  I couldn't tell whether Mr. Pink had a knife on him. Usually he did. It was an afternoon in July 2020, and the sun beamed down on Sing Sing, baking the B Block yard's blacktop. By now the first wave of Covid, which had breached the prison in March and killed a guard and four prisoners, had mostly passed, and everyone was glad to be outside. I knew Mr. Pink had a beef with me. But since I'd moved to B Block several weeks earlier, he hadn't made anything of it. Jogging along the perimeter fence capped with whorled razor wire, I glanced in my periphery at him and another grimy guy seated at a metal picnic table each time I passed. They were watching me, scheming. Looking to make a move.   Well, folks, we just mapped out a guide to the best jeans on Amazon. Like cartographers past, we surveyed the area, consulted the who's who, and started making classifications. We landed on 10 go-to silhouettes: straight, relaxed, relaxed taper, slim, skinny, bootcut, biker, cropped, carpenter, and wide leg. From there, we evaluated the best brand maker for each silhouette, factoring in provenance, history, quality, and clout. Some peeps just make certain cuts better than others. Finally, we picked the one option for each that's worth its weight in gold bullion.
 hat is time? It's a question many of us have been asking ourselves over the past year and a half, as we sat sequestered in a single dwelling with only our computer screens as a portal to the outside world. Minutes, hours, days seemed to merge together. Reality was unquestionably warped. We started baking. But now that the world is slowly getting back to some semblance of normal, it's the right moment to stop making banana bread midday, get our acts together, and invest in a new watch. Here to help is a brand-spanking-new timepiece: The Pilot's Navigator Date by J.Crew and Marathon Watch Company.  At 54, Tim McGraw is an American music institution, headlining stadiums full of country music fans for well over a decade. He's also a first-rate actor, husband, and father of three. "Sometimes God just walks through the room, and you happen to be standing there," he says.
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Sunday, August 29, 2021
The Shakedown at Sing Sing Prison
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