A Nature Health study, covered this week by The Washington Post, looked at 4,793 person-nights of matched food logs and wearable sleep recordings in a largely healthy Israeli cohort. Using a causal-inference frame that controlled for the prior day’s diet and sleep, higher fiber density lined up with about 0.59 percentage points more deep sleep, 0.76 points more REM, 1.35 points less light sleep, and a nocturnal heart rate roughly 1.14 bpm lower. Greater plant diversity and whole-plant intake also tracked with calmer overnight heart rates.

Meal timing mattered differently: heavier evening meals (a larger share of daily calories in the six hours before bed) associated with about 7.7 extra minutes of total sleep but a slightly higher overnight heart rate: longer, not necessarily more restorative. Most short-term macronutrient tweaks did not show robust links. The weekend experiment is small and concrete: load lunch and dinner with fiber-dense plants (beans, greens, whole grains, nuts), keep the late snack lighter, and treat the wearable as a mirror, not a grade.

Saturday trade updates have Disney’s Avengers: Endgame Encore pacing roughly $24 million-plus for the Friday–Sunday frame: a re-release with a few minutes of new footage and a Doomsday tease ahead of December. That puts it just ahead of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot, now tracking around $22 million in weekend two after a franchise-record ~$60 million open (a steep but expected horror drop).

New wide releases crowd the rest of the board. A24’s Primetime (Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever) is in the low-to-mid $20 millions conversation depending on the tracker; Paramount’s Heart of the Beast (Brad Pitt and a German shepherd named Uber surviving Alaska under David Ayer) is in a similar band with strong notices for the dog. DreamWorks’ Forgotten Island, the best-reviewed title of the bunch at a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score in early tallies, looks more like a $10–15 million family open. Pick one loud theater night: nostalgia Marvel, awards-bait TV satire, wilderness survival, or pure animation.

Two easy daytime stops and one louder evening option stack cleanly. Firefly Handmade’s Fall Market debuts at a new spot: the Denver Design District parking lot in front of Rebel Bread (675 S. Broadway), Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Free admission, pup-friendly, 100-plus local artists and makers, plus live Colorado music (Rex Peoples and Dechen Hawk today). Light rail is a short walk; grab coffee or a loaf next door and wander.

Still downtown energy? The 56th Denver Oktoberfest fills Larimer Street between 20th and 22nd (Ballpark) with general admission free and Saturday hours running late; expect polka, stein contests, and the usual high-altitude Bavarian chaos. Quieter culture: Doors Open Denver’s Destination Downtown runs through Sunday with open sites and architecture tours across the core. Address the makers first, then pick beer garden or building lobby.