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How Restaurants Got So Loud (Atlantic, paywall-free, archive)
posted by ShooBoo at 11:35 PM PST - 48 comments

Fat Bottom Girls, country-ish by Remember Monday. h/t to MissCellania [more inside]
posted by Gorgik at 9:28 PM PST - 15 comments

“Me and my boys, Tommy, Nate and Jacob are the Outdoor Boys. We love all things outdoors: family projects and adventures, travel, forging, camping, campfire cooking, fossil hunting, magnet fishing, metal detecting, goofing around, etc.” Selected videos: Survival Camping 9ft/3m Under Snow. Camping & Fishing on Floating Cabin Built From Scratch. Dugout Shelter Under 10ft (3m) of Snow. 1 Year in Log Cabin Survival Shelter. Can I Survive Alaskan Winter with No Sleeping Bag, No Tent & No Tarp? No Tent Winter Camping During Snow Storm. Lost in Alaska - How to NOT Freeze to Death! $25 Walmart Survival Challenge. 8 Days Winter Camping & Cooking in Basic Shelter. 13 Ways to Start a Fire (No Matches or Lighter). Winter Camping in Underground Bunker. Bulgarian Bearded Axe Restoration. Winter Camping in Alaska with a Sled Dog Team. How to build a fire in a RAIN STORM! And so much more.
posted by Fizz at 11:58 AM PST - 15 comments

Elon Musk Today. A compendium of Elon’s products and services that have failed to materialize. (Via the always wonderfully ranty Ed Zitron.)
posted by slogger at 10:34 AM PST - 149 comments

She isn't to everybody's taste, but Kathy Griffin has a lot to share. After the Trump Photo Incident* her career stopped cold. She's finally back with sold-out shows in Vegas and a new book. In her conversation with Jen Taub for the Booked Up podcast [1h6m, podcast page link], Kathy shares much about her career and life, including addiction and recovery and struggling to rebuild her career. It's an open and frank and very Kathy Griffin conversation that I greatly appreciated. CW: suicide discussion [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 10:21 AM PST - 8 comments

The Society’s annual ball is the culmination of eight months of etiquette lessons, leadership workshops, community service projects and cultural events. As the girls take to the dance floor, they become part of a legacy of Black debutantes in the city and beyond.
posted by praemunire at 9:53 AM PST - 4 comments

Deaf rappers who lay down rhymes in sign languages are changing what it means for music to be heard.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:42 AM PST - 10 comments

Shaming: I know what I’m reading. Better than most. Just because I can categorize books as insignificant to the human project of art creation does not mean I can’t enjoy them. And I would never ask a reader to sacrifice one bit of pleasure for the sake of shame. from There’s No Such Thing as a Guilty Pleasure [LARB; ungated] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 3:45 AM PST - 50 comments

"The Santiago Boys launched this weekend! This nine-part podcast, written and presented by Evgeny Morozov (pre•vi•ously, tells the wild tale of how Salvador Allende's engineers and a British management consultant dared challenge corporations and spy agencies – and almost won." [more inside]
posted by kmt at 2:16 AM PST - 5 comments