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The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for February Kirk Miller, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Note, due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, release dates are highly tentative.  Maybe, just maybe, John Oliver took a deservedly scheduled but still ill-conceived time to take a short break. And now we really don’t want to relive a coup or the last few months, so hey, expect lots of Gamestop and Covid talk! (Feb 14, HBO) Other returning TV series and specials: The Equalizer (Feb. 7, CBS); Super Bowl LV (Feb. 7, CBS); The Great North (Feb. 14, Fox); Temptation Island (Feb. 16, USA); For All...

French Village Receives $2.4M Decades After Hiding a Man From the Nazis Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In 1943, Eric Schwam and several members of his family arrived in the French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon from Austria, where they had been trying to avoid capture by the Nazis. Residents of the town took them in and hid them from a horrific fate. As The Guardian notes in a recent article, they weren’t alone: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon gave shelter to around 2,500 Jewish people during World War II. Schwam and his family stayed in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon until 1950, and he end...

Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92.2 Million, Setting New Record Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In 1982, real estate developer Sheldon Solow bought the Botticelli portrait “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $1.3 million. Much has changed in the years since then in the art world; Solow himself died last November. As for the Botticelli painting? The fate of Solow’s vast art collection was, until recently the subject of heated debate. Would it be auctioned off or, as Solow hoped, end up as part of a new museum? If a New York Timesarticle on the Botticelli au...

This Winterized Nike Running Jacket Is 45% Off Today Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail One of Nike’s best wintry layers, the Aerolayer Running Jacket, is currently $55 off. The polyester/nylon jacket is 100% water-repellent, features a hefty hood and has multiple pockets for catch-all items. There’s also a “quilted chevron” panel on the front, which is meant to regulate temperature while you’re out running, but also just looks awesome. The Aerolayer is eligible for a discount in Smoke Grey, Black and Obsidian, though sizing options are best with the Smoke Grey. We re...

We Need to Talk About Bartenders and Mental Health Kirk Miller, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “As bartenders we are independent, creative, ‘people people.’ The pandemic has taken away our ability to connect with our guests and ply our trade.” That’s Raul Faria, the chair of the United States Bartenders’ Guild Health and Wellness Committee, explaining the unique challenges his industry and his own profession faced last year, and which are now continuing into 2021. Last year, InsideHook polled people in the drinks industry (bartenders, distillery owners/workers, brand ambassado...