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Scientific American - "Seattle heads back to the Super Bowl. What even is a seahawk anyway?"
Sunday, February 15, 2026
The Adventures of Cliff Booth
Sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Written by Quentin Tarantino
Directed by David Fincher (Gone Girl, The Social Network, Zodiac, Fight Club, Seven)
Starring
Brad Pitt,
Scott Caan,
Elizabeth Debicki,
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II,
Carla Gugino,
Holt McCallany,
Corey Fogelmanis,
JB Tadena
The Rise of Bad Bunny and Producing a Super Bowl Halftime Show
The Atlantic - "How Bad Bunny Did It"
"At the center of Bad Bunny’s sound is the rhythm that has ruled Latin American pop for decades: reggaeton, which marries dancehall and rap in crisp, minimalist fashion. Inspiring partying often with just a drum machine and a vocalist, reggaeton first flourished as the sound of working-class urban life in Puerto Rico. “This is where I was born, and so was reggaeton, just so you know,” Bad Bunny boasts in Spanish in one song.
He also grew up as a highly online Millennial at a time when American pop culture was ruled by Fall Out Boy’s pop punk, Lady Gaga’s synth pop, and Drake’s rap blues. All of those touchstones now inform his maximalist take on reggaeton. In any given Bad Bunny song, the melodies roll and sway between emo dejection and childlike glee, the electronic beats call to mind Nintendo games, and the low end churns as ominously as a lava pit. Bad Bunny’s vocal tone is unique: husky and flat, peppered with gasps and grunts, and shimmering with digital effects. He sounds like a ringmaster in a futuristic circus, and you don’t need to know Spanish to feel that a thrilling story is unfolding."
New York Times - "Super Bowl Halftime Is the World’s Biggest Stage. He Designs It."
The Re-Rise of Bathhouses
Bloomberg - "Why We’re All Trading Happy Hours for the Bathhouse
By Madison Darbyshire and Eleanor Thornber
Previously,
The Sauna Lifestyle of Northern Minnesota (Jan. 25)
The Rise of Hunting
Bloomberg - "Can a Return to Hunting Change How America Eats?"
By Madison Darbyshire
"Wild game hunting has gained popularity across the US in the past five years, as the pandemic pushed people to seek
outdoor activity and popular podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Theo Von became outspoken fans of the sport. Social media platforms — and that same podcast manoverse — allowed internet-famous hunters such as Steven Rinella, Cam Hanes, Adam Greentree and Donnie Vincent to build huge followings.
Rogan and others in the Make America Healthy Again-aligned world have framed wild game as part of a protein-heavy diet, making it more fashionable with a type of supplement-loving American man. But while hunting has long been popular in some regions of the US, guides say new demand for hunts is coming from the coasts and tech centers such as Austin. "
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Is the Dictionary Done For?
New Yorker - "Is the Dictionary Done For?"
"Webster deliberately set out to supersede Johnson. His ambition was to create not a dialect of British English but an identifiably American language. Johnson’s dictionary had about forty-two thousand words; Webster’s had seventy thousand. Webster added New World words including “skunk,” “boost,” and “roundabout”; words with Native American origins, such as “canoe” and “moose”; words derived from Mexican Spanish, like “coyote.” Most dramatically, he Americanized spelling, a project started in an earlier work of his, a schoolbook speller called “A Grammatical Institute of the English Language,” published in 1783. It is because of Webster that we write “defense” and “center” rather than “defence” and “centre,” “public” and not “publick.” He changed the language."
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Food Trends for 2026
New York Times - "How We’ll Eat in 2026: More Caution, More Crunch"
Grandmacore, extra tecture, vinegar, backyard bounties, kitchen couture, value, small-batch hospitality, celery in desserts, flights of cream cheese/sliders/fruit/candy, resataurant-quality food in our grocery store freezer aisles, Chincese chains doing new twists on classic sandwiches, cinnamon rolls, cabbage, and more.
Spider-Noir TV Show
From Wikipedia:
"Spider-Noir is an upcoming American noir superhero television series developed by Oren Uziel for MGM+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Spider-Man Noir. The series follows an aging private investigator and superhero in an alternate universe of 1930s New York City who grapples with his past."
"Nicolas Cage stars as Spider-Man Noir, after voicing a version of the character in Sony's animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)..."
"Spider-Noir is set to debut on MGM+ in 2026 and will consist of eight episodes."
Madden Movie
Written by Cambron Clark,
David O. Russell
Directed by David O. Russell
Starring
Nicolas Cage,
Christian Bale,
Kathryn Hahn,
John Mulaney,
Sienna Miller,
Shane Gillis
Street Fighter Remake
October 16, 2026
Written by
Dalan Musson
Directed by Kitao Sakurai
Starring
Noah Centineo,
Andrew Koji,
Callina Liang,
Joe "Roman Reigns" Anoa'i,
David Dastmalchian,
Cody Rhodes,
Andrew Schulz,
Eric André,
Vidyut Jammwal,
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson,
Jason Momoa
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