Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 3, 2026

Fifteen Richard Yates Letters, From a Boy of Thirteen to a Dying Man

The earliest was written in January 1939, when Yates was thirteen and telling a friend about the band they were forming. The last go to his youngest daughter, Gina, and in between are the separation, the alimony cheques, the drinking and the Hollywood work that never came off.

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Richard Yates
Richard Yates

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Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 2, 2026

A Nineteenth-Century Ceiling Is Still Sitting Underneath Chagall's at the Paris Opera

Jules-Eugène Lenepveu painted the dome of the Palais Garnier between 1869 and 1871. André Malraux had Chagall cover it with twenty-four canvases in 1964, and Lenepveu's descendant has now written to Macron proposing the two ceilings alternate every ten years.

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Chagall's ceiling at the Palais Garnier
Chagall's ceiling at the Palais Garnier

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Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 1, 2026

David Fair, Who Spent Fifty Years Proving Music Needed No Rules, Has Died at 74

He and his brother Jad started Half Japanese in Maryland in 1974 and put out more than twenty albums of deliberately untutored art rock. Jad confirmed to Rolling Stone that he died on August 29 after an illness.

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Half Japanese

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Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 31, 2026

OMA Went From 59 People to Nearly 280. Two New Managing Partners Now Run It.

Marianne Anthonissen and David Gianotten took joint charge in July, alongside two other new partners. Gianotten arrived in 2009 when the office had 59 staff; it now works out of Rotterdam, New York, Asia, the Middle East and Australia, and the plan is to hold the partnership at ten.

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OMA, Rotterdam
OMA, Rotterdam

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Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 30, 2026

Seven Years of Caring for Both Her Parents, Photographed

Lynne Breitfeller started the work in 2018, when her father began cancer treatment and her mother went into heart failure the following year. Both entered memory care in 2023; her mother has since died, and her father remains in assisted living.

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From Today is Yesterday and Tomorrow
From Today is Yesterday and Tomorrow

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Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 29, 2026

Nine in Ten of His Vintage Pieces Come Out of Florida Retirement Communities

Chaim Romano runs Dolphin & Flamingo from Delray Beach, buying laminate, wicker, rattan and lacquered tables out of estates in Boca Raton, Boynton Beach and Coral Springs. His largest market is New York, and Los Angeles is third.

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Floridian vintage, sourced from South Florida estates
Floridian vintage, sourced from South Florida estates

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Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 28, 2026

It Took 1,800 People to Pull a 400-Ton Castle Keep Back Toward Home

Hirosaki Castle's keep was rolled 256 feet aside in 2015 so the stone walls beneath it could be rebuilt. Volunteers have now hauled it 7.5 feet back over two days, and the work will not be finished until 2033.

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The keep of Hirosaki Castle, Aomori Prefecture
The keep of Hirosaki Castle, Aomori Prefecture

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