Good afternoon, reader. Today we've got summer blockbusters, red wines and more Adventure 101 tips for you. Let's jump into it:

Every Summer Blockbuster Since 1975, Ranked

The semicentennial of Jaws isn’t until next year, but not being able to wait for things is a crucial aspect of cinephilia, so we’ve gone ahead and compiled our definitive ranking of summer blockbusters anyway. Our methodology was simple: we selected the highest-earning title from each “summer,” a colloquial releasing window stretching from the beginning of May to Labor Day, with noteworthy dispensations for Marvel’s attempts to move the goalposts back to the last weekend in April via the unignorable Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. In order to prevent an unfair advantage for May drops over those in August, we also chose to consider a film’s total grosses rather than everything raked in during the summer months.

Considered as a whole, these 49 films comprise a pocket history not just of Hollywood — its trends, its industrial mission shifts, its technological advances — but of America, which has always confronted and reassured itself through the “dream-life” played out on screen.

Yesterday, we asked you what your favorite summer beers are. Here are the results:

You Should Be Drinking Chilled Red Wine This Summer

We love a deep, velvety, oaky red wine, served at cellar temperature with a great steak or solo just because. They have their time and place throughout the year, but when warm weather rolls around, all we can think about is a great red chilled down and enjoyed al fresco, whether at a backyard barbecue, rooftop party or sidewalk table. But not every red wine should be served chilled, so we gathered our editors together for an office tasting, just in time for summer. Grab a cooler and one of these 14 bottles to enjoy yourself thoroughly this season.

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How to Hold Your Breath for Longer

This story is part of our Adventureland series. Read all the extreme how-to guides here.

Adam Stern was backpacking around Southeast Asia “cruising around, having fun, drinking, all those things,” when he stumbled upon a free diving school. Stern absorbed all he could about free diving, progressing to a point where his mentors suggested he begin entering free-diving competitions. He threw himself into it with typical enthusiasm, eventually becoming one of the five best free-divers in the world.

Despite his reluctance to put his own life on the line in pursuit of trophies, Stern says that free-diving isn’t inherently any more dangerous than other extreme sports. “Free-diving as a sport is as dangerous as the person who’s doing it,” he says. “When you do anything to an extreme level, there’s added risk. If you looked at the rate of heart attacks during ultra marathons, you’d be like, ‘Oh, wow, ultra marathons are a fucking dangerous activity, right?’ We teach free-diving with a bunch of parameters: ‘Here’s what we do, here’s what we don’t do.’ When we teach it, it’s the safest extreme activity in the world.”

Whether you’re interested in giving free-diving a go, or simply looking to improve your breath-holds, Stern’s advice can help.

Make Sockeye Salmon Crudo Your New Summertime Staple

The first culinary contestant to out-cook multiple-Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay on Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, North Carolina-based chef William Dissen knows his way around the kitchen. The author of the newly released cookbook Thoughtful Cooking: Recipes Rooted In the New South, Dissen now also knows his way around the keyboard following the completion of his book.

Contained in that tome, which includes sustainability-themed favorites from the hills and valleys of Appalachia, is a recipe for sockeye salmon crudo, a raw seafood dish that’s ideal for cooling down during the summer heat despite featuring Jimmy Nardello peppers as one of its most prominent ingredients.

One Night in Vancouver, the Violence Came After the Hockey Game

On Monday night in Vancouver, the Oilers beat the Canucks 3-2 in Game 7 to advance to the Western Conference final. The city's response to the loss was thankfully a far cry from what it was the last time they lost a Game 7,  at home on June 15, 2011, when they lost 4-0 to the Bruins and 150,000 rioters took to the streets of downtown to set vehicles on fire, loot businesses and confront police officers for more than five hours.

Referred to as the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot in a report from The British Columbia Prosecution Service, the violent event that occurred more than a decade ago was eventually brought under control by 928 police officers, but not before $3.78 million worth of damage had been done and nearly 300 crimes (26 arsons, 193 property damages, 26 break-and-enters and 52 assaults) had been committed.

We spoke to Vancouver filmmakers Asia Youngman and Kathleen Jayme ahead of their forthcoming ESPN 30 for 30 documentary I’m Just Here For The Riot, featuring old videos uploaded to YouTube and never-before-seen footage they were able to crowd-source from Vancouverites who were downtown that night and decided to film the riot.