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Last week I offered thoughts on activating key spaces on the riverfront in the heart of downtown Reno with higher density development and year-round pedestrian-level interest. This week we’re shifting the focus upstream to the peaceful tree-lined historic neighborhood known as the Powning District. That focus is especially needed right now with the announcement of a new 34-unit apartment project that threatens to do permanent and irreparable harm to that neighborhood’s unique character.

UFC 301 is here, and while it’s not a terrible card, it’s certainly not worthy of the PPV moniker, nor the hefty price tag associated with the promotion’s numbered events. There is a title fight resting atop the main card, but it’s not the type of scrap that’s going to encourage new eyeballs to settle on televisions across the world. If anyone but the h… ncG1vNJzZmismJq6rq3Dq5iwqJ%2BZsKK%2F02eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGTCp6%2BMbGdqZaSdsm68z69kraCRqXqqv82tZKudkaG5ug%3D%3D

(This extra lengthy Crash Report is full of never-before-reported details and facts. While Cutler isn’t dead yet, I wanted to cover his life and crimes before he kicks the bucket. Upon his death, this will be republished as “The Obituary of Eliot Cutler.”) Eliot Cutler should’ve died in prison. After all, in 2022 investigators found over 80,000 images of child sexual abuse on electronics owned by the former bigwig D.C. lawyer and two-time Maine independent gubernatorial candidate.

Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world. Are you familiar with the prescriptivism vs. descriptivism debate in re grammar and usage? It’s a doozy… The prescriptivists tend to insist on adhering to traditional, well-established guidelines (prescripts) of grammar and usage, with a concern for notions of idealistic norms. In short, they follow the rules. And they believe you should, too.

It can hardly be a surprise to see this particular film on this particular list. As the list has progressed, there has been a variety of films represented: both family films and contemplative films. Action epics and religious dramas; intellectual journeys and feel-good productions.  The Prince of Egypt is the whole package.  But let's talk shop here - This movie came out 25 years ago - and it’s made waves. Budding studio DreamWorks decided to take a huge risk and make an animated Bible story: specifically the first 14 chapters of Exodus.

Hi! I’m Jacqueline Nesi, a psychologist and professor at Brown University, co-founder of Tech Without Stress (@techwithoutstress), and mom of two young kids. Techno Sapiens is a community of 20,000+ smart, fun, and curious readers, and we’re always looking for new sapiens to join us. If you know someone who might like it here, please forward this email! Share 5 min readIf you, like me, follow lots of meme-heavy social media accounts, you’ve probably come across versions of the following posts: A meme depicting a tangled mess of string labeled “my anxiety,” and next to it, that same mess adorned with holiday lights, labeled “my festive, holiday anxiety.

The term “hard science fiction” is misguided. Traditionally, it refers to stories that strive for scientific and technological accuracy. Many of the classics I read during childhood fall under this rubric—think Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein. Labels come with a host of problems: it puts everything into neat little binary boxes, confining our perspectives, and it gives rise to gatekeepers who say “this is soft sci-fi.

I would not have thought it possible for Pitchfork to sink lower in my estimation, but such a thing has come to pass. The self-obsessed music review site crawled even deeper into its own ass recently by posting a piece where old scores it had handed out were “revised.” This claim is a lie on its face - none of the new scores were given out by the original reviewers, which means that these are less revisions of old opinions and more allowing new hacks to give scores that better reflect the conventional wisdom.

Image via WikiCommons This is the free weekly version of this newsletter. If you’re enjoying it, or if you want to support feminist journalism, consider upgrading to a paid subscription. In the least surprising news of the year, actor Leonardo DiCaprio has broken up with yet another girlfriend once she reached the ripe old age of 25. The 47-year-old actor’s apparent allergy to dating women over 25 is so well-documented that one Redditor deemed it “Leo’s Law.