I’d be gobsmacked too! She’s one of my favorite actresses that too people few remember.
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I’d be gobsmacked too! She’s one of my favorite actresses that too people few remember.
With the inimitable Kay Kendall!
Been doing a bit of traveling lately (first vacation since August — phew) but still managed to wrap up this preview of "Starstruck." Indigo Girl power! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
These lazy jokes usually (not always but usually) come from people who aren’t members and are just riffing on other jokes. Does the coop have issues? Of course. But it’s a remarkable success on many levels.
Do you mean well stocked, well organized, running smoothly, encouraging member participation (ok, not always smoothly) and offering great products at great prices? Then yeah.
The Ketchum, Idaho, library is one of my new favorite places in the world. #library
BUT Flight attendant finished his “welcome to your destination” speech with “and don’t let anyone — and I mean anyone — steal your peace, your joy and your happy.” So there’s that.
Probably my last time on Southwest: not great direct destinations from NYC and prices aren’t competitive, esp. without the free checked bags (a huge reason I used that airline for my ski trips).
Flying Southwest for the first time since the change to assigned seats and they’re acting like we’re all new to that system: “your group number is on your boarding pass,” “look for the seat number that’s on your pass.” Guys, we know how it works!
Aside from every other issue this appalling account raises, it makes me wonder — as I have for months — how worried the NYC theater ecosystem in particular is about the international audience and artists from abroad choosing not to risk the trip and staying home. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Between the sabotaging of the Kennedy Center and the sabotaging of arts coverage at WaPo, the Washington, DC, theater scene is in turmoil. We talked to the good folks at DC Theater Arts to get an idea of what's going on. marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/dc-theater...
Excellent Rachel Donadio article about Malaparte in @nybooks.com
A QPL card also gives access to Hoopla, which has a lot of gems.
It’s possible to get Kanopy with a Queens Public Library card (available online to all NYC residents — I have one!) but unfortunately the QPL contract doesn’t include the Wiseman movies.
Oh, “Ponies,” you take place early 1977 — why do you have a character put on Blondie’s “Hanging on the Telephone,” which came out in 1978?
Exactly. People are using equivalent travel times to compare fares but the same time covers a much greater distance in Europe or Asia. It’s apples and oranges.
Driving distance between Bordeaux and Paris is roughly 370 miles, while NYC and Philly are just under 100 miles apart. You get much better value from the French rail system, which is taking the same time to cover a greater distance, and in greater comfort comfort.
Tonight: Heartbeat Opera's take on Massenet's "Manon," with a book adapted by Jacob Ashworth and Rory Pelsue, and new arrangements by Dan Schlosberg — who is so busy, I have no idea when he sleeps. www.heartbeatopera.org/manon
The pants that Emporio Armani designed for the Italian team are the single ugliest garment at the 2026 Olympics: baggy, pleated cargo horrors beamed from the darkest recesses of the 1990s. Not a single athlete looks good in them.
The antics of our (now elderly) rabbit + these days watching Olympics biathlon and alpine skiing very early in the morning, with a cup or three of coffee.
If you’re casually going to describe some people as “trailer trash” in a fancy magazine, maybe don’t. Besides, the real trash these days has many mansions and yachts.
Raúl Esparza is returning to Broadway next season in "Galileo" — with a score cowritten by Zoe Sarnak, whom I profiled a few months ago: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/t...
Go CBC!
The doc series “Downhill Skiers” on Prime gives really good insights into the downhiller mind set. Warning: the hospital scenes give “The Pitt” a run for its money!
At that speed, you must have control, otherwise you will not last a second.
It’s 99% skill. They have specialized skis that are finely tuned (regular skiers couldn’t handle them) but really it’s amazing training. And a brain that doesn’t seem to register fear!
As an avid follower of alpine ski racing all season long, I welcome all the people who tune in once every four years! AMA and I’ll do my best to explain. Like, Super G and GS? Whaaa?
Where are my #biathlon peeps here? Come on, our time is now!
One thing about the Lindsey Vonn saga: it’s brought out people (most of them, it must be said, men) who know nothing about ski racing yet feel they can pontificate about it at will.
If there’s one reason to get a VPN, it’s to avoid NBC coverage of the Olympics. We watch on Peacock on mute.