For months, the Barbie movie’s vast unknown has been one of its greatest assets. What little we understood amounted to a pair of highlighter-yellow rollerblades, dangled aloft by the spray-tanned arms of a bleached-blond Ryan Gosling: nostalgic, symbolic, a triumph of marketing honed along a (plastic) razor’s edge. Every new set photo, character poster, and teaser trailer that collected over the months leading up to Barbie’s July 21 release has been received and dissected with the self-serious thrill of an 8-year-old planning their themed birthday party. Which, to be clear, is exactly as it should be. Questioning Barbie, like assembling…
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If there were any concerns NCIS was running out of steam without Mark Harmon, NCIS Season 20 should have washed them away. It perfectly laid the groundwork for NCIS Season 21, which promises to be another must-see chapter of this veteran CBS procedural. You probably have many questions about the upcoming season, and we’ve done all the digging so that we can answer them for you. NCIS Season 21: Is It Happening? With continued ratings erosion during NCIS Season 20, there were questions about whether the series would face a similar fate to NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans.…
Remember that one time like two seconds ago when you searched for something like, “Best t-shirts for tall guys?” And do you remember how it led you right here to this rundown of my favorite t-shirts for tall guys?This is fate. We need to embrace this. Or at the very least, have a casual yet earnest discussion about the tall man’s particular needs when it comes to one of the most important staples of any man’s wardrobe: the t-shirt. As a tall guy —6’4” on a good day—I’ve often found myself exerting way too much effort searching for t-shirts that…
Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust announces the shortlist for the second annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. The recipient of the $25,000 prize will be chosen by authors William Alexander, Alexander Chee, Karen Joy Fowler, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Shruti Swamy from nine nominees selected by the Trust. Last year Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust was awarded the prize in a ceremony on October 21st, 2022, Ursula K. Le Guin’s birthday. The Prize was created to continue Le Guin’s legacy as an author who defied genre, interrogated capitalism, celebrated hope and possibility in her writing, and…
The PGA Tour on Tuesday defended its controversial deal with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league before senators, as scrutiny of the agreement intensifies.Representatives from LIV Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund wasn’t present at the hearing because CEO Greg Norman is out of the country, according to a spokesperson. PGA Tour operating chief Ron Price and policy board independent director Jimmy Dunne testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s subcomittee on investigations.Dunne and Price said they believed the PGA Tour would benefit the most from the proposed deal. Dunne said that if a deal were to get done, the…
Roman floor mosaic with scene from the Odyssey / Photo by Jamie Heath / FlickrIn Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Adam Goldwyn, a prolific scholar of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, has focused his attentions on a different set of keywords and written a lively, provocative, and erudite book. Goldwyn’s odyssey traces the disenchantment felt by European Jewish intellectuals with Hellenic ideals, sometimes from the perspective of experts in the field of classical history and literature (Arnold Momigliano, Erich Auerbach, George Steiner), and sometimes from the general perspective of…
In this articleIDFC-INIDFCFIRSTB-INFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTIDFC First bank signage is seen outside a branch in Mumbai, India, 04 July, 2023. IDFC First Bank merges with IDFC Limited. 155 shares of IDFC First Bank will be alloted for 100 shares of IDFC according to an Indian media report.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIndia’s IDFC First Bank expects to see robust credit growth following its recent merger, according to managing director and CEO V. Vaidyanathan. Last week, IDFC First Bank said its board had approved its merger with IDFC Ltd., the latest in a wave of consolidation in India’s financial sector.This…
Can Tom Cruise save summer? Despite the onslaught of shiny product that hasn’t delivered, i.e. Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the summer domestic box office at $2.1 billion per Comscore is pacing 6% behind last year’s for the period of May 1 to July 9. All eyes are on the best reviewed Mission: Impossible of all-time, Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One to hopefully get us on a July roll starting Wednesday with an expected franchise global 5-day record of $250M; made up of $90M domestic, and $160M abroad in 70 markets including Australia, Brazil, China, France,…
WASHINGTON — NASA awarded task orders to two companies already working on spacesuits for the International Space Station and Artemis missions to develop alternative versions of their suits. NASA announced July 10 that it issued task orders valued at $5 million each to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to begin design work on alternative versions of their suits already in development. Axiom’s task order begins work on a version of its suit for the ISS while Collins will begin design of a suit intended for moonwalks. NASA awarded contracts to the two companies in June 2022 through its Exploration Extravehicular…
U.S. lawmakers are considering changes to address concerns about a bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee who has cosponsored the legislation said on Monday.Democratic Senator Mark Warner told Reuters that aggressive lobbying by the ByteDance-owned short video app TikTok against the Restrict Act “slowed a bit of our momentum” after it was introduced in March.Warner said lawmakers have “a proposal on a series of amendments to make it explicitly clear” and address criticisms, including that individual Americans could be impacted or that the bill represents a…
New Chinese laws on espionage and foreign relations took effect on July 1.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING — For foreign businesses in China, geopolitics hold more sway than new Chinese laws, according to analysts.National security is a growing priority for the country. Two new laws, one on espionage and the other on foreign relations, took effect July 1. They contain catch-all phrases such as “state secrets” that are open to interpretation by local and central authorities.Adding to the worries of those considering doing business in China is news earlier this year of three raids on international consulting…
NewsMutulu Shakur, Activist, Acupuncturist, and Stepfather to 2Pac, Dies at 72Shakur served over 35 years in federal prison for his role in the 1981 Brink’s robberyBy Madison BloomJuly 10, 2023FacebookTwitterMutulu Shakur, November 1987 (Jim Hughes/NY Daily News via Getty Images)FacebookTwitterMutulu Shakur—the Black liberation activist and stepfather to 2Pac who was imprisoned for over 35 years—died on Friday of cancer, NBC News reports. Shakur had been living with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that can damage the bones and kidneys. He was released from federal prison on parole last year for health reasons. Shakur was 72 years old.Mutulu Shakur was born Jeral…
Walt Nauta (L), a US Navy veteran and a White House military valet to former US president Donald Trump, and Stanley Woodward (R), lawyer, arrive at the James Lawrence King Federal Justice Building on July 06, 2023 in Miami, Florida.Eva Marie Uzcategul | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump on Monday night asked a federal court to hold off on setting a date for the criminal trial over his handling of classified documents, arguing that the unprecedented case requires “a measured consideration and timeline.”Attorneys for Trump and Walt Nauta, the former president’s valet and co-defendant, also noted that…
Well, the plot thickens! We didn’t realize the “K” in Y2K stood for “karma.” Megan and Isabella are starting their plan of sweet justice on Cruel Summer Season 2 Episode 7. This is the stage of the murder investigation we have all been waiting for, Cruel Summer fans. The first chapter in this next phase brought us to the edge of our seats. And we can’t wait for more! “It’s The End Of The World” was a perfectly-named episode. Megan was front and center in each period, experiencing the start of her romance with Luke and her university dreams crashing…
If your signature style is feeling a little lackluster lately, you might not need to spring for new clothes. You can freshen up your look in an easier way—the best Dior colognes. The perfect cologne might just be the final piece you’re missing from that wardrobe of yours.As one of the top fashion lines, Dior revolutionized fashion, and the entrance into the fragrance world followed shortly after. Today, Dior doesn’t have the long list of fragrances you’ll find in many other design houses. Instead, they have timeless scents that are some of the most well-known perfumes in the world. That’s…
Many of my experiences in the Marines were equally as ugly and terrifying as a classic gothic haunted house. My book studies some of the parallels between gothic horror and the absurd terror of Operation Enduring Freedom, but The Militia House focuses on the experience of one individual. As I read other veteran writers, I encounter narratives that are different from mine yet just as terrifying in their own ways. The US military is a scary place, especially so for those of us who’ve borne witness to the realities of it. Veterans who share stories through vulnerable and authentic writing…
Clár-BrÃd Tohill reviews Starstruck by Sarafina El-Badry Nance Path to success Sarafina El-Badry Nance is an astrophysicist and science communicator who was named in 2021 by Forbes magazine as one of 30 inspirational women from all walks of life. (Courtesy: Lawrence Berkeley lab) When I was a girl, I was fascinated by science but had few – if any – female astrophysicists to look up to. As a woman in physics today, I know just how important it is to have a strong, empowering female role model to aspire to. Sarafina El-Badry Nance – currently doing graduate work in astrophysics…
Pre-owned vehicles are seen at the Roger Beasley South dealership lot on June 07, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesDETROIT – Wholesale used vehicle prices posted their largest decline last month since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, as prices are set to stabilize during the second half of this year.Cox Automotive reported Monday a 4.2% decline from May to June in its Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index to 215.1. It marks the third consecutive monthly decline and one of the index’s largest monthly drops on record, according to Cox.”Buyers at auction look to have taken an early…