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Modern Love: Este no es el matrimonio que prometí
Cuando mi esposo y yo leímos nuestros votos nupciales hace casi cuatro años, él dijo: “Prometo prepararte café todas las mañanas el resto de nuestras vidas”. Así lo ha hecho. Si estamos de viaje, busca una cafetería. Si estamos en casa, lo prepara él mismo y lo deja en mi escritorio sin decir una sola palabra. Incluso lo hizo la mañana después de que mi mamá se quitara la vida.
No cumplí con el matrimonio que prometí
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. No cumplí con el matrimonio que prometí Mi esposo cargaba él solo con todo nuestro mundo. Credit...Brian Rea 5 de septiembre de 2026 a las 05:04 ET Cuando mi esposo y yo leímos nuestros votos nupciales hace casi cuatro años, él dijo: “Prometo prepararte café todas las mañanas por el resto de nuestras vidas”. Y así lo ha hecho.
Este no es el matrimonio que prometí
BC-MODERN-LOVE-MARRIAGE-PROMISE-ART-NYTSF — This Wasn’t the Marriage I Promised Him. (Brian Rea/The New York Times) — FOR USE ONLY WITH MODERN LOVE STORY SLUGGED BC-MODERN-LOVE-MARRIAGE-PROMISE-ART-NYTSF FOR SEPT. 2, 2026. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. Mi esposo sostenía nuestro mundo entero él solo. Cuando mi esposo y yo leímos nuestros votos nupciales hace casi cuatro años, él dijo: "Prometo prepararte café todas las mañanas el resto de nuestras vidas". Así lo ha hecho.
This Wasn’t the Marriage I Promised Him
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. This Wasn’t the Marriage I Promised Him My husband was holding up our entire world by himself. Credit...Brian Rea Aug. 28, 2026, 12:00 a.m. ET When my husband and I read our wedding vows nearly four years ago, he said, “I vow to make you coffee every morning for the rest of our lives.” And he has. If we’re traveling, he finds a coffee shop.
The Four Pillars of Green State Capacity
Markets alone cannot deliver decarbonization. Historic economic transitions have required active state intervention, large-scale financing, and coordinated governance; the green transition is no different. Bureaucratic-institutional capacity matters. Open democracies, empowered environmental ministries, and skilled public servants help governments adopt, coordinate, and implement climate policy. Macrofinancial capacity is essential.
Are Data Centers the Villains in the Battle Over Electricity?
Blog Emissary harnesses Carnegie’s global scholarship to deliver incisive, nuanced analysis on the most pressing international affairs challenges. Program Carnegie California links developments in California and the West Coast with national and global conversations around technology, democracy, and trans-Pacific relationships.
Tying Labor Standards to Clean Energy Incentives: How Biden’s Department of Energy Tackled Climate Industrial Policy
This is a web-friendly preview of the brief. The Biden administration ushered in the most ambitious era of US industrial policy since the New Deal and the most significant climate legislation on the planet, stimulating investments that would onshore the production and deployment of key technologies essential to the global reduction of greenhouse gases.
Gambling on Disaster | Future Tense Fiction
When I was a young American studies major in college, I became fixated on the role of the flaneur in literature. These characters—think of the narrator in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway—are particularly tied to urban fiction; they wander the vibrant streets not actively participating but simply observing their surroundings, absorbing information and impressions.
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Investment Summary Net Operating Income (NOI) minus mortgage payments. Calculation: NOI - Mortgage Payments Monthly Cash Flow $125 Capitalization Rate is a rate of return that compares the yearly Net Operating Income (NOI) to the market value. Calculation: NOI / Market Value Cap Rate 6.6% Annual Cash Flow / Cash Invested Calculation: Annual cash flow divided by initial cash invested. Cash-on-Cash Return 3.8% Net Operating Income (NOI) divided by total debt payments.
Patriotic Caprese Salad — The Happy Place
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Commentary: We need to think big about cap-and-trade in California
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WRUW’s Punk Prom: Prom, but make it punk
Last Friday, April 18, Case Western Reserve University students flocked to the Grog Shop’s B Side Liquor Lounge to attend Punk Prom, an “alternative formal and concert” put on by college radio station WRUW. From the talented student performers to the eclectic crowd to the venue’s lively-yet-intimate atmosphere, it was definitely not a night you wanted to miss. I’ll start with my favorite part of the event: the clothes and the people-watching.
When I arrived at Case Western Reserve University, I had no intention of joining the paper or being involved with college journalism in any capacity. I only ended up on The Observer’s sign-up sheet because my friend was interested, and I thought, sure, I might as well tag along. But she ended up changing her mind, and there I was, alone at the interest meeting. Although I intended to listen politely and then ghost the editors, I actually found myself intrigued by their spiel.
Playlist of the week: Songs for the end of another school year
After a brutally cold winter, spring is finally (kind of) here. Although this is the cloudiest, rainiest and definitely dreariest spring of my college experience, the rare pockets of warm, sunny weather are a more-than-welcome reprieve from the end-of-year academic slog. While I normally embrace spring with open arms—it’s always been my favorite season—this year, with graduation imminent, I’ve been feeling much more ambivalent about the changing of the seasons.
“The White Lotus” finale: What goes around comes around, even for the wealthy
Major spoilers ahead. After a long, eight-episode season parceled out in weekly installments, HBO’s “The White Lotus” is finally over. Although the third season’s pace was notably slower than the previous two, the feature film-length season finale defied expectations to deliver a gripping, satisfying conclusion. It was an episode that I consider to be perfect television, with humor, tension, crisis and surprising poignancy from a series that normally prioritizes petty squabbles and melodrama.
What to do this week(end) (4/4/25)
Event: University Program Board Spring Comedian Date: 4/4 Price: $5 Description: This year’s spring comedian is Gianmarco Soresi, who has appeared on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” “The Real Housewives of New York City” and the Netflix series “Verified Stand-Up,” as well as (more likely than not) your TikTok feed. He also was recognized as a New Face of the Just for Laughs comedy festival in 2022.
Yo La Tengo gives an unconventional performance at Beachland Ballroom
Last Monday, March 24, indie rock band Yo La Tengo took to the stage at Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District. Composed of Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew, the band cycled through an eclectic setlist of underrated fan favorites and a few sparse hits, shifting the atmosphere of the venue from subdued to frantic and back once more to calm over the course of the evening. The concert was an unconventional performance in a couple of key ways.
“Mickey 17” has it all: Laughter, romance, an indictment of late-stage capitalism and two Robert Pattinsons
After “Parasite” became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020—and snagged another three Oscars that year, including Best Director—there was a fair bit of pressure riding on South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s next flick. Although delayed twice due to the actors’ and writers’ guild strikes of spring 2023, the science fiction comedy “Mickey 17” finally debuted on March 7 to decidedly mixed reviews.
In “The White Lotus” season three, a poisonous pong pong fruit a day keeps your incestuous siblings away
Just like in the prior two seasons, the third “The White Lotus” opening sequence ends with the image of an unidentified corpse. Amid a meditation exercise, Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) hears the faint popping of gunshots and, in a sweet but stupid gesture, immediately runs into the crossfire to protect his mother Belinda (Natasha Rothwell). With verdant palm trees swaying overhead and sunlight dappling the surface of the water, Zion jumps into the nearby pond to reach a floating Buddha statue.
“LOVED UP! Valentine’s Drag Show” at Brewnuts was an intimate community affair
Last Friday, Feb. 14, Brewnuts hosted an intimate, all-ages Valentine’s Day drag show in the interior of their beer-and-donut shop. With just four performers and roughly 30 attendees, the show was uniquely approachable for those unfamiliar with drag, but still just as fun and camp-y as a larger performance. Brewnuts, located in the Gordon Square Arts District, sells “small batch, craft beer-based donuts” and local craft beer on tap.
What to do this Valentine’s Day week(end)
Event: Chamber Music in the Atrium: Love is in the Air Date: 2/14 Price: Free Come watch classical musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Musical Upcoming Stars in the Classics perform this Friday in the atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). They will be playing a selection of chamber music celebrating love, from sonatas to waltzes, with a dance accompaniment from the Ohio Contemporary Ballet.
This past Saturday, Feb. 1, Cleveland Heights residents and Case Western Reserve University students alike turned out in large numbers to support Cilantro Taqueria’s Coventry Village location. The restaurant was reopened following a raid from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) where six employees were arrested and detained, causing two of Cilantro’s six locations across the greater Cleveland area to shut down temporarily.
“A Real Pain,” now streaming on Hulu, evades categorization and genre
Recently nominated for two Academy Awards—Best Original Screenplay for writer, director, actor and producer Jesse Eisenberg and Best Supporting Actor for Kieran Culkin—“A Real Pain” follows two cousins on a Holocaust tour of Poland in the wake of their grandmother’s passing. The film is intimate, funny, melancholic and also incredibly sad; at its core it is, as the title tells us, an exploration of pain.
Commentary: Additional investment and support needed for California’s regions to rise together
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Playlist of the week: Not quite winter vibes
It’s too dangerous to wallow. Melancholy music for melancholy weather was a fun game to play in October, when everyone I know was praying for it to dip below 50 degrees so they could finally break out their newly-thrifted sweaters and order hot drinks at their coffee shop of choice. Now we are living in a different world. As I write this article, 26 mph gusts of wind are making the temperature—a whole 8 degrees—feel like minus 8.
“Abbott Elementary” x “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”: A strange combination that works
Crossover episodes are a sitcom classic, so it wasn’t a total surprise to see the announced collaboration between “Abbott Elementary” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Plot-wise, at least, it’s a pretty natural pairing—both shows are set in Philadelphia—but for anyone familiar with the two shows’ comedic styles, you’d understand that combining the two casts is not going to be easy. “Abbott Elementary” is a classic workplace sitcom currently airing its fourth season.
“Mahashmashana” is not my favorite Father John Misty album
Released Nov. 22, “Mahashmashana” is the sixth studio album by Josh Tillman under the moniker Father John Misty. Like Tillman’s previous albums, “Mahashmashana”—an anglicization of the word for “cremation ground” in Sanskrit—manages to balance a deeply cynical tone alongside a surprising amount of emotional depth. Let me start with what I liked. Tillman’s lyricism sparkles, as ever, with imagery; his ability to tell a story through music is unmatched.
“Glicked” is unlikely to replicate the success of “Barbenheimer”: An exploration of major pre-release problems in both films
Note: This piece was written in advance of the movies’ 11/21 release date. We all remember the magic of “Barbenheimer,” the summer 2023 dual release date for the movies “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” What many predicted to be a cutthroat box office competition instead resulted in a collaboration, with moviegoers flocking to see both films as a double feature. And why wouldn’t they?
What to do this Homecoming week(end)
Event: “Some Like It Hot” at Playhouse Square’s Connor Palace Date: 11/15-24 Price: From $30 Description: Set in Chicago during the Prohibition era, this stage adaptation of the 1959 classic film starring Marilyn Monroe is flashy and over the top in the best possible way. The plot is literally “shot” into motion when two male musicians are forced to flee the city after witnessing a mob hit.
Before this most recent season, I was in second grade the last time I tuned in to “Dancing with the Stars.” The ballroom dancing competition show used to be a primetime staple of the late 2000s and early 2010s television catalog, gradually declining in popularity and viewership—even leaving ABC and going straight to streaming for a season—up until this year.
oSTEM’s HalloQueen Drag Show is consistently great
It’s rare to find a Case Western Reserve University on-campus event that pulls you in every year, save Springfest and perhaps Thwing Study Over, if you can brave waiting in line for that long. However, oSTEM’s annual Halloween-themed drag show is one such event, at least for me. The performances, all of which come from locally based drag queens, are phenomenal, and the energy in Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom is always spirited, friendly and welcoming of diversity in all its forms.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should: Stop posting 20-picture photo dumps
I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s made a grave mistake on Instagram recently. You open the app, see the first post on your feed and begin swiping through its photo carousel. Swiping, swiping … until suddenly, you realize that you’ve gone far beyond Instagram’s previous 10-photos-per-post limit—you’re 15 photos deep for a person you don’t even know very well.
Hinds and The Happy Return take audience engagement to a new level at The Grog Shop
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, Spanish indie rock duo Hinds brought an infectious energy and rockin’ tunes to Coventry’s alternative music venue The Grog Shop. Alongside opening band The Happy Return, both acts took advantage of the more intimate venue and brought a level of crowd interaction and lighthearted fun to the stage that exceeded all of my expectations. For those who are unfamiliar with the band, Hinds hails from Madrid and has only been performing as a duo for just over a year now.
The New US Trade Agenda: Institutionalizing Middle-Out Economics in Foreign Commercial Policy
Executive Summary Over the past few years, the United States has made the most significant change in its approach to trade in generations. Starting in the 1970s, trade policy was focused on neoliberal priorities such as promoting efficiency through tariff and cost reductions and limiting the space for purely national regulation of commerce.
“Gianmarco Soresi: The Leaning In” at Hilarities 4th Street Theatre was just okay
October 11, 2024 Comedy shows are typically hit-or-miss; someone is either funny or they’re not. I’ve been lucky enough to have seen some pretty good comedians in the past, some of whom have even performed at Case Western Reserve University—and while not every joke Colin Jost or John Mulaney makes will elicit peals of laughter, I also don’t leave their shows with the sense that not everything in their set worked.
How Industrial Policy Gets Done: Frontline Lessons from Three Federal Officials
Introduction The Biden administration has advanced the most active industrial policy for the civilian economy since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.1 This includes grant and loan subsidies for industries the US strategically wants to promote, such as clean energy and semiconductors.
Five easy recipes for college students, courtesy of your free New York Times Cooking access
Cooking is arguably one of the hardest parts of the college experience, at least for me. On top of homework and real work and extracurricular activities comes one more demand on your time—and unless you’re making instant ramen or scrambled eggs, the cooking process always seems to take about twice as long as you expect.
Crowd consensus at Charli XCX and Troye Sivan’s “Sweat” tour: “I Love It”
Anyone who doesn’t know who Charli XCX is at this point must be living under a rock. Her latest album “Brat,” released on June 7, quickly skyrocketed to fame online, with “brat summer” becoming the buzzword of the season. The album’s background color, a puke-y and formerly unappealing shade of neon green, became known as “brat green” and was plastered on everything from t-shirts to bumper stickers to temporary lower back tattoos.
What to do this week(end) (9/20/24)
Event: “Les Misérables” at Playhouse Square’s Connor Palace Date: 9/20-22 Price: From $20 Description: This Tony award-winning musical, with an incredible new staging by Cameron Mackintosh, is coming to Playhouse Square in Cleveland for less than a week.
CWRU Flea Market showcases quality student and community-based retailers
This past Saturday, CWRU Flea Market hosted their first flea of the 2024-2025 school year. Taking over Thwing Atrium, part of KSL Oval and, for the first time, Thwing Ballroom, this was the largest flea market of theirs that I have personally attended. Especially after remembering some of their previous events in smaller venues—such as Thwing Atrium all by itself—I was impressed first and foremost by the sheer size of the event.
‘We are so back’: After a four-year hiatus, WRUW’s Studio-A-Rama returns
Despite the popularity of Studio-A-Rama, college radio station WRUW’s annual all-day music festival, the organization has had a hard time resurrecting its flagship event after it was shut down in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” is flirty, funny and an all-around good time
Contrary to popular belief, pint-sized blonde bombshell Sabrina Carpenter did not just materialize into existence this summer alongside her hit single, “Espresso.” In fact, the former child star has been releasing music for over ten years, with all but her most recent two albums produced by the Disney-adjacent Hollywood Records. So although “Short n’ Sweet” is technically Carpenter’s sixth studio album, it feels a lot more like her second.
Spirals and Stars
Gr 3-7–It’s 1993 in Australia, and 11-year-old Beth is starting grade six. She’s worried about being bullied, losing her best friend Ashlee, and being clean enough. She’s also having a hard time connecting to her mom and has no friends outside of Ashlee. When she gets to school on the first day, Beth’s fears become real as Ashlee starts avoiding her and sits with the biggest bully instead.
“Twisters” is surprisingly fun
Mild spoilers ahead. Where have all the good movies gone? Over the past couple of years, this seems to be the question on every movie-goer’s lips. Most new releases at the box office are either sequels, remakes or the latest in the 34-flick chain of the Marvel superhero franchise. And that’s just some of the films you can still see in a physical theater.
California and the energy transition
Since the news broke about Chevron moving its headquarters from California to Texas, I’ve been thinking a lot about this state’s history with the energy industry. Chevron (one of the main descendents of Standard Oil) was founded in the 1870s in Southern California and has since had a major presence across the state, most recently in San Ramon, which is in Contra Costa County, part of the 9-county Bay Area.
Commentary: Actually, no. There is just the one Richmond
We write, as a group of Richmond Jews, to challenge the damaging, one-sided narrative put forth in the articles published under the headline “Tale of two Richmonds” last Sunday, which claimed to show how “the Israel-Hamas war is viewed by Jewish and Palestinian people in the Richmond area.” The article reinforces a divisive framing that pits Jews and Palestinians on opposing sides of the conflict instead of recognizing that it is Israel, not “Jews,” besieging the Gaza Strip.
“Horror Movie 101”: A lesson in stupidity
On Feb. 9-10, the Players’ Theatre Group presented “Horror Movie 101: Failing Can Be Deadly” by Steven Stack, a play in which the characters incessantly break the basic rules of horror movies. The play consists of five scenes, each with its own set of characters, but they all exist in the same universe. It begins and ends with more lighthearted, silly scenes, letting the creepier ones exist in the middle. “Horror Movie 101” begins on this lighter note with “Heirlooms,” directed by Ashley Rosinski.
“Prelude to Ecstasy” is a shallow spectacle
From the titular opening track of “Prelude to Ecstacy,” it’s clear that The Last Dinner Party is trying to put on a show. A review from The Guardian puts it best: the orchestral overture is “so grandiose, even the director of a 1950s Hollywood blockbuster would have suggested his soundtrack composer dial it down a bit.” These lofty heights continue throughout the rest of the album, which delivers on the drama and polish, but unfortunately lacks the grit and soul demanded of a rock record.
“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is another disappointing adaptation of the book series
Despite selling more than 180 million copies worldwide, the beloved children’s book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians has had a tough time making it off the page and onto the screen. The first attempted adaptation, the film “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” and its sequel, “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” received widespread criticism both from fans of the books and even the author himself for their many inaccuracies.
Now streaming on Netflix, “May December” is a hard watch, but one well worth it
“May December” is not a movie for the faint of heart. More a character study than anything else, the film hones in on the inner lives and relationships of its three leading characters: actress Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) as well as husband and wife Joe (Charles Melton) and Gracie (Julianne Moore). Elizabeth, who is playing Gracie in her upcoming movie, has come to visit the couple in their large, waterfront home in Savannah, Georgia in the hopes of getting to know them better.
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