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Jen Gates's avatar

Love seeing someone write like my mind works, very much why I came to Substack. And in the most special interest moment ever I once asked the guide at the NY Transit museum as to why its such an arseache to get between Queens and Brooklyn (it's the lack of straight up and down lines for me) The answer he gave was that they built the subway line where they wanted people to live and that was that!

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Elizabeth Heydary's avatar

NY Transit Museum is top of my list for my special interest in trains kids!

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Jen Gates's avatar

Oh I can imagine. It’s a great space too, felt very soothing to me.

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Lindsay's avatar

WHAT A SHOW! I’ve seen St. Vincent twice (once with David Byrne 😍) and she is mesmerizing. Yves Tumor is such a cool artist, too!!

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

I have seen her (*counts*) 5 times. I didn’t see her full show with David Byrne but he came out at her American Songbook show at Lincoln Center 🥰

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Cole Rennix's avatar

My black cats, Dexter and Harrison, are living vicariously through Annie’s and Talula’s creative dispatches from the place to which their people keep saying they want to move.

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Elizabeth Heydary's avatar

I LOVE the dispatches from your cats. I bought a shirt, bracelet and button that all reference being a Cat Lady for Kamala and I especially like my black cat oversized bead on my bracelet. Thanks for the Churu rec!

We have the Greek Festival here this weekend and my friend who runs the cat rescue we adopted our cats from has a table there this weekend and I’m looking forward to going tomorrow. Sunday is Greensboro Pride and I had a great time taking my kids last year and the Guilford County Democrats will also have a table there. The weather is finally feeling more fall so it will be nice to get out after 4 days of rainy weather. It is beautiful here today.

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

Amazing! One of my besties lives in Hillsborough - the weather must be getting lovely there right now.

And yes get the Churu. Idk what they put in it but they go insane for it!

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Shelby Tutty, MHA's avatar

Thank you for the mention! I'm glad we found each other.

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

Same! ❤️

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Kelly Hoover Greenway's avatar

St. Vincent! What a dream. Thank you so much for sharing my essay. Please give my love to Talula

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

As if she doesn’t get enough 🤣

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Eileen Dougharty's avatar

Love your St. Vincent success story. She is worth navigating through some fuckery to see. I just bought tix to see her open for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in April and I'm already working on my strategy to make it through the whole show.

Thanks for the mention of my piece. And FTR the world needs more cat dialogue, less cats in the news. Perhaps Talula and Annie have a black box show about Churo or dental rage they're itching to produce.

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

Ooooh yes the Nick Cave show! Should be amazing and hopefully there will be actual seats.

Annie and Talula will take your proposal into consideration 🤣

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

Well now it’s too damn expensive to live anywhere so we need better options 🤣

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David Perlmutter's avatar

The Brooklyn Paramount still exists?

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

They renovated the old building and re-opened it as a brand new venue. It's lovely.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

So many of the great NYC theatres have been torn down or been left vacant like spoiled meat, so it's nice to know one of them is getting a new life.

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

The Kings was also an old movie house that got revitalized!

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David Perlmutter's avatar

We used to have a theatre called the Kings here in Winnipeg. The building still exists but it's no longer a theatre.

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