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All credit to Miriam Buether’s incredibly agile scenic design, Jon Clark’s dynamic lighting and, most especially, Paul Arditti’s spine-tingling sound design and DJ Walde’s ethereally commanding music for turning the Marquis into a mind-blowing funhouse.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

The pastries are ethereally flaky and buttery, the cinnamon roll strikes that difficult balance where the middle is fully baked but the edges aren’t overdone, and is slathered with heavenly cream cheese frosting.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023

Food writer Allison Robicelli uses it in her angel food cake recipe “that’s ethereally fluffy, no folding or futzing required,” she wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

But she and Hall, who eloped and then divorced during the run of the original show, have remained friends, and when he described the new series, she wanted to join it, however ethereally.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

How they had gotten there was beyond Zeitoun’s imagination, but they seemed ethereally content, luxuriating in their freedom.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers