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People come here for the fresh twists on classic Italian and pan-Mediterranean dishes—think veal tartare with bone marrow, tuna sauce and capers, or moreish culurgiones (also known as Sardinian ravioli) with pecorino, potato, mint and truffle—and stay for the creative cocktails and superb service.—
Isabelle Kliger,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025 -
TVLine has learned that Season 3 of the caper drama (which previously streamed on Freevee) will premiere Thursday, April 17, with the first three episodes of 10, followed by weekly drops.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
24 Feb. 2025
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But through the lens of director Bong’s twisted sense of humor, that buffoonery comes from somewhere dark.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2025
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There are no gilded gates here, but there is one heck of a party, complete with serenading busts, ballroom dancers, excitable opera singers, drunken buffoonery and portraits locked in an endless duel.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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While a looming hurricane spells doom for a sleepy Florida town, citizens carry on: two friends pull pranks and ponder life; another pair captures terrifying footage of the storm; a young woman harbors a deep crush.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2025
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Tom Green, a Y2K-era phenomenon most famous for his MTV prank show and surreal brand of comedy, is returning to the spotlight with a flurry of new projects for Amazon Prime Video.—
Jason Zinoman,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Woll's Karen Page is one of Matt's oldest friends, and her character offers a reprieve from the superhero antics.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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Musk’s politics, work and antics outside of Tesla are apparently taking a toll.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2025
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Editor’s picks Looked at in the context of Lynch’s larger career — among the most remarkable in film history, but also among the most idiosyncratic — such wide-sweeping popularity almost feels like a practical joke by the universe on David Lynch, or perhaps vice versa.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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Some guessed that excessive Taser incidents could be officers fiddling with the weapons out of boredom or sparking them as a practical joke.—
Nate Rosenfield,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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The user’s viral review sparked parodies across the app with user @Nathanwituk poking fun at the original poster in a Feb. 23 video.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Feb. 2025
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Additionally, disco offered a framework for instrumentalists to play around with, as well as characteristics that cannot be boiled down to logic: there can also be affective reasons, regardless of whether the intent is irony, camp, parody, or the expression of genuine sentiment.—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Feb. 2025
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From the outset, Union Pacific officials recognized that the odds of bringing the riot’s ringleaders to justice were slim.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Wambaugh, who joined the LAPD as a patrolman in 1960, made a splash with his debut novel, The New Centurions, a sweeping tale that followed three young LAPD officers during a five-year period that led to the 1965 Watts riots.—
Chris Koseluk,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Feb. 2025
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The team of cosmic homicide detectives determined a strange X-ray signal is the dying scream of a planet destroyed by a superdense stellar corpse called a white dwarf.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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The audience went wild before Cruise hit the stage, filling Harpo Studios in Chicago with deafening screams, applause and even some tears.—
Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Leg-pull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leg-pull. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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