Today on #NEVERWORNS, I’m sharing the episode with Mellany Sanchez. I’m in awe of this woman, so much that I let this episode run longer than usual. Watch the Mellany’s episode at the end and learn a bit more about her below. As always, subscribe, watch the NEVERWORNS channel, and stay tuned for guests’s drops on neverworns.net. I first met Mellany Sanchez in 2016 when baby-me did a Vogue story about her shopping at her favorite downtown jeweler, Jane of New Top on 185 Centre Street.

Piano by Pictures by Gospel on the Go caught my eye with its promise of fast and easy learning using visual images instead of sheet music. I decided to test it out. Here's my detailed review as an experienced pianist and music educator. Piano by Pictures is an online piano learning course created by "Dr. Kelly" (Ryan Kelly). It aims to teach piano through pictogram notation rather than standard musical staff notation.

Wednesday’s Rat Saw God. Indigo De Souza’s back-to-back classics. MJ Lenderman’s Boat Songs. Snail Mail’s Valentine. Plains’ self-titled debut. There’s a link between these six stellar albums, all with their distinct take on new-school indie twang: Alex Farrar, co-founder of the cozy-looking Asheville studio Drop of Sun. Farrar has played a role of some kind — either producing, mixing, engineering, or some combination — across all of them. When I noticed this common thread, I had to reach out to Farrar and ask him directly about thisimpressive catalog.

We were psyched to talk to one of our favorite artists, Judy Kuhn, about her performance in the Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein musical “Unknown Soldier” at Arena Stage, and about some of her earlier turns — you probably remember her as the mother in “Fun Home,” Fosca in the 2013 revival of “Passion,” Cosette then Fantine in different productions of “Les Misérables,” Florence in “Chess.” The list is long and impressive.

“Luke O’Neil’s Welcome To Hell World is a vital and despairing collection of essays on modern American life.” -Longreads “Reading his popular, semi-weekly newsletter Hell World is a lot like staring deep into O’Neil’s soul, and it’s often a pretty dark place. Hell World is unusual, to say the least. It’s a mix of reporting, essay-writing, memoir, song lyrics, music videos, tweets, and whatever else appeals to him in a given week, all of it written in a stream-of-consciousness style that eschews commas, leans into run-on sentences, and is often thousands of words long.