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Say it ain’t so — the only remaining movie theater in New Haven is soon to close? Have things gotten that terrible? The big bad news was delivered Wednesday in the online New Haven Independent, with this sad headline: Bow Tie Movie Theater’s Future Looks Dark.” The Independent’s reporter Thomas Breen, who has been hearing rumors “going around town” that the nine-screen Bow Tie New Haven Criterion will close by the end of this month, quoted Bow Tie Partners Vice President of Operations Brooke Sugaski: “Unfortunately, the movie theater business in smaller markets such as New Haven has changed dramatically following the Covid 19 pandemic.

We saw this clip of Columbia University History Professor Christopher Brown and wanted to share it far and wide. Dr. Brown delivered these remarks on Monday, April 20 at a faculty-led “Rally to Support our Students and Reclaim our University.” He was responding to two events: Columbia President Minouche Shafik’s Congressional Testimony on April 17 and the arrest of more than 100 Columbia students the next day. Professor Brown focuses on what is happening at Columbia but his words serve as a powerful rejoinder to any and all:

In articles written in Chinese in Hong Kong, the English word “fine dining” is often used untranslated. They can do this because English is more or less understood here, but also because “fine dining” as a noun, is pretty much untranslatable. Plug it into Google translate and you get 美食 (mei sik), gourmet, or fine food, which is only one part of what fine dining is about. The other significant part – the formality, the sense of occasion that is understood as fine dining in the Anglophone/European word can sort of be covered by another word in Chinese, 宴 (yin) which translates as “banquet”.

Jen Curley lives in Orange county with her husband and son. She spends her days taking care of her family and hanging out with her girlfriends and most importantly eating. She rose to prominence over the pandemic eating a multitude of fast food snacks. Jen had an eating disorder and was using her growing platform to help others by eating their fear foods. She was skinny, she was beautiful, she had a perfect life and here she was eating multiple crunch wrap supremes and a doritos locos taco.

Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. Today, we’re recapping Aoki Lee Simmons’s weeklong relationship with 65-year-old restaurateur Vittorio Assaf. This post is just for paid subscribers; if you’d like to sign up, you can do so in the box below.  If you haven’t seen the photos yet, I’m sorry. Know in advance that the individuals pictured have reportedly already ended their relationship.

I often hear prologues discouraged. I am mystified by that. A prologue seems the perfect way to make a preemptive, immediate case for a book, a way to offer the reader a cheat sheet about themes and intentions. If teaching a reader how to read a book is an important task in the early pages, prologues can serve the purpose. As a piece of writing, a prologue is wild westish in form.

Many songs are written to be taken at face value with no alternate meaning except what the artists are trying to say, but some songs have that much deeper meaning that one may or may not realize after listening to it. Today we will explore my favorite song and its not-so-subtle meanings. Author’s Note: These are my opinions and are not considered fact by the group or other Dead Heads.

Hello Searchers,  It’s Friday, which means we have a new episode for you. This one is called What's it like to slowly go blind? Amazon Podcasts / Audacy / Apple Podcasts / Oranges / Cherries Our guest, Andrew Leland, is a writer and podcaster who has been slowly losing his vision for decades. He’s written a wonderful book about it called The Country of the Blind. Andrew has a disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa where he loses vision from the outside in.

Normally I like to come to this space with more questions than answers. Most weeks something is gnawing at me and writing is a great way to explore and expand upon those gnawings in an attempt to figure some stuff out. This is not one of those weeks. This week I’ve come to lay down some truths because I’m writing about a subject on which I know a lot, and on which I’m irritated by what other people (who also know a lot) are not saying.