The seeds are loose and clatter around inside the pods, giving baptisia the name rattleweed, as children once used the seedpods as rattles.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
With dresses and intimate wear for women; jewelry; personal care products; men’s wallets; baby swaddles, stuffies, rattles and teething toys; dog leashes, collars and toys; greeting cards and a wide range of home decor, the store is drawing people in.
Skip fake florals, door bows, and chimes, which can look cheap or annoy neighbors.
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Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
23 June 2026
As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.
Periodically a mandolin tinkles, or maybe a fiddle swoops in as if from a low-hanging cloud.
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Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Feb. 2026
Roberts doesn’t offer much empathy for the poor, diseased critter other than a pause when Ben momentarily ponders his reflection in a pool as Adrian Johnston’s eerie synth-piano score tinkles.
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