Last week I spoke with Miriam Silverman about embodying the complexities of her character in “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” during a time of tremendous grief. Last night, she won a Tony for her performance. The show was “a lodestar,” she said. nytimes.com/2023/06/06/the…

The most important lesson I ever learned as a writer: When I was 28 I was at a bar on a Friday night. My friends and I were dancing and getting wasted and having an amazing night, when I looked around and noticed that my buddy Bunny was missing. I asked my buddy Henry, “Hey

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Management has already started taking down some of these demands so 🤔 seems like they can do things quickly if they want to... why is it then that we have been bargaining for over a year and have reached ZERO (0) tentative agreements? 🙃

Mums have become as much a part of homecoming celebrations as the football games. In Texas, the elaborate adornments — which are typically worn in a tradition that goes back more than a century — have evolved into a statement-making ritual. nyti.ms/46AGCiZ

NYC juvenile jails are so overcrowded that teens are sleeping on the ground in hallways and classrooms. At least two have been assaulted🧵gothamist.com/news/teens-in-…

when a weird guy is hot it’s rlly cool but when a hot guy is weird it’s seriously so scary

Look if Rachel Sherman had to live with this flickering floodlight for a month you can be goddamn sure that Hell Gate is gonna violate every established best practice and make the header image for her story a seizure-inducing gif of the light in question.

I WAS HARASSED BY A BLINKING FLOOD LIGHT FOR 27 DAYS. I named him (the light — he's obviously a boy) Blinky. The behind the scenes you didn't know you needed: Hell Gate *subscribe today!* hellgatenyc.com/flickering-lig…

A classic Rachel Sherman — starts with a delicious lede and ends with you questioning your entire life

When I saw the eclipse in 2017 in casper Wyoming, people were weeping. It’s so surreal and beautiful. Insane to deny it to anyone on earth in the path of totality.