my edgy Covid take is that I while I did socially isolate until vaccines came online for the good of society, I absolutely loathed being unable to see people in person, throw a party, or travel for over a year, and I enjoyed absolutely nothing whatsoever about any of it
How strange - it works for me and i’m not in Italy! Sorry to mislead you.
The production can be viewed on RAIPlay (easy to make an account, no geoblocking) www.raiplay.it/video/2026/0...
this project is a monument to every dysfunction of us-american art institutions
this is the cynical use of identity politics to push a right-wing agenda—to care about Gaza is to “ignore Black women”—and it is evil and it has nothing to do with antiracism or solidarity and we should give it no quarter
Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.
The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.
Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.
some words from me about luca guadagnino’s new production of death of klinghoffer, which opened last night in florence to rapturous applause. more words coming!
We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
i mean yes it’s a madonna song
truly didn't know she still had it in her but hello there Madge www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx83...
circulating amongst the gay millennials
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this is where I come out in favor of big band Mozart
instead, the Deutsche Oper is bestowing us with Olga Peretyatko's Donna Elvira and I wish I was kidding
how many weeks ago were the coders proudly saying they do it all with claude now
Somewhere in the A&M vaults exists the promise, and threat, of another Ethel Merman Disco Album
attn @hazycosmicjive.bsky.social
at this point, it would be genuinely artistically radical for some intendant of a full-size opera house to say “we are going to cast Mozart with singers you can hear in the whole theater and have an orchestra with sixteen violins”
Try the other half of the concert on for size: at 52:20, the New World symphony which an orchestra like this should be able to play perfectly in its sleep suffers some major coordination issues www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-bos...
Parterre posted excepts of the Boston Symphony playing “Nixon in China” excerpts conducted by Andris Nelsons, their music director whose dismissal caused a great deal of controversy and musician resistance
To my ears this is shockingly bad, slovenly conducting
parterre.com/2026/04/15/l...
all about my mother which does kind of explain my whole deal
even when accompanied by credible accusations of assault, but rather merely one of many, qua Duggan, "practices of queer intimacy...often baffling to outsiders."
Let that phrase be engraved on Duggan's academic tombstone. archive.ph/NQrIO#select...
Never forget that Lisa Duggan wrote, in public, on her blog, that a PhD supervisor's writing her grad student/employee "time for your midday kiss. my image during meditation: we’re on the sofa, your head on my lap, stroking you [sic] forehead, playing softly with yr hair" was not evidence of abuse,
In the department of You Can't Make This Shit Up, here's Avital Ronell chairing an address about how "might makes right" at an academic conference about hospitality. More on Ronell: www.chronicle.com/article/i-wo...
London Review of Boys
(Credit Lauren Oyler for that.)
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
clavicular being hospitalized for an overdose is honestly just sad to me, it will continue to escalate further, he has submitted his entire life into a panopticon streaming life and it never ends up good, a sickness of modern society
if you host the LRB On Politics podcast in the wig one (1) time i will love you forever
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWs...
*ethel merman voice* something for the BOYS @piercepenniless.bsky.social