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Extra Extra: Are You Going To Wear A Mask This Summer?


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Ben Yakas

Published Apr 29, 2021


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Published Apr 29, 2021


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  • The Times makes a compelling case for a one week paid national holiday.
  • Food & Wine has declared that New Jersey has the best pizza in America, followed by Connecticut and THEN New York.
  • Millennials are apparently really getting into chickens.
  • To mask or not to mask, that is the question (on the minds of millions of Americans).
  • There's no saying this nicely: this duck is too tall.
  • Pitchfork has a piece about a new documentary which highlights female pioneers in early electronic music.
  • The NYPD is probing two Asian hate crime attacks this week.
  • Zoë Roth, a college senior better known as the subject of the "Disaster Girl" meme, has sold the original copy of her meme as an NFT for almost $500K.
  • Regina Hall talked to Vulture about the wonderful film Support The Girls.
  • Billie Eilish has a new single and it sounds...just like Feist.
  • And finally, these three do not seem like a very effective security system:

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