Zoë Lance.

  • Link Party: 4/18-4/22

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Earning the “woke” badge. 2. The social media cabals that run the Internet. 3. The Coachella way of life. 4. How rich was Shakespeare? 5. Finding “lost” civilizations. And a bonus: Starting at 3:28, Prince’s incredible guitar solo in “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the 2004 tribute…

  • Link Party: 10/5-10/9

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The secret to great driving songs. 2. This story about a New England magazine that has managed to stay in business for 80 years makes me believe in the future of journalism. 3. After reading about it and how it’ll stream Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie, I think…

  • Link Party: 3/23-3/27

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This really interesting comparison between evil soliloquies in Shakespeare and Robert Durst’s hot mic. 2. If you’ve ever been curious about how shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart get specific sound bites from news broadcasts and stuff like that, this is how they do it. 3. Ephemera…

  • Monday Musings: Julius Caesar

    I caught the second-to-last performance of Southern California Shakespeare Festival‘s Julius Caesar on Saturday. This production was not my favorite of all time, but the casting and the acting were fantastic. It was completely modernized —  a woman (my former film professor, actually) played Caesar, and it took the David Fincher-esque thriller route over the toga and Greco-Roman architecture one. There were a…

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