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It was only about a decade ago that I learned that my aversion to many social situations is not because I am a misanthrope but rather because I am an introvert. Not that the two are mutually exclusive, and not that I do not at times entertain misanthropy, which my dictionary defines as “hatred or mistrust of humankind.” There is plenty of reason to feel that way, but that is a topic for another time and another column.

Peak: #1 on the alternative rock chart Streams: 5.9 million Does “Einstein on the Beach” even exist? I don’t mean the Philip Glass opera called Einstein on the Beach. I mean the Counting Crows single that borrows its name. In one sense, of course, it definitely exists, because I’m listening to it as a type this. In 1994 it also topped the alternative rock chart. Even “Mr. Jones” stopped at #2 on that particular listing, so there’s a half-hearted argument to made that “Einstein on the Beach’ is their biggest hit alt rock hit.

Margot Robbie served a head-turning number of iconic Barbie looks before the SAG-AFTRA strike shut down the press tour for “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig’s plastic-lined comedy tour de force (I loved it), including a Hervé Léger minidress styled after the original Barbie’s default outfit, a black-and-white striped one-piece swimsuit. But it was her outfit on the red carpet for the Seoul premiere that made me gasp: Margot dressed as Day to Night Barbie, my favorite Barbie, who hit the shelves in 1985 when I was nine, pretty much the best age for a Barbie player to be.

Wednesday, March 6 Wednesday kicks off the Saratoga County Restaurant Week, during which restaurants from around the county will offer $15 breakfasts or lunches, or $25, $35 or $45 three-course dinners. The extensive list of participating restaurants includes PJs Bar-B-QSA, Eddie F’s, Jacob & Anthony’s, Panza’s, Taverna Novo, The Hideaway, The Brook Tavern, Hattie’s, Scallions, Coat Room, Dunning Street Station, Forno Bistro, The Wishing Well and many more. For a full list of restaurants—and their restaurant week menus—click here.

Waterproof mascara kept a secure place in my makeup rotation for a reason in high school, particularly while in the throes of AP World History sophomore year. Driving home from school with a freshly issued driver’s license, tears would well up in my eyes to the sounds of SZA as I reflected on my lacking exam results. Quietly singing along to “Love Galore,” noticing the rain on my dashboard paralleling the tears on my face.

The first thing you must know about Gino Mäder is that he had unbelievable charisma. He had an air about him that drew everyone in. He had deep, understanding eyes and a rather serious visage mediated by an afro-like shock of curly brown hair that, when I met him for the first time in August of 2021, he had shaved off. The first thing I ever said to Gin… ncG1vNJzZmiclaeuqrjLnqyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe86nZKChnqR6rq3Dnqk%3D

Full disclosure: I know and like Emmett personally. But even if that weren’t the case, I’d be really excited for his book, which just came out. I read part of an earlier draft and was utterly transfixed, and my preordered copy just arrived yesterday. Here’s the full description: An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.

Once upon a time, two young and aspiring musicians crossed paths at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. This was not the garden party meet-cute of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, however, but the modern-day collegiate bromance of Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading. Fitzpatrick and Laading, self-proclaimed outsiders from small European port towns, formed the duo Her’s in 2016 after working together in a band the year prior. Their objective: to make sense of the world through indie dream pop.

He who consumes meat obtained from the Turcs, (Guru) Gobind Singh does not consider that person a Sikh of his. -Tankhahnama, attributed to Nand Lal, 1718 CE An animal slaughtered in the Islamic fashion is considered forbidden for consumption in Sikh dogma, because a level of excessive cruelty is employed in slaughtering, as from the moment the zibah begins up until the last moments of life, the being writhes and suffers for some time before death.