People have strong feelings about This American Life’s spinoff podcast, S-Town. (I listened to the entire thing on one long, boring road trip. I liked it, but I was also a very captive audience.) Now Indiewire reports the story will be turned into a movie, with Spotlight’s Tom McCarthy directing. [Kate Bernot]
Our president is sucking up to a murderous dictator; Florida recently had a devastating multi-fatality school shooting; and children are being ripped away from their parents at America’s border. So, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, you must have a lot of issues to juggle—what’s at the top of your agenda?
Remember when Twitter used to be fun? Now it’s a horrible, raging, flaming dumpster fire, so the fun of following random accounts is a dim memory most days. So I’m really thrilled with my most recent follow, I’ve Pet That Dog. Gideon is a 9-year-old boy who takes pictures with the dogs that he stops to pet—276 as of…
The Takeout editor Kevin Pang is a much more advanced bread baker than I am, so he’s become my guru as I slowly enter the complex and rewarding world of sourdough. But my bread-baking apprenticeship started not with sourdough, but with Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread recipe (suggested by Kevin, of course). It was so simple…
Maybe it’s the nature of writers that we’re apt to take to venting our feelings on social media. Frustrating mornings, horrible outfits, airline hassles, even the worst date ever can all be made better with some conciliatory remarks from online pals (a.k.a., friendly strangers) and a handful of likes.
If you’re a social media manager for a major food brand, we don’t blame you for wanting to have a little fun with it. Right now, KFC is using a “chicken crossing the road” theme to get through its U.K. poultry shortage, and previously hid some clever clues in who the brand follows on Twitter. Wendy’s is downright…
Sure, we’ve all enjoyed Little Caesars’ “Pizza Pizza” guy and his sandals and his strange tuft of chest hair for many years. But a Twitter thread this week strangely focused on a even more specific thing: Namely the stripes at the back of the mascot’s throat.
For a movie based in the world of fashion, Phantom Thread sure featured a lot of food and mealtimes. Who could forget Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis)’s extensive breakfast order on his first encounter with lovely waitress Alma (Vicky Krieps)? Or the ensuing morning meal battles that followed, based on how loudly…
