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Around the middle of April, I start looking out for pomegranates at the farmer’s market. They’ll be available for about six weeks or so in April and May so if I want to accumulate enough pomegranate rinds to dye a batch of yarn I need to buy some whenever I have the opportunity. It works out because I love to put pomegranate seeds on everything so getting to eat them nearly every day when they’re in season is just a bonus.

“M. Crosby” (Max Azzarello), the protestor who lit himself on fire just introduced himself to us as an investigative researcher on Substack. His Bio Boasts: “I did 1,500 hours of research since Peter Thiel started a bank run in March, and now I know the secrets of the world. Cheers to America's first military coup, and to its second revolution.” “My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.

The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has spent the last few years making some of the weirdest movies in the world, like Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. These are movies in which characters speak strangely and behave more strangely.  Back in 2018, Lanthimos made his most accessible movie to date, The Favourite and even that was a lesbian love triangle between Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone.

Jack Antonoff Slams Dimes Square For those not in the know, Jack Antonoff is a pop music producer best known for collaborating with artists like Taylor Swift, Lorde, & Lana Del Rey — statistics suggest that his deft musical handiwork is responsible for millions of upper middle class white women crying themselves to sleep every night.  Aside from producing, Antonoff is also part of a band, Bleachers, that has an album coming out.

This column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Have you ever played a TwinBee game? You can certainly be forgiven if not, since Konami didn’t always support the series in North America, and much of its popularity in Japan comes not just from the games, but from its expansion into other media, like anime.

This is kind of an encore review. We originally reviewed Coco Bomb (located on Ulric Street) when they first opened. It was a cute, friendly place but was still in its opening stage, hadn’t yet revealed a complete menu, and was not widely known around the community.  However, we recently noticed while driving around town that more people have been congregating at Coco Bomb and the front area had been spruced up to look like a tropical island.

New York World, 1917 I’ve observed from a safe distance the war between popularism, a word coined (or at least popularized) by the Democratic political consultant Sean McElwee, and deliverism, a word coined by the antitrust policy wonk Matt Stoller. There’s much to be said for both sides of this argument, which is as old as representative democracy itself. Should politicians follow their constituencies (popularism) or lead them (deliverism)? Um, yes.

Click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe. If you’re one of my readers who was cooking for your family during the ‘80s, chances are you may have owned The Silver Palate Cookbook. If you’re a child of the ‘80s, maybe you grew up on one of the many infamous recipes from its pages. In an era where Mastering The Art of French Cookingreigned and home cooks were laboring over their gourmet coq au vin for hours and hours, The Silver Palate liberated home cooks and taught them that delicious food was possible without all of that fuss.

On this episode, the girlx/womxm listen and learn from award-winning adult film director and screenwriter, Jacky St. James. Jacky details what a day of shooting on a porn set really entails, the effect of "tube sites" on the industry, the wisdom of MILFs, and how cancel culture came for porn (proving that nothing really is sacred). The episode comes to completion with a discussion on the future: AI sexbots and how parents can teach kids about responsible consumption.