Find the Perfect Gift This Holiday Season |
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I am not a lawyer, though occasionally I try to pass as one here in the shebeen. But even I feel qualified to advise Rep. Scott Perry. Evidently, the release of Perry's texts was inadvertent, and they were quickly removed from the court's public docket, but they were up long enough for us all to realize why Perry had fought like a wolverine to keep his phone out of the hands of prosecutors. He was up to Victor Wembanyama's eyebrows in the white-shoe element of the insurrection. |
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We all know one (or are one). |
| From the ones behind your favorite undershirt to those you can rock with a suit. |
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Rock icons are rarely known for moderation, but Kravitz has worked hard to keep any potential vices in check. Hard drugs were never really his thing (though he did famously admit to smoking weed every single day from ages eleven to thirty-five). Drinking wasn't a problem either. Kravitz is not sober, but he can go months at a time without booze. Sex, while readily available (and sometimes with a person other than his girlfriend), was never something he says he aggressively chased. "I was more motivated by love." So what can throw Kravitz off-balance? |
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Armed with this list, you can do no wrong. |
| With Napoleon storming a theater near you, it's time to revisit one of the most impressive filmographies in cinema history. |
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One problem with hating pretty much everything Steve Bannon says and everything he stands for is that it might be exactly what he wants. "I hope they say I'm a devil," he'll tell me. "I hope they say I'm a fucking demon. I could give a fuck less. All I want to do is win." Another is that maybe such dilemmas are a distraction, masking more crucial questions. For instance: Is Bannon truly someone forever playing the game several levels above and ahead of the rest of us, his every ambiguous zig and zag calculated to further a majestic master plan? Or is he actually just one more big-talking huckster, brazenly improvising whatever he can with whichever tools he can muster, making it all up as he goes? |
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 Find the Perfect Gift This Holiday Season |
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| Find the Perfect Gift This Holiday Season |
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It feels like Lenny Kravitz has been the epitome of cool forever. But when Let Love Rule debuted, it did so to a lukewarm response stateside. You could argue that people didn't get it. Didn't get him. As hip-hop was exploding in popularity, here was a twenty-four-year-old Black man from New York making rock music using vintage recording techniques and old-as-hell equipment. At the same time, the rock charts he was trying to hit—almost wholly white in makeup then—were rattling with pumped-up LPs from the likes of Aerosmith and Mötley Crüe. Raw and insular, at times even delicate, there was nothing else like his sound gaining traction. "It was discouraging at times," he'll allow. But he doesn't think much about it now. "I'm good. Intact—happy, healthy, focused, with still so much to do." |
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Couldn't we have kept the Trumpian poison out of the bedroom? |
| Diptyque's new sustainable line proves its candles are here to stay (literally). |
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The key to a great gift book is not, "Will it reach the widest audience?" but rather, "Will it satisfy this specific recipient?" With that in mind, we pored over a wealth of impressive titles published this year, cherry-picking topics that run the gamut—from memoir to sports, music biography to photography, art to food to fiction—and we've pinpointed some gift ideas sure to bring delight and sustained pleasures. |
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The best gadgets and gizmos of the year, all right here. |
| From Samsonite to Rimowa, Tumi to Away—here's what you need to know about each one. |
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At our Restaurant of the Year, Ilis in Brooklyn, they prepared the fish as it would have been done centuries ago, wrapped in bark and cooked over flames. Across the country at Poltergeist in Los Angeles, they gave us a wild, experimental take on the fish taco, which was dipped in masa and fried. Both felt genuine, and each was delicious. Honest innovation doesn't always work in the kitchen, but when it does, it's like rocket fuel for the soul. You leave not just full, not just filled with delight, but with a spark. It's a rare thing, but it's worth chasing. Consider this your map. |
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