quote [ the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws. ]

quote [ “Art is like a joke, either you get it or you don’t.” So it was explained to me in the late 1970s by photographer Randy Eriksen, whose cheeky observation about the importance of context to one’s appreciation of either comedy or art could have been a parenthetical second subtitle for author and educator Kim Beil’s “Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography” (Stanford University Press, 2020). ]

quote [ Socialists should realize that their rightwing critics were onto something when they criticized dense urban areas for their latent socialistic characteristics. ]

quote [ Images of Olympians and other athletes on boxes helped the cereal maintain a competitive edge ]

quote [ He sighed deeply, sounding resigned.

“I will teach you everything.” ]

quote [ The ancient sport of Pêl-Law hangs on, barely, at the last court of its kind. A campaign to revive a related game may help bring it back. ]

quote [ Like most people, I wondered how on earth they found these stories: the 8-year-old girl who pulled a sword from a lake, or the man who had an erection for three weeks. When I joined Weekend in 2019 and was charged with commissioning the column, I realised I would have to work out how for myself. ]

quote [ Every traveler has experienced it at some point: that sinking feeling of watching all the other suitcases reunited with their weary owners at baggage claim but not seeing your own slide down the conveyor belt. ]

quote [ people’s need to belong is satisfied only when pleasant interactions with other people are framed in a predictable and regular structure. ]

quote [ SDCC won’t bring down any roofs this year, so this is the next best thing ]