Emily Christensen

@schmemily.bsky.social

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Arts writer in Kansas. Co-founder of the SHOUT, Wichita's dedicated arts & culture news source: shoutwichita.com CV: National Critics Institute fellow & Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing grantee, typo queen

A screenshot of a Washington Post headline and dek that reads: JD and Usha Vance announce birth of fourth child The birth of the baby, whom they named Alec Neel, marks the first time in more than 150 years that a sitting vice president has had a baby while in office.
Blue etterforms, gold crowns, and green hearts are superimposed on a pink and black background in Angelica Fuentes' "Crazy Love."
A bluesky post by Anthony Skatz that reads: Indiana’s acting like they’ve already given up. Posted at 8:39 p.m.
A photo from above of a coffee mug, pink glass, and breakfast bowl and plate on a blue and pink plaid placemat. The bowl contains scrambled eggs with caramelized onions and spinach with pickled turnips on top, and the plate has asparagus, zucchini, tomatoes, cauliflower, and quartered small potatoes.
A photo taken overhead of two bowls and a glass on a plaid woven placemat: one contains scrambled eggs with caramelized onions and spinach, and the other contains a yogurt parfait with thawed frozen blueberries, hemp hearts, and shelled pistachios
A photo of the playbill for TBoMC at Forum Theatre. I’m holding it up from where I’m sitting in the back of the house, and the paint-by-numbers-esque sunset set is visible in the background.
A photo taken from the back of the first gallery space at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery. Rows of people face the auctioneer, who stands in front of a screen losing the current auction item. In the middle of the aisle, one of the auction works holds a painting of tulips in a vase by Birger Sandzén, a Swedish-American post-impressionist painter.
A screenshot of text conversation between my husband & I: Me, 10:19 p.m. 2/13: omg I wasn’t ready to be not-out so I stopped at Harry’s & got the best compliment from the regular bartender 🥹 Him, 6:55 a.m. 2/14: Awww Me, 7:44 a.m.: She asked me if she’d forgotten to give me a water I ordered, and I said no — if she had, I would have bugged her about it. She said, “WOULD you have? I feel like you two are our easiest customers. You never hassle the servers or bartenders. It’s you two and this one lesbian couple.” Him, 7:47 a.m.: That's really cool. I'm glad we're good customers.
A view of the set at KCTU: a round table with three blue chairs is at the center, surrounded by fake plants, a faux fireplace, and a bookshelf lined with encyclopedias and other volumes.
A photo of "All the Flowers Are For Me (Red)," a light installation by Anila Agha. It's a box suspended from the ceiling that is laser-cut with Islamic-influenced patterns and lighted from within, so it casts shadows onto the ceiling, walls, and floor (and anyone who happens to be in the room, although in this picture the room is empty). It's now on view at the Wichita Art Museum.
A screenshot of the cover of “The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right”
A screenshot of my Spotify Wrapped top artists: Steve Reich, Chappell Roan, GloRilla, Ensemble Signal, Beyoncé
A photo of a pink ceramic bowl on a pink and blue striped placemat. In the bowl: yogurt, orange slices, blueberries, pomegranate seeds, chia seeds, and pistachios.
A photo of a bookshelf with books by Black authors, including Stacey Abrams and Kiley Reid.
A photo of four people in a bookstore about to cut a red ribbon with a giant pair of scissors
A cream-colored long hair adult cat lying on a couch with his back legs tucked perpendicularly under one of his front legs, so together all four legs kind of form the letter H.
A photo of “Best Breasts in the West,” a graphic memoir by Trishelle Jeffrey. The cover is an illustration of the author sitting on an exam table wearing a flimsy gown.
A photo of the HopeNet building in Wichita, Kansas, on a particularly dramatic weather day. It’s bright but the sky is ominously gray & the mural that reads HOPE on the side of the building is super bright.
Screenshot from my Gmail inbox, which shows I canceled my NYTimes.com subscription and updated my subscription to the Washington Post.
Screenshot text: “People are fed up with all the division,” says Evan Feinberg, senior vice president at Stand Together. “They’re looking for off ramps from the division and on ramps on to making progress together.”
Text: “The feminism of Hamill’s newest play slips in with sly ingenuity and through deep layers, presenting itself not so much through individuals modeling the feminist ideal as through the relationships — with each other and with themselves — that they enact and that they discover right along with the audience. Indeed, the two-plus hours of this alleged farce (parody? parable? slapstick?) is not so much “about” feminism as it is feminism. It’s in the ether, the air the players breathe, unproclaimed because it’s assumed. The characters are fish, the “feminism” is the water they splash in.”