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Check here for an AI One ACt Play on King Charles & Secretary Austin: By Howard Wolinsky King Charles III, 75, of England has been diagnosed with “a type of cancer” following his benign prostatic hyperplasia (BHP) surgery last week. He has called off his public-facing duties and is undergoing unspecified treatment. Buckingham Palace, at Charles’ urging, had been open about his BPH issue. But the Palace is being cagey about specifying what kind of cancer with which he has been diagnosed.

As part of my series of articles on the rise of the Habsburgs, I will also dedicate a lot of articles to their historic rivals. It is a great way to present the wider European history of late middle ages and early modern era as the Habsburg story became intertwined with so many others. The Habsburgs were in large part defined by their centuries-long bloody rivalries with the French and the Ottomans.

Hi. Welcome to Living in a Body. This week, I’m sharing a piece that I wrote a couple months ago. I hope you enjoy. The podcast version includes original music. Please click the play button above. Also, feel free to share. Thanks! Share Have you ever heard of the melodious khaen? (Pronounced 'can') It's the grandmother of the harmonica. A three foot tall mouth organ made of bamboo pipes and brass reeds, the khaen is the national instrument of Laos.

🎵 I love every Planet of the Apes movie I see… from Chimp-an-A to Chimpanzee. 🎵 OK… corny reference from “The Simpsons” aside, I do love me some “Planet of the Apes” movies. My love started as a middle schooler who would rewatch the 1968 Charlton Heston classic on VHS over and over again. I loved the famous twist at the end, courtesy of Rod Serling from “The Twilight Zone” penning the script.

This is the first part of my piece on Kirk Kerkorian - part II. In late 1969, the past was catching up quickly to Kirk Kerkorian. The high school dropout had done well for himself, as he parlayed a small nest egg into the biggest hotel casino in Las Vegas, control of Western Air Lines, and a major stake in Hollywood’s MGM studio. But his success was built on leverage, including some cobbled together from expensive, and increasingly anxious, European lenders.

I’m currently reading the last of the four autobiographies written by the original members of the band KISS, which was pretty clearly my first favorite band way back in the mid-1970s. I first came across KISS while watching a Paul Lynde Halloween special on TV, and around that same time my friend Scott had the band’s Alive! album and we listened to that two-LP set constantly. I got my own copy and from there I continued to get new KISS albums whenever they dropped.

i spent this weekend cataloging my analog music collection — mainly alphabetizing my CDs and cassettes. i had already been planning to share parts of my cassette collection and my beloved Walkman. but upon listening to the Love Deluxe tape, i was reminded of Sade’s birthday (1/16). some of my favorite artists are stunning, ethereal oft-reclusive iconoclasts whose sounds define a generation (think Solange, Frank Ocean, D’Angelo). Sade is no exception.

Hello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects, my recipe development journal. Thank you so much for being here! Today we are doing an ingredient spotlight on one of my favourites: Fig Leaves! If you don’t know them, get ready to fall in love with their herbaceous, nutty scent. I’ll talk you through all the basics and share my recipes for making your own syrup and oils. Over on KP+, I’ve shared a series of fig leaf recipes.

Hello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects. Thank you so much for being here. It’s a brand new year, so today we are taking 2024 by the collar and diving right into the deep end with the queen of breads: A laminated brioche, the flakiest, fluffiest richest loaf you can dream of. Why, you ask, are we going so hard in the first week of January? Well, you can blame the galette des rois, the flaky round pastry eaten every year in January.