Business
Paragon Reit posts 10.4% lower H2 DPU of S$0.0233
THE manager of Paragon Real Estate Investment Trust (Paragon Reit) on Tuesday (Feb 11) posted a distribution per unit (DPU) of S$0.0233…
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Culture
Kendrick Lamar and the Messy Art of Meta-Performance
A sense of abasement hovers over the performer of the Super Bowl halftime show. It is slight, but it is there. The musician selected must…
Business
McDonald’s profits dented by food poisoning outbreak
MCDONALD’S reported a dip in profits on Monday as it contended with lingering effects from a US food poisoning outbreak that depressed…
Business
Morgan Stanley sets US$3 billion X loan to tap into Musk mania
MORGAN Stanley kicked off another large sale of X debt on Monday (Feb 10), seizing on investors’ sudden embrace of the social media…
Culture
Jalen Hurts: Philadelphia Eagles Star Lives in Modest $2,000-Per-Month Rental Despite Million-Dollar Contract as He Believes in Simple Living
While many NFL stars splurge on luxurious mansions after securing massive contracts, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is taking…
Fashion
Who is Steve Caudle? Tennessee Pastor Calls for Violence Against Elon Musk in Viral Video
A Tennessee pastor has sparked outrage after calling for violence against Elon Musk. Reverend Steve Caudle stated that sometimes violence…
Celebrity
Elon Musk Deletes Kanye West's X Account after Rapper's Controversial Super Bowl Ad and Online Rants
Elon Musk has confirmed that Kanye West's X account is now classified as NSFW (Not Safe for Work) following the rapper's deactivation of…
Business
Millennial Workplace Demands Reshaping America
Millennials are shaking things up in the workplace, and it’s hard not to notice. They’re not just clocking in for a paycheck; they’re…
Business
BYD puts driver-assistance features in most of its cars for free
BYD will enable advanced driver-assistance features in almost all future models at no additional cost to buyers as part of a bid to…
Culture
Cease and Desist: When to Send the Legal Equivalent of 'Back Off'
Ever had someone step on your toes, legally speaking? That’s where a cease and desist comes into play. It’s like a formal way of saying,…
Business
Keppel’s new commercial property secures financial services company as anchor tenant
The Tanjong Pagar building features smart building management systems and renewable energy use ASSET manager Keppel’s new commercial…
Business
Nokia hires Intel’s AI executive as CEO in push for turnaround
NOKIA said it was replacing chief executive officer Pekka Lundmark with Intel’s Justin Hotard in a surprise announcement as the network…
Culture
The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
Throughout the profile, Hemingway, drinking hard, employs a kind of skin-tightening lingo that he called “Indian Talk.” It wouldn’t have…
Culture
The L.A. Chefs Keeping Their Neighbors Fed
On the Tuesday morning in January when Los Angeles began to burn, the Santa Ana winds whipped hard at Courtney Storer’s driveway gate, at…
Culture
The Art of the New Yorker Cover
Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or…
Culture
Fifty Weird Years of “Saturday Night Live”
It is customary for a person in a situation like mine—preparing to hold forth on “Saturday Night Live”—to divulge which performers would…
Culture
The Art of the Crossword
How do you build a crossword? In this hour-long seminar, the puzzle constructors Natan Last and Robyn Weintraub provide a hands-on guide,…
News
The Eternal Mysteries of Red
The first time he tried to kill red, he brought a box cutter. The wounds were almost fifty feet long combined—clearly, he didn’t want to…
Culture
The Art of Film Criticism
“Somebody asked me, ‘When you write a pan of a movie, are you recommending that I not see it?’ ” the film critic Richard Brody recalled.…
Culture
Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred
A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from…
Culture
The Uneven Cross-Cultural Comedy of “Paddington in Peru” and “Universal Language”
Not every filmmaker is a cinephile, but, among those who are, that passion can manifest itself in unexpected ways. The driving pleasure of…
Culture
An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even…
Culture
Lost and Found: A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost
“Nothing New” was written in 1918, not long before “Dust of Snow,” which was first published in an English magazine, in 1920, under a…
Culture
An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting
Early in Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” from 2001, a young girl sits on the floor, considering how strange it is to have a body. She…