#about : laurie st. clair

[nepoupdates]

let's talk about hookups! who do you reeeeeally think should hookup in this trip? going by vibes only, ofc.

part  of  me  wants  to  say  let's  not  because  i  really  could  care  less  but  i'm  feeling  a  little  ...  chaotic  tonight  so  here  are  some  pairings  based  purely  on  vibes  and  nothing  else:  

josie/laurie  ,  teagan/jia  ,  rory/julien  ,  percy/lorenzo  ,  benny/miyeon  ,  charlotte/rina  ,  harlowe/ace  ,  trix/lulu  ,  sasha/james  ,  paige/giorgia  ,  lari/juliette  ,  roman/elias  ,  rosalind/jaeha  .

no  i  will  not  be  elaborating  (  @delicatlueur  ,  @stclaires  ,  @teagvns  ,  @roaries  ,  @concertaes  ,  @wcrstbehaviior  ,  @rainforum  ,  @lovesues  ,  @hcerin  ,  @harlcwes  ,  @bcatrixs  ,  @racingfm  ,  @jamesluvsria  ,  @dearpaige  ,  @gicrgiia  ,  @lcrissas  ,  @fairjuliette  ,  @rosbella  ,  @lcvesickboy  )

[wcrstbehaviior]

location: unspecified participants: lorenzo angelini & laurence st. clair ( @stclaires )

"so, i'm usually all for surprises but," lorenzo made a point of pausing for dramatic effect as he turned his head to look at laurie, "but this kind of feels like i'm the lamb being led to slaughter," this remark earned its own laugh. "so how about giving me some sort of clue where you're taking me? for the sake of my sanity and all that?"

[nepofm]

SPOTTED   at   the  met   steps   wearing   last   season’s   jimmy   choos  ?   i’d   leave   the   steps   in   the   next   24   hours   before   nepoupdates   catches   them   !   if   it   were   me   ,   i’d   definitely   go   back   and  review   the   checklist   of   golden   rules.

laurence  “laurie”  st.  clair   george  mackay  ,  muse  i

george   mackay.     he/him.     cis   man.      ›      spotted   at   the   met   steps   ,   laurence   “laurie”   st.   clair   ,   most   likely   listening   to   i   remember   everything   by   zach   bryan   with   their   airpods   pro   .   the   twenty-six   year   old   gained   quite   a   reputation   ,   known   to   be   -lackadaisical   yet   +charming   to   anyone   who   knows   them   .   you'll   easily   spot   them   when   you   hear   about   a  well-stocked   bar   with   crystal   decanters,   tailored   suit   jackets   hastily   draped   across   leather   arm   chairs,   a   rustic   chessboard   crafted   from   weathered   rosewood,   and   dimly   lit   cigar   lounges   with   plush   furniture   and  old-world   charm   ,   followed   by   1   million   by   paco   rabanne   .   latest   nepoupdates   article   talks   about   from   star-studded   to   stumbling:   laurence   st.   clair   facing   dui   scandal   ?   ,   but   i   guess   any   reputation   is   good   reputation   .   (   chrissy   ,   twenty-three   ,   she/her   ,   est   .   )

[b0bbynash]

[p-isforpoetry]

Master poetry playlist

Each of these links will redirect you to the relevant playlist on my non-monetized Youtube channel (new video every other day)

By actors

Tom Hiddleston (Words and Music, Ximalaya FM, Coriolanus watchalong with Josie Rourke, Tom and the cast, interviews, Betrayal reunion)

Bruce Alexander, Sam Alexander, Nonso Anozie, Richard Armitage, Dame Eileen Atkins, Annette Badland, Kathy Bates, Xander Berkeley, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Richard Burton, Simon Callow, Robert Carlyle, Helena Bonham Carter, Kim Cattrall, Glenn Close, Sir William "Billy" Connolly, Ben Crystal, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ossie Davis, Dame Judi Dench, Vincent D'Onofrio, Brian Dennehy, James Earl Jones, Beatie Edney, Mark Ebulue, Ralph Fiennes, Kate Fleetwood, Jodie Foster, Polly Frame, Morgan Freeman, Stephen Fry, Michael Gaston, Sir John Gielgud, Aidan Gillen, Rupert Graves, Eva Green, Sir Alec Guinness, David Harewood, Tom Hollander, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Alex Jennings, Toby Jones, Jude Law, Robert Sean Leonard, Damian Lewis, John Lithgow, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Helen Mirren, Richard Mitchley, Alfred Molina, Sir Roger Moore, Sam Neill, Al Pacino, Ron Perlman, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Sir Jonathan Pryce, Alan Rickman, Sir Simon Russell Beale, Susan Sarandon, Andrew Scott, Fiona Shaw, Michael Sheen, Gary Sinise, Dan Stevens, Sir Patrick Stewart, Mitchell Brian Stokes, Mark Strong, Natasha Richardson, David Tennant, Kathleen Turner, Eli Wallach, Dominic West and Samuel West.

In this playlist there is 1-1 poem read by Tony Amendola, Sebastian Arcelus, Mackenzie Astin, Gerry Bamman, Alan Bates, Gina Bellman, Cathy Belton, Edward Bennett, Tilly Blackwood, Claire Bloom, Lindy Booth, Peter Bowles, Eleanor Bron, Sir Michael Caine, Peter Capaldi, Sir Sean Connery, Lindsay Crouse, Ruby Dee, Adrian Dunbar, Lindsay Duncan, Noma Dumezweni, Adetomiwa Edun, Rupert Evans, Colin Farrell, Deborah Findlay, Edward Fox, Jonathan Frakes, Hugh Fraser, Jennifer Garner, Jill Gascoine, Annabeth Gish, Iain Glen, Ioan Gruffudd, Julie Harris, Josh Hartnett, John Heffernan, Douglas Henshall, Hozier, Sir John Hurt, Amy Irving, Sir Derek Jacobi, Peter Jacobson, Lennie James, Paterson Joseph, Rory Kinnear, Hugh Laurie, Sir Christopher Lee, Robert Lindsay, Ophelia Lovibond, Helen McCrory, Niamh McGrady, Sepideh Moafi, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Tessa Peake-Jones, Dame Sian Phillips, Wendell Pierce, Rosamund Pike, Diana Quick, Jemma Redgrave, Iwan Rheon, Sebastian Roché, Hugh Ross, William Sadler, Kerry Shale, Imelda Staunton, Rufus Sewell, Jenna Stern, Juliet Stevenson, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Jo Stone-Fewings, Tilda Swinton, Peter O’ Toole, Harry Treadaway, Indira Varma, Dame Harriet Walter, Sam Waterson, Fritz Weaver and Carolyn Wickwire.

By poets

W. H. Auden, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Lewis Carroll, John Clare, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Robert Lowell, Christopher Marlowe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, E. A. Poe, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats and other poets.

Short scenes from movies/theatre plays

Coriolanus (Tom Hiddleston), King Lear (Sir Athony Hopkins), Much Ado About Nothing (Emma Thompson & Kenneth Branagh), Hamlet (Andrew Scott), Much Ado About Nothing (Catherine Tate & David Tennant), Macbeth (Sir Patrick Stewart)

[the-other-art-blog]

Fanfiction link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13777126/1/Serendipity

The discovery of something beautiful without even looking for it.

Youngest CEO Laurie Laurence has been going all over the best galleries on the East Coast, only to find the perfect pieces in a modest gallery in South Boston...and something more.

For @peebleoddle

Boston, Massachusetts

“Sir, we’re here,” the chauffeur announced.

“Thank you, Arthur,” Laurie said. He quickly checked his hair on the rear-view mirror and stepped out of the car. He greeted the door attendant politely and went straight to the elevator. His apartment was the penthouse, of course, so it took a while. He checked his messages.

His art consultant was already waiting for him. Laurie had been trying to acquire new pieces for his collection, but everything felt variations of the same. The more contemporary art he saw, the more he hated it. He grew up in his grandfather's house, where it was full of antiquities and traditional art, but that was obsolete now, at least for the Bostonian high society. He didn't want to hang a Rembrandt either, but something in between would be nice

“Taylor!” He called the man waiting in his minimalist living room.

“Laurie,” The other man, not older than him, walked to him, hugged him, and tapped his back twice as men do.

“Please, tell me you find something,” Laurie pleaded.

“Actually, I think I did,” he answered, showing Laurie pictures of the paintings he just visited. Laurie sat next to him on the sofa. He grabbed the photos and studied them. This is it. These are the paintings he had been looking for. They were perfect, just the right combination of tradition and modernity. They were full of movement, color, and… sensuality. Nevertheless, what attracted him the most was the theme. Most of the paintings represented musicians and dancers. Although there were also couples and very intimate scenes, family scenes.

“Where did you find these?”

“A gallery in South Boston. You told me to look everywhere and here it is.”

“This is great.”

“I agree.”

“So how many of these can we buy?”

****************

“He bought them all?! No way.”

“Just finished talking to him. He’s going to send someone to pick them up.”

“I... I can’t believe it. Who was it?”

“His art consultant is the one who closed the deal, but let’s see… Theodore Laurence...” Sam looked at Amy who was thoughtful. “Do you know him?”

“Oh my God, yes. We went to school together. His grandfather owned this huge company...”

“That he now owns,” Sam said as she looked at the computer and Amy went to see the screen too.

“Yep, that’s him.”

      A few years ago...

“   Everyone ready!?” Professor Brown hurried up the students. “Amy!”  

  “Everything looks good,” sixteen-year-old Amy came up to his side holding a thick file. “The costumes fit, the setting is working. We’re ready for the costume rehearsal.”

  “Great. Let’s do it.” With that said, Amy and the professor/director sat in the middle of the seats expecting to be pleasantly surprised. Instead, their faces reflected complete disappointment. To be fair, most of the cast was doing a pretty decent job. The problem lied in the male lead. Damn it, Amy thought.  

      Laurie finished preparing his drink while he waited for his new collection to arrive. He wanted to put one of them in his apartment.

“Thank you, gentlemen,” he said to the employees bringing the oils.  

“Laurie,” Taylor entered behind them. “There’s someone here who wants to know you, actually she says she already knows you.”

“Hi, Laurie.” Amy entered the apartment. Taylor made a sign and went to follow the employees, leaving the two of them alone. “I'm sorry, I practically ambushed your friend... You probably don’t remember me.”

“Ummm… no. Of course, I do. Amy March, St. Claire High School.”

“That’s right.”

“What brings you here?”

“Well, seeing as you bought all of my paintings. I thought I could thank you in person.”

“You… you painted that… Amelia C.M.”

“That’s me.”

“Wow. I can’t believe I didn’t connect the dots before.”

“It’s alright.”

“Come, let me offer you a drink.”

      “I can’t believe it!” Amy rushed backstage. “Ah, Theodore Laurence. Just the man I was looking for. Seriously?” She asked, seeing as he flirted with a junior. The girl left.  

  “I go by Laurie.”

  “Whatever. What the fuck is wrong with you! You haven’t memorized your lines!”

  “Relax, I will get them,” he dismissed her.

  “When? You should know them already? The play is in a week!” he shrugged. “I mean it, Laurie!”  

  “Alright,”

  “This might be a simple thing for you, but to a lot of us, this is important. And you’re the male lead!”

  “Jesus, you’re so uptight,”

  “Why did you audition if you weren’t going to do it right?”

  “I need the credits, okay! I’m a senior!” He admitted, visibly ashamed. “Director Harrison says that if I don't get them, I won't graduate next summer. My grandfather would kill me. I've already been accepted at Harvard.” Amy rolled her eyes. It didn't impress her at all. Everyone knew rich boys like Laurie were always accepted, they just have to show their last names and it was done.

    “So, you’ve done well… this place is fantastic.”

“Thanks. I… actually have to thank  you  for part of it...”

“I’m sorry?”

“Well, remember when you helped me with the play. You really made me think a lot about my life choices… It took me a while to realize that you were right. I was a low-life and a...”

      “Man-whore?!” Laurie exclaimed.

  “You heard me,” sophomore Amy stuck to her words.  

  “Wait, does everyone describe me like that?”

  “Uhh… some would be nicer, and there are some girls really upset with you, but overall… that’s the main idea. You’ve built quite the reputation.”

  “Huh,” Laurie said. He expected to be called a flirt, lady’s man, womanizer, but man-whore! That was harsh, even for him.  

  “Look, whatever you do with your free time and your… body, is your business. I mean seducing women, drinking, and wasting money wouldn’t be my first choice, but… it’s your life.”  

  “Uh, excuse me? I might not belong to your class, but some from mine do talk about you.”

  “It’s not the same and you know it. I have dates, real relationships."

  “Why do you care so much?”

  “Because you have everything! Laurie, you have more money than I could ever think of, you are such a talented pianist. Honestly, if you're doing this for credits, I think it’s a shame the orchestra wasn’t enough. And...and that face. We could have used that for the drawing class,” they both blushed. “My point is you have everything right in front of you, from the moment you were born. The least you could do is take advantage of it. Not everyone is as fortunate as you are.”

  “Please, doesn’t St. Claire cost a lot? Your family is able to pay for that, you can’t be that poor.”

  “I have a scholarship and an aunt. She likes me and she’s willing to pay my tuition.”

  “Shouldn’t your sister, one of them, be in my grade?”

  “Jo. She’s in public school. She likes it better and she hates Aunt March. Meg is already planning her wedding and Beth prefers being homeschooled. We all are where we want to be.”

“Sounds good.   You think I’m a talented pianist?”

  “Please, you know you are. Not the best, but you hold second place firmly.”

  “The first place being...”

  “My sister Beth. She’s a genius.” She said proudly. “I have to go,” she announced after a message arrived on her phone. “Listen, the story is great. I’m sure if you give it a try, you’ll find it charming and the lines shouldn’t be that hard. You still have a week, make the best out of it. Professor Brown won’t give you the credits if he thinks you didn’t work hard enough. He’s already regretting casting you. It’s up to you to change his mind.”

    “I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine, you were right.”

“I know.” There was a silence for a couple of seconds, only them looking at each other. “So, what became of your life after high school.”

“Harvard. International business, internships. Finally, my grandfather trusted me enough to retire and left me the company to run. You?”

“I went to study art in Florence, I came back and started painting. I was able to afford my own gallery a year ago. And you just help me get the milestone of selling all my paintings. So… thank you for that.”

“My pleasure.”

“If I may ask, what made you do this? I mean… I know you're rich but… what made you think you wanted all?”

“I just saw exactly what I’ve been looking for. You have no idea, I send Taylor to look everywhere. I don’t fancy myself as an art expert, but I’m tired of seeing splashes of paint on a canvas. There’s something very special about your paintings. I love music, you remember that. And they just feel warm. This place could use that. And they have soul.”

“Would you like to make my marketing campaign?” she joked, although it wasn’t a bad idea. They shared a laugh.

“So umm… I don’t remember you playing music, you have a lot of it in your pieces.”

“My sister Beth died a few years ago while I was in Europe and I… I think she would like them. It helps me feel like I have her close to me.” She didn’t know why she was being so open to him, but it felt good.

“The best pianist!” He remembered. She smiled and nodded. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s alright.”

“You don’t sign as Amy March.”

“This might sound a bit strange, but I'm trying to make a name for myself. My family name is known in Concord and now that Jo is a best seller… I just don’t want everyone to see my painting and say ‘oh that’s Jo March’s sister’. She's in New York but her books are semi-biographical so...”

“I understand. Ever since I step in as CEO, I feel like everyone is comparing me to my grandfather.”

“I love my sister!”

“Yeah so do I, my grandfather I mean.”

“I just don’t want to live under her shadow.”

“Right.” Laurie felt the need to move the conversation. He didn't know what this was, but he liked it. Amy was gorgeous, she definitely aged well. She was already beautiful when they met in high school, but now she carried much maturity and that smile... And if she could create such captivating paintings, then she was more talented than he ever imagined. Back in school, she was always in the art class. He remembered her bossing the props team for the theater class. She had good taste, everything looked good. “I want to put one in the living room. Maybe you can help me decide.”

“Sure.” She followed him. Whatever this was, she definitely didn't want it to end.

[inclineto]

Books, July - August 2020

The Lawrence Browne Affair - Cat Sebastian [interesting: I liked this a whole lot more on rereading than I did the first time]

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back - Mark O’Connell [much funnier than I expected a book featuring this many libertarians to be; also, god damn Ayn Rand and her community- and compassion-fearing nihilistic fanboys]

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

Solitaire - Kelley Eskridge * [the only surprise is that I waited until Day 111 of isolation to reread this]

In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature - Torbjørn Ekelund, translated by Becky L. Crook *

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Crystal Line - Anne McCaffrey

A Children’s Bible - Lydia Millet *

Daughter of Witches - Patricia C. Wrede

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller [you know, I can understand why other people despise this take, but it worked for me]

Folly - Laurie R. King

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip

Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall [The novel version of spending Friday night home alone on the couch with red wine and French bread-and-butter. Highly satisfying in the moment, and ruthlessly wink-and-nod in-the-know about (a particular sort of) internet culture, in a way that means it should be read now and not later. Although it probably doesn’t really need to be over 400 pages long, I’m not sure what I’d cut, and anyway there’s PINING. (But also: I think this needs a warning for somewhat disordered eating, which is a) a minor but believable characterization detail, and b) not the point of the novel at all, but c) it nagged at me in a really unpleasant way throughout until it was acknowledged)]

An Extraordinary Union - Alyssa Cole

Spirits Abroad - Zen Cho

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s - Maggie Doherty

The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow

Something to Talk About - Meryl Wilsner

The Terracotta Bride - Zen Cho

Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain - Charlotte Higgins

Stormsong - C. L. Polk

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Only Gold - Tamara Allen [new favorite terrible penis euphemism: “the instrument of contention”]

The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Snow Queen - Eileen Kernaghan

Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell [her character sketches, my god: ”Let Cynthia be ever so proud, ever so glad, or so grateful, or even indignant, remorseful, grieved or sorry, the very fact that she was expected by another to entertain any of these emotions, would have been enough to prevent her expressing them.”]

Fallen into the Pit - Ellis Peters

These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer *

The Genius of Birds - Jennifer Ackerman

Two Rogues Make a Right - Cat Sebastian [conclusion: the Sedgwicks are simply too wholesome for my taste, but I’m probably going to end up rereading the one with the vicar and the ducks anyway]

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire - William Dalrymple [dnf]

The Doctor’s Discretion - EE Ottoman

The Bishop’s Heir - Katherine Kurtz

The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly - Jamie Pacton

This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City - John Rogers [dnf]

Death and the Joyful Woman - Ellis Peters

The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water - Zen Cho

The King’s Justice - Katherine Kurtz 

Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas

Flight of a Witch - Ellis Peters

Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller [dnf]

Crooked Hallelujah - Kelli Jo Ford

Devil’s Cub - Georgette Heyer * [on the one hand, it’s appalling that we’re meant to cheer for Dominic; on the other, chapter 18 is a comic masterpiece]

A Duke by Default - Alyssa Cole

The Night Watch - Sarah Waters

 It Takes Two to Tumble - Cat Sebastian [just as I predicted! and I remain unconvinced by these ducks; after all, I have met a duck]

Hild - Nicola Griffith

Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes - Bill Green [dnf]

Have His Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers [I do appreciate how Sayers juggles tonal registers, in order to break up the novel’s prevailing humor - ”A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.” - with those raging gratitude-and-obligation scenes and the occasional peek at decisions mercenary and necessary.

A Study in Honor - Claire O’Dell [there’s something interesting here about the world-building dangers of using the present to establish the near future with too much specificity - I know most the books Watson is reading; I like many of them; I realize they’re name-dropped in part as thanks and homage; and I still found myself thinking, “has no one written anything since 2015?”]

The Sugared Game - KJ Charles [no surprise, Maisie and Phoebe are my favorites...now kiss]

Sorcery and Cecilia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: being the correspondence of two Young Ladies of Quality regarding Various Scandals in London and the Country - Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer * [yay!]

[mobscene-london]

Seating Arrangements:

Table One

Hero, from Much Ado about Nothing, Zoé Rouse

Beatrice, from Much Ado About Nothing, Elene Dadiani

Don Pedro, from Much Ado about Nothing, Revati Sharma

Macbeth, from Macbeth, Gideon Rutherford

Lady Macbeth, from Macbeth, Delphine St. Clair

Iago, from Othello, Spencer Berkeley

Table Two

Prospero, from the Tempest, Jack Katz

Ariel, from the Tempest, Alexis Larsson

Mercutio, from Romeo and Juliet, Laurie Alessi

Queen Mab, from Romeo and Juliet, Cassandra Acton

Brutus, from Julius Ceasar, Adrian Castillo

Julius Ceasar, from Julius Ceasar, Silas Agreste

Table Three

Titania, from A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Rachael Montgomery

Prince Escalus, from Romeo and Juliet, Melissa Lin

Tybalt, from Romeo and Juliet, Johnathan Parsons

Miranda, from the Tempest, Jessica Reyes

King Lear, from King Lear, Andrew Rutherford

Volumnia, from Coriolanus, Connie Rutherford

Table Four

Portia, from The Merchant of Venice, Lara Rutherford

Bassanio, from The Merchant of Venice, Danny Barclay

Iris, from the Tempest, Adriana Amaro

Romeo, from Romeo and Juliet, William Robathan

Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet, Alice Soyer

Desdemona, from Othello, Gabrielle Vendroux

Laertes, from Hamlet, Elaina Halévy

Table Five

Ophelia, from Hamlet, Aurélie St. Clair

Hamlet, from Hamlet, Théodore Chaussard

Mark Antony, from Antony and Cleopatra, Damon Rutherford

Edmund, from King Lear, Divya Koshal

Cordelia, from King Lear, Maya Alliot

Katherina, from The Taming of The Shrew, Isla Hunt

Tamora, from Titus Andronicus, Valencia Flores

[sarahemilyduff]

Novels and Memoirs Read in 2018

The Odyssey, trans. Emily Wilson

Jenny Erpenbeck, Go, Went, Gone

Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots

Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding

Deborah Levy, Things I Don’t Want to Know

Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

Nicole Krauss, Great House

Leila Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company

John Banville, Mrs Osmond

Edward St Aubyn, Dunbar

Sarah Perry, Melmoth

Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children

Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Light Years

Jennifer Egan, The Invisible Circus

Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

Alan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair

Elizabeth Catte, What you’re getting wrong about Appalachia

Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking

Madeleine Miller, Circe

Forrest Leo, The Gentleman

James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Hey there! Could you suggest some good non fiction books? Thank you x

 Absolutely! I’d be happy to!

I don’t know what you are into however some books I have loved or hope to love are these. 

The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brook-Hitching - a book about the mistakes and blunders that are found on maps and atlases, it sounds really intriguing!

I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara - A book about the Golden State Killer, the author helped him get caught in fact with this book and if you’re into true crime, this might be the book for you. 

The Secret Lives Of Colour by Kassia St Clair - A book about the history of a variety of colours and their origins, it’s truly a fascinating book and it makes me think about the world everyday. 

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah - A book about the life of the comedian as he grew up being illegal in South Africa due to his Swiss and Xhosa heritage. 

Bitch Doctrine by Laurie Penny - If you’re into feminism and social change, this is the book for you, Penny is a tour de force in these essays - and this book is up for the Orwell Prize. 

Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri - a short but brilliant book about the last presidential election and how one day a woman may be in the White House. 

These are just a few that spring to mind for me! If you let me know what your genre is, I am more than happy to send you some more suggestions that fit to your liking!

Thank you for the ask!

Vee xo. 

[nepoupdates]

anyone that you think will cause trouble? 🤔

how  about  this  for  a  change  ?  you  tell  me  who  you  think  is  out  to  cause  trouble  .  i  already  have  my  list  .  it's  obviously  going  to  be  ruby  and  paige  .  maybe  laurie  if  he  gets  a  little  too  drunk  .  i  heard  he's  messy  when  he's  drunk  (  @rubyxsinclair  ,  @dearpaige  ,  @stclaires  ) 

[maxbronte]

i think i accidentally deleted the super exciting message i got about this two weeks ago but here’s an explanatory guide to my tags + the source creds in case that person is still wondering!!

stuff i came up with because i couldn’t find an appropriate enough quote

╳ 𝙞'𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪 — 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙜 𝙩𝙤𝙤.┊re: CHARLIE KING. ▒ a play on the scooby doo villain mantra, except more wholesome.

╳ 𝙞'𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙗.┊re: BOOKER CORMAC. ▒   technically a reference to sage’s characterization of booker as “the ahab” horror trope.

╳ 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨. 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚.┊re: THE BABES VS. BULLSHIT BRIGADE. ▒    cheesy first bit written by me and second bit is a reference to this corny pinterest pin.

╳ 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣.┊ANATOMY. ▒ my tagline for this character which is now canonically a reference to the headline from a news report on the “Hooper Port Horror”

╳ 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙜𝙚.┊PLAYLIST. ▒ b/c my max playlist is mostly grotesque creepy love songs that can be interpreted as both murder fantasies and sex fantasies all at once

╳ 𝙖 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙪𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞'𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙤 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.┊m: FORMER POTENTIAL VALEDICTORIAN. ▒ reference to a David Foster Wallace book + my attempt to condense her former identity into 2 words. for musings on the person she used to be, who she never can be and never wants to be again: the smart cheerleader in a mean clique. her capacity for academics has dropped severely since developing ptsd

╳ 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙝.┊m: WHEN AMITY IS THE KISS OF DEATH. ▒ first half is actually from silent hill 3 but the second half is mine, from a paragraph that got cropped out of one of my threads. the tag is for musings about max being terrified of getting close to people b/c 1) anybody could be a killer and 2) she thinks she’s an inherently toxic person who will poison anyone she touches and 3) she’s pretty sure everyone who comes near her becomes slasher fodder

stuff other people came up with:

╳  𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙪𝙥 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛.┊m: MAX BRONTE SHE’S A HUMMINGBIRD. ▒  both of these are reference to a really horrific passage in this para with @saintjimmys and it’s for musings about how max is this ‘pretty dainty bird’ with a rapid heartbeat because she’s always in a state of extreme stress, & how she used to be this pretty bird who was too fast for him to catch but now she’s all crippled and vulnerable in the palm of his hands (it’s a very creepy passage i hate it i love it)

References to outside material

╳ 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙞 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 — 𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣.┊re: JIMMY ST. CLAIR. ▒ from wuthering heights and i just want to say that the parallels between catherine/heathcliff and jimmy/max were actually 100% accidental. sage hasn’t even read any bronte and i didn’t realize when i was naming her that gothic romance would become such a huge part of her character. the quote is extra appropriate b/c jimmy accused max of “killing” the innocent boy he used to be, and max agrees and wants him around to make her confront her guilt.

╳ 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 — 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙮𝙢𝙖𝙣.┊re: THE CREEPER. ▒ reference to that iconic Halloween exchange. Laurie: “It was the boogeyman...” Dr. Sam Loomis: “As a matter of fact, it was.” im not that proud of this one im probably gonna change it  to some kind of reference to THIS

╳ 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨.┊re: SYDNEY WURM. ▒ from the modest mouse album title because nina is modest mouse trash and also because max and sid’s co-masochistic relationship is based on a mutual desire for punishment for their sins.

╳ 𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙣𝙤𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚.┊re: MITCHELL SARKOZY. ▒ from that She Wants Revenge song everybody knows. their relationship isnt that similar to the song but the line is just to demonstrate that they just have each other as fucktoys and there’s no emotional investment whatsoever. they finish up and she’s all torn up and feeling guilty about using him as a coping mechanism for tyler’s death he’s like okay bye see you next week

╳ 𝙬𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨.┊re: GREY CAVERLY. ▒ reference to an emily dickinson line “i’m out with lanterns-- looking for myself.” because max and grey first met wandering through the woos while max was looking for her phone and said a line about “my whole life is on that thing can you imagine losing your whole life” but also more deeply a reference to them as co-explorers trying to find their old identities and maybe wrap their heads around their new one and their whole relationship is about adventure discovery and this was the first ever tag i was really proud of ok i know where i was going with it i just can’t explain it

╳ 𝙞 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙖 𝙛𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙪𝙯𝙯 – 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞 𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙙.┊m: IDENTITY MORATORIUM. ▒ from an emily dickinson poem + psychological term for a state of suspended identity. this is kind of a coupled tag with FORMER POTENTIAL VALEDICTORIAN but with more emphasis on the aspect of the person max used to be dying alongside tyler’s corpse in the church fire.

╳ 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 - 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧.┊re: CYPRESS BRONTE. ▒  reference to another Modest Mouse song. reference to cy wanting max to chill and her wanting him to leave her alone. second bit is a double entente: they see each other as an old friend turned weirder but they’re also both both see each other as so different from the person they grew up with that they’re basically strangers to each other

╳ 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 .┊BRONTE vs. WURM vs. ST. CLAIR. ▒ reference to that old idiom and plans for a future plot where sid and jimmy wind up getting along and jimmy starts kicking it with them real casually and max looks into the camera very frightened like what the fuck is happening how did i get here

╳ 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙤𝙠𝙖𝙮. 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚'𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨.┊re: RUBY KANE. ▒ from angels of the get through by andrea gibson. because max and ruby are HOT MESSES but at least theyre surviving and max just wants ruby to celebrate every tiny victory she’s proud of her

╳ 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡.┊FLASHBACK. ▒ quote from Fright Night. because after max & co made Jimmy watch a horror movie and pranked him, he made them LIVE one, for real.

╳ 𝙤𝙝 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩. 𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨.┊re: JONAH B. JAMES. ▒ From a fave book Deathless. because they’re both slutty heretics in their own narratives. it actually doesn’t fit their relationship yet because they still think of each other as pure but once she finds out how filthy hi soul is it’ll be easier for her to interact with him i think. 

╳ 𝙞 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙. 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙. 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙’𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙.┊re: TYLER ROMERO. ▒  from a series of unfortunate events. self explanatory. everything turned to shit when her beloved douchey boyfriend died

&. i definitely still need tags for: -eve -terence -darby -sheila -axel -dahlia -jupiter -max's super cute parents + cat -dakota

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A roundup of the biggest events scheduled for this week to toast the 2017 Golden Globe Awards, held Jan. 8 at the Beverly Hilton.

It has been almost 12 months since last year's Golden Globes, a night that saw The Revenant, The Martian, Mr. Robot and Mozart in the Jungle go home with trophies in top categories, along with individual winners like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence, Taraji P. Henson and Jon Hamm. But before any golden trophies are handed out this Sunday, many drinks will be had at 2017's first Hollywood party circus of the year. Below is a roundup of the major events around town...and here's to hoping everyone makes it where they're going on time.

Wednesday, Jan. 4

Moet & Chandon Doheny Room, 9077 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 7 p.m.

The champagne set will gather for the 2nd Annual Moet Moment Film Festival, aka “The Minis,” an annual competition that aims to inspire a new generation of talent dedicated to telling their stories on film. Moet — the longstanding official champagne of the Golden Globes — welcomes this year’s head judge, Bryce Dallas Howard, along with Gina Rodriguez, Primary Wave's David Guillod, Serial Pictures' Violaine Etienne, Tribeca Film Festival's Sharon Badal, HFPA journalist Elisabeth Sereda and Ghetto Film School's Kisha Imani Cameron.

The Ivory Game Conservatory, Montage Beverly Hills, 225 N. Canon Dr., Los Angeles, 7 p.m. Lesley Chilcott, Paola di Florio, Geralyn Dreyfous, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Pedro Kos and Arnold Scwhartzman are hosting a reception for the Netflix documentary (about illegal elephant poaching) with the filmmakers Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson.

Thursday, Jan. 5

W Magazine & Audi Chateau Marmont, 8221 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Hosts include W's Stefano Tonchi and Lynn Hirschberg with hotelier Andre Balazs at this always-packed penthouse party to celebrate the Globes and the mag's "Best Performances" issue in partnership with the luxury automaker. Audi will chauffeur VIP guests to and from the Chateau.

Friday, Jan. 6

AFI Awards Luncheon Four Seasons Los Angeles, 300 S. Doheny Dr., Los Angeles

The AFI Awards celebrate the year's "most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image" — honoring 10 films and 10 TV shows that the organization deems culturally and artistically significant. In addition to the AFI Special Award being given to O.J.: Made in America, AFI will honor movies Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Silence, Sully, and Zootopia. TV honorees include The Americans, Atlanta, Better Call Saul, The Crown, Game of Thrones, The Night Of, The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Stranger Things, This is Us, and Veep.

Lion Estrella, 8800 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7 p.m.

David O. Russell and Lee Daniels are hosting a screening and reception for Lion director Garth Davis and the Weinstein Co. release. Also confirmed to attend this special event are producer Angie Fielder, Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar, cinematographer Greig Fraser and composers Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka.

CAA Catch LA, 8715 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood

The agency is relocating its pre-Golden Globes event from Soho House to West Hollywood’s new hot spot. Expect the bash to be star-studded as usual. CAA's Golden Globe-nominated talent this year includes Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Andrew Garfield, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Annette Bening, Lily Collins, Hailee Steinfeld, Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant, Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman, Jeff Bridges, Tom Ford, Barry Jenkins and Evan Rachel Wood.

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts International Awards Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine St., Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.

Winners will be announced for the 6th annual AACTA awards, which recognize film excellence regardless of geography, as determined by a jury of more than 150 of Australia’s most recognized filmmakers and executives. Confirmed attendees include awards season standouts Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge), Joel Edgerton (Loving), Nicole Kidman (Lion) and Dev Patel (Lion), along with presenters Isla Fisher, Ruby Rose, Julian McMahon, Angus Sampson, Alan Dale, Damon Harriman and Luke Bracey.

Saturday, Jan. 7

Film Independent BOA Steakhouse, 9200 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, 11 a.m.

Top names from the indie film crowd always start their Globes weekend here (over eggs, bacon, coffee and mimosas) at the Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch, being hosted this year by Sterling K. Brown and Issa Rae. The duo will be charged with helping Film Independent president Josh Welsh announce the filmmaker grant winners. Cash aside, expect to see some of this year's nominees mingling, including filmmakers Kenneth Lonergan, Mike Mills, Taylor Sheridan, Barry Jenkins, Andrea Arnold, Pablo Larrian, Jeff Nichols, and Kelly Reichardt, along with actors Natalie Portman, Casey Affleck, Annette Bening, Sasha Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Ben Foster, Molly Shannon, Riley Keough and Shia LaBeouf. Sponsors include Piaget, American Airlines, Jeep, IFC and AT&T.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA Los Angeles) Four Seasons Los Angeles, 300 S. Doheny Dr., Los Angeles, 2 p.m. BAFTA Los Angeles toasts awards with its annual tea party, serving British tea and scones, and cocktails. The event is presented by BBC America and the GREAT Campaign with event sponsors including Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills and American Airlines. Among the British talent vying for Golden Globes this year are Naomie Harris, Colin Farrell, Caitriona Balfe, Claire Foy, Charlotte Rampling, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hiddleston, Lena Headey, Thandie Newton and Hugh Laurie.

see article for more info

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Bargain Hunter’s 100-Acre Fantasy Compound Is Week’s Most Popular Home

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Spread over 100 acres in western Pennsylvania, this week’s most popular home on realtor.com® is a chance for a bargain-hunting millionaire—billionaire, perhaps?—to scoop up a vast compound on the cheap.

About an hour outside of Pittsburgh, this prodigious property with four houses is priced at a mere $2.2 million. But as the listing agent informed us, it was almost impossible to come up with comps for this enormous estate.

Along with the multiple residences, a buyer will acquire a private lake (dock included), paved trails for ATV riding, and a private car wash. Yes, a private car wash.

The agent added that a buyer will get about $6.6 million in property, amenities, and construction for just a third of the price. So, while it’s a stretch to call $2.2 million a bargain, it may apply in the case of this compound.

You also clicked on quite a few fixer-uppers this week. Homes in need of TLC in Illinois, New York, and Georgia all entered the popularity contest as buyers sought property flips.

While you ponder whom to invite to live in your compound, we ask that you scroll down for the full list of this week’s most popular properties.

10. 2809 Highcrest Rd, Rockford, IL

Price: $149,900 Why it’s here: Being sold as is, this old home has a few interesting attributes. There’s a carpeted master bathroom, magnificent mirror placement in the master bedroom, and a heart-shaped tub for true romantics! Let love rule.

Rockford, IL

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9. 501 E 39th St, Savannah, GA

Price: $199,900 Why it’s here: It’s a chance to snag a renovation project in historic Savannah. The four-bedroom home needs work, but a bold buyer would be rewarded with a true Southern belle.

Savannah, GA

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8. 152 Bright Autumn Ln, Greece, NY

Price: $135,200 Why it’s here: What a bargain! Listing agent Laurie Schulman said this bank-owned home is being offered “way below market.” She told us area homes are usually priced around $100 a square foot—while this four-bedroom is only $44 a square foot. It’s not move-in ready, but for a buyer who doesn’t mind putting in elbow grease, the ROI might be radical.

Greece, NY

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7. 424 N Oak Ave, Fort Meade, FL

Price: $155,000 Why it’s here: It’s a home on the National Register of Historic Places. Known as the W. Henry Lewis House and built in 1901, the five-bedroom home has been well-preserved over the past century.

Fort Meade, FL

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6. 401 Lost Valley Rd, Dripping Springs, TX

Price: $575,000 Why it’s here: Last week’s top finisher slid five spots this week. This unique cottage by the creek continued to enchant real estate watchers angling for a peek inside its well-constructed—and petite—walls.

Dripping Springs, TX

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5. 875 White Horse Road Ext, Travelers Rest, SC

Price: $389,900 Why it’s here: This Carolina castle was the most popular home two weeks ago. Back for another spin around the moat, it’s further proof of your deep affection for aristocratic digs. When does “Game of Thrones” return, anyway?

Travelers Rest, SC

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4. 10255 AL Highway 22, Maplesville, AL

Price: $349,900 Why it’s here: It’s too late to buy this antebellum classic. Listing agent Kevin George told us he’s received an all-cash offer for the five-bedroom home on nearly 14 acres of land. George said the home’s appeal lies in the fact that its “classic integrity is still intact, but it’s had just the right amount of updates.”

Maplesville, AL

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3. 7465 Angle Rd, Chambersburg, PA

Price: $749,000 Why it’s here: This enormous Colonial looks as if it stepped out of the early 1900s, but it was built just a couple of decades ago. Offering a whopping 10 bedrooms, the home would be a perfect bed-and-breakfast or assisted-living facility, according to the listing.

Chambersburg, PA

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2. 283 E Saint Clair St, Romeo, MI

Price: $289,900 Why it’s here: Listing agent Joan Schinderle-King told us this fabulous flip is “priced to move.” Purchased in August for $122,750 by a savvy investor, this four-bedroom home built in the early 1900s had a lot of work done to it. Schinderle-King also noted that the home was the site of a pilot for a potential HGTV renovation show. She’s had “a steady stream of showings” of the “absolutely gorgeous” result.

Romeo, MI

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1. 384 Lake Rd, Mayport, PA

Price: $2,200,000 Why it’s here: Co-listing agent Elaine Shetler-Libent couldn’t tell us enough about the amazing attributes of this 100-acre property in western Pennsylvania. The lake on the land, the four distinctive homes dotting the property, and the hilltop views make this “a really rare property,” she said, adding that it couldn’t be built again today.

“There’s nothing else like this, and the sellers aren’t getting what they put into it. It’s a $6.6 million home with a $2.2 million price tag,” Shetler-Libent said.

Mayport, PA

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Wasting a Fine Lawyer's Brain With Martha Brockenbrough

First Draft Episode #279: Martha Brockenbrough

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Maureen Johnson, author of the Truly Devious series and many more (listen to her First Draft interview here)

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, Chains, and memoir-in-verse Shout

Cornelia Funke, author of the Inkheart series

Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of With the Might of Angels, Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down, and MANY more

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The ten shows opening on Broadway in April include six plays and four musicals. Several are familiar titles presented in unfamiliar ways: Glenda Jackson as King Lear; an avant-garde, diverse Oklahoma; two much-anticipated movie adaptations — Tootsie and Beetlejuice. But the show that garnered the most votes in a Broadway Spring poll  is Hadestown, which marks the Broadway debut of Anaïs Mitchell, who created it first as a concept album by Anais Mitchell and took fire Off-Broadway. Another artist making his Broadway debut is downtown darling and MacArthur “Genius” Taylor Mac, who has written Gary, a startling comedy billed as a sequel to Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy.

Star power is lighting up the Great White Way: Broadway favorites like Nathan Lane, John Lithgow and Laurie Metcalf, screen stars Annette Bening and Adam Driver, British theater royalty like Glenda Jackson and Jonny Lee Miller. And let’s not forget the playwrights, directors and composers, some of whom are better known than any performer. Like Shakespeare.

Glenda Jackson, King Lear

John Douglas Thompson

Annette Benning, All My Sons

Pedro Pascal, King Lear

Rebecca Naomi Jones, Oklahoma

Alex Brightman, Beetlejuice

Director Alex Timbers

Andre De Shields, Hadestown

Playwright Arthur Miller

Benjamin Walker, All My Sons

Eva Noblezada, Hadestown

Composer David Yazbek, Tootsie

Bertie Carvel, Ink

Director George C. Wolf

John Lithgow, Hillary and Clinton

Jonny Lee Miller, Ink

Julie Halston, Tootsie

Julie White, Gary

Kelvin Moon Loh, Beetlejuice

Nathan Lane, Gary

Keri Russell, Burn This

Kristine Nielsen, GAry

Rob McClure, Beetlejuice

Lilli Cooper, Tootsie

Patrick Page, Hadestown

Reeve Carney, Hadestown

Santino Fontana, Tootsie

Laurie Metcalf, Hillary and Clinton

Adam Driver, Burn This

Ruth Wilson, King Lear

Sophia Anne Caruso, Beetlejuice

Playwright Taylor Mac

Tracy Letts, All My Sons

Anais Mitchell, songwriter, book writer

William Shakespeare

But even in a month when so many shows crowd the calendar to open by the deadline for Tony Awards eligibility, there is exciting theater opening outside Broadway as well — some of it way outside. Ars Nova launches its new programming at Greenwich House Theater with a new devised work by the Mad Ones.  Ivo van Hove directs an opera at BAM. There is innovative immersive theater in a downtown park (for free!) and in a Chelsea brownstone.

Below is a selective list of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and other New York theater offerings opening in March, 2019, organized chronologically by opening date, with each title linked to a relevant website. Color key of theaters: Broadway: Red. Off Broadway: Black, Blue, or Purple. Off Off Broadway: Green. Theater festival: Orange. Puppetry: Brown. Immersive: Magenta.

To look at the Spring season as a whole, check out my Off Broadway Spring 2019 preview guide and my Broadway 2018-2019 season guide

April 1

Oasis (Third Rail Projects at Winter Garden)

For ten minutes twice a day, five performers unexpectedly find themselves swept into a mirage, unite and create their own sanctuary.  After a two-week series of these daily lunchtime vignettes at Winter Garden at Brookfield Place (near the World Trade Center site), the full-length, culminating performance will take place in the evening on Friday, April 12. These performances are free. (This is not an April Fool’s Day joke)

  April 2

Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard)

In this play by Mara Nelson-Greenberg , Sophia is hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency

April 3

The Cradle Will Rock (CSC)

new production of Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 play in music, which is most famous for having been shut down by the authorities before opening night. In Steeltown, USA, laborer Larry Foreman struggles to unionize fellow steel workers against mounting attacks from a greedy industrialist

April 4

King Lear

Cort Closing: Jul 07, 2019 Author: William Shakespeare Director: Sam Gold Cast: Glenda Jackson, Jayne Houdyshell, Elizabeth Marvel, Aisling O’Sullivan,John Douglas Thompson, Ruth Wilson, Sean Carvajal, Russell Harvard, Matthew Maher

April 5

Diary of One Who Disappeared (BAM)

In 1917, Czech composer Leoš Janáček became obsessed with a married woman 40 years his junior. In the throes of despair, he penned more than 700 love letters and a haunting 22-part song cycle called Diary of One Who Disappeared, about a village boy who falls in love with a Romany girl. Director Ivo van Hove, in collaboration with Flemish opera company Muziektheater Transparant, brings his trademark physicality and stripped-down aesthetic to bear on Janáček’s opera.

April 7

the St. Ann’s Warehouse production

Oklahoma!

Circle in the Square Closing: Sep 01, 2019 Authors: Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Music by Richard Rodgers Director: Daniel Fish Cast:

The sixth revival of the groundbreaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical  about love and conflict in the territory just after the turn of the century. This one one the hip production transferring from St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, where the golden haze is a bit dark and the corn not as high. (My review of the show at St. Ann’s)

  April 8

Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova at Greenwich House)

The latest devised theater piece by the Mad Ones: The creators of a 1970s children’s television program have commissioned a focus group to probe the parents of the show’s target audience. Over stale coffee and donuts, a group of strangers navigates the murky waters of American belief and perception.

  April 15

17 Border Crossings (NYTW)

With a chair, table, and bar of lights,  Thaddeus Phillips conjures barricaded Venezuelan bridges, a rusty Croatian ferry, perilous international flights,  etc. — all based on his actual adventures.

April 16

Burn This

Hudson Theater Author: Lanford Wilson Director: Michael Mayer Cast: Adam Driver, Keri Russell, Brandon Uranowitz A revival of Wilson’s 1987 play about four New Yorkers who are brought together after the accidental death of their friend, a young dancer.

Socrates (Public)

A new drama about the Greek philosopher written by Tim Blake Nelson and directed by Doug Hughes. Michael Stuhlbarg portrays Socrates.

April 17

the National Theatre production

  Hadestown

Walter Kerr

Author: Anais Mitchell Director: Rachel Chavkin Cast: Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s musical, widely acclaimed at New York Theatre Workshop (my review), follows two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of king Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites audiences on an epic journey to the underworld and back.

April 18

Hillary and Clinton

John Golden Theater Author: Lucas Hnath Director:Joe Mantello Cast: Laurie Metcalf, John Lithgow. Behind closed doors in the state of New Hampshire during the early days of 2008, a former first lady named Hillary (Metcalf) is in a desperate bid to save her troubled campaign for President of the United States. Her husband, Bill (Lithgow), sees things one way; her campaign manager, Mark, sees things another

    April 21

  Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Booth Writer: Taylor Mac Director: George C. Wolfe Cast: Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, Julie White Marking the Broadway debut of acclaimed theater artist Taylor Mac (A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Hir.), “Gary” is set just after the blood-soaked conclusion of William Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Civil war has ended and the country is in the hands of madmen. Casualties are everywhere;  Lane and Nielsen portray servants charged with cleaning up the corpses

April 22

All My Sons

Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater Author: Arthur Miller Director: Jack O’Brian Cast: Annette Bening, Tracy Letts A revival of Miller’s first hit. In the aftermath of WWII, the Keller family struggles to stay intact and to fight for their future when a long-hidden secret threatens to emerge, forcing them to reckon with greed and post-war disenchantment.

  The Pain of My Belligerence (Playwrights Horizons)

Halley Feiffer’s play about an eight year relationship between journalist Cat and devilishly charming Guy, which charts a rapidly changing America.

April 23

  Tootsie

Marquis Theater Music and lyrics: David Yazbek Director: Scott Ellis Cast: Santino Fontana, John Behlman, Julie Halston, Lilli Cooper A musical adaptation of the 1982 film about an out-of-work actor who assumes the role of a woman on a soap opera, and pretends to be a female actress.

April 24

Ink

MTC’s Samuel Friedman Writer: James Graham Director: Rupert Goold The rise of a brash, young Rupert Murdoch and the U.K.’s most influential newspaper starring Bertie Carvel (Matilda) as Murdoch and Jonny Lee Miller as his rogue editor.

  April 25

Beetlejuice

Winter Garden Theater Book by Scott Brown and Anthony King Music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect Director: Alex Timbers

Based on the Tim Burton movie, which ells the story of Lydia Deetz, a teenager obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, her new house is haunted by a recently deceased couple and a degenerate demon who happens to have a thing for stripes.

Paul Swan is Dead and Gone (Civilians)

In a Chelsea brownstone, playwright Claire Kiechel resurrects the famous salons held by her great-great uncle Paul Swan, a dancer who was once billed as the most beautiful man in the world. She reimagines his salon as an “electrically charged theatrical space where the forces of life, death and art do battle.”

April 30

The Plough and the Stars (Irish Rep)

The final play of the Rep’s O’Casey Cycle, plays written by Irish playwright Sean O’Casey in the 1920s. “Pretty young newlywed Nora Clitheroe is the talk of her tenement as she tirelessly works to lift her family out of their impoverished circumstances. She tries to keep her husband Jack from the revolutionary fervor sweeping through Dublin. But Jack becomes a Commandant in the Irish Citizen Army, and when the Easter Rising of 1916 begins, he leaves a pregnant Nora to help lead the fight…”

  April 2019 New York Theater Openings The ten shows opening on Broadway in April include six plays and four musicals. Several are familiar titles presented in unfamiliar ways: Glenda Jackson as King Lear; an avant-garde, diverse Oklahoma; two much-anticipated movie adaptations -- Tootsie and Beetlejuice.