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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Doghouse

"The Civic Center will now be the permanent home of Wright’s smallest structure, a doghouse he drew on the back of an envelope at the request of 12-year-old Jim Berger so the family could accommodate their new golden retriever in style." - Hyperallergic

Nevada Artists Join Forces To Get A Mountain Range Labeled A National Monument

Artists might more normally be working in the studio, but "though artist-as-intersectional-avatar is not an unusual circumstance, the curators’ efforts go above and beyond what typically occurs in an arts and activism role." - Hyperallergic

An Ode To Bookstores, And To Promiscuous Reading

"Bookstores, like wines, have different notes, different flavors, each one distinct. There are the musty, quirky ones with haphazard piles and dusty rows, usually with both used and new books. There are the small indie stores, quaint, cozy and scrappy." - The New York Times

Are Those Identification Apps Good For Anything But Music – And Big Databases?

Well, they're also good for stealing a sense of wonder, or any sense of self-reliance in the wild. But hey, also, "Do not eat anything just because a plant ID app doesn’t say it’s toxic." - Slate

Another Theatrical Shout-Out To The Legendary Peter Brook

"Friends and colleagues who worked with him on this side of the Atlantic, and theater makers who never met him but look reflexively to his tenets — including openness and presence in the moment — spoke ... about Brook’s impact as an artist and a human being." - The New York Times

The Fourth Thor Is Doing Well At The Box Office, But Marvel Should Probably Start To Worry

The worry doesn't come from money, but from audience grades - a B+ for Thor: Love and Thunder follows a B+ for Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and the tepid B for Eternals. - Los Angeles Times

Why Danai Gurira’s Richard III Matters

The actor took a while to decide, but when she said yes, she dug into Richard's words. "Is there a different experience the audience has when they hear misogyny come through a female body? Does it highlight it more? ... And I hope it does." - NPR

Take Control Over Your Marvel Watch Habits

Fans don't have to see everything. Instead, they can follow the series and movies the way they would with comic books - only committing to several superheroes or stories they're interested in. (Sorry, Disney overlords; we have other things to do with our time.) - Wired

The Comeback Of Australia’s Country Pub

It's actually quite pleasing for architects - and fans of community spirit as well. "You can gut it and bring all of this modern stuff in … but people love the ‘imagine if walls could talk’ kind of feel."- The Guardian (UK)

A Former NFL Defensive Lineman And His East Baltimore Animation Studio

NFL player Trevor Pryce visited 20th Century Fox in 2005 and fell for animation. Now, his Kulipari series - "Kulipari, an Australian Outback aboriginal word for poison, is set in the Amphibilands, a secluded community of tree frogs" - is produced in East Baltimore, not traditionally an animation hub. - Baltimore Sun

Do Protest Songs Make Any Difference?

Hard to quantify, but a new English-language protest song database that goes back to the 17th century says they can. - - BBC

The Shimmers That Bring Fiction To Light

In Joan Didion's essay about writing to find out what one thinks, she also wrote, "'The arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement.' This is a much stranger reason to write than to clarify an argument." - The Paris Review

Turns Out Our Brains Have A ‘Low Power’ Mode

And when mice are in it - specifically, when they're not getting enough glucose - their brains stop processing details of vision. The study suggests humans probably have this mode as well. Tunnel vision? Real. - Wired

The Thrill Of A Great Takedown

Honestly, readers love them. "There’s something a little sexy about a well-executed negative review. ... A great pan does not just point out what’s missing from a book. It can fill those gaps with exhilarating, new conversations." - The Atlantic

Comedy As The Ancient, And Modern, Practice Of Joy

D'Lo is a "self-described queer/transgender Tamil Sri Lankan-American cultural-worker-activist-poet-writer-actor-comic" in L.A. He says, "as comedians we have a lot of power. We can say what we need to say in a way that people will receive." - Los Angeles Times

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