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Music promoters, both craving the one-upmanship and genuine satisfaction of getting a lucrative band back on a stage, have more money at their disposal than ever before to make their pipe dreams a reality.
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The stalker pipe dreams need to stop here.
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These wall drawings—at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, in 2024; the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2025; and Houston’s Menil Collection, in 2025—were all temporary, like frolicsome mirages.
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The film opens with real mirages filmed near Aswan in Egypt, where atmospheric conditions produce optical distortions.
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“Ignes fatui.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignes%20fatui. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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