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Hi! My second collaboration with Soeur launched today. It features 8 pieces — a dress, a skirt, a logo tank and underwear (to be worn as pants), a polo, lightweight cotton pants, suede mary-janes and a silver pouch/bag. You can see and shop the complete range here. I just have like 3 (5) notes on the collection more broadly. The sheer mini dress (named after my friend Claire, who exudes a kind of femininity I love to be around) looks great styled with the sheer mid length skirt (named after my friend Roxana, who is about the closest thing I have to a sister).

This issue of the newsletter is sponsored by Wilfa I often refer to my recipes as weekend projects, fun things to make over the weekend when time is more abundant. Today's recipe is both one of those projects and a bit of a science experiment; we're taking a trip back to your high school chemistry class to talk all things alkali. The recipe we are working on today is soft pretzel rolls, a roll with the flavour of a classic German pretzel but in the form of a soft pillowy roll, laugenbroetchen in German (literally translated as lye rolls or pretzel rolls).

What do AOC, venture capitalists, and gamers have in common? For one: a recent embrace of “solarpunk”, a growing cultural-aesthetic movement asking people what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there? This is more radical, and critical, than it sounds. Think of your favorite science fiction franchises. For me, it’s Dune by Herbert and Three-Body by Liu, both literary space operas in the midst of major motion picture adaptations.

Hey all, Jason here. Yesterday was King’s Day here in the Netherlands, a celebration of King Willem-Alexander’s birthday — though I can’t say I really did anything to celebrate this year. Card expert and author of CardsFTW newsletter Matthew Goldman has just dropped a 35 page research report on debit card program management platforms, which you can check out here, if you’re so inclined. If you enjoy reading this newsletter each Sunday and find value in it, please consider supporting me (and finhealth non-profits!

Zavy Kitchen opened this spring in the East Village, in the spot where Franka pizza once lived. It’s definitely worth any Vietnamese-Korean-Thai-food lover’s attention. Who/What/Where: The restaurant is owned by the same owners of Pho Real, on 4th and Court. When the group announced their new place on the Pho Real facebook page, they said that Pho Real w… ncG1vNJzZmivmaO2rrvRmqWvoZyhsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2irn6KybrPRnpitZZaeu6W%2FjJqrZrKRq8Zut8itmqGdng%3D%3D

The short list of NBA teams that can be ruled out of contention for a spot in the league’s Play-In Tournament unexpectedly increased from five to six Monday night at 9:55 PM ET. That’s when the Memphis Grizzlies issued a most sudden and somber injury bulletin to announce that Ja Morant needs season-ending shoulder surgery after a labral tear sustained over the weekend. Morant’s 2023-24 season thus consisted of nine games.

This review is part of our free content available to everyone. Please consider supporting Film Yap with a modest paid subscription to enjoy everything we publish plus exclusive opportunities. Get 30% off forever “This is 1987. Did you know a girl can be whatever she wants to be?” “I know. My mom’s a plumber.” It has been claimed that John Hughes wrote “Some Kind of Wonderful,” which is in many ways a remake of “Pretty in Pink,” strictly so he could finally have the ending he always wanted where the two misfits wind up together instead of Blane winning out over Duckie.

If you ever, for some reason, really wanted a historian to scream in your face, you could do worse than this: use the phrase “dark ages”. Honestly, it works every time. It’s not just that the term implies a value judgement: it’s that it literally is one. The idea first appeared in the work of the Tuscan scholar Franceso Petrarca – Petrach – in the 1330s, as a way of contrasting the lack of great art and literature of his own time with the glories of the classical era that preceded it.

In 1858, William Ewart Gladstone – a former chancellor and future prime minister who was also, when not taking a slightly creepy interest in the moral salvation of prostitutes, a classicist – noticed something odd about the work of Homer: the world he depicts does not contain the colour blue. The only time the Greek word for the colour, “kyanós”, is used in either the Iliad or the Odyssey it refers to the eyebrows of Zeus: assuming the king of the gods was not some sort of Sonic the Hedgehog figure, that suggests the word then meant, simply, dark.