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JK by Chef King opens soon, and it’s going to be brilliant. Literally — and no, I don’t mean that colloquially. To prep the 405 diningscape for this blast of color, a sneak peek at a few menu items. As mentioned previously, owners Josh Balan and chef Kingshuk Dey first met in London and bring a European approach to dining with them. After JK gets opened, I’ll share more details about the trip around the globe chef Dey took before arriving to downtown Oklahoma City.

SHORT: This week, I watched the delightful movie No Hard Feelings starring Jennifer Lawrence and Jimmy-Award-winner Andrew Barth Feldman. The film contains a scene in which JLaw runs down the beach, fully-naked, in the moonlight to get her clothes back from a group of teens. She beats the living sh*t out of them as her bazongas fly — glittering and luminescent — under the Montauk night-sky. That is how I am approaching October.

Share Note: Some of you younger readers might not enjoy this (and maybe some of you older ones won’t care for it, either), but I wanted to put it together for the sake of just doing so. There is no larger point (nor even a single point) being made below. It’s just me having a little bit of fun. Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and David Spade have a podcast called “Fly on the Wall” in which they interview comedians and comedic actors, especially those that have appeared on that same show in the past as they did.

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Share In The Tragedy of Macbeth, long-time Hollywood presence Joel Coen — who has 18 prior films to his credit — takes sole creative control of a project for the first time. The result, not unlike the tale of Macbeth itself, is a tragedy of epic proportions. In the interest of full disclosure, my editor has requested that I mention that I was Mr. Coen’s writing partner, producer, and creative collaborator on the aforementioned 18 films.

My old and dear friend Johann just released his latest book, Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs. That follows Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (2015), Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression (2018), and Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention (2022), which we covered on the Dishcast. You can listen right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app).

The Christmas season brings to mind, for reasons rather impressionistic, the fact that my first name John is often thought to mean “God’s gift.” It actually did not begin meaning that, precisely, and the idea that it did is rooted in a common misimpression that, on some level, John is a shortened form of Jonathan. Often, people wanting to address me with mock formality will lengthen my name to Jonathan, as if this were the equivalent of calling a Jim James or a Bob Robert.

John Carpenter needed objective input after completing his 1978 classic Halloween. Despite his best efforts behind the camera, a tepid and unenthusiastic first screening with a young 20th Century Fox executive left him rattled. With nothing to lose, he decided to focus his energy on the film’s music to bring it back from the dead. Inspired by famed movie scores like composer Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho, Carpenter hunkered down at Sound Arts Studios in central Los Angeles with a cast of collaborators to get the job done.

After more than a decade of hiatus from directing features, John Carpenter returns to his horror roots with Peacock's unscripted 6-part docuseries, John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams. It's a somewhat odd (and safe) choice — considering that in the last 13 years, the auteur has only directed three music videos — but there's some undeniable appeal to it. Though he only directed one episode, shot in Prague, from his couch, the filmmaker also serves as an executive producer and composer for the show.