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Two names forever linked to the Yucatán are Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Yucatán’s progressive governor, and San Francisco journalist Alma Reed. Their love affair fueled pages in newspapers on both sides of the border but the unlikely outcome of their very public romance enlisted all the elements of Greek tragedy. Reed, a San Francisco native, became one of the city’s first women reporters. An advocate for the poor, she assisted a Mexican family in commuting their 17-year old son’s death sentence in 1921.

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Madame Web (which must be pronounced as “muh+DAAM,” my friends and I concluded), the new Marvel-adjacent superhero film starring Dakota Johnson as a clairvoyant NYC Fire Department paramedic who might be unable to open a can of soda has a reported budget of $80 million. If that entire budget was in service of the latest Dakota Johnson press tour, to that I say: money well spent. Because if there's one thing about Dakota Johnson — and there are 17 things at least, mind you — it’s that she’s gonna say something nutty.

Editorial Note: I benefited greatly from the conversation with greater minds, TEs Aldo Leon and George Sayour as we interacted and responded to the recent Presbycast episode here. Last week, the most significant, influential, and important podcast in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) welcomed two teaching elders to discuss the practice of intinction in the PCA. Intinction describes a method of observing the eucharist in which the communicants are not given the cup, but instead are instructed to dip the bread into the cup and take them together.

Before it became an item on the menu, before foodies and restaurants sang it acapella style, like children in a candy store, the word ‘omakase’ used to mean something. Obviously, everyone knows the literal meaning now: ‘up to you’. The chef’s choice, menu, and table. To serve the best, freshest ingredients in the way he or she sees fit. Tell me then, what is the difference between an ‘omakase’ menu and a ‘degustation’ menu?

APPLE PODCAST Hello friends, it’s been two weeks and it’s time for a new episode of MUSIC & MEANING. This time out, we give props and respect to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a groundbreaking musician and Jesus follower who merged gospel and rock music. In a time when the deck was stacked against her, Sister Rosetta Tharpe stood tall and delivered gospel performances that could turn a skeptic into a believer. Her profound legacy was finally acknowledged with a 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.

The truth about everything* is different every week! This week, it’s the turn of THE MADONNA DIARIES, a series of personal essays about Madonna’s back catalogue. My memories of Borderline’s initial release, in 1984, are vague, because it flopped, and when you’re an eight-year-old future gay with pop se… ncG1vNJzZmismJq0tsXLoqWeql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55lpKfCtbSMmpmoraRir7C%2Bw56ppaGemg%3D%3D

When I was a fetus of a woodworker in the 1990s, a long-time hand-tool woodworker tried to size me up with a series of questions. Q: “Do you cut your dovetails by hand?” A: “Yes, I don’t know any other way.” Q: “Do you finish surfaces with a plane or sandpaper?” A: “Usually a plane and a scraper” Q: “Do you file your own saws?” A: “No.” And like that, the inte…

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