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Album of the Day: Wednesday August 19, 2025
Nick Drake
Pink Moon (1972)
Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by the English musician Nick Drake, released in the UK by Island Records on 25 February 1972.
Pink Moon
Place to Be
Road
Which Will
Horn
Things Behind the Sun
Know
Parasite
Free Ride
Harvest Breed
From the Morning
Feature Presentation: Wednesday August 19, 2025
Us
(2019)
Get out the Visine for another dusty squinting installment of the Wild West. When two bounty hunters, one a quiet sharpshooter named Manco who smokes more cigars than George Burns, and the other Colonel Mortimer, who looks like he’s perpetually calculating a revenge equation too complicated for even John Wick, begrudgingly team up to take down gang leader El Indio, who carries a stopwatch that triggers both his crime and childhood trauma. In this classic tale of vengeance, alliance, and how to wear a poncho in the desert without dying of dehydration, there are gunfights, double crosses, more gunfight, and a time where every man carries a gun, wears a hat, and communicates exclusively through prolonged silence and dramatic close-ups. In the end, will it be less about money and more about justice? Or ask the question - why can’t it be both?
Directed by Jordan Peele
Written by Jordan Peele
Staring
Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson/Red
Winston Duke as Gabe Wilson/Abraham
Elisabeth Moss as Kitty Tyler/Dahlia
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