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Off Book: The Improvised Musical podcast had a delightful exploration of the impish Salvador Dalí, an incredibly successful cat rescue, and...

  Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the same director as The Secret of Kells . It has a similar sort of art and line style, with movemen...

Every Place I Cry  was an improvised emo concert, whose direct-to-me marketing absolutely worked because I love Jess McKenna and Zach Reino ...

WHEREAS the ongoing pandemic and various other elements of environmental, social, political, economic, and biological disaster loom large, a...

Swarthmore College Lab Orchestra 's presentation of Sergei Prokofiev 's Peter and the Wolf was delightful --- playful, cute, fun, ...

everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too is a graphic novel by Jonathan Sun . It details the expedition of the main character, an alien...

The  Musée de Cluny  (alternately, the Musée national du Moyen Âge;  wiki ) is a lovely museum in the center of Paris, focusing on the middl...

The Barnes Foundation is a lovely modern building --- designed to conserve a certain claustrophobia from an older building --- housing an e...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is large, interesting, and fronted by an extremely  imposing set of steps and vista. I quite enjoyed one o...

I'll probably never   stop singing the praises of this museum, it is delightful and its subway stop is decorated to match. Oh, the ...

While in a post-exercise fugue state of relaxation, I wandered into this dystopian-movie-style skyscraper vista. All very clean, and complem...

I was surprised to see this giant bronze woman holding a sonic screwdriver, wielding it quite fiercely at a (bronze) parchment in front of ...

The Palace Garnier is a beautiful building, ornate and baroque and frankly luscious inside. (See previous shots of the lobby .) The perform...

I was supposed to go to the opera to see Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , a lengthy and high-cultural-value affair lasting 4.5 hours. It is ...

An interesting and high-concept, fancy exhibit of video game art included swooping drops of tone down to doodles on the wall, including sev...

Verdi 's Il trovatore is a... an opera. I wanted to write something like "a jolly operatic jaunt into the stereotyped gender-roles...

The weather today was clear and cool, an invitation to emotionally open up, to start anticipating spring, to remember that not all  shirts ...

Paris storefront windows put up special Christmas-themed displays. Lots of what you expect: snow, pine trees, something cartoonish or child...

I saw a concert at the Musée d'Orsay last night as part of a weekend-long celebration . The music was a nice selection --- all in Frenc...

The ways in which the inhuman and transitory artificial environments of airports are decorated always suggest strange alien decision-making ...