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These stories are frightfully difficult to write. Emotionally taxing and not without risk. I rely on your support to keep bringing situations like these to light. Will you become a paid subscriber today? In 1930, a white mob perpetrated a lynching in Marion, Indiana. Two young Black men, Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith, had been accused of raping a white woman and killing her boyfriend. This lynching might have joined the other lynchings—more than 4,000 (that we know of) in the Jim Crow era—in relative anonymity.

Shorsey and the rest of the Sudbury (Blueberry) Bulldogs, are what we know of hockey - vulgar, violent, and misogynistic. In the show, Shoresy, named for the lead character, now out on Hulu, each episode presents discussions of sexual conquests, substance use, fights both on and off the ice, and beneath it all, an endearing underdog hockey story. The plot sees the Bulldogs bring in a group of ringers, which they call “sluts,” to turn around their season, save the team, and fulfil Shorsey’s promise to ownership that the team will never lose again.

The movie theater in my town has two screens, which means the vast majority of movies don’t stay there long as the theater continuously cycles to the latest releases. This also means that if I’m particularly busy for a couple weeks coinciding with a movie’s release, I’m probably not seeing it in a theater. All of this is a roundabout way to explain that I didn’t see Frozen 2 in the theaters when it came out.

These are the words of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian poet and literary icon. I share them as homage, and to highlight the timelessness of words he originally penned in Arabic in 1973 - 50 years ago. Gaza is far from its relatives and close to its enemies, because whenever Gaza explodes, it becomes an island and it never stops exploding. It scratched the enemy’s face, broke his dreams and stopped his satisfaction with time.

The film that help inspired a generation of urbanists. “Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” by William H. Whyte, has been recently re-uploaded to youtube after being unavailable online for several years. CityLab (now owned by Bloomberg) provides a great summary here. It is by far the best film (or early video essay even) to break-down what it takes to directly study and understand how people interact with spaces in cities, enjoy!

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedAll your love and all our lives We are one but we are not the same All my life and all you are What comes together grows apart We're at the end and we're out of luck We've tried our best but this love has been lost I'm your anchor and I'm your hell Don't fret for us and don't be afraid of this I'm not a sin and you're not a saint We share the blame and are both at fault I won't fight and I won't be your foil It had to end this way and we can't go back Was this the love that made us dream?

Every Wednesday after the “Survivor” episode airs you’ll be able to find a full recap along with individual player grades right here. The next day I’ll have an exit interview with the latest castaway on my YouTube Channel. And…get this…every Monday I’ll be squaring off against “Survivor 44” challenge beast Frannie Marin in the “Survivor” Power Rankings! That too is available on my YouTube Channel. So, don’t miss a thing. Follow me here, follow me on YouTube, on X, etc…

Everybody's looking for something Annie Lennox was curled up on the floor in a fetal position. She was living her dream as an artist, only it was one of those anxiety dreams of being unable to find the place where you know you need to be. Her band The Tourists had broken up on tour in Australia, and she and Dave Stewart broke up as romantic partners on the flight home.

Begin with the old Henny Youngman joke: “Take my wife—please.” It’s a classic one-liner. But think about this: you don’t laugh at it without having grasped the essential difference between two senses of the verb, to take. On the one hand, there is take in the sense of “consider.” On the other hand, there is take in the sense of “physically remove.” Henny Youngman begins the joke by seeming to draw his audience into a consideration of a story about his wife: “Take my wife.