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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: an actor gets an Airstream, an actress gets a bullshit story, and Suri Cruise gets a prom date.  Paid subscribers got an in-depth look at Justin Timberlake’s DWI arrest this week. Click here to catch up! Another Friday, another opportunity for Ben Affleck and Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck to make a statement to People announcing their divorce at approximately 4:59 p.

hello, as promised, pre-sale tickets for my UK + EU tour are now available! tickets password: miro tickets I can’t wait to bring berlioz to so many beautiful places, what an honour. please bring your friends, family… neighbours! I’m going to make sure every night is special. see you soon, berlioz x “A form gives me an idea, this idea evokes another form, and everything culminates in figures, animals, and things I had no way of foreseeing in advance.

On an unseasonably warm October afternoon last year, the grand opening of the Cookies flagship store in New York felt like the Super Bowl of cannabis. And the company’s Herald Square space, across the street from Macys in a five-story building once occupied by Desigual, wasn’t even selling weed yet. But outside, the line stretched two blocks down 6th Ave… ncG1vNJzZmiyn5yvrbvGZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZK%2Bmvs2eqaxlkp65rbXOp2Sdp5yhrrN5waWsnqiinru1

The Essence of the Thing: Index I’m a playwright who writes about twentieth-century novels and other literary/theatrical matters. Subscribe to The Essence of the Thing with your email address to have my newsletter delivered to your inbox. It’s free. Hello, This week, some reflections on Beryl Bainbridge’s An Awfully Big Adventure and its intersection with Peter Pan. This is my second-to-last last newsletter before a summer break. Thanks to the Kevin Elyot Award, I’m going to be spending some of that break in the Kevin Elyot archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.

Here I’ve been deluding myself into thinking that my best and highest use is as a public servant. I thought I was a good prosecutor and professor, and a decent legal analyst. It turns out, the chickens have known my best and highest use all along. I’m a really, really good perch for baby chicks. I learned this because we’ve been taking the chicks, pictured above, out to the coop to hang out with the big chickens first thing in the morning and bringing them back inside after dinner.

The last Substack post of the year is dedicated to the best albums of the year. This is my selection of the 50 best releases of 2023, and in the first part you can read about the albums that placed between number 51 and 100. It has been another rich musical year, and at the top of the list is the album I listened and enjoyed the most. Recommend Izvorišta to your friends who might find it interesting.

As this year comes to a close, I’d like to present my new music highlights of 2023 in the form of album recommendations. This year, only two of my top twenty albums were released on a major label.  The rest were issued courtesy of independent labels. I think that says a lot about the music industry right now. The further withdrawal of artist development, the risk adverseness, the doubling down on mainstream dross by the three majors.

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