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Josh Kesselman, founder of rolling paper brand Raw, acquires High Times magazine for $3.5M, after its private equity owner failed to make loan payments in 2024 (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/high-times-mag…

New Owner for High Times Magazine Bets on a Counterculture Comeback
The anti-establishment magazine, which was taken over by a private equity firm in 2017, was purchased this week by an avid fan and reader for $3.5 million.

Counterculture Stars: Slow and Retrograde Stars with Low-Alpha Disk Abundances
Carrie Filion, Michael S. Petersen, Danny Horta, Kathryne J. Daniel, Madeline Lucey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09927

Counterculture Stars: Slow and Retrograde Stars with Low-Alpha Disk Abundances
The Milky Way is home to a thin disk that can be defined via kinematics and/or elemental abundances. The elemental abundance-defined thin disk, also called the low-alpha disk, is generally thought to be comprised of stars on planar, circular orbits that approximate the circular velocity curve. While this is an apt description for the majority of stars with thin-disk-like abundances, there are a number of interesting exceptions. In this analysis, we identify and investigate $\sim 70$ stars with …