KappaGuerra Capoeira, and reading the game
He calls most capoeira today a badly organized circus. His KappaGuerra starts with music and a slow ginga and grows into unscripted play with a friend.
Culture
Dr. Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander writes himself as a warrior
He shows care by giving books and teaching fitness, and writes Kuroda, a multiversal self who keeps his capacity for violence in check.
Kuroda doesn't need Popular Mechanics to prove aliens exist
In my fiction, his hunt for proof turns into a secret program of downing alien craft, capturing their crews and experimenting on them.
My passport card won't scan. A clerk called it 'law.'
On an Instacart run at Harris Teeter, a store 'law' about scanning my ID turned out to be policy. Typing it in by hand took a code and a birth date.
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Why Bonzai fits the 6 to 12 hours a day I spend driving
I do delivery gig work and dictate podcasts, blogs and metadata on the road. Every piece I've made on Bonzai so far began behind the wheel.
My nutrition book sounds like a death-metal war cry
Behind my extreme-metal title is a simple idea: a poisoned river can heal once the dumping stops, and so can a body, one small change at a time.
Fiction: A Queens boy and the woman called Andromeda
In a World Reading Club story, young Kuroda walks home from school into a fenced court where a green merman shoots a woman named Andromeda.
Thanksgiving drinks don't need a recipe to last
From the first pour to the cup after dinner, what keeps a drink on the holiday table has as much to do with when it arrives as what's in it.
Contributors: Harold Kim, Graham Okafor, Priya Desai +4 others
Democratic Congress faces affordability test
Democrats won both chambers of Congress, but President Donald Trump's veto could limit changes to household costs.
What household costs should Congress tackle first?
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A turn or a tuck can bring family back to the kitchen
The motion can outlast the day it was learned; what it brings back ranges from a loved one's hands to a shared effort or a lesson without a face.
Contributors: Jeff Tannenbaum, Nico Sato, Priya Desai +2 others
Halloween chocolate fails to stand out in shop requests
Earlier Halloweens provide no clearer pick. But a request no one remembers is not the same as a complete record of what customers ordered.
Contributors: Nico Sato, Eli Rosenfeld, Mara Velez +2 others
