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Hey movie lovers! As always, you can find a podcast version of this newsletter on Apple or Spotify. Thank you so much for listening and spreading the word! This week: It’s not just a recap of the year in movies, it’s a big picture essay about where we’re headed and what we learned. Hopefully you enjoy. Then an incredibly moving documentary about North Korea, a shameless 90s Ron Howard special, and a Russell Crowe prison escape movie.

The St. Louis Cardinals would be a better baseball team without Steven Matz, the same way they were a better team once Mike Leake left the building. Soft free agent pitcher contracts don’t cripple a team, but they slow down the process of winning. Now, before you bemoan my post with a “it’s the hitting” grenade strike, understand that I get it. The St. Louis Cardinals are a bad hitting club at the minute, a weak group of slow starters and missing in action swingers who need to get going.

I reserve my emotional energy for things I can control. As a result, I don’t experience anger very often. However, there is one thing that always bothers me, and I have a hard time ignoring it when I see it—abuses of power and bullying. By definition, any abuse of power is a form of bullying, but it's not restricted to the domain of power imbalances. Bullying is the repetitive and aggressive behavior that deliberately intends to hurt, intimidate, exclude, or humiliate another person physically or emotionally.

Happy Friday 285 South friends! Over the next few months I'll be periodically sharing stories I'm honored to be writing for the Atlanta History Center - stories that document key moments, people, and organizations in metro Atlanta's growing immigrant communities over the last forty years. The first in the series is something that's close to home: the story behind Mughal's - a Pakistani restaurant on Jimmy Carter Blvd that I grew up going to with my family.

I want to talk to you about some buildings. You may or may not know this about me, depending on how you’ve come to this newsletter, but in my daily, non-internet life, I’m an architect. Wait, stay — no, I don’t like the way most architects write about architecture either. There’s a great deal of pretension, of empty theory and academic word salad, of trying to prove that you’re smarter than your reader by making what you’re saying utterly inscrutable.

Welcome to the THW Hockey History Substack newsletter, with all the best from our extensive archives. Share By Matthew Zator (THW Premium Content) Dryden became an icon in Montreal after his heroics as a rookie in the 1971 Playoffs, winning his first of six Stanley Cups Continue reading... May 15 goes down as one of the most intriguing dates in National Hockey League history. There was so much more than just the exciting moments on the ice that makes it a memorable date.

There is perhaps no story in professional wrestling saturated with more sadness than the tale of the Von Erichs, one of the sport’s most famous families. The film “The Iron Claw,” recently released in theaters, does a fine job depicting the rise and fall of the Von Erichs, but it left out a key part and perhaps the most tragic part of the story: Chris Von Erich. Chris, the youngest of six brothers, was born on Sept.

Hi all 🕊️ Today is Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, an annual celebration of the slave emancipation in the U.S. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but more isolated areas such as Texas were still fighting the Civil War. When the Confederate States surrendered in 1865, the total freedom of slaves was declared: The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.

I’ve largely ignored the entire Bud Light tempest in a toxic teacup because social media outrages and brand boycotts come and go and tend to leave little trace behind. But the fuss over the beer brand’s brief commercial dalliance with trans newbie Dylan Mulvaney — with her 10.8 million TikTok followers — nonetheless fascinates. It shows, it seems to me, just how much everyone is projecting, and how (almost) everyone is getting it wrong.