Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.
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Robert Rubsam,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2026
April may be the cruelest month for poets, but September is crueler for stock traders.
The group have publicly endorsed the letter on behalf of The Brigade, a group of over a thousand Jewish filmmakers, executives, playwrights, agents, publicists and allies in the media, music and entertainment industries.
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K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2026
And very few other Minnesota Fringe playwrights take creative dramatic swings quite like Mariabella Sorini and Alex Church.
The second edition of Pitch Talent, organized with the screenwriting labs IsLABentura Canarias, CIMA Impulsa and DAMA Ayuda, will showcase emerging screenwriters and creatives selected by each lab, joined by Mallorcan screenwriter-director Ferrán Bex.
Released in 2025, the first part of Julia Loktev’s monumental documentary project My Undesirable Friends, subtitled Last Air in Moscow, gave us a sprawling, breathless look at a few devastating months in the lives of Russian journalists.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2026
Associated Press journalists waiting at a checkpoint south of the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon saw a convoy of ICRC vehicles heading toward the Naqoura border crossing Friday morning and later return.
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