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I began adding color to the trim using a palate similar to what I used on the Queen Anne Cottage for the NMRBO22. In fact, the colors are identical - Black Cherry, Almond and Butter Cream (doesn't that sound delicious) but the placement is not. Whereas on the Queen Anne the windows were Butter Cream, here the windows are Black Cherry, though they look more like Cranberry. See, I was …

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There’s a gorgeous addition at Walt Disney World Resort to the Disney Springs Art Walk: A Canvas of Expression that’ll make you do a double-take and it’s historic.

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has chosen his next project. Sources tell Deadline that Warner Bros. is in negotiations for an untitled Iñárritu film starring Tom Cruise. Iñárritu co-wrote the script with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone, the latter two were his co-writers on the Best Picture-winning “Birdman”. Deadline adds that the project is being “treated as top secret,” with no plot details, or production dates, available other than it …

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Cormac James’s novel Trondheim is a profound examination of motherhood and relationships. Kirkus wrote of the book: “Extraordinary and meticulous. . . . …

Duolingo does a great job capturing the novel delight of learning a new language. You hop on, take a short quiz, and a little green owl waves at you and hops towards a trophy. You can add friends, join group challenges, and there’s a weekly ranking system to compete with users all over the world where you have a chance to move up a league, stay stagnant, or potentially get …

Text of the day: “No. This one I’m going to say myself. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.” (Me in Sergio Blanco’s When You Pass Over My Tomb) The post When You Pass Over My Tomb appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

BLEASS Megalit is a new 3-oscillator wavetable Synthesizer with a colorful, easy-to-use user interface, available for macOS, Windows, and iOS. UPDATE: Good news for all BLEASS Megalit users. The new free update 1.2 adds wavetable [...] The post BLEASS Megalit 1.2, synth plugin now supports wavetable import (mac, iOS, win) appeared first on SYNTH ANATOMY.

A few weeks after emerging from invite-only status, social network Bluesky has taken another major step toward doing the thing that makes it more than just a Twitter X clone: it’s opened the doors for federation. In a nutshell, that means the Bluesky network isn’t just going to be hosted on Bluesky’s servers anymore. Anyone […] The post Lilbits: Bluesky now supports federation, Windows 11 prepares for WiFi 7 appeared …

The Washington State Senate’s local government, land use, and tribal affairs committee Tuesday adopted an amendment that turns House Bill 2252, a neighborhood cafe bill that passed the House unanimously on February 9, completely on its head. The bill in its original form would have required all cities and towns in the state to allow neighborhood cafes in all of their residential zones, by right, with only a few exceptions. …

“Brothers dancing in sync” (above and below) is turning out to be my favorite video genre of 2024 so far. (Thanks, Instagram algorithms.) Both these duos — the Irish Gardiner Brothers and the Delaware-based Griffin Brothers — have been around for years, so they may be old news to many readers, but they only came to my attention recently. I played a bunch of Gardiner Brothers videos (and beyond; Riverdance …

. . photo by Bernard Gotfryd/via Wikimedia Commons Thelonious Monk at the Village Gate, New York City; 1968 . ___ . Devotion “He could make you see the music within the music” – Pannonica Rothschild . Marginalized, itinerant Brilliance barely compensated You want to save them all; you Particularly want to save him Thelonious Monk: The High Priest of Bebop, but don’t call it Bebop, because it doesn’t mean anything …