Rebecca J. Ritzel
@rjritzel.bsky.social
Fellow @rjionline.bsky.social
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Journalist: Arts, culture, health, etc. Bylines: Globe and Mail, New York Times, Dance Magazine, and many more. Cancer and stroke survivor somehow still here. [email protected] https://what-if-arts.ghost.io/
Views = mine
Journalist: Arts, culture, health, etc. Bylines: Globe and Mail, New York Times, Dance Magazine, and many more. Cancer and stroke survivor somehow still here. [email protected] https://what-if-arts.ghost.io/
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"Why do you have so many tabs open?" -- My niece, age 9.
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The law would let "military aircraft to turn off their enhanced tracking software while flying on national security missions through parts of the Washington airspace, or if the military determines that the flight poses no risk to commercial flights." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Defense Bill Will Make D.C. Skies Less Safe, N.T.S.B. Chair Says
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The law would let "military aircraft to turn off their enhanced tracking software while flying on national security missions through parts of the Washington airspace, or if the military determines that the flight poses no risk to commercial flights." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Columbia, Mo., could only muster nine Sondheim fans tonight, but I am one of them.
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Columbia, Mo., could only muster nine Sondheim fans tonight, but I am one of them.
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honestly Congress is out of control with the inflatables this year. This one seemed highly sus from the side …
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
honestly Congress is out of control with the inflatables this year. This one seemed highly sus from the side …
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Democracy dies in deepfakes
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Democracy dies in deepfakes
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Strange that House Republicans weren't able to solve this problem in a two hour meeting after procrastinating for all of 2025 and generally failing to come up with a health care plan for the last 16+ years
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Strange that House Republicans weren't able to solve this problem in a two hour meeting after procrastinating for all of 2025 and generally failing to come up with a health care plan for the last 16+ years
So much respect for Kirsten Hillman, for her diplomatic prowess, for the tone she's set at the embassy and her support of Canadian artists touring to the DMV.
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So much respect for Kirsten Hillman, for her diplomatic prowess, for the tone she's set at the embassy and her support of Canadian artists touring to the DMV.
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jingle horses need a union
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
jingle horses need a union
"They were all simply supporting actors in [Trump's] one-night-only reality show."
At the Kennedy Center Honors, Little Glitz and One Striking Accessory
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December 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"They were all simply supporting actors in [Trump's] one-night-only reality show."
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Netflix is a better buyer for Warner Bros. only in the sense that Paramount is creatively bankrupt and currently led by a father-son duo seemingly motivated more by US government cloud contracts and political favors in the Persian Gulf, which longterm I suppose is worse than the streaming firehose.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Netflix is a better buyer for Warner Bros. only in the sense that Paramount is creatively bankrupt and currently led by a father-son duo seemingly motivated more by US government cloud contracts and political favors in the Persian Gulf, which longterm I suppose is worse than the streaming firehose.
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Offer "I avoided relatives with whom I disagree about politics" as a choice, you anti-confrontational cowards!
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.2k). Political arguments at Thanksgiving are pretty uncommon!
today.yougov.com/topics/enter...
today.yougov.com/topics/enter...
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Offer "I avoided relatives with whom I disagree about politics" as a choice, you anti-confrontational cowards!
Holy road apples! Former @npr.org host David Greene is buying* what's left of the Lancaster, Pa., newspaper where I started my career.
*acquiring for free
*acquiring for free
Nonprofit led by veteran journalist David Greene to acquire LNP | LancasterOnline
Editor’s note: This story was reported and edited by independent journalists commissioned by LNP | LancasterOnline. Jeff Hawkes, a veteran reporter and columnist who retired from LNP | LancasterOnline...
lancasteronline.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Holy road apples! Former @npr.org host David Greene is buying* what's left of the Lancaster, Pa., newspaper where I started my career.
*acquiring for free
*acquiring for free
My Tom Stoppard story (1/2): I was in the Tony Awards "print" pressroom in 2007 when Stoppard won for COAST OF UTOPIA. I followed him and his handler out into the hallway at the Rainbow Room to visit the buffet (which was amazing btw).
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My Tom Stoppard story (1/2): I was in the Tony Awards "print" pressroom in 2007 when Stoppard won for COAST OF UTOPIA. I followed him and his handler out into the hallway at the Rainbow Room to visit the buffet (which was amazing btw).
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I saw Mike Nichols’s production of Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway when I was 19. It starred Jeremy Irons, Glenn, Close, Christine Baranski, Peter Gallagher, and Cynthia Nixon. Which is insane. No single production did more to shape my understanding of what modern theater could be.
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I saw Mike Nichols’s production of Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway when I was 19. It starred Jeremy Irons, Glenn, Close, Christine Baranski, Peter Gallagher, and Cynthia Nixon. Which is insane. No single production did more to shape my understanding of what modern theater could be.
Very interesting that Roman Mjia and Tiler Peck danced in the #MacysParade with no mention of New York City Ballet. I wonder if that was their choice or the company's? 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Very interesting that Roman Mjia and Tiler Peck danced in the #MacysParade with no mention of New York City Ballet. I wonder if that was their choice or the company's? 🤔
Sorry Grey Lady friends, no one in DC would ever refer to the Farragut West Metro as a "busy tourist area."
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Sorry Grey Lady friends, no one in DC would ever refer to the Farragut West Metro as a "busy tourist area."
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Now that Royal Bank of Canada is the biggest company in Canada, can they now sponsor some more theatre and arts IN Canada and not just in the UK?
Or are they putting the ROYAL into RBC and forgetting the C part?
Or are they putting the ROYAL into RBC and forgetting the C part?
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Now that Royal Bank of Canada is the biggest company in Canada, can they now sponsor some more theatre and arts IN Canada and not just in the UK?
Or are they putting the ROYAL into RBC and forgetting the C part?
Or are they putting the ROYAL into RBC and forgetting the C part?
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We as a country must dedicate our entire national energy to making sure that Ryan Murphy does not make a mini series about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
We as a country must dedicate our entire national energy to making sure that Ryan Murphy does not make a mini series about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza.
Please enjoy Otter's transcription of my 🔥 take on the state of musical theater: "Jamie Lloyd is the same guy who did the sunset bolt card. So his thing is basically redoing classic mules and putting hot men in underwear."
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Please enjoy Otter's transcription of my 🔥 take on the state of musical theater: "Jamie Lloyd is the same guy who did the sunset bolt card. So his thing is basically redoing classic mules and putting hot men in underwear."
New from me! James Glossman adapted a Tom Hanks short story for Zoom in 2020. Five years later, the acclaimed actor and lesser-known playwright have a star vehicle at The Shed.
Of space, time, and typewriters
Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and Johns Hopkins theater professor James Glossman co-authored the play 'This World of Tomorrow,' which premiered off-Broadway in November
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November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
New from me! James Glossman adapted a Tom Hanks short story for Zoom in 2020. Five years later, the acclaimed actor and lesser-known playwright have a star vehicle at The Shed.
The Farragut West @wmata.com station is a sketchy ghost-town at night and on low-traffic days. Has been for years. (Decades?)
Live Updates: Two National Guard Members Shot Near White House
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November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Farragut West @wmata.com station is a sketchy ghost-town at night and on low-traffic days. Has been for years. (Decades?)
What year is this???
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
What year is this???
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
So depressing that under Trump's Draconian trade policies, so many Canadian small businesses can no longer ship to the U.S.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So depressing that under Trump's Draconian trade policies, so many Canadian small businesses can no longer ship to the U.S.
"[Business schools] model a worldview that is almost completely absent in most arts administration programs: the idea that an organization does not deserve to exist simply because someone believes in it."
Stop Teaching Arts Administrators to Run Organizations
by Joanna Woronkowicz I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we train arts administrators, and being around a business school this year has pushed that thinking in directions I didn’t expect.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"[Business schools] model a worldview that is almost completely absent in most arts administration programs: the idea that an organization does not deserve to exist simply because someone believes in it."