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Let me start with this disclaimer: Andrew Huberman is a person, a brand, and an ideology, that I have been deliberately steering clear of, for quite some time now. I do not listen to his podcast. I didn’t read the New York Mag cover story when it first came out. I have done my time in the trenches of male diet culture—the intermittent fasting, the biohacking, the Peter Attia of it all—first for this story, and later for Chapter 9 of Fat Talk.

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Howdy and Happy Thursday! First things first—CONGRATULATIONS to Andrea Lewis for winning our Beehive Cheese xTea Zaanti tasting box! Don’t want to miss out on our next giveaway? Become a paid subscriber to be automatically entered! Plus, it brings you good karma and a whole lotta other great W4D benefits. EK: Remember those ranch-flavored oyster crackers? Well they’ve been reborn as Fire Crackers or Alabama Fire Crackers.  My friend and Southern food expert Sheri Castle wrote about them in a Southern Living article last fall that was entitled “The South’s Most Beloved Appetizer Starts with a Sleeve of Saltines.

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Movie rating: 9/10 Now I know how viewers of The Sopranos must have felt. For most of First Reformed the movie seemed like a surefire 10/10. Director and screenwriter Paul Schrader was grappling with some of the most serious issues of our day, especially the climate crisis, along with spirituality and personal despair. The script, the performances, the cinematography, and editing were all superb. Unfortunately, the ambiguous ending—or arguably, lack of an ending—took the film down a notch for me.

Hello! Thank you for signing up to, or stumbling on, this no-news-newsletter written by me, Ashley Clark. If you do choose to subscribe—and it’s free—you’ll receive bulletins about whatever’s on my mind: usually some combination of art/film/music/literature/football. If that sounds good, hit the button! I’m not sure if I was too young, or just the right age, when I first saw Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. I was 14 years old, recently and intensely obsessed with cinema, and I stayed up late to watch it one night on Film4, a (then) pay-per-view, and brilliantly programmed TV channel that I’d pestered my mum to subscribe to after I decided I needed to see Taxi Driver.

For St. Ignatius to have four scorers in double figures is nothing new. Tuesday’s 69-51 Bruce-Mahoney Game victory over Sacred Heart Cathedral at USF’s War Memorial Gym is the sixth time in 13 games the Wildcats have reached that mark this year. What made Tuesday’s win over the Fightin’ Irish unique was who did the scoring. Yes, the trio of Marcus Bast and sophomores Steele Labagh and Raymond Whitley were all in double figures, but the fourth big Wildcat scorer was backup guard Sebastian Fisher, who scored 13 of his 15 in the first half to help his school secure the vaunted multi-sport trophy for a fourth consecutive year.

Regardless of whether you stand with Israel, support a free Palestine, yearn for a two-state solution, or just believe in the right of men, women, and children to not be massacred where they live, these movies — all available on VOD — put faces and feelings to a place too few Americans understand. “5 Broken Cameras” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2, 2011, streaming on Kanopy and Plex, for rent on Kino Now) – A devastating homemade documentary of incursion in the West Bank, with Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat filming the building of a barrier wall that cut through his village’s fields and the protests and police reprisals that followed.