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Album of the Day: Saturday August 16, 2025

Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso (1968)

Caetano Veloso is the debut solo album by the artist of the same name, released in Brazil in 1968.

  1. Tropicália

  2. Clarice

  3. No Dia em que Eu Vim-Me Embora

  4. Alegria, Alegria

  5. Onde Andarás?

  6. Anunciação

  7. Superbacana

  8. Clara

  9. Soy loco por ti, América

  10. Ave-Maria

  11. Eles

Creature Double Feature: Saturday August 16, 2025

Deep Blue Sea

(1999)

It was supposed to be a routine visit to a floating research facility called Aquatica, which turns out to be a fishy mess of hubris, horror, and hemorrhaging, instead of a Sea World competitor. The facility houses a group of scientists attempting to cure Alzheimer’s by making sharks smarter - and not smarter like higher SAT scores, but like Liam Neeson in “Taken” smarter. What follows is less scientific and more of an all you can eat cruise buffet for carnivorous fish , made of humans and parrot. While the turbo-charged intelligent sharks decide they no longer want to be lab rats, they are able to asses the structural integrity of the research facility, systematically flooding specific areas to make the structure collapse into the ocean and allowing them to escape for sequels. Will any of the staff survive? Will the faculty stay afloat? Will any of the research be saved? And will anyone learn that if you make a shark smarter than you, also make it slower too?

Directed by Renny Harlin

Written by Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers

Staring

Thomas Jane as Carter Blake

Saffron Burrows as Dr. Susan McAlester

Samuel L. Jackson as Russell Franklin

The Meg

(2018)

Behold this cautionary tale about what happens when curiosity, wealth, and poor judgment meet below sea level.  When a group of highly trained scientists breach some kind of underwater force field they seem to know nothing about, a prehistoric shark the size of a football field and a grudge against anything man made, including man, sneaks out from the abyss. The only thing that can possibly stop this prehistoric giant is a man with a mysterious past, fear of commitment, and an allergy to wearing a shirt - Jonas Taylor. Even with his unparalleled ability to hold his breath, punch things, and maintain exactly one facial expression, the giant animal becomes harder to find than a parking space at a Trader Joes the week before Thanksgiving. The tension: high; the swimsuits : small; the people: like shrimp at an all you can eat Vegas buffet. Will only only a homemade torpedo, pensive scowls, and toned pecks be enough to stop a shark that can swallow a bus (which would be difficult for the shark because busses are on land), or will it never be safe to go back in the water?

Directed by Jon Turteltaub

Written by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber

Staring

Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor

Bingbing Li as Suyin

Rainn Wilson as Morris

Midnight Movie: Saturday August 16, 2025

Hell Comes to Frogtown

1988

After a global nuclear disaster humanity’s in trouble, the population is shrinking and fertile men a rarer than quarters at a Frogger arcade competition. Meet Sam Hell - a man with the unique distinction of being both the last hope for our species and the only man I’ve ever seen issued a government-locked chastity belt. Sam’s teamed up with two female operatives: one who shoots straight and one who… well, let’s just say her weapon isn’t standard issue. Their mission was simple: go into a stronghold run by giant, mutant frogs armed with rifles, grenades, and bad tempers, and rescue a group of women being held there who will repopulate the earth with his, um, help. Will Sam jump through the hoops to rescue the women? Use his silver tongue to talk himself out of trouble? and thrust the fate of the human race forward?

Directed by Donald G. Jackson & R.J. Kizer

Written by Donald G. Jackson & Randall Frakes

Staring

Julius LeFlore as Squidlips

RCB as The Poor Dufus

Roddy Piper as Sam Hell

Drink me: Thursty Thursday August 14, 2025

Mister Fantastic

An effervescent champagne orange blossom martini

champagne, london dry gin, dry curaçao, elder flower liquor, ginger liquor, and orange blossom water

Alchemy: Saturday August 16, 2025

Curly’s S’more Ice Cream Sandwiches

The perfect ice cream desert to go with your late summer cookout. Ira and Barry agree, whether it’s franks and beans or grilled sea bass and asparagus - this is the ice cream to pair. Woof!

Alchemy: Sunday August 10, 2025

Don Lino’s Shrimp and Strawberry Tacos

Shrimp and strawberry tacos, huh? Lemme tell ya somethin’, kid - on paper, it sounds like somethin’ you’d feed to the dolphins you don’t like. But you take that sweet, soft strawberry, you pair it with a nice, tender shrimp - lightly grilled, none of this rubbery garbage - and suddenly, it’s like a peace treaty between two flavors that were sworn enemies.

It’s risky, it’s bold, and yeah, it’s a little weird. But sometimes in this business, the food business, you gotta make alliances you never thought you’d make. Even if it means a fruit and a crustacean sharin’ the same tortilla.

Book of the Month: August 2025

The Daily Bugle, November 5, 1982 — Special Edition

"MUTANTS IN THE CROSSHAIRS”

TRUTH BEHIND Stryker’s CRUSADE

By Eddie Brock, Daily Bugle Staff Writer

In a chilling display of zealotry masked as faith, Reverend William Stryker—former military man turned televangelist—stands at the center of a rising wave of anti-mutant violence. Under the banner of his so-called “ministry,” Stryker has unleashed a campaign that’s part sermon, part witch hunt, and entirely dangerous.

Sources confirm that Stryker’s private forces—armed, trained, and disturbingly devout—were behind a series of coordinated abductions and attacks on known mutant civilians. His goal? Nothing short of genocide, carried out under the guise of "divine cleansing." This isn't a fringe movement…

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

by Chris Claremont, Paul Smith, Brent Anderson, Frank Miller