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“Ladies and gentlemen, I am a cook” – C.B. Stubblefield The 1996 opening of Stubb’s, in the former location of the One Knite, was a key to the revitalization of Red River. Sadly, its namesake and spiritual leader did not live to see it. Christopher B. “Stubb” Stubblefield passed away from heart failure at age 64 the year before Stubb’s debuted with the Fugees at SXSW. He was not an owner, having licensed his name and likeness to the restaurant/venue and the BBQ sauce company.

The percussionist and the timbalero are going in. Nobody’s playing a “solo,” they’re just conversing, exchanging ideas using the interlocking elements that define Afro-Cuban music. The chipper pulse of “Maramoor Mambo” is steady and dancefloor-aware, exact and stretchy at the same time. But there is no dancefloor – this music unfolded at the Seattle jazz club known as the Penthouse, in the mid 1960s. It’s part of an interesting Record Store Day release from Jazz Detective Records, Catch the Groove, that gathers highlights from vibraphonist Cal Tjader’s visits to the club in 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1967.

Sunscreen. It’s a summer staple. A skin savior. An everyday (OK, hopefully everyday) thing. The smell of nostalgia, even.  On one hand, sunblock is simple: All skin needs sunscreen; the best blocks are broad-spectrum, meaning they effectively protect your skin from harmful UVA and UVB rays; apply about a shot’s glass worth of sunblock all over the body about 15 to 30 minutes before you’ll be in the sun, and voilà—you’re good to go.

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Figure 1. Distribution of intensity Impact On 3rd April 2024, a 7.4MMS earthquake struck the eastern coast of Taiwan at 07.58 local time (Figure 1). The depth of the quake was relatively shallow at 34 kms. It was the strongest in over 25 years. The quake killed 10 people (including 3 hikers), and 3 days later a further 12 were missing, over 600 (many of them tourists) were left stranded, though safe and alive, and over 1100 people were injured.

Ciao amici, I recently discovered the trailer for Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley to be one of those curious artifacts of memory for me of great aesthetic power yet fundamental narrative slip. Perhaps my recall of the trailer’s specific contents suffered precisely for the Jude-Law dolce-vita vibe, already much to taste, being too compelling; I was convinced Ripley’s world would be so intensely pleasurable that I was hesitant to experience it—delayed gratification being the best kind, yes, but also because in such situations I generally prefer to read the book first.

If you are drinking in the stands at the Geico 500, keep in mind that it is a marathon, not a sprint. Though you’ve lugged in your own 14”x14”x14” soft-sided cooler, and are therefore not at the mercy of the price-gauging booze peddlers that that assault your bank account at nearly every other professional sporting event, you don’t want to down all those beers during the first heat. If you did, then you won’t have any available if a man fifteen rows up points and challenges you to a shotgun race.

A shorter Friday post this week. There’s a chat in the Substack app about the situation between Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj. On Sunday I’ll start a live chat about the Grammys too.When Taylor Swift embraced her football boyfriend after his football victory at the football game last Sunday, I could only think: “Oh my God. Those nails.” They are boxy square nails of medium length, in the color bedazzled vomit or glitter jaundice.