NYT Critics' Picks Plus Three of Possible Interest

Mixed Emotions at a Gathering to Say Goodbye
‘Archipelago,’ a Drama by Joanna Hogg
NYT Critics' Pick

Stiff Drinks and Stiff Upper Lips: Britons on a Tuscan Holiday
‘Unrelated’ Explores the Manners of Well-Off Britons
NYT Critics' Pick

Lost to the Grim Realities of India
‘Siddharth’ Follows a Father’s Search for His Son
NYT Critics' Pick

A Prodigious Beginning, Then an Early Ending
‘The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz’
NYT Critics' Pick

-- Of Possible Interest --

Let the Mass Destruction Begin
‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Is Fourth in the Series

Stuck in Steerage for the Postapocalypse
In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips

Secrets of the Universe, Embedded in Pop Ditties
‘Radio Free Albemuth’ Is Based on Philip K. Dick’s Book

The 10 worst places in Minneapolis

2. The Lyndale/Hennepin/Walker Art Center clusterfuck

Without a doubt, this is one of the worst fucking places in the city. Here you'll find a mishmash of scrubby medians, poorly timed lights, apprehensive drivers entering and exiting freeways, and cops busting poor people in the most appealing and logical place to panhandle. For cars, lanes mysteriously appear and disappear. Lines on the road are nonexistent. If there's a crash, no one has any idea that there are streets to the left and right that they should pull off on and let other people pass. If you are on a bike, you can travel down the ill-conceived fading-green-painted path as you watch assholes make right-hand turns without even glancing your way. In the other direction is the dog shit of city planning, as you are forced to either dismount your bike to walk past Rudolph's or choose certain death and martyrdom by continuing to bike into traffic like a salmon swimming upstream into a nuclear power-plant wastewater pipe. Moar

My tweets

• Thu, 12:29: RT @votempls: Ready for the primary election? AB voting starts 6-27, share our special instructions for primary ballots. #mplsvotes http://…
• Thu, 12:31: RT @aurabogado: Just to be clear, the Supreme Court has a very active ban against demonstrators on its own grounds. http://t.co/kwbeKmjaUy
• Thu, 12:32: RT @BetteMidler: Rebekah Brooks was found not guilty. Unbelievable. She wasn't surprised, tho, as she's probably been hacking the judge's …
• Thu, 12:43: RT @Oatmeal: My Twitter feed at the moment http://t.co/9rIGoSnSAW
• Thu, 12:48: RT @Wonkette: Supreme Court Upholds Sacred Right To Scream 'Baby Murderer!' In Women's Faces http://t.co/S2q17E9bmT
• Thu, 15:35: RT @hotdishblog: BREAKING: Obama just ate a Jucy Lucy; press secretary reports it was "delicious" http://t.co/jDyF6UVeIo
• Thu, 15:37: RT @timnelson_mpr: The scene at Obama's town hall meeting in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Park. http://t.co/nFekExyIKb
• Thu, 15:38: RT @MinnPost: U.S. children are 16x more likely to be unintentionally shot to death than children in other high-income countries http://t.c…
• Thu, 17:05: RT @DeRushaJ: Sad. RT @WCCO: Family members say original owner of Matt's Bar died this morning, just before @BarackObama's visit: http://t.…
• Thu, 17:06: RT @TeaPartyCat: That awkward moment when the Supreme Court rules against a 35 ft buffer zone for women, but keeps the 300 ft buffer zone a…

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