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Many people conceive of a favorite restaurant as a place of comfort. You walk in and they remember your order. Maybe they make you feel “at home,” let you go off-menu, indulge you with a free glass of ...

If the league’s top teams have offered instructions for building a contender, Valkyries ownership has followed them in the early going. Those instructions, broadly speaking, are to attract and retain ...

Perhaps it is not so impressive for a club that finished in the top four of the Premier League last season to barely beat a struggling RB Leipzig on a late and wickedly deflected goal from, of all ...

Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, ...

Spare me your analytics, and your short-attention-span-theatre I-only-remember-what-I-stream clucks. Save your explanations ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Giri Nathan, ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

I’ve been rewatching Lost, which is streaming on Netflix. When I first started this undertaking, I was able to enjoy each ...

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