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Food and Wine Got Enormous, and Somewhere in Getting Enormous It Lost the Plot
I still do the marketplaces every fall. But Food and Wine is the clearest case of the thing this series…
Writer
Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld
Editor in chief. A knack for the fine print.
Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld has spent his working life being handed things he did not yet understand. He started at the bottom, a developer in a bullpen, and worked his way up to running IT. The places were a strange assortment: consulting firms, accounting firms, a biotech startup, a tech startup in Silicon Valley and, of all places, Chiquita. Four small businesses of his own along the way. The work never really changed. Get into something unfamiliar, find out what is actually going on, and help someone make a hard decision with it. HeadLines Decoded is that job, pointed at the news.
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Series Parts
Food and Wine Got Enormous, and Somewhere in Getting Enormous It Lost the Plot
I still do the marketplaces every fall. But Food and Wine is the clearest case of the thing this series…
Series Parts
Flower and Garden Is Still Beautiful. It Is Also the One I Miss Most.
The topiaries are still there and the park still looks its best. But the festival drifted from a garden you…
Series Parts
Festival of the Arts Is the One About the Artists, and That Is Why It Still Feels Like Itself
Arts is too new to have a 'used to be.' What it has is the artists, and the one I…
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EPCOT Lost Its Off-Season, and the Festivals Started to Blur Together
I still plan trips around these festivals. I just started to notice they'd begun to feel like the same event…
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Descendants: Wicked Wonderland Did Exactly What Disney Needed, and Almost Nothing More
For a few weeks it was the most-streamed movie on the planet. That is a floor holding, not a franchise…
Disney
The Magic of Disney Animation Opens September 14: A Courtyard Finally Finished, Not a Studio Reborn
The September 14 opening completes a long courtyard renovation at Hollywood Studios. It does not bring working animators back to…
Disney
Her Grandfather Drew Mickey. Her Father Built the Camera. Now Leslie Iwerks Is Filming What Comes Next.
The new documentary hands the microphone to James Cameron, Kevin Feige and the people who turned Avatar and Frozen into…
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The SAVE Act, Part 9: Where It Stands Now
Where the bill sits right now, who is holding it up, and what would have to happen for it to…
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Disney’s Newest Park After Dark, and the Next One Coming
The newest park in the family after dark, and a look ahead at the one being built in the desert.
Culture
The Wheel of Time Was Canceled on Its Best Season. What Comes Next Is Messier.
Season three scored 97 percent and Amazon pulled the plug six weeks later. The rights are back with the company…