In today's edition, our first shoutout includes several of our favorite attributes for a story; innovation married to creativity, taking existing buildings and repurposing for better sustainability. The King of miniature art has a new calendar image today, followed by a story about your family's secret recipe that is actually something else. Robert Smith helps a mental health charity in the UK, and we pulled our quote today from Jason Sudeikis while listening to Brett Goldstein's podcast Films To Be Buried With.

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In a story with all the characteristics of the things we love, Nice News tells us about an architectural award for buildings that have been rehabbed, retrofitted, and repurposed to be new mixed-used facilities. This story is about innovation, design, creativity, and inspiration; for us, it has everything except music! The Royal Institute of British Architects created the award and has selected four finalists for the 2023 award.

The finalists include a radio station turned into a school, a community gym expanded into a larger community center, and a brewery turned into a university building. The new facilities have all been updated inside and out, and all the updates will improve the sustainability of the space. You can read more details on the awards here.

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Another highlight from Tatsuya Tanaka, who we introduced a few weeks ago. We now look at his Miniature Calendar daily, and when we are especially delighted by the day's post, we will share.

The founder of Shake Shack and other successful restaurants, Danny Meyer, walked one of the chefs at his new restaurant through his grandma's secret potato salad recipe. After his team had recreated the recipe and Meyer tasted it, he said, you nailed it! His team laughed and showed him the back of the Hellman's mayo jar, and Walla, there was his secret family recipe.

A new pub called Gastro Obscura has a story about secret family recipes that seem to need to be more secret. Other common secret recipes included the Toll House cookie recipe, the Marshmallow Fluff fudge recipe, and a strange pancake recipe from a cottage cheese lid⁉️ Deserts were the highest plagiarized secret recipes; the whole read is; nostalgic, hunger-inducing, and fun.

Our YouTube feed brought us a great video that looks like it was recorded in my basement in the 80s, but it was Robert Smith, and the recording was from 2020. Smith played alternative versions of three early Cure songs for a charity event called Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People. We also looked at that website, and both the cause and The Cure were pretty cool!

She Moves - James and the Cold Gun.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Here’s one for the road!

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