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Hi all! I’m back from a trip to Barcelona, if you’re interested what Chinese food I had there, check it outhere. This week, we’re making dumplings with a seasonal filling. The moment summer ended, I was ambushed by piles of pumpkins and advent calendars. In Germany, these are supermarket staples throughout the year's end. All of social media is screaming: cook pumpkin. Then I thought about a street snack I had some 20 years ago, called nangua jiaojiao (南瓜角角), a leaf-shaped dumpling filled with pumpkin and meat, commonly sold on the streets of the northeastern Sichuan town where I grew up.

This is Medium Rotation, a newsletter about the bands we used to play on my college radio station, 88.3 WSBU-FM, St. Bonaventure. Today, we’re looking back at New Jersey indie-rock band Steel Train, who are no longer together. How do you write about Jack Antonoff now? Earlier this year, a fascinating Billboard cover story delved into his process, so that’s one place to start. Or you could read this incredibly titled 2019 Vice piece “Jack Antonoff Makes a Lot of Music and None of It Is Good,” or take a deep plunge into all 214 songs of his production catalog with Consequence’s ranking.

Steele Chambers is serious about steak. Ask him how he likes to season a ribeye before grilling and you are likely to get a detailed answer. “You know what? Let me just pull out my rubs here,” the former Ohio State linebacker said during a recent interview. Over the phone, the distinctive thunk of a kitchen cabinet opening could be heard.  “OK, Salt, pepper, a little bit of this steak rub from Killer Hogs, and I’ll use what’s called Hardcore [Carnivore] Black.

It’s time for Big Ben, Terry Bradshaw, Slash, and burn. With hindsight being 20/20 and all, it seems almost impossible to believe that Ben Roethlisberger lasted until the 11th pick. If NFL teams knew then what they knew now, the Chargers might have taken Robert Gallery, and Roethlisberger wouldn’t have made it past the Chargers with the fourth pick. As it turns out, the Chargers and Giants battled over Philip Rivers and Eli Manning, the pitiful Browns passed on their QB of the future to get Kellen Winslow (who’ll miss another season after losing a game of chicken with a street curb), and miraculously Roethlisberger fell to the Steelers.

"What record company are we on, by the way?" Donald Fagen wants to know. "I'm not kidding." You can excuse the Steely Dan man's disorientation. Fagen and his partner, Walter Becker, last released a studio album of new material as Steely Dan in November 1980, the month Ronald Reagan was elected to his first term. And that one, Gaucho, had been anguished over for half of Jimmy Carter's administration. That young woman in "

Um… It’s literally always time to talk about The Vampire Diaries for ME. I know the show hasn’t been on for years, and, realistically, the last time anyone actually cared about it was season six (which came out in 2015), but The Vampire Diaries is eternal to me. I re-watch this show at least once a year. Maybe it’s because this was the first show I was ever truly invested in, maybe it’s because I literally cannot find a single other show that makes me feel in the same way that this one does.

By Dana Thomas for Architectural Digest Having first risen to fame in the 1990s, influential supermodel Amber Valletta remains very much in demand, fronting campaigns for such luxury brands as Loewe, Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, and many others. But she is also a leading climate change activist: She serves as British Vogue’s contributing sustainability editor and the Karl Lagerfeld brand’s sustainability ambassador, and has participated in several of Jane Fonda’s Fire Drill Fridays protests in Washington, DC, where she has been arrested a few times alongside other activists.

In 2009, Stephen A. Smith was seen as an up-and-coming star in sports media. ESPN had hired him after a successful career covering the professional sports scene in New York City and Philadelphia. He was an increasingly important member of the network’s NBA coverage. He had his own show on ESPN Radio, and Stephen A. spent three years hosting “Quite Frankly,” also serving as the show’s executive producer. “I did 327 shows, interviewed nearly 800 guests, had practically everybody on there but Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan,” Smith recalled.

Inverted World By Stephen J Shaw Latest News and Analysis on the Birthgap Crisis by Data Scientist, Demographer and Documentarian Stephen J Shaw. For many of us, falling birthrates and population decline are about to become one of the very biggest threats to life as we know it... ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaO10a2foJmg