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I drew two groups from TTRPGs I played in. I love playing with my friends ^^

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These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in

With nearly twice as many job openings nationwide as there are workers available to fill them, companies are setting up shop where the workers are.Each year, as part of our overall assessment of state business climates, CNBC's America's Top States for Business study considers how welcoming each state is to workers and their families.Life, Health and Inclusion is one of the study's ten categories of competitiveness. And this year, with the nationwide worker shortage so severe, the category is taking on increased importance in our methodology.We consider multiple quality of life factors, including crime rates, environmental quality, and health care. We also look at the quality and availability of childcare, which is one of the most important factors in getting parents back into the workforce.Casting the widest possible net for workers means not turning anyone away. So we consider inclusiveness in state laws by measuring protections against discrimination, as well as voting rights. And with surveys showing a substantial percentage of women considering abortion restrictions when making a choice of where to live in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights are part of this year's equation as well.As North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, told CNBC after being named the No. 1 State for 2023, he is worried about gains that southern states have made to become economic powerhouses in recent decades. "You still see people going to Florida and Texas, but you begin to see deterioration over time. Site selectors will tell you these issues matter when it comes time for businesses to make tough decisions."Some states are putting out the welcome mat to attract the biggest, happiest, and most diverse workforce — America's Best States to Live and Work In. These are not those states. By the numbers, these are America's worst states to live and work in for 2023.

10. Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts after signing HB 7, the Individual Freedom bill, also dubbed the "Stop Woke Act," at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022.Daniel A. Varela | Miami Herald | Getty ImagesFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to ride his "War on Woke" to the White House, but it is not winning his state points for quality of life. Supporters of the state's "Stop WOKE Act", which DeSantis signed into law in 2022, say it protects employees from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that DeSantis says are toxic. But many companies consider DEI an economic imperative, and courts have struck down parts of the law. The recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in higher education, however, is expected to lead to new legal challenges related to DEI programs in the corporate world.Florida is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, according to researchers at Northern Illinois University. DeSantis argues that none of this is stopping huge numbers of people from moving to Florida, and he has a point. The state leads the nation in just about every measure of migration. But rated strictly on Life, Health and Inclusion, the Sunshine State can be a dreary place.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 129 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D)Strengths: Air Quality, Childcare, Worker ProtectionsWeaknesses: Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights

9. Arkansas

Little Rock Police Department detectives and crime scene personnel collect evidence at the in Little Rock, Arkansas following a shooting.Benjamin Krain | | Getty ImagesFew states have suffered as badly from the scourge of illegal drugs as Arkansas, which has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country, according to FBI statistics. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the crime problem on lax penalties, as well as prison overcrowding that is forcing the state's prison system to release some violent offenders before they complete their entire sentences. In April, she signed legislation to stiffen penalties, curtail early releases, and fund new prison space. But crime is just one of the Natural State's problems. Another is health care, with, for example, just 42 dentists for every 100,000 residents, according to the United Health Foundation.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 118 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)Strengths: Childcare, Air QualityWeaknesses: Crime, Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights, Health Care

8. Tennessee

The Pride Parade at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 15, 2023 in Manchester, Tennessee.Douglas Mason | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesTennessee has enthusiastically passed laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, even if it has meant crossing the bounds of constitutionality — like a ban on drag shows where children are present, which a federal judge struck down in June. Or another law struck down by a federal judge in 2021 that would have required businesses to post a warning sign on restrooms where transgender people are allowed. But plenty of other laws have survived, like a transgender youth sports ban, and laws that provide religious exemptions allowing health care and child welfare professionals to deny service to transgender people.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 115 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)Strengths: Childcare, Air QualityWeaknesses: Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights

7. Indiana

Matt Carr | Stone | Getty ImagesWith fewer than 10 licensed childcare facilities per 100,000 residents, the Hoosier State is making it hard for some families to fully participate in the workforce. It is the second-worst figure in the nation (behind Louisiana), according to the advocacy group Child Care Aware. Protections against discrimination under state law are limited as well.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 113 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)Strength: Crime RateWeaknesses: Childcare, Inclusiveness

6. Missouri

Giuliana Cangelosi, 11, left, and her mother Nichole Cangelosi share a moment together while attending a protest opposing the Supreme Court's ruling overturning federal protections for abortion rights Friday, June 24, 2022., in Mill Creek Park at Country Club Plaza. (Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Emily Curiel | Kansas City Star | Getty ImagesThe Show Me State is showing abortion opponents the way. In 2019, the state became the first to enact a so-called "trigger law," which went into effect moments after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. The law, one of the strictest in the nation, bans all abortions except in the case of a medical emergency, which the abortion provider must prove. Also, Missouri's violent crime rate is among the nation's highest.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 98 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)Strength: Air QualityWeaknesses: Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Crime

4. (tie) Alabama

Voters stand in a long line that leads out the door to vote at Beulah Baptist Church polling station in Montgomery, Alabama.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesAlabama is one of America's unhealthiest states, with the fourth-highest rate of premature deaths. It is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, with no in-person early voting and restrictions on voting by mail, according to the Center for Election Innovation and Research. Worker protections are limited, as are protections against discrimination.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)Strength: Air QualityWeaknesses: Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Health

4. (tie) South Carolina

Senior woman checking blood sugar levels with a diabetes home test kit. Black middle class America family.Willie B. Thomas | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesSouth Carolina is an unhealthy state, both at home and on the job. The state has the nation's fifth-highest rate of occupational deaths, and it finishes in the top ten for frequent physical and mental distress overall. Legal protections for workers are limited, and the state's violent crime rate also finishes in the top ten.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)Strength: Air QualityWeaknesses: Health, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights

3. Louisiana

Film image.Scott Zdon | Moment | Getty ImagesWith just 76 licensed childcare facilities in a state of 4.6 million people, no state does worse than Louisiana in this increasingly important quality of life metric. State lawmakers have begun trying to remedy that, approving $44 million in new funding in the final hours of the 2023 legislative session, quickly signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. Louisiana won't solve its childcare problem overnight, but the new funding is a down payment on an improvement in the Pelican State's poor quality of life.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 76 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)Strengths: No metrics in the top 25Weaknesses: Child Care, Crime, Reproductive Rights

2. Oklahoma

Dr. Franz Theard consults a woman seeking abortion from Oklahoma in his clinic, Womens Reproductive Clinic, a provider of abortions in Santa Teresa, New Mexico on May 7, 2022. Paul Ratje/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesPaul Ratje | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesOverall health in Oklahoma is not okay, with one of the nation's highest rates of drug abuse, and the second-highest rate of people without health insurance. The Sooner State's 1910 abortion ban remains among the strictest in the nation, even after its state supreme court struck down some parts of it, like the provision that required a medical emergency to justify an abortion. The law makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, unless the procedure is necessary to preserve the mother's life.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 75 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)Strength: Air QualityWeaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights

1. Texas

A Pride flag is seen held up in a crowd during preparation for a Queer March to the Texas State Capitol on April 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. People from across Texas rallied together in protest against a slew of anti-LGBTQIA+ and drag bills being proposed among legislators.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesHow could 200,000 college educated workers moving to Texas each year possibly be wrong? It depends on how you look at it. With the nation's highest percentage of people without health insurance and the second lowest number of primary care physicians per capita, all those new Texans are arriving to find a dismal health care system. Texas has the nation's thirteenth-highest violent crime rate, and it ranks thirty seventh for licensed childcare facilities per capita.The Lone Star State keeps hacking away at inclusiveness, with laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, voting rights, and the nation's strictest abortion ban. Yes, there are enormous economic opportunities in Texas, and it is attracting people from far and wide. But this state also has some Texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. And it is one of the reasons that the state fell out of the overall top five for the first time in the 16-year history of CNBC's rankings.2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 53 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)Strengths: No metrics in the top 25Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness Source link Read the full article

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Daniel Whyte III says the Coronavirus Plague + Monkeypox Plague + Drag Queens and Public School Teachers Raping the Minds and Hearts of Children + Thousands of Children Trying to Change Their Sex + the Inflation Plague + So-called Transgender People Intentionally Targeting and Shooting a Nine-Year-Old Pastor's Daughter + Unusual Tornadoes and Hurricanes Dropping Out of the Sky and Tearing up the Nation + World War III Afoot -- Does Not Equal = Mother Nature or Climate Change; It Equals = what Whyte has said for over thirteen years that God Almighty is mercifully, lovingly, and slow-rollingly destroying and dismantling America piece-by-piece because He is not pleased with pastors and churches that have become "Physicians of no value," false prophets and false teachers, who have colluded with the government to ordain and sanction the abomination of homosexuality, homosexual marriage and transgenderism and has caused the church to become a Judas-Laodicean church that has left the people of America to go through hell and to hell.

PHOTO: A rainbow shines amidst the remains of a neighborhood damaged by a tornado on March 31, 2023, in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Benjamin Krain/Getty Images) Daniel Whyte III says the Coronavirus Plague + Monkeypox Plague + Drag Queens and Public School Teachers Raping the Minds and Hearts of Children + Thousands of Children Trying to Change Their Sex + the Inflation Plague + So-called Transgender…

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Nowości wydawnicze – Sierpień 2018

Witajcie kochani!

Sierpień to miesiąc typowo wakacyjno-urlopowy, który przy każdej okazji daje nam pretekst do leniwego spędzania czasu. Nawet wydawnictwa rozpalone żarem lejącym się z nieba popadają w błogie lenistwo, dlatego w tym miesiącu nie rozpieszczają nas zbytnio nowościami. To nie znaczy jednak, że nie znajdziecie nic interesującego. Otóż wręcz przeciwnie! W sierpniu na rynku wydawniczym pojawi się kilka naprawdę interesujących tytułów, które na pewno Was zaskoczą. Zatem jeśli jesteście ciekawi co czeka nas w nadchodzącym miesiącu, to serdecznie zapraszam Was na premiery wydawnicze sierpnia.

Apartament w Paryżu - Musso Guillaume

WYDAWNICTWO: Albatros

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-01

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Sztuka jest kłamstwem, które mówi prawdę.

Paryż, pracownia malarska ukryta w pełnym zieleni zaułku. Madeline właśnie ją wynajęła, żeby odpocząć i cieszyć się samotnością. W wyniku nieporozumienia w to samo miejsce trafia Gaspard, młody pisarz ze Stanów Zjednoczonych, który chce w spokoju popracować nad nową książką. Los skazuje tych dwoje wrażliwych samotników na dzielenie jednej przestrzeni życiowej.

Pracownia należała do słynnego artysty, Seana Lorenza; we wnętrzu wciąż widać jego fascynację kolorami i światłem. Pogrążony w smutku po śmierci syna malarz zmarł rok wcześniej, pozostawiając po sobie trzy obrazy, które wkrótce przepadły bez wieści. Madeline i Gaspard, zafascynowani geniuszem i zaintrygowani tragicznym losem poprzedniego lokatora, postanawiają połączyć siły, aby odzyskać te niezwykłe malowidła. Zanim odkryją sekret Seana Lorenza, będą musieli zmierzyć się z własnymi demonami, a prowadzone przez nich śledztwo na zawsze odmieni ich życie.

Niebezpieczna znajomość, niebezpieczna miłość - Berrick-Harvey Jane

WYDAWNICTWO: NieZwykłe

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-01

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Z dziewiętnastoletnim Danielem Coltonem chcą się umawiać wszystkie dziewczyny, a każdy facet mu zazdrości. Jest humorzasty, wybuchowy, zimny i ponury, ale też piękny, ma wspaniałe tatuaże, kolczyk w brwi i imponujące, czarne włosy. Chodzą plotki, że posiada kolczyki także w innych miejscach. Czy naprawdę jest szalony, czy naprawdę lepiej się z nim nie zadawać? Daniel mieszka ze starszym bratem Zefem, a ich dom to jedna wielka imprezownia. Potrzebujesz narkotyków, dobrej zabawy, alkoholu i dyskrecji? Ruszaj do Coltonów!

Gdy Daniel i dziewczyna z dobrego domu, Lisanne Maclaine, otrzymują do wykonania wspólne zadanie na studiach, Lisanne odkrywa, że za reputacją czarnej owcy uczelni kryje się coś więcej. Daniel jest inteligentny, zabawny i koleżeński. Wkrótce odkrywa też jego sekret – dlaczego tak się od wszystkich dystansuje, dlaczego nikogo do siebie nie dopuszcza. Nie miała jednak pojęcia, jak trudno będzie wytrwać w roli jego powierniczki.

Jak mogłaś - Perks Heidi

WYDAWNICTWO: Otwarte

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-01

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Byłaś za nią odpowiedzialna, a teraz zaginęła.

Charlotte, przyjaciółka Harriet, opiekuje się jej córką. Dziecko znika. Kobieta może przysiąc, że spuściła małą z oka ledwie na chwilę, że dziewczynka cały czas bawiła się z innymi dziećmi. Przecież dbała o nią jak o własne dziecko! Zrozpaczona Harriet winą za nieszczęście obarcza Charlotte. Jak mogłaby jej wybaczyć?

Dwa tygodnie później obie kobiety zmuszone są spotykać się na komisariacie. Będą przesłuchiwane w sprawie pewnego morderstwa. Sytuacja zaczyna się komplikować, bo na jaw wychodzą liczne sekrety. Harriet i Charlotte muszą zdecydować, czy wzajemnie sobie pomóc. Tak przecież robią najlepsze przyjaciółki, prawda?

Kulti - Zapata Mariana

WYDAWNICTWO: NieZwykłe

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-14

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„Wierz mi, miałam ochotę walnąć cię raz czy dwa… albo pięć”.

Gdy mężczyzna, którego uwielbiałaś będąc dzieckiem zostaje twoim trenerem, spodziewasz się, że okaże się to najwspanialszą rzeczą, jaka przytrafiła ci się w życiu. Słowo klucz: spodziewasz się.

Wystarczył tydzień, by dwudziestosiedmioletnia Sal Casillas zaczęła się zastanawiać, co właściwie widziała w międzynarodowej ikonie piłki nożnej – dlaczego miała jego plakaty na ścianach i nawet wyobrażała sobie, że za niego wyjdzie i spłodzi z nim małych superpiłkarzyków? Sal wiele lat temu doszła do siebie po najgorszym „nie-zerwaniu” w historii zmyślonych związków, z mężczyzną, który nie wiedział nawet o jej istnieniu. Nie jest więc przygotowana na nową wersję Reinera Kultiego, trenującego jej drużynę: cichy i zamknięty w sobie jest tylko cieniem wybuchowego, pełnego pasji mężczyzny, którym kiedyś był. Nic nie mogło przygotować jej na spotkanie z nim. Ani na mordercze skłonności, które w niej wzbudził.

„Sal, proszę, nie zmuszaj mnie, żebym odwiedzała cię w więzieniu. Nie do twarzy ci w pomarańczowym”.

To będzie najdłuższy sezon w jej życiu.

Wszyscy mamy tajemnice - Coben Harlan

WYDAWNICTWO: Albatros

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-17

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Największe skandale wybuchają w sieci… Przekonuje się o tym była tenisistka, Suzze Trevantino, dawna niegrzeczna dziewczynka, która – o dziwo – ustatkowała się u boku gwiazdy rocka, Lexa Rydera. I jest w ciąży! Po tym, jak w sieci ukazuje się anonimowy wpis, który podaje w wątpliwość, że ojcem jej dziecka jest Lex, ten znika. Do kogo Suzze może się zwrócić z prośbą o pomoc, jeśli nie do Myrona Bolitara?   W trakcie śledztwa Myron odnajduje też kogoś, kogo wcale nie szukał… I niespodziewanie dostaje szansę na znalezienie zaginionego brata. Wcześniej jednak będzie musiał zmierzyć się z kłamstwami, również własnymi, które w jakiś sposób mogą łączyć się z historią Suzze i Lexa.

Druga szansa - Miszczuk Katarzyna Berenika

WYDAWNICTWO: YA!

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-22

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Julia budzi się w tajemniczym szpitalu. Nie poznaje własnego odbicia w lustrze, nie pamięta, jak się tu znalazła. Z czasem dowiaduje się, że cała jej rodzina zginęła w pożarze. Jedynie Julii udało się przeżyć, choć na skutek odniesionych obrażeń straciła pamięć. Nazwa ośrodka, Druga Szansa, powinna napawać pacjentów otuchą… Co jednak myśleć o kobiecie, która ciągle wróży Julii śmierć, pojawiającej się nagle nieznajomej dziewczynie i szeptach rozbrzmiewających dokoła? Najwyraźniej dzieje się tu coś dziwnego. Julia staje się coraz bardziej zagubiona i przerażona. Co zrobi w sytuacji, w której nie może zaufać nawet sobie?

Dziedzictwo posłańca - Brett Peter V.

WYDAWNICTWO: Fabryka Słów Sp. z o.o.

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-22

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Briar miał tylko 6 lat, gdy został na świecie zupełnie sam. Ogień zabrał mu rodzinę, majątek i absolutnie wszystko, co znał. Jako krasjański mieszaniec został odrzucony przez mieszkańców Zielonych Krain. Pozostawiony pośród nocy mógł liczyć tylko na to, czego przez kilka krótkich lat nauczył go jego ojciec, Sharum Relan. W dramatycznej sytuacji pojawia się jednak niespodziewany obrońca.

Stary przyjaciel Relana, posłaniec Ragen, postanowił po wielu latach odejść ze służby i zająć się rodziną. Jednak gdy dowiaduje się o zaginięciu Briara, ponownie rusza na szlak, by odnaleźć syna starego przyjaciela i sprowadzić go w bezpieczne miejsce.   Rodzinna tragedia okazuje się początkiem niezwykłej ścieżki, którą Everam w swej mądrości przeznaczył niepozornemu chłopcu.

Poznaj historię jednego z najbardziej tajemniczych i nietuzinkowych bohaterów Cyklu Demonicznego.

Trzynasty księżyc – Paulina Hendel

WYDAWNICTWO: Czwarta Strona

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-22

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Ludziom i żniwiarzom zagraża jeszcze niebezpieczniejszy wróg, a Pierwszy zmienił zasady gry. Magda, Feliks i Mateusz stają przed nowymi wyzwaniami, groźniejszymi demonami i dylematem większym niż wszystkie razem do tej pory wzięte. Czy mogą na sobie nawzajem polegać? Jak daleko będą musieli się posunąć, aby chronić bliskich? Uważaj! Nieumarli wracają. Trzynasta pełnia jest coraz bliżej.

Mr. President - Evans Katy

WYDAWNICTWO: Kobiece

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-23

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Charlotte poznała Matthew Hamiltona, kiedy byli jeszcze bardzo młodzi. Ona była córką senatora, a on synem prezydenta. Oboje dorastali w świecie wielkiej polityki. Już wtedy Matthew zrobił na niej piorunujące wrażenie. Obiecał jej, że nigdy nie będzie startował w wyborach prezydenckich, a ona obiecała mu, że jeśli zmieni zdanie, to wtedy ona będzie przy jego boku. Kilka lat później Charlotte otrzymuje zaproszenie, aby przyłączyć się do kampanii Matthew. 

Z każdym dniem przyszły prezydent będzie miał coraz większą władzę nad jej sercem i umysłem. Wkrótce obydwoje zaczną stąpać po bardzo cienkim lodzie, a ceną za złamanie zasad będzie nie tylko uczucie, ale i szansa na wygraną. 

Czy Charlotte ulegnie pokusie, wiedząc, że zwycięstwo może odebrać jej wszystko?

Fallen Crest. Szkoła - Tijan

WYDAWNICTWO: Kobiece

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-23

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Samantha zaczyna naukę w nowej szkole, do której chodzą Mason i Logan. Już pierwszego dnia wiadomo, że Sam będzie miała wielu wrogów w nowym miejscu. Jednym z nich jest Kate, która najwyraźniej uknuła już jakąś intrygę. Jednak przetrwanie w nowej szkole to tylko jedno ze zmartwień Samanthy. W powietrzu wisi znacznie poważniejszy problem: konflikt między miastami Roussou i Fallen Crest się zaognia. Teraz Sam będzie musiała zrobić wszystko, żeby Mason nie spędził ostatniego semestru w areszcie lub szpitalu.

Czy ochrona Masona i Logana wystarczy, żeby Sam czuła się bezpieczna w nowej szkole?

Sposób na księcia - Chase Emma

WYDAWNICTWO: Filia

DATA PREMIERY: 2018-08-29

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Henry John Edgar Thomas Pembrook, książę Wessco, kocha być nieodpowiedzialnym i ani mu w głowie się zmieniać. Problem w tym, że jako członek rodziny królewskiej niewiele ma w tej sprawie do gadania. Królowa Lenora postanawia dać wnukowi nieco swobody, żeby ten mógł wreszcie poczuć ciężar związany z podejmowaniem samodzielnych decyzji. Ku zgrozie wszystkich jego pierwsze postanowienie wiąże się z… wzięciem udziału w randkowym reality show. I tak dwadzieścia najpiękniejszych arystokratek rozpoczyna rywalizację o serce Henry’ego. Wśród zamkowej scenerii kandydatki nie zawahają się użyć całego swojego uroku, byle tylko usidlić niepokornego księcia i zdobyć brylantową tiarę. Tymczasem Henry dostrzega prawdziwe piękno w najbardziej niepozornej z nich.

Sarah Mirabelle Zinnia Von Titebottum jest cicha i nie lubi się narzucać. O dziwo, to właśnie jej prostolinijność, siła i dobroć przykuwają uwagę Henry’ego. Nie bez znaczenia jest też sprośny humor, z którego słynie dziewczyna… Czy Sarah znajdzie sposób na nauczenie księcia odpowiedzialności?

To by było tyle na dziś. Mam nadzieję, że znajdziecie tutaj coś interesującego dla siebie. Koniecznie dajcie znać w komentarzu na co Wy czekacie najbardziej.

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THE INFINITE WRENCH: New plays every week; different show every time! When: Fridays & Saturdays @ 10:30pm Tickets @ Door: $14 + the roll of a 6-sided die ($15-$20) Advance Tickets: $20 Where: Kraine Theater: 85 East 4th St. (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave).

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Adam Driver, from trooper to trouper

On Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran  and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: “The birth of theater was from a military environment. The Greeks — Aeschylus, Euripides, all these elected generals — wrote plays for a culture that was at war.”

Other non-profit groups that help veterans pursue  the arts either as a vocation or an avocation:

United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance (USVAA)

Veteran Artist Program (VAP)

Society of Artistic Veterans (SocArtVets)

Also:

TDF’s Veterans Theatergoing Program

TDF partners with veteran groups in the city to provide free tickets to veterans to Broadway shows on select days. Next up: Tootsie on November 12, Come From Away on November 13, Beetlejuice on November 19.

The Week in New York Theater Reviews

Broadbend, Arkansas

“Broadbend, Arkansas” is billed as a musical about three generations of an African-American family in the South grappling with injustice.  While technically accurate, that’s a misleading description of a show that falls so short of what it could be, that I prefer to view it as a work in progress.

The Black History Museum

“Whoo, that was some heavy shit,” our guide says after leading us through 400 years of African-American history. It was hard to disagree. Every inch of HERE Arts Center has been transformed into an immersive “theatrical museum” – part theater, part museum — an impressively ambitious collaborative effort by a veritable army of African-American artists. “The Black History Museum, According to the United States of America” is illuminating, depressing, enraging, amusing, inspiring. It is overwhelming, in both good ways and bad.

The 2020 Book Report

David Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashioned an hour-long show that should get wider exposure than the one-shot performance last night as part of the 2019 Gotham Storytelling Festival at the Kraine Theater

The Michaels

If Richard Nelson, the writer and director of “The Michaels,” were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New York for two hours talking in barely audible voices about art, death, politics, and their old fights with Loki, while Spider-man bakes a loaf of bread, and the Black Panther takes Wolverine for a walk? That’s been the formula for Nelson’s four Apple Family plays and then his three plays in The Gabrielsseries, and it’s back once again with “The Michaels,” subtitled “Conversations During Difficult Times,” a play about a family of dancers gathering around a kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New York, which I’m hoping will be a one-off, rather than the first of yet another series.

Cyrano

Peter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing either, and he was just right for My Fair Lady. In several ways, the star of Game of Thrones is an inspired hire for a musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac…Dinklage wears no fake nose. He doesn’t need to. He also proves once again to be a terrific actor… But ‘Cyrano’ is missing…panache.

Bella Bella

Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio’s mother told her to shut up. “This is my daughter’s graduation, not a political rally.”  Abzug paused, apologized….and kept on talking for ten more minutes, caught up in the vehemence of her argument against the latest political outrage.

That’s my most vivid memory of this fiery member of Congress, anti-war activist, influential feminist, and fearless advocate that Harry Fierstein is portraying Off-Broadway at MTC in his new solo play about her life.  Fierstein’s affection for his subject is abundantly evident in Bella Bella – so much so that he seems to have turned her into himself.

Dr. Ride’s American Beach House

The two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don’t know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier’s play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promise something rollicking, but what unfolds is actually small, slow and seemingly random, existing almost entirely as subtext.  “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House” is largely about repressed desire.

The Week in New York Theater News

Bob Martin

Luke Kirby plays a movie star trying on “Hamlet” and Rachel McAdams a young member of the company in the first season of “Slings & Arrows.”

The first and biggest (and ok, only) scoop I’ve had on NewYorkTheater.me was when Bob Martin told me on Twitter that he and his two co-creators were contemplating a fourth season for “Slings and Arrows,” the cult Canadian TV series about a fictional theater suspiciously similar to the Stratford Festival.  The show is so wildly beloved that his Twitter remarks became international news, which I milked in a couple of subsequent posts, here and here.

That was seven years ago! Now, the TV critic of the L.A.Times casually  mentions in an interview with Martin’s two co-creators Susan Coyne and Mark McKinney the Slings and Arros “prequel they are currently shopping,”:

“Now you’ve written a prequel, “Amateurs.”

Mark McKinney: Yes. I’ve always loved that word, because of the Latin root, “to love.” There was kind of a lot of “Could you do a Season 4?” and we noodled around…We were driving down [to Stratford] and started talking about Cyril and Frank [gay, older members of the New Burbage company, played by Graham Harley and Michael Polley], because you were explaining to me how nice it was to drive down in the spring, and we thought, “Oh, my God, Cyril and Frank, what would it have been like in 1953 if they had been part of the original festival, not knowing that they were about to walk into the first society that would embrace who they were?”

The interview explains just what’s so terrific about the original three seasons of “Slings and Arrows

The Minutes will open at the Cort Theater on March 15, 2020 with Tracy Letts himself in the cast, along with  Ian Barford (currently in Letts’ “Linda Vista”), Blair Brown, Cliff Chamberlain, K. Todd Freeman, Armie Hammer, Danny Mccarthy, Jessie Mueller, Sally Murphy, Austin Pendleton, Jeff Still

Ivo Van Hove’s  West Side Story, which begins previews in December but doesn’t open until February, will be just one act (no intermission) — “I want to make a juggernaut,” Van Hove tells Adam Green in Vogue. To that end, he’s omitting the song “I Feel Pretty” and the Somewhere ballet — and adding videos!

Broadway’s Dirty Secret :Ivo Van Hove’s success shows how much American commercial theater relies on European state funding, as Helen Lewis details in The Atlantic.

The Trojan Women Project Festival at La MaMa ETC will feature a newly re-imagined version of La MaMa’s groundbreaking 1973 “The Trojan Women,” directed by Andrei Serban, with some original members of the cast and artists from  Guatemala, Cambodia and Kosovo. The two-week festival includes workshops, panel discussions, and performances. December 6-15th.

    Jagged Musical’s lottery at JaggedLottery.com and rush at the Broadhurst box office are both $40.

Whoa. Performances of Death of a Salesman in London starring @WendellPierce had to be stopped when the ceiling fell in. Five theatergoers hospitalized with minor injuries.https://t.co/snGAEaCi0U pic.twitter.com/k5EYUsYKxq

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) November 9, 2019

She Persisted, the musical adaptation of Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger’s illustrated feminist picture book, “She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, will play at Atlantic Theater in 2020.

   Composer Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, Catch Me If You can, Smash, etc.) will write original music for the revival of Plaza Suite, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, which opens on Broadway’s Hudson Theater on April 13, 2020.

Yes, you CAN make a living as a playwright: Playwright Lauren Yee has won over $400,000 in literary prizes in 2019

Critics Corner

Michael Billington is retiring as theater critic for The Guardian after 48 years. He will be succeeded by Arifa Akbar.  Billington began at the British newspaper in 1971 and has written roughly 10,000 reviews,.“I shall shortly be 80 and, with the years, the stress of writing to a deadline doesn’t get any easier”

  The Power of the Critic: A Discussion

with Manohla Dargis (co-chief film critic for The New York Times), Antwaun Sargent (independent writer and critic and author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion), Jillian Steinhauer (art critic for The New York Times), and Daniel Mendelsohn (editor-at-large of The New York Review), moderated by Lucas Zwirner (head of content of David Zwirner).

On “thumbs up” criticism:

Manohla Dargis: Do you ever feel like a seller? Because there was an editor who used to always ask me to make sure I put a little word in the first sentence so everyone knew if I liked the movie or didn’t. But I just wanted them to read me. Maybe they’ll figure it out from my enthusiasm around writing, but I want them to know in my own sweet time.

Daniel Mendelsohn: What always gets eroded is any possibility of complexity. Thumbs up, thumbs down, five stars, one star—this is idiotic, right? Because most things are mixed. Don’t tell them everything in the first paragraph—because you liked certain things but not others, and that’s how most things are. If the whole discourse becomes “like/not like,” that’s not conducive to anything interesting.

  Rest In Peace

Laurel Griggs, 13, Broadway veteran of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Once.

  Veterans and Theater. Slings and Arrows returns for real!? Van Hove’s West Side Story Not Feeling Pretty. #Stageworthy News of the Week On Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran  and military veteran, and the founder of…

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Mad Cool @ Frigid Fest

Saturday, February 17th at 5:00pm Tuesday, February 20th at 5:30pm Monday, February 26th at 8:50pm Wednesday, February 28th at 5:30pm Saturday, March 3rd at 6:40pm

The Kraine Theater 85 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003

$15 – General Admission Tickets available at www.madcoolonstage.com

Mad Cool is a two-character, one-act about Tina and Daniel, an interracial couple moving into a gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn on the hottest day of the year – with no A/C. As they set up their new apartment, tensions (both romantic and racial) bubble up, culminating in a grisly accident. 

This is a play that made its debut at the 2017 Corkscrew Theater Festival to a sold-out house and we were thrilled at the reception, and at the chance to put it on its feet again! In today’s society, we need art that starts a dialogue about all those “uncomfortable” topics – privilege, social justice, guilt – to name a few. This dark comedy exposes the truth behind interracial dating and will leave you with a reinvigorated mindset. It’s the play you didn’t know you needed to see!

Written by: Nick Parker & Ayo Edebiri

Directed by: Diane Chen

Starring: Max Henry Zahra Ruffin Gerrard James Donnell Smith

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I woke to chiseled walls. Though the jagged hole, the grey ocean—

From Daniel Kraines' poem "Ariel," now at Blunderbuss Magazine.

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"Ma Jolie" by Daniel Kraines

  A checkered curtain drawn across the window holds the street out of view but lets

the wind in under its fringes. Long hair draped over the back of your shoulder,

next to you I lie afraid to take a corner of the blanket from your fearsome, naked

body, lioness, after months of reciting your name

to myself, name of a Picasso. Ma Jolie. A small gap in your front teeth.

Pinned across the wall, mysterious to me, panels of a print unfolding,

intricate weave of ink threaded in and out of itself: the patterned wings of a dark monarch.

In the yard, the metal workers have left their scraps to rest.

Necklaces hang over the corner of the bedpost. The yelp of a dog behind the door.

You waved the blanket over my head to cool me while I pleased

you further and further until you'd had enough.

Beyond the bed, a tall, oak white closet. A box marked photos. Another: memories.

What will you feel when you wake to the sun beating against the white walls of your room?

--in Salmagundi No. 177 (Winter 2013)

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Daniel Whyte III says the Coronavirus Plague + Monkeypox Plague + Drag Queens and Public School Teachers Raping the Minds and Hearts of Children + Thousands of Children Trying to Change Their Sex + the Inflation Plague + So-called Transgender People Intentionally Targeting and Shooting a Nine-Year-Old Pastor's Daughter + Unusual Tornadoes and Hurricanes Dropping Out of the Sky and Tearing up the Nation + World War III Afoot -- Does Not Equal = Mother Nature or Climate Change; It Equals = what Whyte has said for over thirteen years that God Almighty is mercifully, lovingly, and slow-rollingly destroying and dismantling America piece-by-piece because He is not pleased with pastors and churches that have become "Physicians of no value," false prophets and false teachers, who have colluded with the government to ordain and sanction the abomination of homosexuality, homosexual marriage and transgenderism and has caused the church to become a Judas-Laodicean church that has left the people of America to go through hell and to hell.

PHOTO: A rainbow shines amidst the remains of a neighborhood damaged by a tornado on March 31, 2023, in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Benjamin Krain/Getty Images) Daniel Whyte III says the Coronavirus Plague + Monkeypox Plague + Drag Queens and Public School Teachers Raping the Minds and Hearts of Children + Thousands of Children Trying to Change Their Sex + the Inflation Plague + So-called Transgender…