Grandma’s old sewing machine is in here, plus a treadmill, a wedding arch, years of tax returns in boxes, and, hanging down from the ceiling, a sheet of sheer red fabric from back when Maribeth ran her low-rent puppet theatre, Hands Within.
—
George Saunders,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2026
Behind a long counter, a cluster of chefs slice fish for nigiri, and splay more tiles of tuna and salmon over boxes of sushi rice for chirashi.
The track’s sudden end is the only reminder that Songs in the Key of Life EP is definitionally a collection of outtakes, songs Wonder decided to leave in the vaults.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
10 Oct. 2026
Nature’s underground vaults Scaling hydrogen into a major energy source depends largely on securing viable, high-capacity storage sites.
At Penzing Studios, the open-air museum at Bad Windsheim, the fortress at Lichtenau, and sites in Nuremberg, the production found medieval stonework, corridors, chapels, crypts, and staircases suited to the royal court.
—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
11 Sep. 2026
One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside.
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