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What You Need to Know About How Covid Spreads
Coronavirus isn’t going away soon. The number of cases are rising across the country. El Pais’ visualizations of the ways COVID-19 is commonly spread is an incredibly important resource as we head into winter. https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html “At present, health authorities recognize three vehicles of coronavirus transmission: the small droplets from speaking or coughing, which can end…
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Jacinda Ardern’s Party Scores a Landslide Win in New Zealand Elections – The New York Times
New Zealand’s prime minister and her party are coasting to victory in national elections, though it is unclear how far she will push her progressive promises. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/world/asia/jacinda-ardern-election-new-zealand.html Jacinda Ardern’s tenure so far has been a master class in the fine arts of good governance and statecraft.
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“I feel like I’m supposed to be grateful that I got that job. But it’s not enough for me to just be here anymore. I want more, and I don’t care that that upsets people.” -Sohla El-Waylly, chef Read more about Sohla El-Waylly’s career in food and her next culinary adventure.
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Taking in The Fall
“But autumn sunlight is simply perfection of the day, glory of the season, the year’s high achievement, somehow. It summons one to the outdoors, where even the autumn leaves partake of it.” -New York Times. October 17, 1976.
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Music Feeds The Soul
Chef Alexander Smalls’ playlists for cooking and dining are an inspiration for any culinary experience. We may not be having dinner parties right now (I hope), but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy our meals with great music. Everything is better with music. “Music is energy, life, love,” Smalls said. “It stimulates my imagination and…
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Happy Birthday, Jimmy!
On October 1, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 96th birthday. In celebration, here’s Jimmy expressing his thanks to The Allman Brothers for their role in helping him become president. “Gregg Allman was a very close friend of mine. If it hadn’t been for Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers I never would have…
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“The Selected Works of Audre Lorde”
Parul Sehgal’s review of “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” is a beautiful reflection on the depth and brilliance of Lorde’s work and continued influence. “Lorde, like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, is vulnerable to selective quotation. Black writers can be treated as oracles, read symbolically, with lazy reverence; their work is flattened into self-help…
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Links for the Voracious
A little something from around the internet. “To be able to have the ability to bring other people in, who I think are massively more talented, it’s something that brings me so much excitement.” -Issa Rae, creator and star of “Insecure” “And of course we want an economic recovery! But we’re never going to have…
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The One and Only Yola
Yola’s “Walk Through Fire” is an album I can’t stop recommending to people. It is gorgeous and generous, entrancing from the first note to the last. Yola’s voice and guitar playing are tender, precise, and powerful. She commands her musical gifts with singular grace. Yola has the rare ability to create the simultaneous and contradictory…
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Little Richard is Gone
The final member of the Rock N’ Roll triumvirate has passed. May Little Richard rest in peace and paradise with the ancestors and may the memories of those moved and transformed by his music be long. Little Richard was a righteously vainglorious genius. He was the blueprint for the energy, the showmanship, and the verve…
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