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Album of the Day: Sunday August 17, 2025

Virginia Rodrigues

Nós (2000)

Nós is second album by the Brazilian musician Virginia Rodrigues. It was released in 2000.

  1. Canto Para Exú

  2. Uma História de Ifá

  3. Salvador Não Inerte

  4. Afrekêtê

  5. Jeito Faciero

  6. Ilê É Impar/Depois Que O Ilê Passar

  7. Ilê É Impar/Depois Que O Ilê Passar

  8. Oju Obá

  9. Raça Negra

  10. Deusa Do Ébano/Deus Do Fogo E da Justiça

  11. Deusa Do Ébano/Deus Do Fogo E da Justiça

  12. Male Debale

  13. Mimar Você

  14. Reino de Daom

Feature Presentation: Sunday August 17, 2025

Machete

(2010)

It began like any other Tuesday: a crooked senator, a corrupt businessman, and a routine briefing about infrastructure quickly turned into a tale of sharp edges, sharp suits, and even sharper plot twists. The story follows Machete Cortez, an ex-Federale with a voice like gravel and a stare that could grill a steak, who’s hired to perform a political assassination, but surprise! It was a setup. Classic double-cross. Possibly a triple. I lost count around the mariachi band shootout. As he untangles a plot tangled by politicians, drug lords, and at least one man with a ponytail in a crochet store in a hurricane, he teams up with a taco truck freedom fighter, a disillusioned immigration officer, and Michelle Rodriguez in sunglasses. With a whirlwind of bullets, betrayal, tacos, and enough vengeance to fuel three soap operas and a congressional hearing. As he fights corruption with nothing but a machete, a motorcycle with a flamethrower, and an unshakable ability to look cool while jumping out of hospital windows, he becomes a searing indictment of border politics, organized crime, and slow-motion explosions.

Directed by Ethan Maniquis & Robert Rodriguez

Written by Robert Rodriguez & Álvaro Rodríguez

Staring

Danny Trejo as Machete

Robert De Niro as Senator McLaughlin

Michelle Rodriguez as Luz

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