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Our EIC @james_jjung first heard @TheAvalanches in 2001. 25 years later, he sat down with bandmates Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi to tell them what their music has meant to him.

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Some people birdwatch. Our nightlife editor bartends.
Dani Brand’s field guide to the Friday-night drinker, in their natural habitat 📷
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To many, looksmaxxing has appeared another directionless youth movement. Others are discovering that Clavicular has connections to a for-profit death machine, designed to catch a generation of teenage boys at their most vulnerable.
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We sent one woman out with four New York 20-somethings on a Saturday night to find out whether men can still pick up women IRL. There was the Casa Cipriani rooftop, a "cucking economy" theory and one very persistent lovebomber.
Read the field report here:
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news: i’m gonna be writing and editing a new culture newsletter for @InsideHook called Coverage. for my second piece, i wrote about whether the critical backlash to the new rachel cusk might suggest a collective exhaustion with autofiction at large https://t.co/oxPTkVBhII

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Game recognize game. Letterlanders, let's give some props to these winners:

- Sam Altman is just like the rest of us (he hates AI in the inbox) via @FoundersPodcast with @davidsenra

- @InsideHook is working on a relaunch with deeper editorial

- @danielbelfort is launching Offprint, your save-for-later folder, printed (@kendallbaker, you called it)

- New subscription alert: The Knowing from @GenevaSThomas. Not a newsletter, a weekly inbox magazine.

Anyone else have a flex this week?

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

Thank you to @InsideHook for publishing this excerpt from my new book IS THIS IT.
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[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

Thanks to @InsideHook for this great interview about my book IS THIS IT.
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[minh @MinhTran____]

for @InsideHook, I spoke with the immensely thoughtful @Steven_Hyden about his new book on the Strokes, the media's role in their ascent, Geese-mania, and swaggy band t-shirts being paramount to your success https://t.co/ftfAOw7UbA

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The @FIFAWorldCup  has a habit of producing big moments and bigger kits — so we rounded up the best ones. (The kits, that is.) Read about the most iconic jerseys ever to grace the tournament.
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My Sons Made Me a @nyknicks Fan: InsideHook's editor-in-chief @james_jjung writes a moving personal essay on breaking ties with your family legacy to support the teams and embrace the sports your children love.
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Private chef @chef_JonnyM dishes on what elite players eat for performance — and what you can steal from their diets.
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@chef_JonnyM dishes on what elite players eat for performance — and what you can steal from their diets.

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1,064 horsepower. 0-62 mph in 2.5 seconds. V8 engine + 3 electric motors. The Valhalla is the most important car for the future of @astonmartin, and @johnlewinski got behind the wheel.
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Should restaurants and bars ban phones? Does the phenomenon of everybody checking their phones dozens of times long before the check comes bother you?

For @InsideHook, Kathleen Willcox makes the case. As she notes, the rise in phones was accompanied by a rise in loneliness. Willcox cites the fact that the portion of Americans dining alone is at a record high, with people sharing an average of only 7.9 meals with others per week. And Americans are spending less time with other people than at any time going back to 1965, when the data started being collected.

As one restaurateur put it, “You can be in a room full of people and still feel like no one’s really there because everyone is half on their phone. Screens cut through the natural rhythm of a space — the generosity, the spontaneity, that shared pulse that makes hospitality feel special. After so many years in this industry, you really see the difference when guests stay present. The whole room changes. The experience becomes real again.” https://t.co/PrlHEiV9kn

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Ahead of the release of his new memoir, soccer legend @landondonovan opens up about the struggles under the surface of his hall-of-fame career.

Read the story by Tanner Garrity: https://t.co/Of8gBEums1

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American menus are getting harder to pronounce — and that’s the best thing to happen to U.S. dining in years.
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EV manufacturer VinFast announced a new agreement that would make recycling its EV batteries easier and more efficient.
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A collection of Bob Dylan recordings from 1973, titled "50th Anniversary Collection 1973," has been released in a limited edition.
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