That which does not kill you makes you stronger. So goes the old saying, and in Bob Odenkirk's case, that which made him stronger quite literally saved his life. About six years ago, the Better Call Saul actor knew that his decade-long run as the sympathetic scofflaw attorney from Breaking Bad would eventually draw to a close, so he began devising an unlikely next chapter for a performer pushing 60: gunslinging, bare-knuckle action hero. "I said, Hey, I'm known as this character Saul who fights. He is clever. He never quits. He gets knocked around by life and he always comes back—and that's an action character. Except he doesn't fight, and I'm willing to learn to fight," Odenkirk says. "I wonder if somebody would want to write me a story where I get to do that." |
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If Armani helped to make Barneys into an institution of fashion, Barneys helped to make Armani an institution, too. When his first collection for the store arrived on Seventh Avenue in the fall of 1976, it's no exaggeration to say that men's fashion would never be the same. Fred and his new discovery Giorgio would see to it. But the Armani revolution wasn't immediate. Despite the fanfare with which we launched Giorgio, the first few seasons mainly sat on the rack and went nowhere. Men and fashion were a work in progress. Sportswear was picking up steam, but even the word fashion was still faintly suspect where men, and especially corporate, office-working men, were concerned. Fashion was for wives or girlfriends (or gay men, who understood Armani much more immediately). The suit in America—especially the famous Madison Avenue "sack suit"—was still seen as more of a tool than an expression of anything. The merchandise at Barneys was of a higher caliber, but the sea of sleeves didn't encourage preciousness. Armani's suits, especially Armani's suits of the men's couture collection, the line that he designed himself out of Milan, were like something from another planet. |
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Most men won't admit to wanting anything near their ass—much less inside it. For that reason, pegging, a sexual practice in which one partner penetrates the other anally with a strap-on, is sometimes treated as taboo. The term pegging entered common usage nearly a quarter of a century ago, after the sex columnist Dan Savage held a contest in 2001 to name the act. For the latest installment in our series on the Secret Lives of Men, we interviewed David*, who had long been intrigued by the idea of getting pegged by a sexual partner. When he finally had the experience he was seeking, the 40-year-old professor found that he was cracked open—not just by the sex but by heartbreak, submission, and the unnerving thrill of surrender. |
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For as much as I like putting a record on the turntable and watching it spin, I still do most of my music listening on-the-go. On my phone. I hate to admit it, but I've been spoiled by streaming services that let me listen to anything at any time. It's easy, gives you instant access to new music, and costs users less than buying a single album. Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, and various other streamers, my Apple Music subscription is probably the one I actually get my money's worth from each month. But it isn't the wild west of music streaming anymore. Spotify is top dog, but it isn't the only rodeo in town. Google is pushing into the space with YouTube Music and technically Napster is still kicking around (now with AI!). There are more options for music streaming than fingers to count them at this point, and it can be hard to know where to spend your money. So which music streaming service should you sign up for? Depending on how much you care about audio purity, and which devices you have, the answer may be different. |
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There's no greater generational divide between Millennials and Gen Z than alcohol consumption. According to Gallup Data, Gen Z is drinking at a 10-percent decline as opposed to Millennials of the same age ten years ago. Plenty of young adults still drink, but mocktail menus are increasingly popular and the low ABV spirits market is experiencing significant growth, mostly due to younger consumers. So what are they drinking when they do choose to imbibe? Long drinks—the most iconic of which is the highball. When I hear "highball," I picture a quiet Japanese listening bar playing smooth jazz at dulcet tones. But the highball actually has origins in the UK thanks to its predecessor, the Scotch and soda. In Japan, the cocktail is said to have grown in popularity when Suntory Whisky founder Shinjiro Torii opened a chain of Tory's Bars that featured whisky highballs. In the U.S., an increased interest in Japanese-style bars, as well as booms in whisky and low-ABV and low-sugar drinks, fueled this wave. |
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For Pelphrey, this moment is something to savor for as long as he can. He knows how rare the hurricane of a mega-talented cast, uber-literary script, and huge platform is nowadays. "A thing like Task is truly in the fucking stars," Pelphrey says. "It's people at the right time doing the right thing. You can't replicate it. You can't write it out on paper and make it happen again. I was literally just talking with [creator] Brad [Ingelsby] about this last night and he knows it, too." But if you've seen Pelphrey in just about anything from his twenty-some-year-long career in film and television, you know that this moment—top billing in a prestige HBO drama that the network will certainly submit in every Emmy category imaginable—is a long time coming for the actor. Simply, because you don't forget a Tom Pelphrey performance. Among his many superpowers is a deftness at playing the exact kind of character he brings to life in Task: raw, big-hearted men at odds with themselves, capable of going from unadulterated joy to complete devastation in a split second. |
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