But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
There’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott house, now a museum, its low planes a paean to the Midwestern prairie.
The legislation behind this flurry of warnings and laments is Assembly Bill 1207, which emerged from backroom negotiations last September.
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Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
While voters are extremely interested in presidential contests and other high-profile races such as governor, most don’t pay attention to local contests, something both Democrats and Republicans lament.
The organ that colored all the earlier tales of youthful exuberance now plays a funeral dirge.
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David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.
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