There are a lot of things white people take for granted — and one of them is ease of movement. I don't mean, like, the ability to move your body without feeling creaks and cracks, I mean actually moving oneself — across town, across the country, by foot, by car, by train, by plane — without question. That assertion is complicated, of course, by other parts of a person's identity, but the general pass of whiteness remains in place: the understanding that in a white body, I will almost certainly be given the benefit of the doubt, and that my presence in a space will not be immediately understood as threatening or suspect.

This time of year, there’s a lot of talk and all sorts of articles with strategies for not turning on your oven in the summer. They remind me of all the October/November articles and recipes that promise the moistest Thanksgiving turkey ever. If anyone wants moist turkey, you can spend your life debating dry vs. wet brining, deep-frying (which is fraught with fails), roasting the bird upside down, spatchcocking it, etc.

Indolic, the adjective deriving from the noun indole, is used within the perfume industry in a slightly different way than the common usage of the word indole. Indole is actually a chemical component found within certain plants. Aromatic plants which include jasmine (Jasminium spp.), lilac (Syringa spp.), honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.), and gardenia (Gardenia spp.) contain varying degrees of indole. Indole is found in mostly white flowers which are fragrant; however, indole is also found in vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage (all cultivars of Brassica oleracea).

We knew this day was coming, and now it’s here: The top free agent hitter still on the market has signed a contract to play major league baseball this season and will report to spring training immediately as, uh, the games have already started. It’s no surprise that Cody Bellinger returned to the Cubs. No other team was ever seriously linked to the star centerfielder (at least publicly). And even the fabled “mystery team” a certain scribe close to Bellinger’s agent, Scott Boras, tends to float to the market to add intrigue/confusion/drive up bidding never materialized.

With paid preview screenings starting tomorrow as early as 3:00 pm, Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part Two is expected to be Hollywood’s first tentpole smash of 2024. Conventional wisdom suggests an over/under $75 million domestic and over/under $170 million global launch. Warner Bros. Discovery has tried to temper expectations, offering a $65 million domestic projection. Studios almost always “predict” smaller figures than tracking services and rival studios for what should be obvious reasons.