Paula Badosa will just have to forgive the world for finding her love match more interesting than her tennis matches. More of 31-year-old Havana-born model Juan Betancourt BELOW.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Song of the Day: 'Name of the Game' by Susanna Hoffs (featuring Aimee Mann)
Susanna Hoffs has written some of the best pop songs of youth -- "Hero Takes a Fall" should have been the Bangles' breakout hit, and "In Your Room" was an instant classic -- yet I still cannot get enough of her covers. (When your taste in music is as good as hers, it's hard not to love it.) Lucky for me, the followup to 2012's sublime and all-originals "Someday" will be "Bright Lights," featuring her take on classic and obscure songs by the Merry-Go-Round, Nick Drake, the Monkees, Prince, Syd Barrett, the Velvet Underground and more. Today's pick is her version of Badfinger's “Name of the Game,” featuring a little help from Aimee Mann. Enjoy!
Complete track listing HERE.
Monday, October 18, 2021
Famed Chelsea Diner The Dish to Close
It's with a heavy heart that I add the final nail in the coffin to my post about the death of Chelsea's 8th Avenue, with news that The Dish just announced that it will be closing after nearly 25 years. The delightfully gay diner -- where everyone went for a cruisy hungover breakfast the day after a night at G, Splash or the Roxy -- opened in 1998, the same year I arrived in the gayborhood. Sad but almost fitting that we both left the 'hood the same year. Read the touching letter from the staff below. 😦😦😦
Tweet Nothings
I don't know what Wendy's so stressed about here. I mean, he was just breaking down a door -- it's not like a direct threat. pic.twitter.com/wqE2Xo1KlA
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) October 17, 2021
The best response yet to playing down Jan. 6
RIP Colin Powell, one of the most shameless and consequential liars in US history https://t.co/fAxYShTBre
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) October 18, 2021
Tell us how you really feel
RIP Betty Lynn, one of the last of the longtime (26 episodes) residents of Mayberry on "The Andy Griffith Show." https://t.co/ctdwW7x2jv pic.twitter.com/NE3NpQrxFG
— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) October 18, 2021
RIP
Why are biology deniers so BIOPHOBIC?Biophobia is just WRONG. It’s prejudiced against the indisputable existence of an entire canon of work.— Mandy Stadtmiller (@mandystadt) October 18, 2021
Order 'The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense' HERE.
Blondie drummer Clem Burke picks his 10 favourite albums https://t.co/o4C5jm86LH
— Clem Burke (@clem_burke) October 18, 2021
His love of the Four Seasons is adorable!
Masters 1000 Champion 🏆British No. 1 🇬🇧Top 20 ⬆️Get to know @cam_norrie 💫 pic.twitter.com/NEr3HuoavD— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) October 18, 2021
Swoon
Manspread Monday
Suffice to say I was experiencing a bit of sensory overload when Eric Decker posted this story on Instagram over the weekend. More BELOW.
Weekend Tennis Roundup
We had two unlikely championship matches at Indian Wells on Sunday. But between the men's finalists -- winner Cam Norrie and runner-up Nikoloz Basilashvili -- and women's winner Paula Badosa's boyfriend, it was a win-win-win. Full report BELOW.
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