Photos and a video Aiello provided show bladed wire snaking around the decomposing animal’s neck and curved horns, as well as the front legs, in a desert landscape dotted with boulders.
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Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
The park’s namesake Pinnacles are technically the remains of a decomposing Miocene volcano.
They were set in crumbling castles and moldering dungeons—that is, amid the rubble of a collapsing social order.
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Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
The spooky environs created by production designer Til Frohlich are the stuff nightmares are made of; the murky bathtub, moldering linens and secret compartments that go bump in the night.
Damaged pans may be harder to use safely and may continue degrading with heat, cleaning and metal utensils.
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Ryan Brennan
June 2,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
Years of degrading the Star Wars legacy with terrible, unwatchable streaming series and the disappointing end of the previous trilogy have taken their toll.
Trump has also proposed slashing nearly $800 million from the park system’s roughly $3-billion operating budget — potentially diminishing the ability to keep facilities clean and control crowds.
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Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
The singer-songwriter’s forthright and wistful new record, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me, is an exercise in revisitation that yields expanding, not diminishing, returns.
Character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
An early discussion about social contracts comes down to us in Plato’s dialogue Crito in which Socrates, condemned to death for allegedly corrupting the youth, refused an offer to escape from prison.
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