I scratched my head when I realized that the fuzzy and felt huggable monster gang of "Sesame Street" never really had a live show after five decades. Yes, they've made live appearances outside of PBS (with also a somewhat shaky streaming residency at HBO Max), like the "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" show. But I realized that they haven't really starred in a live theatrical production. And when I mean the Sesame Street gang, I do not mean the "Sesame Street Live!" shows where our tiny gang is converted into adult-shaped body suits.Then arrives "Sesame Street: The Musical," written, directed, and produced by Jonathan Rockefeller (who's behind the currently touring "Disney's Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation")....
Ah, the changing of the seasons! One of my favorite times of the year, and, here in Missouri, summer was clinging on for dear life to the very last second. Literally. The last day of summer, high temperature was 97, first day of autumn, high temp of 71. And, with the coming of autumn also comes one of the most prominent times for people to start relationships. I often refer to Halloween as the last singles holiday until St. Patrick’s Day. Every holiday between those two is relationship/family-oriented. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Valentine’s, they’re all about being with other people. I look at Halloween as the Mardi Gras for singles, before we have to descend into that painful Lent...
This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.Question of the WeekIf you could change one thing about the culture of your country, as if by magic, by adopting a practice or attitude or folkway or tradition from another country, what would you import and why?Send your responses to conor@theatlantic.com or simply reply to this email.Conversations of NoteAs a coda to our recent discussion of immigration, which focused on policies in the United States, I’ve been thinking about how the world might collectively address the issue. Economic migrants, asylum...
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life.In 1995, decades before she began assisting with research on this column, Rena Rudavsky and her family were selected to participate in a novel psychology experiment: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University would install a computer in their dining room and connect it to the internet. At the time, only 9 percent of Americans used the internet (in 2020, nearly 91 percent did). Rena, then a middle schooler, recalled sitting in front of the computer day after day, participating in chat rooms and surfing the internet....
– Words by Sean McIntyre Photography by Don Denton Clichés about weathering the storm and emerging stronger are commonplace, but most are supposed to be metaphors about grinding away through adversity and overcoming obstacles. Few, if any, are about actually picking up the pieces after a devastating windstorm. Four years ago, Stz’uminus carver John Marston was enjoying the rewards of a lifetime devoted to leaving his mark on a cultural tradition that stretches back thousands of years. BC Ferries had just commissioned him to design the exterior artwork on a brand new ferry dubbed the Salish Eagle, he was working with high school students in Ladysmith to complete a welcome statue hewn from a 14-foot-long piece of Vancouver Island old...
