Month: May 2023

My condition is deteriorating rapidly. This afternoon, I was updating my LinkedIn profile. I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I added my pronouns.

Dave Lombardo of Slayer breaks out gongs, timbales, djembes, congas and cajóns (plus anything else he can bang on) for the album Rites of Percussion.

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Peso Pluma seems to be dominating these days. He delighted audiences at Coachella, made history on The Tonight Show, and he’s got hit after hit after hit on multiple music charts.

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Every dish tells a story for the award-winning New York chef, who creates menus inspired by his Nigerian, creole and South Bronx roots.

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Based in Los Angeles, Mosley previously served as a correspondent and host of Here & Now, and as a host and Silicon Valley bureau chief at KQED in San Francisco. She hosts the podcast Truth Be Told.

“You: huge black dog. You had the head of a buffalo, the body of a ram.”

New York Times journalist Hannah Dreier says hundreds of thousands of immigrant kids are working illegally. Washington Post reporter Jacob Bogage explains how states are loosening child labor laws.

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John Wray’s latest novel is a powerful and juicy story about a particular time, subculture, and the ways people can find themselves in — or can deliberately disappear into — fandom.

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The honor for the late actress, who played Princess Leia and many other roles in a lengthy career, will be accepted by her daughter and fellow Star Wars actress Billie Lourd.

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