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Michael B. Jordan Is on a Mission to Get You Moving

Michael B. Jordan has been interested in fitness for a long time. “Probably since I first realized I had legs and arms,” he says. Alongside juggling childhood roles in The Sopranos and, famously, as Wallace in The Wire, Jordan says he was into anything and everything athletic, from soccer to basketball, baseball and swimming.

Now 37, Jordan’s physicality has become a large part of his career. He has played a boxer not once but three times (even directing the third Creed film), a Marvel villain (Black Panther) and a Navy SEAL (Without Remorse).

He’s also rumored to be playing a vampire hunter in his latest collaboration with Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler. We spoke with Jordan over Zoom — he’s in New Orleans on the set of his latest film — to discuss the role fitness has played in his life, and his Propel Your City Project, an initiative to drive access to fitness across the country, in partnership with Propel Fitness Water.

Yesterday, we asked if you'd be willing to give this snap pea martini a try. The results were close, but the majority of you (55%) we're absolutely ready to taste it for yourself. 

Halifax, Nova Scotia Is No Longer Canada’s Best Kept Secret

Along the Halifax waterfront, you see countless bronze sculptures and memorials to the immigrants who came through Pier 21 (Canada’s Ellis Island, which is now a museum) and the naval forces who left and never came back. History runs deep in Halifax. Its Afro-Nova Scotian history goes back 400 years, and the Mi’kmaq First Nations go back thousands more. The Acadians were displaced from here (and settled in Louisiana, becoming Cajuns), and it’s the resting place of many Titanic victims (Halifax was the closest major seaport to the disaster, and more than 100 nameless victims were laid to rest in city cemeteries).

As you walk past these waterfront memorials (you can also kayak past them), you see just how much history has shaped Halifax. But a new forward-facing mindset is helping shine a spotlight on the city and revealing its many other attributes — from restaurants where the sense of place tumbles through every show-stopping dish, to excellent craft breweries and distilleries (like Compass Distillers), to winter surfing. You could say Halifax, Canada’s best kept secret, is now out.

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Introducing: The Wren Diver One Aqua

The idea with Wren is to offer a Swiss-made product — with a Swiss movement and top-notch quality control — at an excellent price. (In this case, for under $900.) The Diver One — which will be available in a different dial color once the first 100 “Aqua” pieces sell out — is a fairly typical, vintage-inspired diver common to the microbrand space: Measuring 41mm in diameter and 13.3mm tall, it’s housed in a brushed, stainless steel case without crown guards and features a matching, brushed flat-link bracelet, a domed sapphire crystal and 200m of water resistance via a screw-down crown and caseback.

How Fawn Weaver Built a Multi-Billion-Dollar Whiskey Brand in Just 7 Years

In 2016, The New York Times dropped a bombshell of a story, provocatively titled “Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave.” The feature landed the same year the iconic Tennessee whiskey brand was celebrating its 150th anniversary. One year later, entrepreneur and author Fawn Weaver launched a whiskey brand to honor Nearest Green, the enslaved person mentioned in the article. Green was not a slave of Jack himself; in reality, Jack and Nearest were friends, and Green was later the first Master Distiller for the budding whiskey brand started by Daniel.

On June 18, Weaver’s account of both Green’s remarkable story and the difficulties and rewards of founding the Uncle Nearest brand will be shared in Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest. The book serves both as an extraordinary journey through several centuries of American whiskey making and how a newspaper article led to the creation of an acclaimed, multi-billion-dollar business in just seven years.

The Ultimate Guide to Georgian Food in NYC

New York City now has roughly two dozen Georgian restaurants and bakeries. While you’ll find the highest concentration in Brooklyn neighborhoods with convenient access to the Belt Parkway, Manhattan now has options from downtown to the Upper East and Upper West Sides. There’s even a Glatt kosher spot in Queens. Here are 10 you should try.