2020

By: Taryn Pire| Dec. 1, 2020 [I can personally vouch for most of these. If you want yummy eating, and not too complicated, these recipes are the way to go.] You may know Jocelyn Delk Adams, food blogger and author of the award-winning Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories, for her stunning desserts. But it turns out the baker extraordinaire…

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A Trump donor’s company got a 3 percent federal pandemic loan. It sells title loans at a 350 percent annual rate. Wellshire Financial Services got the money despite rules meant to prevent most lenders from qualifying for the Main Street program By Todd C. Frankel November 23, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST A company owned by a…

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From TheSkimm: America’s top US intel official has issued a warning: China is our No. 1 threat. Give me the briefing. In an unusual move, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe outlined Beijing’s threat to America in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal. Ratcliffe sees more intel than anyone else in the US gov. He lives it…

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Yesterday, Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced a lawsuit in the Supreme Court challenging the presidential election results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Michigan. Reminder: President-elect Joe Biden won those battleground states. And the Trump campaign’s been challenging the results – baselessly claiming voter fraud – with no success. Now, Paxton’s added to the legal…

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The Treasury Secretary came to defend his decision to take away billions in relief funds from the American people. It didn’t go well for him. BY BESS LEVIN Referring to Mnuchin’s decision to make the Federal Reserve, against its will, return hundreds of billions of dollars that were designated for emergency COVID-19 lending programs, and place them in the…

Read More Katie Porter, Esquire, Tears Steven Mnuchin, Smug Prick, a New Asshole

Dear Jazz Standard Community, It is with great sadness that USHG shares that Jazz Standard and Blue Smoke Flatiron will not be reopening on 27th Street. We have explored every avenue to arrive at a different outcome, but due to the pandemic and months without revenue—as well as a lengthy rent negotiation that has come to…

Read More My Favorite Jazz Club is Closing

By Richard Goldstein Published Dec. 2, 2020Updated Dec. 3, 2020, 12:19 p.m. ET Rafer Johnson, who carried the American flag into Rome’s Olympic Stadium in August 1960 as the first Black captain of a United States Olympic team and went on to win gold in a memorable decathlon duel, bringing him acclaim as the world’s greatest all-around athlete, died…

Read More Rafer Johnson, Winner of a Memorable Decathlon, Is Dead