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Flying Saucer A light suspended from the ceiling over a dining table. Quote of the Day ”Fashion is the performance of leisure.” Thorstein Veblen Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Richard Wagner | Prelude to Lohengrin | Simon Rattle … Continue reading →
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
Back-to-school shopping is here, and if some New York lawmakers get their wish, the school day is going to start later. Continue reading…
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“If he succeeds, the Dumocrats will gain 4 Senators, 8 Congressmen, many Electoral and Popular Votes, a stacked Supreme Court with 23 Justices, and I will be, sadly, despite the great job we are doing, the last Republican President!” — President Trump, on Truth Social, about Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D).
At Fusion Dumpling, Jenny Wu’s cherished Shanghai food memories meet chef Truman Du’s classic Chongqing roots.
Sistine Chapel Ceiling: The Prophet Joel, 1512 #highrenaissance #michelangelo
This is cool: The cast of “The Pitt” will do a live table reading of the first broadcast episode of “Star Trek” to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary and benefit the Writers' Guild Foundation. Noah Wylie will play Kirk, and other cast participating include Katherine LaNasa, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Shabana Azeez and Ayesha Harris
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The Lever
• Natalie Bettendorf
The pop-up PACs, paid influencers, and new political playbooks reshaping the 2026 midterms.
The video rental store as “third place”. “Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.”
Electrek
• Michelle Lewis
New York City is going to install 600 new curbside EV charging points across all five boroughs, expanding its network from just 88 Level 2 ports to nearly 700.
Techdirt
• Mike Masnick
For a while now we’ve been mocking the Trump White House’s plans for an “AI framework” that would have the frontier AI labs hand over their top models for an initial review. After all, this was more or less the exact same plan that the Biden admin worked out in 2023, but it was done […]
