NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Fabric and crafts retailer Joann closing all stores

Salon.com: Fabric and crafts retailer Joann is shutting down all of its U.S. stores, leaving cosplayers, seamstresses and small Etsy business owners in the dust. The Ohio-based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January, the second time in a year it’s done so, according to The New York Times. The company said at the time it planned to keep its stores open.

The Daily Show Had a Safety Meeting After Jon Stewart Cut His Hand

www.thewrap.com: “The Daily Show” is laying down the law for Jon Stewart, specifically when it comes to drinkware. After the late night host cut his hand on a ceramic mug on air in late February, the Comedy Central show actually scheduled a meeting about what Stewart is and is not allowed to drink out of while filming.

'SNL' costume designer tells how they create hundreds of costumes

Los Angeles Times: The first thing you are likely to wonder about Tom Broecker, who has spent more than 30 years as the costume designer at “Saturday Night Live,” is whether he ever sleeps. Indeed, he does — but not much. Broecker says he averages about five hours a night, and tends to get more shut-eye earlier in the week.

Reproducing Victorian-Style Door Casing

JLC Online: One of the things I like about working on a historic home is the challenge of matching new work to old. Last summer, I was hired to do the finish work for a kitchen remodel in a 19th century Victorian home in Winona, Minn. The kitchen had been previously remodeled sometime in the 1960s in a contemporary style incompatible with the home’s period look.

Little Red gives a circus twist to a classic fairy tale

Chicago Reader: The gracefulness and power of circus lends itself well to fables and superhero tales, so when Little Red was announced as the annually anticipated Winter Circus at the Actors Gymnasium, I knew the presentation was likely to be epic, in the fairy-tale sense and the circus sense.