Welcome to REPLY ALT, the world’s only email newsletter about music. If you’re new here, sometimes I use this space to write things and sometimes I use it to podcast. Sometimes I half-ass it and sometimes I use my whole ass. Today it’s a podcast wherein I used roughly 70-85% of my ass. Subscribe if you haven’t! The last time I interviewed today’s guest for this podcast, his name was Adam Vallely.

Prachi’svital, heartbreaking, radical memoir, “They Called Us Exceptional”, is one that will stay with me for a long, long time. The bravery with which she pens the most intimate details of her life is astounding — and the writing itself is stunning, to boot. To read this book is to push at the edges of our own understanding. To interrupt the stories that we’ve been told -- about our culture, our identity, our understanding of love.

Gastro World Digest offers free weekly recipes that have been curated and tested by Tway, a chef and content creator. Recipes will always be free, along with useful tips and links to help you master the recipe. If you’re down for free recipes, why not subscribe? (: I remember my first time seeing someone order this at a restaurant in Vietnam, I was so intrigued because of the sound and the aroma that followed the waiter carrying it to table that ordered it & I knew right away that I had to get it.

BRIGHTON, MA – Brad Marchand has always a little something special for the Toronto Maple Leafs ever since coming into the NHL, and it probably goes back to being a Leafs fan when he was a hockey-crazed kid growing up in Nova Scotia. “They were my favorite team growing up,” admitted Marchand. “Even today when you go to their building, they have a lot of their alumni walking around. Guys that I admired growing up.

Today would have been Vada Pinson’s 85th birthday. Sadly, he died from the effects of a stroke in 1995 when he was only 57-years old. His career really isn’t discussed much anymore, but his birthday seems like a good opportunity to remind folks exactly how good he was. Under the rules in effect at the time, Pinson exceeded rookie l… ncG1vNJzZmiokaq5pcPHoqueZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8Keo56aopbBqrrGZq2anJFivaq60qil