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You little son of a bitch ball! A wannabe ice hockey player (Adam Sandler) with a very short temper discovers that he’s got one of the most powerful golf drives in the world. Against his better judgement he switches to golf to try and win some money and save his grandmother’s house from being repossessed. There’s always been something a bit empty about Adam Sandler’s foul-mouthed every-man bit but with …

There’s a lot to love about Patsy’s, the three-generation family-run restaurant celebrating its 80th year on the far off-Broadway, low-rise block of West 56th Street off Eighth Avenue. This old-school Italian spot offers highly rated red sauce classics, old-school ambiance, and a connection to Frank Sinatra, who considered Patsy’s one of his favorite New York haunts (and in the early 1950s had the staff open one Thanksgiving, just because he …

The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is one of the more popular landmarks in Florence and once you stand next to it you can see why. Built in the late 13th century into the mid-14th century, it’s one of the largest churches in the world. The exterior of the cathedral and its bell tower is clad in white, red, and green marble. Set against the blue Tuscan sky it’s …

I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because the library’s setup instructions assume that you’re using a build system. Luckily at this point I’ve mostly learned how …

Last week I wrote about the special features of Brahmā-vimohana-līlā. It was the last commentary Śrīla Prabhupāda wrote and the last pastime in the kaumāra-līlā phase of Krsna’s life. It emphasizes an essential siddhānta (philosophical conclusion) that readers need to understand before proceeding in their study of the Tenth Canto of the Bhāgavatam. Most importantly it shows Śrīla Prabhupāda’s almost superhuman and determined effort to complete it. While studying that …

Whenever I'm asked to talk about Ricochet Books, I make a point of mentioning Al Palmer's Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street. The title never fails to raise a smile, and often bemusement. Montrealers of a certain age – mine, for example – remember Dorchester as a boulevard, not a street. My daughter has known it only as boulevard René-Lévesque, as it was rechristened in November 1987, two years after the former …

The retro arcade racer gets new content and features, as a big Autumn update arrives for Old School Rally. The Fall 2024 release adds split screen local multiplayer, which is a welcome addition for any racing game. Along with new stages, rally events, weather effects and the Pada B82 car, which is seemingly inspired by […] A Big Autumn Update Arrives For Old School Rally OnlineRaceDriver - Sim Racing News, …

1. A last look at an almost-forgotten Parisian apartment before it became a Museum Café at the Musée Bourdelle in ParisAntoine Bourdelle’s daughter Rhodia proved herself a dedicated guardian to her sculptor father’s artistic heritage, as the apartment she made of his studio above the Musée Bourdelle in Paris. In 1993, Word of Interiors paid a visit and photographed it before it changed hands and eventually became the musem’s Modernist …

Researching and tracking the latest slang can now draw upon statistical analysis of online data. As 2024 draws to its end and talk among lexicographers, culture journalists and language buffs turns to ‘words of the year’, I’m immensely grateful to Randoh Sallihall of Unscramblerer for providing me with his datasets showing lookups (Google searches) for the most popular recent slang expressions… Most searched for slang words in United Kingdom: 1. …

An easy-to-make, vegetarian mushroom casserole with noodles that works with any sort of mushroom, wild or store-bought. Want meat? Add some! Mushroom Casserole is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.

All skeined up, that yarn looks innocent, doesn't it? What, me tangle? Never!But when you first start in with skeins, it seems danger lurks. Perhaps that innocent looking skein will snarl into an awful tangle, never to come right. ...snarl into an awful tangle...Let's take the monster by the tail and see what happens. Poke the tail (now colored red) into and through the skein. The skein

I made this drawing in Paint. I’m guessing it took about four hours spread over three days. If I were a more experienced artist I assume it would take less time, but maybe not radically less? I’m also auditing my Creating Comics co-author Leigh Ann Beaver’s Drawing 1 class every Monday and Wednesday morning this semester, which has noticeably upped my game. Let’s call that Step One: Practice drawing. Don’t …

Usually, when working with things that require configuration, such as databases, caches, and mailers, you have to define them in their respective configuration files beforehand. So, for instance, you need to define all the mailers for your application in the config/mail.php file like so. return [ 'mailers' => [ 'smtp' => [ 'transport' => 'smtp', 'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.mailgun.org'), 'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587), 'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls'), 'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'), …

A quick question to the gallery assistant regarding where might be the best place to start the exhibition turned into a much appreciated five minute introduction to their favourite piece from the show. Turner Prize nominee (probably soon to be the winner) Delaine Le Bas’s, ’What We Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us?’ was, we were told, once exhibited as just the oval shaped embroidery piece at the centre, but later …

When Alvydas Šlepikas’ book Mano vardas – Marytė (‘My name is Marytė’) was published in Lithuania in 2011, it caused a nationwide discussion. Beautifully written and based on historical facts, it was the most read novel in Lithuania in 2012. Since then this multi-award winning book has had numerous editions...