But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
There’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott house, now a museum, its low planes a paean to the Midwestern prairie.
The legislation behind this flurry of warnings and laments is Assembly Bill 1207, which emerged from backroom negotiations last September.
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Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
While voters are extremely interested in presidential contests and other high-profile races such as governor, most don’t pay attention to local contests, something both Democrats and Republicans lament.
The temperature plunges; Reilly’s trills harden into an Old World dirge.
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Brad Shoup,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2026
Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.
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