“RFK Jr.”? I’m going to stop you right there. “RFK Jr.’s Cooking”? Somehow, I’m even less interested. “RFK Jr.’s Cooking Show”? Okay, fine: You’ve got my morbid curiosity engaged, though not to the extent that I actually want to watch said show. Thank goodness, then, for Kase Wickman, who sat through 19 minutes and 27 seconds of America’s chief whale decapitator talking salmon cakes with a man who, I am not kidding you, is called “Chef Andrew Gruel”—and lived to tell the tale. What a time to be alive.
Elsewhere, Eve Batey explains how a white-shoe law firm with firmly Democratic bona fides capitulated to Trump. (Maybe it’s because the partners tasted his HHS secretary’s delicious salmon cakes.) More tomorrow!
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HILLARY BUSIS,
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Considering the guy is known for all kinds of strangeness in the biome, from protein to emus to brain worms, The Real Food Show is quite the surreal experience.
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A detailed story in The New York Times reveals how Paul Weiss, a firm once famous for civil rights battles and progressive litigation, ultimately caved to the Trump administration.
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Between the Great Depression and the start of the Cold War, Hollywood went noir, reflecting the worldly, weary, wised-up undercurrent of midcentury America. In classics such as Laura, Sweet Smell of Success, and Double Indemnity, where the shadows of LA and New York pulse with killers, corpses, and perilous romance, failure is not only a logical option but a smart-talking seduction.
Exploring the genre’s origins, its look, its politics, and its geography, Ann Douglas shows how noir’s poignant cynicism took hold—and why it remains embedded in the national psyche today.
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