GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
And welcome to CoffeeBreak. This is the stand-in for Daybreak until Aug. 23—just a playful little diversion until the grownup version returns. I never used to go national, but this was just too darn good. For years (and years and years) Californians have snorted at the New York Times' sniffish forays into LA and SF to highlight some hint of cultural life that just can't measure up to the Big Apple's. Back in 2019, in an April Fools master-stroke, the LA Times' food columnist struck back. He hit every dismissive trope the NYT deploys. For pizza he heads to "up-and-coming Brooklyn, a dangerous, brooding suburb accessible through the city’s antiquated system of underground metal cars (similar to Los Angeles’ Metro system, but more expensive)." Pull up a seat, grab the popcorn, and dig in.Meanwhile, here's what's going on in the woods this third week of July. Thanks to Northern Woodlands' Elise Tillinghast, it's definitely going to be something interesting—but I prepped this before she finished writing, so you'll just have to go see for yourself.
And then there's this example of extreme social distancing before it was a thing: Robby Robertson, Ringo Starr, and a stunning cast of musicians on five continents (from South Carolina to Hawaii to Japan to Congo to Bahrain to Nepal), doing
It took two years to pull together, according to the background article by
Rolling Stone,
and yes, it was so definitely worth the effort.
See you Friday!
Daybreak Where You Are: The Album. Photos of daybreak and sunsets around the Upper Valley, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the US, sent in by readers.
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