TOP CHEF (Bravo TV) returns tonight and not a moment too soon for those of us with wavering morale. That this season is set in Canada, our besieged neighbor to our north, makes its return all the more opportune.
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After three years I'm so accustomed and comfortable wearing a mask that when I don't have one on I feel underdressed.
Star Trek Minus Context
Now that Secret Invasion (Marvel/Disney+) has concluded its series run, it seems like an even more baffling, tread-milling exercise in futility and carnage. The jerky-jerky finale was like a bad ballet in a boiler room. Only Olivia Colman, delighting in her own delightfulness, shone. Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury hauled himself around like a case of indigestion.
The MCU has a pervasive rundown feeling and I can't see the upcoming Marvels movie remedying that.
Courtney Heard 🇨🇦Nature is doing everything she can to get our attention.
Marvel's Secret Invasion (Disney +) finally generated some action and excitement this week with the motorcade ambush but overall still seems lumbering and leaden--obligatory, as if no one really has their heart in it. Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury just seems to be lugging himself around and Emilia Clarke has been reduced to a standard Marvel brunette. Marvel may not be in unsalvageable decline but it's definitely lost its rhythm and mission. #SecretInvasion #Marvel #
Jeff JarvisNo, he should resign. In shame.
Clarence Thomas should get out his checkbook and reimburse Harlan Crow https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/04/clarence-thomas-tuition-payments-harlan-crow/
Clarence Thomas should get out his checkbook and reimburse Harlan Crow https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/04/clarence-thomas-tuition-payments-harlan-crow/
Anthony DeRosaMelissa Lambert, the Royals’ director of behavioral science, will be the first person in her role to have a seat in the dugout in Kansas City's effort to increase mental health resources for their players and staff.
https://www.mlb.com/news/melissa-lambert-becomes-first-ever-woman-on-royals-on-field-staff
Royals target mental health with history-making hire
MESA, Ariz. -- Peek into the Royals dugout this season, and you’ll see several new faces on the coaching staff. But the manager, bench coach and new pitching coaches are not the only changes you’ll see. You’ll also be witnessing history. Melissa Lambert, the Royals’ director of behavioral science, will
The new John Wick film looks horrendous, another sanctified cinematic kill-spree.
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