THEATER
The EGOT Winner Behind Sondheim’s Signature Sound (The New York Times)
In Annie Baker’s Plays, Pay Attention to the Pauses (The New York Times)
Building David Byrne’s ‘Utopia,’ One Gray Suit At A Time (The New York Times)
No Broadway Shows? No Problem. Walking Tours Fill a Void. (The New York Times)
With a Mess of Fabrics, Broadway’s Costume Shops Return to Work (The New York Times)
Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked (The New York Times)
How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age (The New York Times)
Performing Off Broadway, While Driving Off Broadway (The New Yorker)
The ‘Cats’ Movie Is Here, So the ‘Memory’ Lives Again. And Again. And Again. (The Wall Street Journal)
TELEVISION & FILM
Andrew Niccol Lives In His Own Truman Show (And So Do You) (WIRED)
Game Over, Uwe Boll (Vanity Fair)
Oh Much More Than Bother: This Winnie the Pooh Is Terrifying (The New York Times)
The Science (And Scientists) Behind ‘Ant-Man’ (The New York Times)
How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Other-Worldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ (The New York Times)
Mike Flanagan Explores His Private Horrors in ‘Midnight Mass’ (The New York Times)
“Just a Concoction of Nonsense”: The Oral History of ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ (Vanity Fair)
ANIMATION
“It Spoiled Us”: The Mad Minds Behind Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs (Vanity Fair)
The Story of the DuckTales Theme (Vanity Fair)
Why Lisa Simpson Matters (Vanity Fair)
Rocko’s Modern Life: Inside the Barely Contained Chaos of a Nickelodeon Classic (Vanity Fair)
The Young Man and the Sea Sponge (Longreads)
In ‘Toy Story 4,’ the Animators Pulling the Strings Reveal Woody’s Inner Life (The New York Times)
MUSIC
The Never-Ending Life of Smash Mouth’s “All Star” (The Ringer)
John Williams on ‘Indiana Jones’ and His Favorite Scores (The New York Times)
John Williams Always Settles the Score (Vanity Fair)
Ben Folds’s latest project pays homage to Gershwin, ‘the Elton John of his day’ (The Guardian)
TECHNOLOGY
Spotify Builds a Music Experience for Children (The Wall Street Journal)
Hearing Loss? A New Device Lets You Hear Sound (The Wall Street Journal)
How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O (The New York Times)
The Game-Changing Tech Behind Gemini Man’s ‘Young’ Will Smith (WIRED)
TRAVEL
Holidaying in War Zones: Intrepid or Irresponsible? (Good Weekend)
VIDEO GAMES
The Role-Playing Game That Predicted The Future (The Atlantic)
‘The Last of Us Part II’ and its Crisis-Strewn Path to Release (WIRED)
Game Over, Uwe Boll (Vanity Fair)
The Unbearable Lightness of ‘Animal Crossing’ (WIRED)
In 1993 ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Bombed; in 2023, It’s a Hit With a New Generation (New York Times)
FUTURE OF WORK
A Neuroscience-Backed Approach to Team Building (The Async Review)
THE INTERNET
Ermahgerddon: The Untold Story of the Ehrmagerd Girl (Vanity Fair)
Poppy is Dead; Long Live Poppy (Vanity Fair)
ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Central Park During the Pandemic (Hazlitt)
As the Tonys Head Uptown, Step Inside the United Palace ‘Dream World’ (The New York Times)
This is Not an Opera House (The Monthly)
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