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Show Me The Body – “Eat For Peace”

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Show Me The Body backstage at Salt Lake City's Kilby Block Party. I was nervous about that one. Even though I like that band a lot, I had this idea that they'd be ultra-serious, monkish types and that the conversation would be awkward as hell:

Music

Apple wants Europe to blink

It took a few years, but Apple finally made its AI look useful. Now millions of iPhone users in Europe are being told they won't be getting Siri AI anytime soon, if ever - and Apple wants them to blame the EU. Apple says its new AI-powered Siri will not launch on iPhones and

Tech

Taylor Swift Is Coming Back to Country Radio

The superstar's "I Knew It, I Knew You" is being furiously added to rotation. "Given the right song, country radio will support her again," says an insider, "and it looks like she delivered in a huge way"

Patron problem: Kim Jong Un played Russia, rattled China and won

President Xi Jinping has, over the years, drastically cut short his foreign travels. More like Chairman Mao, he prefers to host world leaders in Beijing. His foreign visits that averaged about 14 trips a year during 2013–19 fell to one during the pandemic year 2020, to zero for

Asia

Yesterday Was a Good Day

Yesterday, Ollie and I hiked up to Delta Lake (via Lupine Meadows Access) in Grand Teton National Park. It was perhaps a bit aggressive given my current lack of fitness, my non-acclimation to the altitude (we topped out at 9000’), and the rock scrambling we had to do near the