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Tokyo's largest fish market, Tsukiji, is packed with every type of seafood imaginable, from brightly-colored octopus and shrimp to tiny sardines. It's a top destination for Tokyo's sushi chefs - and tourists. Seth Doane pays a visit.

Kei Ishikawa’s take on Ishiguro’s first published work is frustrating and bland, undermining its fascinating characters’ emotional truthsKazuo Ishiguro has long been a subtle and potent figure in the movies, with his distinctively Anglo-Japanese melancholy. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s adaptation of The Remains of the Day for director James Ivory was a heart-rending study in regret; Alex Garland and Mark Romanek’s treatment of science-fiction novel Never Let Me Go was an excursion into strangeness and sadness and, as a screenwriter himself, Ishiguro’s script for Living, a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, was a wonderful transformation.But A Pale View of Hills, adapted by Japanese writer-director Kei Ishikawa from Ishiguro’s 1982 debut novel, is somehow frustrating and disappointing. It is a bland, soggy film whose contrived and anticlimactic surprise ending is not delivered with a clear satisfying twist and, for me, undermines our expectations of what we thought we would be told about the emotional truth of the main character and her life story. Continue reading...

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Okay, a YouTube video, professing to explain the history of all the Joker's costumes, made me mad enough to write this post. Why am I continually surprised at the shoddy scholarship on YouTube?! Why do I keep imagining that I will learn something by clicking on these videos?BAH! FOOLS!In this case I never got past 01:10, where the video describes the Joker's original costume as "straight out of film noir gangster films".This, for those of you who are not familiar with sartorial history, is incorrect."Gangsters" did not wear TAILCOATS. Nor flat-topped hats, nor vests, nor wing collars, nor string ties. These are elements of clothing from 40 to 50 years earlier than the "Gangster Era".Nor dress gloves.I get it. When you are a child every four-legged animal is "doggy" for a while, until you learn more terms and details to distinguish among quadrupeds. So, too, if you are a contemporary unstudied person, you lump together decades worth of clothing styles in a big box labelled "OLD".I am more empathetic than I sound. My husband is a costume designer (his work above), and compared to HIM, what I know about clothing can't fill a thimble.So I will explain to you what the Joker's original outfit is meant to evoke (which would have been MUCH clearer to people in 1939). In short, the Joker is outfitted AS A CARDPLAYER.Are you familiar with the Gambler, from the Injustice Society?Does his outfit look familiar?The hat that the Joker wears? It's not a "fedora"; it's literally CALLED a "Gambler's Hat".Its top is FLAT and low, unlike a fedora or trilby.The string tie? Its common name is a "Kentucky tie", and it's associated with Southern cardplayers (and those who drifted to the Wild West with their style intact).Such as this guy in this Western film.And WHY is the Joker dressed this way? It's obvious: he's coded as a CARD PLAYER. John Carradine ("Stagecoach"1939) would have made an interesting Joker.And a sneaky one, not a good honest cowboy type, but a sneaky, sneering, aristocratic SOUTHERN one.The first image of the Joker is from the splash page of his first story shows him...dealing a hand of cards.The time we see the Joker smile is when he self-identifies as a cheating card player.The pinstriped pants and spats...Or the "stirrup" pants, another old-school element ...are also part of the look. Everything about the Joker's outfit says "shady gambler."There are some echos of the Wild West UNDERTAKER, but the hat, the color of the suit, and pants and spats undercut that association severely, leaving "gambler" the only on-target association.Thanks to period films and closer proximity to the era, the Southern/Western Gambler was a more familiar trope when the character of the Joker was introduced. This type of clothing (particularly in a usually "villainous" color) was really all the Joker needed to be thematically costumed. With due deference to the artists of the Bronze Age, a lot is lost by outfitting the Joker in contemporary styles and there is a reason these looks don't stick (despite their effective color scheme).

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There was bad news this morning from the Cincinnati Reds as they announced that Hunter Greene has both bone chips and loose bodies in his right elbow and will have surgery on Wednesday to clean that up. Mark Sheldon of Reds.com is reporting that Greene’s expected timeline to return is 14-16 weeks. That would put his return at some point between the middle to end of June. This isn’t the worst news that could have come out of this, but it’s not exactly good news, either. A far worse outcome would be that he had damage to his UCL and needed Tommy John surgery, which would have had him out for all of 2026 as well as at least part of 2027. This isn’t that, but even if everything goes as expected on this timeline, the Cincinnati Reds are going to be without Hunter Greene for April, May, and at least half of June. Assuming the Reds would have gone with a 5-man rotation, that means that Greene will miss anywhere from 15-17 starts if he’s back by the very end of June. Cincinnati has better starting pitching depth than most teams, particularly at the end of their rotation where guys like Chase Burns and Rhett Lowder would have easily made other teams rotation without competition for the #5 spot, much less having to be competing with each other to make the team. And that doesn’t include a guy like Brandon Williamson. Even in Triple-A the Reds will have depth with the likes of Julian Aguiar, Chase Petty, and Jose Franco. Still, those guys aren’t Hunter Greene. While he hasn’t pitched a full season in either of the previous two years, he’s made 45 starts with a 2.76 ERA while throwing 258.0 innings and posting 10.6 WAR over that time. He’s one of the very best pitchers on the planet when he’s on the mound and the Reds need that as much anyone. The post Reds’ Hunter Greene needs surgery, will miss most of the 1st half appeared first on Redleg Nation.

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The Cincinnati Reds played two games on Sunday and both games ended in blowout wins for someone. Cincinnati beat up on the Arizona Diamondbacks at home in a 13-4 victory, but the Reds got clobbered in the road game against the Padres that saw San Diego win 14-3. Diamondbacks vs Reds: The Highlights Cincinnati got a scoreless top of the 1st inning from Brady Singer. The Reds offense then put together a rally to bring in a run after TJ Friedl walked to begin the inning and then saw Matt McLain, Elly De La Cruz, and Spencer Steer follow up with singles to take a 1-0 lead. Brady Singer followed up with two more shutout innings before turning the game over to Emilio Pagan for the 4th inning. The Reds closer retired the first two batters of the inning but then he walked Ryan Waldschmidt and paid the price for it as LuJames Groover followed with a double into the left-center gap to tie the game up. In the 6th inning Elly De La Cruz reached on a throwing error. That led to Will Benson getting to hit with two outs and he came through with one of the strangest home runs you’re going to see. He hit a chopper that first made contact with the ground 12 feet from the plate but it went over the head of the first baseman and hugged the line and then got by the right fielder and rolled to the wall as Benson turned on the speed and rounded the bases for an inside-the-park 2-run homer that put Cincinnati up 3-1. Luis Mey came out to pitch the next inning and gave one of the runs back. After getting the first two batters out he gave up a single, had a passed ball advance the runner, and then gave up an RBI ground-rule double that made it a 3-2 game before striking out the next hitter to end the top of the 6th. In the bottom of the inning the Reds got that run back on two doubles that were about as opposite as they could be. Christian Encarnacion-Strand doubled off of the wall and nearly hit it through the wall in right as it had an exit velocity of 112 MPH. Rece Hinds then blooped a double the other way with an exit velocity of just 76 MPH that plated a run. Cincinnati wasn’t done there, though. Prospect Carlos Jorge came through with an RBI triple to center and then Rafhlmil Torres came through with an RBI double as the lead was extended to 6-2. Tyson Lewis then went the other way for a 439-foot home run that came off the bat at 110 MPH to make it 8-2. Arizona got some of that back in the top of the 7th against Graham Ashcraft. He gave up a single to begin the inning and then the first pitch to Jordan Lawlar went 392 feet for a 2-run home run. Ashcraft would retire the next four hitters, including the first one of the 8th before he was replaced by Darren McCaughan who got out of the inning unscathed. When the 8th inning rolled around the Reds youngster hitters went back to work. After Rafhlmil Torres reached on an error Tyson Lewis followed up with a single. A pitching change came next but it made no difference as Ryan McCrystal crushed a 3-run homer down the right field line. Three batters later it was Zavier Warren that came through with a home run of his own, a 2-run blast that went 403 feet into left center that made it 13-4 for the Reds. Darren McCaughan returned to the mound for Cincinnati in the top of the 9th inning and got a 1-2-3 inning to seal the win as the Reds moved to 7-6 for the time being. You can see the box score for this game here. Reds vs Padres: The Highlights It was a tough start for Chase Burns in the 1st inning. He gave up a 1-out double and then a 2-out walk before Gavin Sheets hit a long 3-run home run. The next inning he retired the first two batters before giving up a single and then an RBI triple that made it 4-0. Things went better in the 3rd inning for Burns as he tossed a perfect inning on 14 pitches. He returned for the 4th inning and got the first two batters out before reaching his pitch limit for the day and handing things over to Nate Peterson who completed the inning on five pitches. Chase Petty came on in relief and tossed two shutout innings, sending the game to the 7th still at 4-0. In the top of that inning the Reds finally got on the board with a little help from the Padres pitching as P.J. Higgins was hit by a pitch with two outs to extend the inning. Two pitches later Cincinnati’s top prospect Alfredo Duno hit a 2-run home run into left-center to make it 4-2. San Diego got one of those runs back thanks to some wild pitching from Zach Maxwell. He seemed like he was going to be able to work around a walk, but on what was his third strikeout of the inning he threw a wild pitch and the batter was able to reach first base. Another wild pitch to the next batter followed and that brought in a run. Kevin Abel took over for the Reds in the bottom of the 8th and like Maxwell he was struggling with his control. He walked four batters in the inning, bringing in a run while recording just one out before he was replaced on the mound by Jared Lyons. Things went from bad to worse as Lyons threw two run-scoring wild pitches, gave up an RBI single, an RBI double, and a 3-run home run before recording an out. He eventually got out of the inning but it was 14-2 before that happened. Cincinnati started out the top of the 9th inning with a single from Ruben Ibarra and then a double from Mason Neville. Ibarra would come in to score on a ground out but it would be the final run of the game. This one ended about four minutes after the game in Goodyear did, bringing the Reds back to .500 at 7-7. You can see the box score for this game here. News and Notes The Reds won one and lost one. In both games the two teams involved scored 17 runs and both games were blowouts. In the win over the Diamondbacks the Reds had eight extra-base hits, including four home runs. 12 different players had a hit for Cincinnati. Two players had multi-hit games and both of those guys came off of the bench. Those two guys – Tyson Lewis and Ryan McCrystal both homered in the game and both played in Single-A Daytona last year. The pitching staff struck out 11 Arizona hitters and had just three walks. When the game was over the ERA on the spring of the Reds pitchers who made an appearance in this game were as follows: 9.00, 18.00, 10.13, 27.00, 27.00, and 1.93. The 1.93 belongs to Darren McCaughan, while the rest belong to guys who all pitched in Cincinnati last season. In the loss to San Diego the Reds had three errors and threw five wild pitches, including one by Kevin Abel that missed the strikezone by about 15 feet. Hawkeye says the pitch height was 10.5 feet as it reached the plate, but I don’t believe that to be accurate. You be the judge. https://sporty-clips.mlb.com/NXl3YmVfWGw0TUFRPT1fQXdVRVVGRUdYbGNBQUFjQkF3QUhWd1pYQUZrRlZnUUFDd1lNVVFNRVZGQlFBMUZU.mp4 Newly acquired Reds reliever Kyle Nicolas pitched this afternoon for Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic. He walked a batter, gave up two hits, and allowed two runs while recording just one out against Team Great Britain. On the flip side of that, Reds prospect David Lorduy threw 2.2 hitless innings for Team Colombia this afternoon against Team Cuba. Monday will see the Reds at home and playing just one game. Rhett Lowder will start for Cincinnati as they host the Athletics at 4:05pm ET. The game will be radio only. Also scheduled to pitch in the game for the Reds: Connor Phillips, Sam Moll, Yunior Marte, and Tejay Antone. The post Reds win in a blowout, lose in a blowout on a wild Sunday appeared first on Redleg Nation.

Leeds Grand theatre Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s choreography keeps a tight hold on the narrative and the erotically charged pas de deux between the lovers packs real heatNorthern Ballet’s new show is both progressive and conventional. Progressive because this could be the first lesbian love story in a major ballet. It is based on the life of Anne Lister, the 19th-century Yorkshire landowner also known as Gentleman Jack. Conventional because, in terms of form, choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa keeps a tight handle on narrative and plays into what ballet dancers can do – the long arabesques and fluency of motion. It’s an accessible, stylish production that happens to put the love between two women (three, actually) centre stage.Gemma Coutts plays Lister in top hat, frock coat and flat ballet shoes. Like the choreography, she is strong and straightforward. She has a cocky motif, a flick of the hip and the leg, that brims with self-confidence. She raps her cane on the floor and men fall in line. But we also see her romantic side. There’s an erotically charged pas de deux on a dining table with her great love Mariana (Saeka Shirai). It’s not X-rated but has real heat and tenderness and desire. Lister holds up the bell she uses for bossing her staff around and weaves it around Mariana’s body without touching her: Mariana shivers. She brushes it down Mariana’s spine. This is some of the sexiest choreography I’ve seen in a while. Continue reading...

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If you love iced coffee but hate watered-down flavour or bitter aftertaste, cold brew coffee concentrate is the answer. This easy, no-machine method creates a smooth, bold coffee base you can keep in the fridge and use all week. No fancy equipment. No hot brewing. Just deep coffee flavour without the bite. Cold brew concentrate is stronger than regular cold brew, which means you can dilute it exactly how you like—over ice, with milk, frothed cream, or even hot water when mornings turn cool. Once you make this once, you’ll never go back to daily brewing. What Is Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate? Cold brew coffee concentrate is made by steeping coarsely ground coffee beans in cold water for an extended period—usually 12 to 24 hours. Unlike traditional hot brewing, cold water extracts fewer acids, resulting in a smoother, less bitter coffee. Because the coffee-to-water ratio is higher, the result is a concentrated coffee base that can be diluted in many ways. Think of it as your fridge’s secret weapon. Why Cold Brew Concentrate Tastes Better Cold brew isn’t just trendy—it’s chemistry. Cold water: Extracts less acidity Reduces bitterness Preserves natural sweetness Creates a smoother mouthfeel That’s why cold brew concentrate is often easier on sensitive stomachs and far more forgiving than over-extracted hot coffee. Best Coffee Beans for Cold Brew Concentrate You don’t need expensive beans, but grind size matters. Best options: Medium to dark roast – This Lavazza Coffee is my favorite and my husbands in the cinnamon one. Coarsely ground (similar to raw sugar) Freshly ground if possible Avoid: Fine espresso grinds (they turn muddy) Flavoured coffee beans (can taste artificial) A chocolatey or nutty blend works beautifully for cold brew. Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate Recipe Ingredients 1 cup coarsely ground coffee 4 cups cold filtered water This 1:4 ratio creates a true concentrate that can be diluted later. How to Make Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate Combine coffee and water Add the ground coffee to a large jar or jug. Pour over cold water and gently stir to fully saturate the grounds. Cover and steep Cover loosely and place in the fridge or on the counter. Steep for 12–24 hours depending on strength preference. Strain slowly Strain through a fine mesh sieve, coffee filter, or clean cloth. Don’t rush this step—slow filtering keeps it smooth. Store Transfer to a sealed glass container and refrigerate. How Long Does Cold Brew Concentrate Last? Stored in the fridge, cold brew coffee concentrate stays fresh for up to 7 days. After that, flavours can turn flat or stale. Always store in glass—plastic can absorb coffee odours. How to Use Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate This is where concentrate really shines. For Iced Coffee 1 part concentrate 1 part water or milk Ice For Hot Coffee 1 part concentrate 1 part hot water For Creamy Café-Style Drinks Concentrate + oat milk, almond milk, or cream Add vanilla syrup, cinnamon, or caramel For Coffee Desserts Add to tiramisu Use in chocolate cakes Stir into whipped cream Custom Strength Ratios Prefer lighter coffee? Use more water. Like it bold? Keep it straight. Mild: 1:2 (concentrate to water) Regular: 1:1 Strong: straight concentrate over ice Common Cold Brew Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) Too bitter? ? Steeped too long or grind too fine. Too weak? ? Increase coffee amount or steep longer. Cloudy coffee? ? Grounds too fine or rushed filtering. Sour taste? ? Beans too light or under-steeped. Cold Brew vs Iced Coffee Iced coffee is hot-brewed coffee poured over ice. Cold brew is never heated. Cold brew concentrate: Less acidic Smoother flavour Stronger base Better for meal prep If you like coffee that doesn’t fight back, cold brew wins. Make-Ahead Coffee for Busy Mornings Cold brew concentrate is perfect for: Summer entertaining Busy school mornings Afternoon iced lattes Cutting down café spending I keep a bottle in the fridge next to the milk—grab, pour, done. Frequently Asked Questions Can I make cold brew concentrate without a coffee grinder? Yes. Use pre-ground coffee labelled “coarse” or “French press.” Can I steep longer than 24 hours? You can, but flavours may turn woody or bitter. 18 hours is the sweet spot. Is cold brew stronger than espresso? Concentrate is strong in flavour, but espresso still has more caffeine per ounce. Can I freeze cold brew concentrate? Yes. Freeze in ice cube trays for iced drinks or coffee smoothies. Why Homemade Cold Brew Is Better Than Store-Bought Cheaper Fresher Customisable No preservatives Better flavour control And honestly? It feels a little smug pulling your own cold brew out of the fridge.

I'm working on a document that contains quite a lot of tables. In many of these tables, some columns have normal text, while other columns have other things (e.g. inline images, math formulae, etc) that are taller than a normal line of text. With a normal tabular environment, the text ends up on the same baseline as the larger things, which doesn't look good. I would prefer it be vertically centered, so that the midline of the text lines up with the midline of the larger things. I've seen the tabularray package suggested, but it looks like that uses a very different syntax from a normal tabular, and I have many tables to update and a deadline in two days. I'm open to switching if there's a straightforward way to convert tabulars into tabularrays without changing anything about the default appearance or behavior, but otherwise, I'm worried about the dimensions changing. So: is there some way to change the behavior of a tabular (a certain table, a certain column, even a certain cell if necessary) so that text in cells is vertically centered, without changing anything else about its dimensions and layout? MWE: \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{book} \usepackage{booktabs} \begin{document} \begin{table}[h] \centering \begin{tabular}{ccc} \toprule Normal & Bigger & Normal \\ \midrule Lorem & {\Huge XYZ} & Ipsum \\ \midrule Dolor & {\Huge ABC} & Sit \\ \midrule Consec & {\Huge JKL} & Tetur \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{document} I would like the midline of the smaller text to line up with the midline of the huge text, while keeping everything else about the table the same. I've seen many questions about vertically centering text in table columns, but none of the answers I've seen allow keeping the rest of the table the same (they tend to involve switching to a different environment with different behavior). I've seen that a single-cell multicolumn will center things vertically, but adding those to every single cell in many separate tables is going to be a nightmare, so I'd prefer something I can use once per table instead of once per cell if possible.