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“I’ve basically been able to make programs about my record collection,” the documentarian Martin R. Smith tells me when I reach the 67-year-old by video conference at his home in London. “They say never meet your heroes. But I did, and it worked.”  Upgrade to paid Smith was a supervising producer on Peter Jackson’s 2021 series The Beatles: Get Back. His filmography includes docs about Roxy Music, Genesis, the Jam, and Blur.

🇹🇷 TURKEY 📍 816 S. Brookhurst Street, Anaheim, Orange County 🅿️ Ample parking in plaza 🥤 No Alcohol 🌱 Vegetarian Friendly EDITOR'S NOTE: Since this article was written in late 2020, this shop has been sold another time. The new Syrian owner reached out to me through Instagram to say the Turkish items are still available, but the imagery of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar have been removed. 📸 All photos by Jared Cohee for Eat the World Los AngelesFREE FRIDAY FAVORITES is a series of articles that revisit choice restaurants featured on eattheworldla.

A lot of my friends growing up were Eskimos. Or, maybe they weren’t. Maybe Eskimo is an offensive term. Outdated. Racist. I was just informed of this factoid, by someone who has never been to Alaska. “Actually, they prefer to be called Inuits,” the guy told me, a Californian guy, a rich guy, a progressive guy raising his kids to be blowhards, a guy who has zero problem opining on things he knows nothing about.

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Note: I was having technical difficulties with loading videos today, so these might not work, in which case, just watch the match again. It was very good. But apologies if that is the case. Novak Djokovic defeated Carlos Alcaraz 6/3 5/7 6/1 6/1 to reach his seventh Roland Garros final and 34th career slam final. What was billed as the match of the year certainly lived up to the hype for the first two sets, before Alcaraz cruelly succumbed to cramping early in the third.

Aldi History ALDI  was founded in Essen, Germany in the early 1900s by a woman named Anna Albrecht. Anna and her husband, Karl Sr., had two sons, Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht. After World War II, the two sons took over their mother’s grocery company, and by the 1950s they had expanded it into a chain of a dozen supermarkets under the name Albrecht KG. Karl and Theo had a big fight.Theo wanted to sell tobacco products, like cigarettes, while Karl believed selling them would attract shoplifters.

Aleksandr Karelin was a monster of a man. He had been a monster of a man, in fact, since childhood. At birth, legend says, the mighty Karelin weighed between 12 and 15 pounds. By the time puberty struck at 13 he topped the scales at nearly 175 pounds, combining that size with quick and nimble feet, a natural athlete. He hunted fox on skis, read widely and dreamed of nothing more than a life as a truck driver.

This week’s article is written by my friend and guest columnist, Scott Olson. In addition to being a gifted writer, Scott is a longtime guitar player and professional luthier specializing in finishing and finish repairs. Part of his career journey included years on the manufacturing floor of Hamer and Washburn during their heyday of the 1980s. Scott remains actively engaged building custom guitars and performing exquisite repair work.  If you have a special project or repair, please visit Scott’s LinkedIn profile and message him through the platform where he is an integral member of a thriving guitar/music community.

by Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse In June 2021, Alex Gutentag, a public middle school teacher in Oakland, tweeted the following: “Today FDA advisors voted unanimously to approve Pfizer’s 3-dose vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old. Parents need to know that Pfizer’s claim of 80% efficacy is based on just 10 covid cases after the 3rd dose in the trial. 10 cases — that’s it. How is this not a scandal?