Anyone who has dared to attend a Family Holiday Dinner—let alone an Italian one!—will relate to the opening moments of The Bear Season Two's standout sixth episode: "Fishes." In a flashback to a Christmas Eve dinner roughly five years ago, three siblings—Carmy, Mikey and Sugar Berzatto—stand outside, deliberating how exactly to tip-toe around the ticking time bomb that is a certain family member. Here, it's their mother, and her trigger? Whenever Sugar asks: "Are you OK?" (Spoiler: she asks "Are you OK?" many, many times, with catastrophic consequences.) |
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The guy behind the hit show—now back for its second season—serves up his thoughts on getting dressed. |
| Even an incoming Democratic majority is no guarantee that the train will decelerate |
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If an autocratic state's slush fund offered you tens of millions of dollars to play soccer in the desert for a couple of years, would you take it? What about a hundred million? Believe it or not, these sums are actually below some early reports of what's been on offer to a few marquee players after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) took over four of the Saudi soccer league's biggest teams this month. Cristiano Ronaldo was already over there, playing for Al-Nassr since January after he accepted an offer that by some reports totals over $200 million per annum. These contracts are not public and the sums are not confirmed, but the exact numbers almost don't matter. The message is clear: come play in Riyadh for a couple years and never worry about money again. Come to Jeddah and set your family up for generations. |
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These top-tier versions of the classic tee can pull double duty in a pinch. |
| Hot new drops for the first official week of summer. |
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Haiti's myriad problems are partly due to bad governance, but also other factors: natural disasters, an unfair global economy, and Haiti paying reparations to former French enslavers for its freedom. While the natural and manufactured disasters are not insignificant, it is unsettling that there is an overabundance of stories about Haiti's suffering rather than the narratives that I had known. I learned very early that being Haitian was that we might have a memory or experience of the country that contradicts the news. The rhetoric of chaos and terror is what most Americans are taught about Haitians and Haiti. Impoverishment is the avatar of how contemporary Haitians are perceived—which precludes reflection on anything else we offer. As a part of the diaspora, I shoulder a responsibility to find the nuance beyond the myopic poverty narrative, to celebrate the Haitian spirit. |
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