Aaron Gilbreath

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Another fantastic installment of Michael LaPointe’s monthly gambling column Dice Roll. This one is about Steve Schillinger, who sold futures for things you would never find on the Pacific Stock Exchange, including whether O. J. would go to prison.

The Roaring Cat Retreat was more than one couple’s personal zoo. It was a symbol of the divisions between a small Canadian town’s rich and poor, its past and present, and the park’s closure threatened to take some of Grand Bend, Ontario’s unusual character with it.

“My side-eye at the family’s neo-pioneer lifestyle is accompanied by a thrum of envy for the freedom of their life and a desperate, shame-filled recognition of the disparity between their towering competence and my obvious lack thereof.”

Seventh-Day Adventists’ dietary philosophy has made Loma Linda, California one of the healthiest cities in the world, and it has a lot to teach the rest of the country.

Guided By Voices has complete creative autonomy over its musical existence, but it has to work twice as hard for half the money now. To founding member Robert Pollard, it’s a worthy trade.

A self-taught, prolific, intuitive, musician, he embodied and embraced the totality of Black musical history, blew speakers and mystified listeners, and his unconvential approach to making shit bumping made him what some call “the closest Los Angeles has come to producing a Sun Ra.”