Sarah Weinman

well after this game that other record may go down, it's true

Timothée Chalamet Controversy Motivates Opera Companies to Announce Discount Codes - OperaWire After the Seattle Opera announced a Timothée Chalamet discount that trolled the actor's "losing 14 cents" quote, opera companies have joined the ride announcing their own discount codes.

Omg it’s spreading

So apparently Seattle Opera *and* Eugene Opera are doing this and there has to be more city operas doing this?

Seattle Opera? I heard about this!

Gustavo Dudamel’s tenure as New York Philharmonic music director opens at Radio City Music Hall NEW YORK (AP) — When Gustavo Dudamel first walked into the New York Philharmonic music director’s office, he noticed black-and-white photos that included Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler and Willem…

Aha, it was Ronald Blum, who filed this earlier today

Gustavo Dudamel (L) in conversation with the NY Phil ceo (R) on stage at David Gergen Hall

I was sitting too far back to really see

(I should add that Dudamel wouldn’t have said anything if not for a question by the AP reporter in the audience, whose name I didn’t get, but props to that reporter for knowing when to tee up an unmissable pitch)

Even if Timmy wins the Oscar (doubtful) the damage has been done, the opera and ballet and classical music worlds are made of sterner stuff

Chalamet discourse keeps on going because at the NY Philharmonic press event tonight even Gustavo Dudamel made fun of him

Animaniacs - Variety Speak YouTube video by wakkofrankie

Immediately thought of

I do use this in the wild though, but otherwise fair

Ivey spares life of Sonny Burton The Alabama governor announced the commutation Tuesday, just two days before Burton's scheduled execution.

Gov. Ivey has spared the life of Sonny Burton, an Alabama man on death row. He was scheduled to be executed Thursday. www.treadbylee.com/p/ivey-spare...

You can’t trust what I hate if I don’t also talk about what I love (and in far greater proportion)

This is how you write with controlled anger

Truly a marvel (derogatory)

HOW is this still happening, it’s a sickness

Interview #107: How Sarah Weinman Makes Money Writing In this interview, Sarah reveals the extreme volatility of her income, noting that she made over $200,000 in 2025 but only $25,000 the year prior.

In which I get real — maybe a bit too real? — about the financial volatility of being a full-time writer:

Yes

O’Hagan is exactly the writer I hoped would write this.

“Provocateur” is like “eschew”, words used too much in journalism & writing and hardly ever in actual speech

Oh THAT’s going to catch on

But also imagine seeing it for the first time and REALLY GETTING IT, what a privilege

It's turning out in so many ways how much the 20th century was an anomaly (which is itself a learning opportunity...)

I grew up knowing a lot of shit (old parents who were culture mavens) but the great thing was also having the opportunity to discover old stuff in class, & the lack of shared cultural knowledge now can, in the right hands, be a great teaching opportunity. Convey that enthusiasm and kids will get it

Oh does it ever

How the Abortion Rights Activists Found Their Radical Imagination A long-shot campaign to restore public funding for abortion turned into the movement’s biggest success in a generation.

For @thenation.com in this excerpt from Killers of Roe, a HOPEFUL story about the abortion rights movement's greatest unsung success story in a generation, and how it grew out of frustration with Democrats following the ACA.

The story of @allaboveall.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I'm so very sorry.

RegimeEats

Don’t have much more to add other than “war sucks and this war really sucks and won’t end anytime soon” so yeah

Who could have foreseen