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The Seattle Seahawks have had three primary uniform epochs. The first one, which ran from the team’s 1976 inception through 2001, featured the club’s original silver/blue color scheme. The second one, which ran from 2002 through 2011, saw the team abandon its original colors and adopt its now-familiar mono-navy “scuba suit” look for home games. And the third one, which began in 2012 and is still ongoing, has seen the team go full Nike.

Like most people when Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department came out, I was immediately overwhelmed when I saw the length of it. 31 tracks?! How on earth will I ever find time to listen to all of these in a single sitting? And how did critics have time to write all of these reviews that came out less than 12 hours after the album was released?

This Thursday is St. Patrick’s Day, which means we’re going to be seeing a lot of green. And that’s fine by me, because green has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember. When my parents were going to get me a bicycle for my fifth birthday, I made sure they knew it had to be green. (It was.) Half a century later, I now have green sheets on my bed, green towels in my bathroom, a green sofa in my living room, lots of green clothing, and, in case you hadn’t noticed, a green-themed media brand devoted to sports uniforms.

An interesting visual examination of Ali Wong’s stand-up comedy special Baby Cobra. If you take a step back, Ali’s routine is structured around three cohesive ideas: getting older, marriage, and pregnancy. Let’s put this into context. If you’re studying theatre, literature, or film, you make sense of the work by breaking down its plot or form. In film, for example, the smallest, irreducible unit is the “beat,” described by screenwriting instructor Robert McKee as “an exchange of behavior in action/reaction.

It’s been a minute since I’ve been to Bangkok and I like it even more than the last time—a lot more. As a travel journalist, I feel like I get swept into the notion of gravitating toward new territory as the world is a massive place, but as of late, my rhythm has been revisiting places and lingering. I want to try to understand what makes a city or an island’s heart beat, much like mine, and feel like a local at a coffee shop by the end of the journey.

Hello friends, I’ve been busy working on Beginning, next week’s online family stories workshop. As well as that I’m preparing for my Let’s Talk event at the Bathurst Writers’ and Readers’ festival this weekend. I went to university in this beautiful regional city and I also performed Lost in Shanghai there so I’m super excited to be going back. I love to see new and old audiences and have a good old chat about the power and problems of conversation in the 21st Century, the subject of my recent book Rebel Talk.

I can’t say that I have spent much time in department stores lately, if ever actually. But when I was a kid growing up in Queens, I used to love going to Alexander’s, a rather average, rambling department store that held many wonders for a small child. To be sure, this was not a fancy, shiny department store like Bloomingdale’s, Bergdorf, or the late Bonwit Teller. Those, out on the Miracle Mile of Manhasset, were far too rich for our blood.

Kenneth Zucker during his time at the GIC Dr Ken Zucker has an impressive CV. The editor of the prestigious journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, he took a leading role helping devise diagnostic and treatment guidelines for gender dysphoric individuals, and headed the group which developed the DSM-5’s criteria for its “gender dysphoria” entry. Zucker also helped write the “standards of care” guidelines for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which is a textbook relied upon by clinicians who treat gender-dysphoric patients and those presenting as transgender.

Angèle, a jewel among Napa Valley restaurants, provides more than just delicious cuisine. It has also become one big family. Spearheaded by Bettina Rouas, the owner, the eatery on Napa's vibrant waterfront owes its legacy to a lineage deeply rooted in the food industry. Even at 90, Bettina's father, Claude Rouas, is a revered restaurateur who is noted for introducing refined dining to Northern California in the 1960s. His L’Etoile was one of the region’s first French-inspired restaurants.