For Her Role in ‘The Crow,’ FKA Twigs Wanted to Smell the Part
The actress and musician on her favorite place to scout emerging designers in London, and how she uses scent as a creative catalyst.
The actress and musician on her favorite place to scout emerging designers in London, and how she uses scent as a creative catalyst.
“Blink Twice,” Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum, is in theaters now.
An Ontario woman paid seven times more for her theatre tickets than she thought she did. 'I was shocked. I had no idea the tickets were going to cost that much.'
Peter Lundgren - who coached Roger Federer to the first of his 20 Grand Slam triumphs - has died, his children confirmed in a statement.
Photo of the hatchlings: ERA/Nature Trust Malta
With AI regulation at an embryonic stage, companies are charting their own course in creating audio and video avatars, cognizant of the legal hazards. ‘It’s a minefield right now,’ says one executive.
The midmarket private-equity firm is making seven times its investment in sale of staffing company to Vistria Group.
An artificial-intelligence land grab is lifting shares of the centers’ landlords, such as Equinix, after years of mediocre rent growth.
On Tuesday, Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas struck down a Federal Trade Commission regulation barring non-compete clauses from employment contracts. Businesses routinely impose non-compete clauses on their workers in what amounts to a latter-day version of indentured servitude. Granted, employees subjected to non-compete clauses—about 18 percent of the United States workforce—differ from the indentured servants that colonial settlers brought to the New World in that they’re free to quit their jobs. Читать дальше...
Beneath the deluge of election news, two remarkable statistics made smaller headlines this past week. First, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that last month was the hottest July on record, following the hottest June on record, in what is so far the hottest year on record. Second, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that, in the first half of 2024, the U.S. added more electrical generation capacity than they have in two decades: 20.2 gigawatts, with... Читать дальше...
This month, the U.S. Air Force made a surprise announcement that it is refusing to comply with an order to clean up drinking water that it contaminated with PFAS “forever chemicals”—substances that have been linked to hormone disruption, liver damage, and a range of other health problems. The rationale for halting the cleanup was this year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the “Chevron doctrine,” in which courts typically deferred to the Environmental Protection Agency’s and other federal... Читать дальше...
A greased pole competition in Indonesia, a scene from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, a tilting church in Greece, big wave surfing in South Africa, and much more
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Odyssey, and Origins all have one thing in common: they've got a Discovery mode, which replaces murdering with learning. You can, quite literally, go on tours curated by historians around each of the game's respective maps. Instead of diving off a Sphinx and plunging your hidden blade into someone's spinal column, you can look up at the Sphinx and read a paragraph on its significance. Maybe view an actual, real life bit of ancient Egypt from an actual real life museum collection in-game. Читать дальше...
Gus Walz cried tears of joy for his father Tim Walz at the DNC, went viral on Twitter, and showed Republicans what healthy masculinity looks like.
When Trump questioned whether Vice President Kamala Harris was “Black enough,” he was poking at a preposterous trope that plagues so many mixed-race people, including me.
Even with Beyonce, Kamala Harris' DNC speech on Thursday night could not have been more different than Trump's RNC address — and the Republican convention.
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There is concern among some New Brunswickers after flyers were sent to households that compared gender-affirming care to 'surgical mutilation.'
The big questions left: Which cities and how much?
Addressee of many children’s wish lists: five letters.
Seven years after inventing the transformer—the “T” in ChatGPT—the researchers behind it are still grappling with its surprising power.
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The Paramount+ procedural’s unusually serious treatment of faith—and delightfully absurdist take on almost everything else—made it a bright spot in an increasingly risk-averse TV landscape.