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I have a real soft spot for Kitchen Galerie Bis (KGB). Twenty months ago, I broke my arm in dramatic fashion while exiting the funeral of a dear friend. A few days later, wanting to put something in my belly and get out of the house, I booked a table at KGB. When I arrived, the problem dawned on me - with one arm in a sling, I couldn’t actually cut my f…

Around 6,000 years ago, the most populous and materially sophisticated place on the planet wasn’t to be found in Mesopotamia, Egypt, or one of China’s great river valleys; instead, it hugged the Danube River corridor of Europe and its environs in the northern Balkan and the Carpathian Mountains. A long-lasting and complex culture emerged here, where the great steppe grassland meets the fertile plains of eastern Europe along the shores of the Black Sea, one that has been almost entirely forgotten in the millennia since.

This Valentine’s Day, I asked some of my “middle aged” pals about their most memorable early celebrity crushes, the ones that made their virgin bodies tingle and giggle. So, I consulted friends who prefer men (sometimes women) between the ages of 38-44. Our responses showcase the heartthrobs the media was shoving down our throats (ahem) at the time. And they also highlight who wasn’t prevalent in the media. There were few Black, and I’d say nearly no Latino or Asian, men cast as really hunky leads in mainstream features that preteens would likely have seen.

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Oliver Anthony (real name Christopher Anthony Lunsford; Oliver was his grandfather’s name) came out of nowhere. While he had been independently releasing songs through digital stores since 2022, his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” exploded in August 2023 and became an instant connection with the masses. Anthony uploaded a video of him singing the song to YouTube on Aug. 8 and tweeted that he uploaded the song to stores on Aug.

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Aside from the usual jangling of keys and rustling of nylon against black metal folding chairs, the audience was palpably hushed.  I’d swear the crowd’s apprehensive whisper was in anticipation of the third author, Blake Butler, set to read from his new surrealist memoir, Molly. “I’m feeling nasty today,” Butler scoffed, stiff in his chair, then softened. “Not nasty, but heavy.” Makes sense: the titular Molly is wife and fellow author Molly Brodak, who committed suicide in early 2020.

I’ve been a bit quiet on here of late. This is because I have been in the quagmire of discovery learning. I’ve been knee-deep in my Masters thesis, which started as a school-based study to see if we could improve student indicators of wellbeing by improving their study skills. We thought some descriptive statistics about shifts in mean measures could be cool. Job done. Well, that was early days and it turns out there were correlations.

Share I’m 33-minutes into Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” and it’s terrible, despite starring everyone anyone has cared about in Hollywood in the last three decades, which list includes but is not limited to Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Carrell, Matt Dillon, Edward Norton, Liev Schrieber (the voice of HBO’s “Hard Knocks”!) and lots of other notable Hollywood people.  Like all Wes Anderson projects, it functions primarily as a “reel” for Wes Anderson.