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The other day, I dug up an e-mail that I sent to a friend in 2011, in which I reported, with great excitement, that I’d been to Nitehawk, a new movie theatre in Williamsburg, “where you can ORDER FOOD from…
Like a proud horse bucking insensitive riders, “The Bold Type” (airing Tuesdays, on Freeform) has charged into its second season rejecting viewers who had settled an ironic gaze upon it. At its début, the series, set at a Cosmopolitan-like publication…
When Twitter user @TheeReal6 turned up to his young cousin’s basketball game, he probably didn’t expect to see this. In a video which has now gone viral, one of the players was suddenly inspired to go for the hoop like…
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum, Penguin Random House, September 2018, 352 pages We are living in a time when many see “deregulation” as a goal in…
The summer solstice is upon us: June 21 will be the longest day of 2018 for anyone living north of the equator. If pagan rituals are your thing, this is probably a big moment for you. If not, the solstice…
Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping ruling that threatened to radically narrow the standards by which people fleeing domestic or gang violence could claim asylum in the US — or even be allowed to stay in the…
