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p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> In 1997, the comedy βIn & Outβ did its shiny, star-studded best to mainstream the story of a closeted gay man in a rock-ribbed American community embracing his truth. The fine new indie drama βPlainclothes,β which takes place in 1997 in Syracuse, N.Y., and centers on a young police officer in the throes…
βA Big Bold Beautiful Journeyβ is a surreal, color-saturated quest about healing childhood scars in order to have healthy adult relationships. Itβs a corny road trip. Directed by the monomonikered Kogonada (βAfter Yangβ) from a script by Seth Reiss, this sputtering high-concept love story is about two singletons, Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell),…
One of Britain’s most prominent online beauty retailers is exploring options to raise new funding through a process that could lead to an outright sale. Sky News has learnt that Beauty Bay, which is based in Manchester, has appointed advisers to undertake a strategic review. Sources said a process to seek new investment was likely…
Can you put a price on the experience of enjoying a World Series game at Dodger Stadium? Yes, and itβs a very high one. The Dodgers put tickets for potential World Series games on sale Tuesday, with the cheapest seat available for $881.95, according to an afternoon review of the team website. That seat β…
We’ve all seen what artificial intelligence can do on our screens: generate art, carry out conversations and help with written tasks. Soon, AI will be doing more in the physical world. Gartner,Β a research and advisory firm, estimates that by 2030, 80% of Americans will interact daily β in some way β with autonomous, AI-powered robots.Β …
βBeautiful Girlsβ hitmaker Sean Kingston will spend three and a half years behind bars for his involvement in a months-long scheme that defrauded luxury goods businesses of more than $1 million. U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz handed down the 35-year-old performerβs sentence Friday, months after a Florida jury convicted the singer (born Kisean Paul Anderson)…
Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 meters, or 31,237 feet, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos plane made the landmark flight from Sion airport in southwest Switzerland on Tuesday, taking advantage of warm air thermals to go beyond the…
Thereβs no need to scout Palisadesβ football team this fall. Everyone knows the passing duo of quarterback Jack Thomas and receiver Demare Dezeurn is going to be electric. Dezeurn, who ran a 10.32 100 meters as a sophomore last season at Bishop Alemany, made his Palisades debut in a scrimmage Thursday. Several times he was…
π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt joins Beth, Harriet, and Ruth on this week’s Electoral Dysfunction. As Denmark finds itself at the centre of a growing international crisis over Greenland, she tells us that the country feels “bullied”. Ms Thorning-Schmidt describes how…
Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected rises to their inflation-busting bills after the companies disputed limits imposed by the industry regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was called in to review Ofwat’s determinations on what Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water, and Wessex Water could charge customers…
