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Evan Stevens Hall was essentially blackmailed by a would-be therapist. The media has hardly forgiven him.The popular indie band Pinegrove is in the midst of a comeback tour pegged to their new album, Marigold. Why a comeback tour? The band took a year off following sexual misconduct allegations made against lead singer Evan Stephens Hall. In November 2017, Hall publicly acknowledged the "sexual coercion" accusation; following this, the band ceased activities until late 2018. Recent press coverage of Pinegrove explicitly mentions the controversy. A New York Times review of Marigold claimed that the album feels like it's reckoning with Hall's...

I didn't mean to, if I did. The other day, while in town, I noticed the local grocery store had its usual springtime inventory of starter plants out front on the sidewalk. Now, I don't plant things. I simply let all the flora at this place out in the middle of nowhere grow as it wishes, when it wishes. The William Rivers Pitt, for example, grows lavishly with "volunteer" tomatoes and catnip, and given the nature of the William Rivers Pitt, it's usually a darker green than similar foliage on the ordinary soil here. Where, for about 110 years, there...