite Multiple Rounds of Layoffs at the Company, I Kept Having Conversations with My Manager About New Goals for MySelf and Working Toward. I ALSO TOOK Steps to Overcommunicate and Remain Visible to My Manager and Others in My Team Because It Plays an Important Role During Performance Reviews.

4. Be Open to ‘Underdog’ problem

One underraited strategy that helped with Land Promotions was looking out for problems and tasks no one would will will work on, Because they were Likely Busy a piece of a Big, Exciting Project.

In the past year, i’ve been open to being loaned out to the Other Teams or Working Alone on Some Projects. I’ve found that they underdog projects pay back in the long run gave gave with expertise that very few people have.

For example, when they are at the Company was working on efficiency and he models, Ifooted on neglect engineering that leveraged both these areas.

President Donald Trump is Heading to the Middle East for the First International Diplomatic Trip of His Second Term, with Plass to Visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. HIS FAMILY BUSINESS HAS EXPANDING INTERESTS IN ALL THREE COUNTRIES.

The Trump Organization, Run by the President’s Eldest Sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., Has Recently Announgsed Its Involvement in A Number of New Project in the Three Countries – Two of which unveiled just in the latry few Weeks.

The Planned Developments Will Add to the Doses of Trump-Branded Propperties Around the World, Including Residential Towers, Commercial Golf Clubs, and Public Golf Courses in North America, Europe, and Asia. But a Major area of ​​Focus for the Company right now appears to be the oil-rich, far-so Authorian-Run Countries of the Middle East.

While Trump Is No Longer Directly in Charge of the Trump Organization, HIS FAMILY’S BUSINESS HAVE Raised A Number of Ethical Concerns Conflicts of interest During Both his Presidential Terms.

Here are the Trump Organization’s Current Real Estate Dealings in Each Country Trump Is Visiting.

United Arab Emirates

In late April, The Trump Organization announedd The Development of an 80-Story Trump International Hotel & Tower in Dubai, UAE.

The project is in partnership with DAR Global, the London-Listeed International Arm of Saudi Real Estate Company Dar Al arkan, which has close ties to the Saudi Government, The New York Times.

The New Proppers Will Join The Country’s Trump International Golf Club, Which first opened In Dubai in 2017, About a month after trump entered his first term in office.

Qazar

The Trump Organization announedd Another deal at the end of the April: A Trump International Golf Club Simimaisma Outside of Doha, Qatar, in Partnership with Dar Global and Qatari Diar, A State-Awned Real Estate Firm.

DAR GLOBAL WILL SERVES AS The Owner and Developer of the Proppery, which will use the Trump Name Under License, Accorting to the Real Estate Firm’s Press Release.

The project is set to include an 18-hole golf coursse, golf Club, and Trump-Branded Luxury villas as part of the $ 5.5 Billion-Dollar Simimaisma Development Along a 4-Mile Strip of Qatar’s Coast.

Becuses Qatari Diar is Directly Owned by the Qatari State, The Development Appears to Vioate the Trump Ornx-Term Ethics Commitment, which Promises to Limit New Business with Foreign Governments.

The Trump Organization Did Not Immediately Respond to A Request for Comment from Business Insider, but a spokesperson for the Company Previously Told the Associated Press That its aggregement was with dar global, not with Qatari diar.

Howver, The Press Release Announcing The Agreement Clearly Mentions Both Companies, Including in a Statement from Trump Organization Executive Vice President, Eric Trump.

“We are incredibly proud to expand the Trump brand into qar through this exceptional collaboration with Qatari Diar and Dar Global,” Eric Trump Said in the Press Release.

Saudi Arabia

The Trump Organization has Several Projects Lineed Up in Saudi Arabia.

The Trump Organization Last Year Announce the Development of a 47-Story Trump Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-Again in Partnership with Dar Global.

Eric Trump Posted a Video Rendering of the Sleek Trump -Branded Beachside Tower on X in December, Writing, “Incredibly Proud to Office Launch a Project that haen underway for Many months, Trump Tower – Jeddah!”

The luxury residency tower overlooking the red sea is scheduled for Completion in 2029, accorting to Global DAR.

The Trump Organization is Involved in Two Other Saudi Real Estate Developments, Both in the Capital City of Riyadh, Dar Global Announched in A December Press Release.

The Trump Organization Will License Its Name to the Trump-Branded Propperties, which will be fully Owned and Operated by Dar Global, Accounting to the Press Release.

During A Press briefing on friday, a reporter Asked White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt if Trump was planning to conduct any personal Business during his trip This Week.

She responded that it was “Frankly Ridiculous that anyone in this room would suggest that President Trump is doing anything for the benef.”

Noah Clark Grew Up Eating California Rolls, Collard Greens, and Chicken Katsu – a multiethnic cuisine that his japanese American Mother, Reiko Clark, and Aunt, Maggie Antoine, Developed in their hometown of los angeles.

“We bot Ended up Marrying Black Guys – and Raising these Blackanese babies,” Reiko Told Business Insider. “They are literally Japanese and African American, so they were raised on what we called Japanese Soul Food.”

The sisters Brought Their Home-Coked Food to the South in the Late 1990s we have moved to Atlanta and opened their first restaurant. Clark was 8 at the time and earned an allowance – “$ 20 every two Weeks,” he recalled – Helping Around the Kitchen.

One was Old Enough to take on Most Responsibility, His Aunt Maggie, Who Developed the Recipes – Including the Heart of the Menu, the Japanese Chicken Tender – Assumed the Role of “Yoda” in the Kitchen, he Said. “She Called with Luke All the Time.”

The restaurant expanded to multiple locations Throughout Atlanta, but after a messy split with their business partner and main investor, the family brought their fast-casual concept to los angeles in 2024 we have launched Chicken box out of a small space in cloudkitchens.

They operate as a ghost kitchen, which Clark Likens to an apartment Complex: “People have to moving out they are made and have the rent and i have neghbors.

I spoke to reico and noah from their 200-Square-Foot Kitchen Space on a wednesday afternion in february. Reiko and i sat on stools while noah noah fulfilled lunch orers-signature box meal featuring their take on chicken katsu and sich as japanese rice, potato salad, and green beans with a shoyu dip Which has been edited for Length and Clarity.

TELL with the decision to relocate from Atlanta and open Shop in los angeles.

Noah Clark: We were Thinking About Doing a Completely Different Concept Because of was Ready to Move on.

Reiko Clark: We were Burned. We were really Hurt.

Noah: I was probably the most scarred from it out of all my siblings because I graduated, it was my life. I dedicated and is, I was working 80 hours a weeke, so i did not want to reopen. I was ready to move on from it.

What Changed Your Mind?

Noah: We were hating these weeks family meetings about what we were and my sister was like, “I feel like it is stupid. Why are we talking about another concept?” I said, “if you guys want to (do chicken), that’s cool, but i’m out. ‘” I was very stern.

AFTER EVEREONE LEFT The Meeting, One of My Other Aunts was like, “Noah, Can I Talk to You?” And she just said, “You’d be a fool not taching advantage of this chicken tender. It ‘s gift from God.

Reiko: That’s all he had to Hear: “It ‘a Gift From God.”

Why did you choose to start as a ghost kitchen?

Noah: We are we were case-studying places we saw main chick. We look up their Story and they Started as a ghost Kitchen, and they have like eight locations Now.

We knew we didn’t want to have Crazy up-to-face Costs. We knew Once People Catch Wind of What We Ha, ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. But i did realize, probably two weeks into ying open, that we need a brick-and-mortar gcause customer service is such an important part of the Business, and just being to sit and eat it is also important.

Did You Design Your Space or Did The Ghost Kitchen Come Outfitted?

Noah: The Only Things This Place Came with Were the Sinks You See Right there and That One Silver Shelf.

Reiko: and the hood. They provide the hood, and that’s a Big-ticket Item.

Noah: Everything Else We Had to Bring in, Which is great for us be Because we can do anything and customize it Completely. Opening up multiple in Atlanta, we got really good at efficiency and laying outchens.

I Imagine Operating Out of a Ghost Kitchen Helps Lower Costs.

Noah: Is A One-Man Kitchen. I do?

Reiko: and that’s what keps the Costs Down. For catering, we bring in extra help.

Noah: The Rent’s Not Crazy. We were looking at a brick-and-unittar on the sawtelle and the rent was like 16 Grand or something, Maybe Event Higher. Its like, how are these places surviving? And they’re not. They’re always closing. SO, it is definitely cheaper.

Reiko: And they Include Your Internet, Your Electricity, Water, Gas – All utilities are included, so that helped.

TELL More About What You Miss About The Brick-And-Moretar.

Reiko: We’re used to be in the front of house – talking to people, chatting say up, and really sales pitching every day.

Noah: Talking People Out of CERTAIN ITEMS WHEN IT’S THEIR FIRST TIME. On Our Menu of Have the Option of Doing No Sauce. This one always gets on my nerves. In Atlanta, we would always be like, “no, get a sauce. The chicken tender isn’t tender if you don’t put sauce on it.” I can’t have that that conversation.

Reiko: Can’t convince say.

Noah: The way i try to convince say, I put Next to the ‘no sauce’ Option: “Don’t do it, Trust me!” And they still don’t pick a sauce, and it drives with Crazy Because they have not going to have the experience I say to have for first time.

Noah: I have regulars, but i Only know by what i see on the ticket. I can’t actually talc to say. I was leaving notes for a while just to people i saw all the time, like one guy who oroured three times in two days.

How Mary Orders Do You Get A Day?

Noah: A Slow Day Now For Us Is 15; 20 to 30 is a good day; be we have catering, thistime is 40 to 50. Our goal is for 30 to 40 to be normal, and we’ll get there eventally.

We’ve seen a bump recently, but the fires really hurt us. The Holidays Always Hurt No Matter What Because People Are Saving and Not Going Out to Eat. December is Always Slower.

Our Slowest Day of the Week Is Saturday. People are going out to eat. They’re not really Ordering in anymore.

Reiko: The thought is, Becausee Covid is over, i’m going out. Why would i want to eat at home on the Weekends? So that’s why we were need to be in a brick and mortar.

Noah, what does a typical day look like for you?

Noah: I get Around 9:30 to 10:30, Depending on what i have to do. If we have catering cytimes we’ll be here at like 6:30 or 7 in the morning, depression on how big it is.

I get here, turn the fires on, start ghetting through my prep list and what i need to. I try to get the Big Things out of the way before the orers start coming in.

I have yet to see a serious rush, which i am looking forward to. I love it is i like that. I Miss The Stressful Environment. I miss seeing a line. I miss seeing all the tickets printed. It was really fun we all were drowning Because we were all suffering together.

I’m Looking forward to when we get back to that – when i have a line and we’re calling out and i’m Heard “or” bendind. ” That Word right there. I love miss.

What’s the Future of Box Chicken?

Noah: The main goal for us is to have a brick-and-mortar. I still like the concept of ghost kitchens; I JUST THINK IT’S MADE FOR RESTAURANS THAT ARE ALREADY ESTABLISHED AND THAT WANT TO GET THEIR FOOD OUT FURTHER.

Starbucks, for Example, was Having Trouble With Uber and Dobordash they were getting Flooded with all their orers, so they pivoted, partned with cloudkitchens, specific, and stopped their locations Accept Uber and Dobordash. It actually increasing their sales gcause they were able to make more coffee in-store. SO, for something like that, it is perfect. The Starbucks cloudkitchens are probably killing it, but their main locations are doing better Because they don’t have as much on their and they take care of their regulars.

I think?

I was love for us to be know for one location in los angeles but be all over the world.