Injury Reserve seem wise beyond their years. The young hip hop trio from Phoenix seems to love jazz and avant-garde-anything, so they’re always pulling sophisticated, experimental noises into their rap tracks, and the perspective of their lyrics is also quite adult, even bordering on parental. On “Gravy ‘n Biscuits,” they address the anxieties of adulthood, fame, and digital angst at the same time, which is endearing, as they are not very far into adulthood or fame. But it seems that both are on their way. Listen here.

It’s the end of the day. You heat up whatever dinner is and plop down on the couch with Netflix, bowl in hand. Or maybe you sit in bed– wherever’s comfy and relatively private. Is this a scene from your life? Lest you think it’s just you, fewer and fewer people are regularly eating at tables. A recent study connected by a “smart” oven company (but also backed up by food scientists) tells us that other, plusher home surfaces are becoming the meal-time default. Why? Individuals in families have different schedules, which means they don’t necessarily eat together, and also more people are single and can eat wherever they want. The other thing is that people in and out of families are cooking less and grabbing ready-made things more often, and those meals don’t necessarily require the ritual of gathering ’round the table. Is the world ending? Possibly. Or maybe you should just put a couch in your all-day café.

Related: the rise of the fast-casual bodega. Because you are simply too busy to walk through a full-scale grocery store, Whole Foods, now powered by Amazon data, is rolling out grab-and-go meal stores where you can pick up a bagel or a sandwich, likely from a fancy local purveyor, and also visit the center aisles for cat food and toilet paper. And we thought we’d stricken down the disruptors.

Back to the all-day café, you’ve perhaps noticed that ceramics are having a moment? Well, that moment is expanding. Max Falkowitz, my food buddy in the NYT Sumer column, just wrote in Punch about the rise of ceramics in cocktail bars. See, glass used to be a luxury item back when everyone was excited about industrialization. Now, of course, we’ll do anything we can to escape from machines, so we’ll take a craggy clay cup that reminds us that the earth is here. Some also think that makes the cocktails better– read the piece to learn why.