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Nicholas Braun has been out and about since the rumblings of his sexual assault allegations surfaced online. Not a single mainstream outlet picked up the story despite several credible victim statements, but nearly all of them covered his appearance on the picket line alongside WGA writers, encouraging Succession’s loyal fanbase to support the writers, and “none of that exists without these people.” Revolutionary. Thanks, Nick. In addition, he’s appeared on multiple podcasts including Q with Tom Power which aired on April 18 and more recently, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard which aired May 8.

Last weekend, 20-year-old Nick Dunlap won the American Express PGA TOUR event in La Quinta, California. The University of Alabama sophomore beat out major champions like Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Zach Johnson, and Wyndham Clark, becoming the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event in over 30 years. It was the perfect weekend. Dunlap moved up a record 4,000-plus spots in the official world golf rankings, from 4,129 to 68th.

Winning with a remarkable 72-foot putt, Nick Taylor became the first Canadian golfer to win the Canadian Open since 1954 on Sunday, at the Oakdale Golf and Country Club in Toronto. The Winnipeg-born, Abbotsford, B.C.-raised 35-year-old won in a playoff over Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, after the two were tied at -17 after four rounds. Three playoff holes still weren’t enough to decide the winner, so they headed back to the 18th hole for a fourth playoff round.

Young at Heart By Nicole Bennett a newsletter about books, reading, & writing (mostly related to middle grade and YA books, but also sometimes about the library, my life, and things that bring us a feeling of youthful joy) from Nicole Bennett, a MG/YA writer & k-6 librarian ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja%2B1wqijnpqVo7umwNM%3D

On my way to getting older, I admit to occasionally enlisting cosmetic dermatologists and dubious celebrity-endorsed face creams.  Mine is a soft-landing approach, and I am lucky to be living in relative obscurity alongside family and friends who love me however I shrivel. I toggle between struggle and making peace with the process, and everything is going along fine until Nicole Kidman comes out with a new streaming series. In “Expats” Kidman plays a young (!

This popular quote is making its way around social media, and it’s being attributed to the German existentialist philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche: The idea here is that our harsh judgment of others who step out of conventionality is prompted by ignorance. We don’t understand what we are experiencing—we lack context to make sense of it. Instead of activating intellectual humility and accepting that we simply “do not understand,” we fearfully turn to the presumption that there cannot be any sensible rationale for the behavior or belief in question.

I try not to read reviews before seeing films I write about because there’s always the risk of parroting what’s already been said, but sometimes I can’t resist taking a teeny peek, especially if it’s a horror movie. And…Night Swim hasn’t gotten the greatest reviews so far. Jeremy Jahns called it “boring” and Alec Toombs of Film Yap nicknamed it “Pooltergeist.” It currently has a twenty-five percent critics’ score and a forty-three percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

When I first arrived in Buenos Aires, I was going to spend two weeks here before jumping on a flight somewhere else. That was one year ago, and I’m still here. The difference between eating, drinking, and partying in Buenos Aires compared to other cities is, of course, the low prices for foreigners under hyperinflation. You can sit in some of the most beautiful venues and pay 1/5 of what you would pay in the developed western world.

295 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (allegedly) Annoyingly, Nightmoves is not on Google Maps.  You can find a listing for “Daymoves,” the name given to the exact same place but during the daylight hours for coffee service, which has been labeled temporarily closed since the beginning of the pandemic.  I was reminded of the Bob Seger song when Googling this and I am playing it now as I type and think of all the hours I spent playing GTA: San Andreas which included “Night Moves” on Radio Los Santos.