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The On Record I Cannot Give You: What Happened When I Sat Down With Cassian Swiggity

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Joey Vaelwick

Joey Vaelwick explains why his promised On Record with movie star Cassian Swiggity will not run: the interview never happened. In place of the actor, his people sent a four-page press release, so Vaelwick reports instead from sources close to the production and the studio, on the contract clauses that Swiggity must win every fight on screen and can never be the one who gets left, and on the superhero picture now playing to empty houses.

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Fenmore's Taco Club: The Best and Worst Hits, Ranked by a Man Who Ate the Whole Menu

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Topaz Toepads, Food Critic

Topaz Toepads finally answers the letters and reviews the whole Fenmore’s Taco Club menu, from the much-talked-about establishment on Newport Avenue: the Dragonfire Taco, the Grove Taco, the ten-gold Anomaly, the flame-kissed basilisk carnitas, and the slow-roasted wyvern brisket, ranked from the one you should order twice to the one you should not order at all.

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The Door That Only Opens One Way: What the Chronicle Found When It Went Looking for the Reverie's Missing

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Merritt Vance, Staff Reporter

A Chronicle investigation into The Reverie, the immersive attraction at the restored Misthollow lodge, finds a growing list of patrons who entered and never returned home, records that appear to be missing, and a proprietor who answers every question with a smile and nothing else. Among the unaccounted is the Chronicle’s own wellness correspondent, Marigold Fenn, who has filed nothing since the piece that praised the place.

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A Dish the Color of a Bad Week: Toepads Finally Reviews the Sanguine Curd

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Topaz Toepads, Food Critic

Topaz Toepads travels to Freeman’s Windward Bestiary to review the sanguine curd, the deep-red regional delicacy the historical pages keep name-dropping. He finds it genuinely, unsettlingly good, and cannot help noticing that Wexamour has developed an appetite for a blood-colored dish in the same season its neighbors keep turning up pale.

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The Vaelthir Hour: Stilver Lugrathe — The Man Behind the Office

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Sorin VanDenBerghe

Sorin VanDenBerghe sits down with long-form correspondent Joey Vaelwick to discuss his three-day On Record interview with ORCM Chair Stilver Lugrathe.

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The Cake That Took Over Wexamour: On Sweetness, Scarcity, and a Recipe We Could Not Leave Alone

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Topaz Toepads, Food Critic

Topaz Toepads traces the sudden, total dominance of Nana Ferrow’s honey cake over Wexamour’s tables, the run on Dorran honey and eggs it has touched off, and the uneasy question of what it means that a region frozen in spring has fallen so hard for a cake about spring returning.

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What Does When The Clocks Fell Silent Get Right and Wrong About the Silence?

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Ron Rudson, Arts Critic

The McGuire Group’s beloved When The Clocks Fell Silent returns to the Nascium Playhouse, and rather than review a production everyone already knows by heart, Ron Rudson turns his attention to the history it claims to retell.

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One Night Only: When The Clocks Fell Silent Returns to the Nascium Playhouse

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Vaelthir Arts Desk

The McGuire Group’s beloved When The Clocks Fell Silent returns to the Nascium Playhouse for one night only on Tuesday, the 23rd of June.

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The Art of the Silence: On Painting a Spring That Will Not Turn

Spring Yr10 5745 P.M. ·Ron Rudson, Arts Critic

Ron Rudson surveys the painting, music, and sculpture made since the Silence froze Wexamour in a single spring, and asks whether an endless season has made our art luminous, immobile, or some uneasy marriage of the two.