NYTIMES (Mekado Murphy) - How Jane Schoenbrun Has Fun With Horror (and Chicken) at Camp Miasma
The director discusses a key scene from “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” featuring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.
NYTIMES (Amanda Hess) - What the Hallmark Channel Knows About Love
For 25 years, it’s helped big-city gals find love with hometown hunks — and distracted the rest of us when we need it most.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Tonguette) - The Little Joys of Leaving a Movie Theater
As the credits roll, the ticket-buyers reenter the world. The post The Little Joys of Leaving a Movie Theater appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Little Joys of Leaving a Movie Theater As the credits roll, the ticket-buyers reenter the world. Photo by Stéphane Ouzounoff / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images Last weekend, while I was watching the 1961 version of West Side Story on the big screen at an old theater in my hometown of Columbus, it started to rain outside. The storm caused weird sounds to echo inside the cavernous, ornate building, which was constructed in 1928. The emphatic rumble of rain hitting the rooftop competed, at moments, with the equally forceful music by Leonard Bernstein and words by Stephen Sondheim. But I did not mind. To…Open
NYTIMES (Hannah Beech and Daniel Berehulak) - Amid Myanmar’s Civil War, the Rich Seek Parties and ‘Positive Vibes Only’
The lifestyles of the wealthy in Myanmar — nightclubs, caviar and trips abroad — have been largely untouched by years of deadly conflict.
NPR (Emily Feng) - Greetings from Turkey's border with Iran, where Iranians let loose on the dance floor
Iranians escaping hardship and war are shaking it off to Persian, Arabic and Turkish tunes in this disco in eastern Turkey.