Bill Chenevert

Feel how you will about roundups and year-end lists, or lists in general, but I like a little healthy reflection here and there. I love favorites: favorite bars and restaurants, favorite foods and dishes, favorite sodas and coffee modes, favorite books and authors and poems.

It’s certainly fun to reminisce about my long run as a blogger, critic, writer, and editorial teammate – I had a really good run there for a minute. But times are changing. Newspapers evolve and print culture seems maybe a little doomed. It is with no joy that I observe the trends at the Inquirer of buyouts and layoffs (although it was a little joyous to watch Inga’s comments at Stu’s goodbye party).

It seems apt that the first scene of Itamar Moses’s “Completeness” includes a Millennial-flavored exchange that sets in motion the courtship between Molly and Elliot. Molly’s a molecular biologist and Elliot’s a computer scientist - both grad students — and Molly’s academic pursuit aligns with the intellectual territory of Elliot’s specialties.