Abigail Rosenthal
Culture Editor at Chron
Culture Editor, @chron | Other words: @TexasMonthly, @TexasHighways, @TexasExes | 1/2 of @fiftypercentpod 📚 | Wikipedia's biggest fan
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1 month ago |
medium.com | Abigail Rosenthal
There is a story that Plato tells in The Republic, his dialogue on political justice. Here’s how it goes. It starts with a man named Gyges. Everyone considered him to be a normal fellow. There was nothing odd about him. One day, as it happened, Gyges found a ring that, when he wore it, rendered him invisible. Gyges wasted none of the time opened up by this opportunity. By day he was our good old unassuming Gyges.
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1 month ago |
chron.com | Jamil David |Abigail Rosenthal
George Coulam, founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival, is shown outside his home Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Todd Mission. Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspap/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagUPDATE: May 21, 3:50 p.m. Details have emerged regarding the death of George Coulam, the 87-year-old founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival in Todd Mission, Texas.
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1 month ago |
chron.com | Abigail Rosenthal
Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Denton pop-punk band Bowling for Soup's 2004 song, "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)."Texas rightfully isn't known for its pop-punk scene.
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1 month ago |
medium.com | Abigail Rosenthal
This week, Abbie revisits the unforgettable story of Marie Antoinette. First shared in an earlier column, Encore Marie Antoinette reflects on what made the Queen of France so captivating — and so condemned. Was she a symbol, a scapegoat, or simply herself? Last night, I read to its sad finale Stefan Zweig’s can’t-be-more-definitive biography of Marie Antoinette, the unluckiest Queen of France.
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2 months ago |
chron.com | Abigail Rosenthal
Move over, Johnson Space Center. Texas has a new tourism hotspot for space enthusiasts: Van Horn, Texas, where the right amount of money can send you to (sort of) space aboard Blue Origin's revolutionary New Shepard rocket. Earlier this week, Jeff Bezos' space exploration company Blue Origin launched a flight of six women 62 miles above Earth's surface, marketing it as a historic moment for space travel and womankind.
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