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Led by Jeff Goodman and Rob Dauster, two of the biggest names in the college basketball media industry, the Field of 68 Media Network is the premier destination for the college basketball insight, analysis and access. For the summer of 2022 and throughout the 2021-22 season, Goodman and Dauster — along with the likes of former Purdue forward Robbie Hummel, former Clemson guard Terrence Oglesby and John Fanta, the voice of the Big East — headline a network of creators covering college basketball from a national point of view on an extensive podcast network.

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Over 42,000 subscribers No thanks“Anything that references A.C. Cowlings has got to be legit.” “Insanely funny. Deeply informed. This is my favorite podcast.” “I love these guys. As funny as they are pointed. The Trio with Brio. Give a listen. ” ncG1vNJzZmivlam1prLIn6uhZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonw%3D

Pop culture can be a powerful vehicle to expose new readers to poetry, and the story of W. H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” (also known as “Stop All the Clocks”) and its inclusion in the 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral is perhaps one of the most famous examples of this power. For the uninitiated, Four Weddings and a Funeral is way up there in the category of classic rom-coms.

For all the tiresome talk of “that movie could never be made today,” or “they’re going to ban that movie eventually,” and the like, for a film to officially get dropped from circulation is something that rarely happens.  2000 Mules, a 2022 conspiracy documentary from veteran conservative media figure Dinesh D’Souza, has met that bar. It appears to have committed at least one actionable act of defamation.  The film lays out a cockamamie conspiracy theory about the 2020 presidential election, wielding highly questionable geolocation data to allege that the Biden campaign employed thousands of “mules” to stuff ballot boxes and cost Donald Trump the election.

Welcome to the 16th bonus issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter! It’s Thursday again, and that means another deep dive into animation. Today, we’re looking at an unusual milestone in history — the first animated Christmas special for television. The American studio UPA blended its most famous character, Mr. Magoo, with a … ncG1vNJzZmiZnp66osDIqKWomqOawLS11Z5lrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8coKMrZ%2BeZZaev7TAjJqloqWRqbKlecKhqaKrpKKutHnSqZycoZGh

When I think of Police Academy, I think of the guy from the Police Academy movies who makes funny noises with his mouth. How does he do that? It’s MAGIC!  Then I think about Bobcat Goldthwait. That’s odd, considering the cult icon isn’t in Police Academy. He makes his series debut in its sequel, 1985’s Police Academy: Their First Assignment, alongside other newcomers Howard Hesseman, Tim Kazurinsky, Colleen Camp, and Julie Brown.

During Christian Late Antiquity, there was a systematic draining away of horror narratives about female monsters, furies, Bacchae, or witch-bitches. Sure, empousai and lilin were going strong, but no one in the Christian west was really reading The Bacchae; no one was really thinking about how Athenian patriarchal democracy sat on the backs of suppressed, chthonic Furies. As a result, by the so-called Dark Ages, monstrous femaleness has been tamed by a Christian religion that centered on the idea of women as passive vessels, rather than as active and potentially threatening agents with their own volition and their own power.

The former WSJ editor’s independent newsletter featuring conversations with—and essays by—writers, thinkers, and doers around the globe. In today’s hyperpolarized political and media environment, meaningful conversations are, sadly, few and far between. With his independent newsletter, The First Person (TFP), Michael Judge has in-depth talks with his guests, exchanging ideas, stories and common experiences that, hopefully, bring us all a little closer.  In a career spanning 30 years and three continents, Judge, a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer, has interviewed scores of newsmakers from all walks of life, including filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina (murdered by a Russian missile attack), Canadian journalist Diane Francis, America’s first Native American poet laureate, Joy Harjo, Pulitzer Prize winning poets Carl Phillips and Robert Hass, memoirist Tobias Wolff, former World Chess Champion and chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, Garry Kasparov, political philosopher Francis Fukuyama, and the only writer ever to win all three of the Big “Ps” of journalism—the Pulitzer, Peabody, and Polk Award—Laurie Garrett.

At a floating restaurant anchored amidst the mangroves off Isla Venado in Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya, the piangua (Andara tuberculosa or Andara similis;) – called conchas negras in Peru, patas de mula in Mexico, or mangrove cockles as the generic English term – are kept in a mesh bag hanging into the water. They are a sensitive ingredient. I’ve heard countless stories of someone falling ill from them throughout the length of their habitat, which extends from Mexico’s Baja California Sur to Tumbes in northern Peru.