- The first American restaurant was Delmonico’s in NYC, 1837, discovered on the way to the best “free” bread in America (in Las Vegas but Red Lobster and Cheesecake Factory make appearances).
- Brooks Koepka, winner of 5 majors: “I understand that there’s prices to pay for coming back [to the PGA Tour], and I’m willing to accept those and whatever I have to do. … The answer to everything is play better,” he said, “and you’re in.”
- “Increasing levels of literacy [in archaic Greece], especially among craftsmen, no doubt account to some extent for the growth of interest in combining inscriptions with figures [from 650-450 BCE]. This is an argument, then, for the novelty of writing exerting a certain charm and inspiring its integration with images. … Inscriptions were drawn into the world of pictorial narration while inviting viewers to speak and tell the depicted myths themselves; they played into the culture of oral storytelling in which they were embedded. … Another vital factor…was Greek interaction with Egyptian material culture. The intimacy between figural representation and hieroglyphic writing is one of the most salient and abiding features of ancient Egyptian art. By the mid-5th century BCE, a new mode of visual representation had emerged in Greek art––characterized by the techniques of contrapposto, perspective, foreshortening, and anatomical verisimilitude––which was geared for a kind of pictorial illusionism largely incompatible with the ways that Archaic artists had integrated writing with figural images,” argues Hugo Shakeshaft in Hesperia.
- With nearly 2x $30M households (190k+), major gifts fundraising is changing, says Chronicle of Philanthropy: “The archetype of the road warrior who charms donors and single-handedly lands big gifts is still a fixture. But it’s giving way as more gift officers work within a sophisticated infrastructure that includes data analysts, communications professionals, and top leaders. Success is a byproduct of that system’s effectiveness, not a single fundraiser’s charm offensive.” Even titles are morphing toward guidance and advice.
- Suicide is back in the top 10 causes of death, reports Pew.
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