At Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their eyes closed, celebratory guys in basketball jerseys, swaying couples, groups of friends interested more in one another than in the guy in the booth. He had brought with him Prospa,…
Read MoreLauryn Hill Receives All-Star Tribute From Queen Latifah, SZA, Doechii, Doja Cat, Nas and More at BET Awards 2026
Lauryn Hill was honored with the Living Legend Icon Award as well as a very robust all-star performance featuring Doechii, Nas, Doja Cat, SZA, Common and Queen Latifah, among many others, at the BET Awards 2026. Ice Cube introduced the megawatt tribute by giving Hill her flowers. “One of the greatest voices in Black music…
Read MoreNavy to build drone-equipped warships instead of replacing ageing destroyers
Plans to replace ageing warships will be scrapped in favour of building at least six new modern “hybrid” vessels equipped to deploy drones in the UK’s upcoming defence strategy. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the new vessels would be more suited to the “pace and nature of modern warfare”, and a better investment than…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Longchamp Names Chinese Opera Star Lijun Chen Local Brand Ambassador
The renaissance of traditional Chinese fashion styles in the local market has lifted the tide for adjacent cultural realms — most recently, a burgeoning fandom around classic Chinese theater. Now one of the industry’s rising stars, the Yue Opera performer and film actress Lijun Chen, has become the face of Longchamp in China. The 34-year-old…
Read MoreBaidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors
TL;DR Baidu’s Kunlunxin targets a $50B Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to commit to buying its chips, blurring the line between shareholder and customer. Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 billion, The Information reported on Sunday. In an unusual twist, the…
Read MoreHere come the New Jacobins | National Review
The commentary that followed sentencing for a violent Antifa attack is delusional. Source link
Read MoreSwipeless online dating? How AI is reshaping the search for love
Tired of the same old dating apps like Bumble and Hinge, Marie Lansley tried talking to an artificial intelligence matchmaker. For roughly 15 minutes, she chatted with an AI voice on the dating app Known, answering questions about her upbringing, personality, education, lessons from past relationships and whether she’s looking for a serious relationship or…
Read MoreEvery Generation Gets the Fro-Yo It Deserves
You’ll do far better if you walk to Eighty-eighth and Madison and dip into the small, cool Madison Fare, a specialty-foods-and-candy storefront opened, in 2022, by the chef Amin Kinana, whose frozen-yogurt creations are, by my estimation, unreserved works of art. The yogurt itself is dense and almost puckeringly sour, and oh, my God, the…
Read MoreNobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go”
I was not alive for Dylan going electric, but I was alive for the Diwali riddim. I can’t imagine that the sixties felt so monumental. In 2003, it seemed that every other song on the radio was built on the Jamaican producer Steven (Lenky) Marsden’s backing track, named after the Hindu festival of lights and…
Read More‘Every Year After’ Renewed for Season 2 at Amazon; Will Focus on Charlie’s Story From ‘One Golden Summer’ Sequel Book
Get ready to return to Barry’s Bay: “Every Year After” has been renewed for a second season at Amazon‘s Prime Video less than a month after its debut. Based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel “Every Summer After,” the first season of the drama tells the friends-to-lovers-to-second-chance-romance story of Percy Fraser (Sadie Soverall) and Sam Florek…
Read MoreAngelina Jolie Has Style Trouble in “Couture”
The compressed script and the snippety editing sometimes lead to unintended comedy, as in a scene where Maxine watches Christine, the seamstress, work. While sewing by hand, Christine accidentally pricks a finger with a needle, and Winocour shows a drop of blood blossoming on her fingertip—only to show her, an instant later, again sewing the…
Read MoreTaakk Men’s Spring 2027: My Favorite Things
For his elegant spring 2027 collection, Takuya Morikawa turned to flowers and Irving Penn photographs – all of which he loves. The designer was surrounded by flowers during his childhood, due to his mother and grandparents’ gardens. “The way Irving Penn sees things has been a very big inspiration,” Morikawa said, pointing to how Penn lensed…
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