NewsJanelle Monáe Dances Poolside in New “Water Slide” Video: WatchAnother fun and free-spirited Age of Pleasure visualBy Nina CorcoranJuly 7, 2023FacebookTwitterJanelle Monáe in “Water Slide,” directed by Janelle Monáe and Alan FergusonFacebookTwitterJanelle Monáe has shared the music video for The Age of Pleasure’s “Water Slide.” The fun visual shares aesthetic and free-spirited sensibilities with the “Lipstick Lover” music video, and Monáe co-directed both videos with Alan Ferguson. Check out the new “Water Slide” clip below.“Water Slide” is one of two Age of Pleasure songs that Monáe made with Jamaican dancehall legend Sister Nancy; the other is “The French 75.” Additional…
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In this articleMETAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTSebastien Bozon | AFP | Getty ImagesShortly after ChatGPT hit the market last year and instantly captured headlines for its ability to appear human in answering user queries, digital marketing veteran Shane Rasnak began experimenting.As someone who had built a career in creating online ad campaigns for clients, Rasnak saw how generative artificial intelligence could transform his industry. Whether it was coming up with headlines for Facebook ads or short blurbs of ad copy, Rasnak said, jobs that would have taken him 30 minutes to an hour are now 15-minute projects.And that’s just…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.“Wow, look. You’re there!” That was what Julien Dossena told himself when he found himself inside one of the most impressive archives in French fashion history, namely that of Jean Paul Gaultier. The designer first became aware of Gaultier as a child in Bretagne, when he glimpsed him and his colorful, carnival-esque world on TV. “Coming from a background where fashion was really not on the radar, let’s say, it was the first time that I understood it was a job,” Dossena says. “I thought, ‘Oh, that…
Oh yes, Lifetime is back covering another V.C. Andrews Saga. And we’re back with our reviews of this utter madness. We’re kicking off the cutthroat Cutlers saga with V.C. Andrews’ Dawn this time. And the generational battle of the badass blonds was deliciously epic and entertaining. It wouldn’t be a V.C. Andrews special without scandalous family secrets, shady rich people, incestual relationships worth side-eying, and deliciously evil women. But dare one say they were fairly light on some of those things, which was a bit of a surprise. Another surprise was just how enjoyable Dawn Longchamp Cutler (?) was as…
The term ‘streetwear‘ is one that, at one time, could have been clearly defined as ‘an unflattering style of dress consisting of graphic T-shirts, baggy cuts and sneakers.’ Now, it is now a great deal trickier to pin down.That’s because streetwear in recent years has made its way off, well, the streets, and onto the runway. Haute couture and urban fashion are now largely indistinguishable from one another, leaving people’s idea of what a streetwear brand actually is in disarray. In actuality, streetwear now just has a broader definition. It covers the hip-hop-leaning old-school, the fashion-forward new-school, and everything that…
Kathleen Cheng is having a hell of a Saturn Return. The late-20s protagonist of Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern has just been dumped by the man she thought she’d spend her life with. Unmoored and questioning, she drops out of her cognitive psychology graduate program on the East Coast and moves back in with her mother in California’s East Bay. Her mother, however, is not the mother Kathleen remembers. Marissa is no longer the heartbroken single parent, stranded by her husband’s infidelity and left to struggle with finances, depression, alcoholism, and making her way in an unfamiliar country, where…
In the lab University of Connecticut researchers (from left to right): Kazem Kazerounian, Thanh Nguyen, Feng Lin, Thinh Le, Meysam Chorsi and Horea Ilies. The biodegradable ultrasonic transducer is shown in the foreground. (Courtesy: Thanh D Nguyen, University of Connecticut) A new type of biodegradable ultrasound implant based on piezoelectric nanofibres could improve outcomes for patients with brain cancer. Researchers led by Thanh Nguyen from the at the University of Connecticut’s department of mechanical engineering fabricated the devices from crystals of glycine, an amino acid found in the human body. Glycine is not only non-toxic and biodegradable, it is also…
In this articleFTSLAGMFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Tesla Model Y is seen on a Tesla car lot on May 31, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Tesla’s Model Y has become the world’s best selling car in the first quarter of 2023. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesDETROIT – Legacy automakers continue to promise big increases in production and sales of battery-electric vehicles, but their efforts so far have done little to change the highly watched, emerging market.Despite notable upticks in sales compared with a year ago, industry leader Tesla remains the top EV seller and has grown its lead over legacy automakers.…
Sony Pictures has set a Feb. 9, 2024 theatrical release for the Wayfarer Studios’ Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us. Pic starring Blake Lively and directed by Justin Baldoni is a feature take on Hoover’s best-selling novel. Logline: Though coming from a complicated past, Lily Bloom (Lively) has always known the life she wants. While living in Boston, she meets neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni) and believes she may very well have found her soul mate. Soon, however, questions arise about their relationship, and to complicate matters her high school love interest, Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar), comes back into the picture,…
by Regina Avalos, July 7, 2023(Photo by: HBO) A Black Lady Sketch Show will not return for a fifth season, per Deadline. HBO has cancelled the comedy series a few months after the fourth season finished airing. Robin Thede created and stars in the series, which features “Black women living funny, relatable experiences in a magical reality that subverts traditional expectations.” Gabrielle Dennis, Skye Townsend, Quinta Brunson, Laci Mosley, and Ashley Nicole Black have also starred in sketches across the series’ 24 episode run. HBO released a statement about the decision to end the series: For four exceptional seasons of…
WASHINGTON — As the European Space Agency continues to develop proposals for human space exploration efforts, more European countries are showing an interest in launching astronauts. At a June 29 briefing after a meeting of the ESA Council, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher announced that Poland was subscribing an additional 295 million euros ($325 million) for agency programs, a figure that includes the cost of flying a Polish astronaut to the International Space Station on a commercial mission. That agreement, he said, was similar to one announced in April that involved ESA, the Swedish National Space Agency and Axiom Space…
Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million (roughly Rs. 743 crore) fee it received from Twitter for defeating his bid to walk away from his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,465 crore) buyout of the social media company.The complaint by Musk’s X Corp, which owns Twitter, was filed on Wednesday in the California Superior Court in San Francisco.Musk accused Wachtell of exploiting Twitter by accepting, in the final days before Oct. 27, 2022, buyout closed, huge “success” fees doled out by departing Twitter executives who were grateful that Musk…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Beijing on July 6, 2023, for her first visit under the Biden administration.Mark Schiefelbein | Afp | Getty ImagesBEIJING — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended American actions to protect its national security in prepared remarks for a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang.”The United States will, in certain circumstances, need to pursue targeted actions to protect its national security,” Yellen said Friday in prepared remarks.”And we may disagree in these instances,” she said.Among several measures, the U.S. in October announced sweeping export controls that restrict the ability of Chinese businesses to develop…
Play video content Twitter/@thewavecheckk Usher is back to his smooth, serenading ways — only this time, it’s Saweetie who was in his sights … and fortunately for everyone, her significant other doesn’t seem to be trippin’. The singer was doing yet another show at his Vegas residency Friday — where none other than Saweetie showed up to see the man in action. Welp, like he’s done with other stars in the recent past … Usher honed in on her and started belting out slow jams right to her face. Not the song, mind you — he was actually crooning his…
United States’ forward Megan Rapinoe scores a goal during the France 2019 Women’s World Cup round of sixteen football match between Spain and USA, on June 24, 2019, at the Auguste-Delaune stadium in Reims, northern France.Lionel Bonaventure | Afp | Getty ImagesUnited States soccer player Megan Rapinoe announced Saturday she will retire from the sport at the end of the 2023 National Women’s Soccer League season.”It is with a deep sense of peace and gratitude that I have decided this will be my final season playing this beautiful game. I never could have imagined the ways in which soccer would…
Taylor Swift released the music video for her song “I Can See You” this week as she rolls out the re-release of her studio album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). In the video, her former boyfriend Taylor Lautner stars as a special agent of some kind, busting Swift out of a literal vault with the help of Joey King and Presley Cash. The promotion around the album and video has perhaps unintentionally revealed more about Swift’s current private life than she intended.Swift’s love life has been very much in the news after she split with her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn after six…
Welp, we’re getting to the end of Mayans M.C., and that can only mean one thing: Death, death, and more death. Mayans M.C. Season 5 Episode 9 is the FX hit’s penultimate chapter, and the official promo hints at EZ’s luck running out. “As the Sons close in on the Mayans, EZ crosses paths with a familiar stranger,” the logline teases for the episode written by Jenny Lynn and directed by Elgin James. After the events of Mayans M.C. Season 5 Episode 8, we should prepare for E.Z.’s downfall. The Broken Saints have been lured into E.Z.’s plans, but their…
Hi.Okay, now that the pleasantries are out of the way, a quick note before we swan dive into the best men’s clothing brands: We’re not going to agree on all of them. In fact, it would be a little weird if we did, right? It’s a highly subjective topic. One that depends on your body type, personal style, budget, lifestyle, and countless other factors. Maybe you have your go-tos, maybe you don’t. Either way, you’re here for a reason—to embark on an epic sartorial quest wherein we’ll explore 10 fantastic fashion labels across a range of categories. Some are vacation-ready.…