Bed Bath & Beyond and Buy Buy Baby signage is displayed outside of store in Los Angeles.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBed Bath & Beyond may never return to its brick-and-mortar heyday, but the doors at former corporate siblings Buy Buy Baby and Harmon are set to reopen, CNBC has learned. The group that bought Buy Buy Baby’s intellectual property at a bankruptcy-run auction in June, the owners of baby goods retailer Dream on Me, plans to reopen 11 stores in the Northeast as soon as this fall, Dream on Me’s chief marketing officer, Avish Dahiya, told CNBC. But the…
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In this articleSBGIFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTThe Ohio Cup Trophy on top of a Bally Sports logo prior to a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, May 17, 2022.George Kubas | Diamond Images | Getty ImagesThe courtroom continues to heat up for Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks.On Thursday, Diamond will ask a bankruptcy judge for permission to appoint mediators as it is negotiates with creditors to reach a reorganization plan. The company said in court papers it needs to meet “substantial plan progress” ahead of the start…
In this articleWMTFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTAtchison, Kansas. Walmart store logo with gardening products for sale. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesWalmart will report fiscal second-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, as the discounter tries to capitalize on customers hungry for lower prices.Here’s what analysts expect from the company for the three-month period, according to consensus estimates from Refinitiv:Earnings: $1.71 per shareRevenue: $160.27 billionInvestors have high hopes for the big-box retailer this quarter. Unlike Target and Macy’s, Walmart is better insulated from consumers’ changing tastes and reactions to…
NewsChvrches to Reissue Debut Album for 10th Anniversary, Share New Song: Listen“Manhattan” is among the previously unreleased songs from the 2013 album’s original recording sessions included in the new anniversary editionBy Matthew Ismael RuizAugust 16, 2023FacebookTwitterChvrches, 2013 (Eliot Lee Hazel)FacebookTwitterChvrches have announced a 10th-anniversary edition of their debut LP, The Bones of What You Believe, with a previously unreleased song called “Manhattan.” The new edition is out October 13 via Glassnote. It features five live recordings, as well four previously unreleased songs from the album’s original recording sessions, including “Manhattan.” Check out the newly released track below.Of the new song,…
NewsJerry Moss, A&M Records Co-Founder, Dies at 88The storied label boss signed acts such as the Police, Janet Jackson, Soundgarden, Sheryl Crow, and many moreBy Matthew Ismael RuizAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterJerry Moss in Los Angeles, California, 1986. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images)FacebookTwitterJerry Moss, the longtime record executive who co-founded A&M Records with Herb Alpert, died Wednesday at his home in Bel Air, California, the Associated Press reports. He was 88. Under Moss and Alpert, A&M put out records by Carole King, the Carpenters, the Police, Cat Stevens, Janet Jackson, Soundgarden, Alpert himself, and many, many more. Moss and Alpert were inducted into…
NewsThe National Share New Songs “Space Invader” and “Alphabet City”: ListenTheir first songs since April’s First Two Pages of FrankensteinBy Jazz MonroeAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterThe National (Larry Busacca for The Washington Post via Getty Images)FacebookTwitterThe National are back with a pair of songs, “Space Invader” and “Alphabet City,” which you can hear below. They’re the band’s first songs since First Two Pages of Frankenstein, the album they released in April. They come with visuals drawn and animated by Pauline de Lassus, aka National collaborator Mina Tindle.The National will host their 2023 Homecoming Festival next month, headlining a bill that features Patti…
NewsBat for Lashes Launches Her Own Oracle Card Deck, MotherwitchNatasha Khan designed and illustrated the Tarot-style deck to “support the creative process and the elevation of spirit through ritual practices”By Jazz MonroeAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterBat for Lashes, photo by Flora MacleanFacebookTwitterNatasha Khan, aka Bat for Lashes, has designed and illustrated her own Tarot-style oracle card deck called Motherwitch. Khan conceived the 40-card deck, and wrote the accompanying guidebook, as a storytelling device and creative prompt, using “original female archetypes, visual symbols and an abstract spiritualist painters’ colour palette,” according to the product description.Khan said in a statement, “In these times of…
NewsTalking Heads to Regroup for Spike Lee Q&A at TIFF, Share Trailer for Stop Making Sense Restoration: WatchA24’s 40th-anniversary release of the Jonathan Demme classic will screen globally on IMAX, followed by the Q&ABy Jazz MonroeAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterTalking Heads’ David Byrne in Stop Making Sense (courtesy of TCB PR)FacebookTwitterTalking Heads will regroup at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Monday, September 11, for a Q&A with Spike Lee, taking place immediately after the premiere of A24’s Stop Making Sense restoration. The re-release celebrates the Jonathan Demme classic’s 40th anniversary (ish—it came out in 1984 after being shot in 1983).…
NewsJoni Mitchell Announces New Rarities Album, Shares Early Court and Spark Demo: ListenArchives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) features demos, alternate versions, and historical performancesBy Matthew Ismael RuizAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterJoni Mitchell, 1972 (Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)FacebookTwitterJoni Mitchell is continuing her series of archival releases with Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975), which is out October 6 via Rhino. The collection features early demos and alternate versions of tracks from the sessions for 1972’s For the Roses, 1974’s Court and Spark, and 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns; several live recordings, including a 1972 performance at Carnegie Hall; and tracks from…
NewsGreen Day to Reissue Dookie for 30th AnniversaryThe new box set features the original 1994 album, demos, outtakes, and live recordingsBy Matthew StraussAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterGreen Day, photo by Ken SchlesFacebookTwitterGreen Day are reissuing Dookie ahead of its 30th anniversary. The new edition—out September 29—includes the original album, demos, outtakes, and live recordings. The live tracks come from the band’s Woodstock ’94 set and a show in Barcelona from June 1994.Green Day released Dookie on Tuesday, February 1, 1994, via Reprise. The band’s major-label debut, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and included the hit singles “Basket Case” and…
NewsHum Reissuing Four Albums on VinylThe Illinois shoegaze group will reissue the 1990s LPs Electra 2000, You’d Prefer an Astronaut, and Downward Is Heavenward, plus 2020’s InletBy Jazz MonroeAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterArtwork courtesy of Polyvinyl Record Co.FacebookTwitterHum are reissuing four of their albums on vinyl: 1993’s Electra 2000, 1995’s You’d Prefer an Astronaut, 1998’s Downward Is Heavenward, and 2020’s Inlet. The reissues are out December 8 via the band’s label Earth Analog, with distribution through Polyvinyl.Hum said in a press release, “On a personal note, we remain grateful and humbled by the ongoing interest in our music from fans old and…
NewsHannah Diamond Announces Album, Shares Video for New Song: WatchPerfect Picture, the PC Music artist’s second studio LP, is out in the fallBy Matthew Ismael RuizAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterHannah Diamond, photo by Hannah Diamond and Carina Kehlet SchouFacebookTwitterHannah Diamond has announced her new album, Perfect Picture, with a one-take video for the title track directed by Christopher Tym. Perfect Picture was produced by David Gamson and is due out October 6 via PC Music. Check out the video, the full tracklist, and the album artwork below.Picture Perfect includes Hannah Diamond’s recent single “Affirmations.” Of the title track, she said in a statement:Pop music…
NewsWilco’s Jeff Tweedy Announces Book Tour for World Within a SongThe book, subtitled Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music, documents Tweedy’s reflections on the Replacements, Joni Mitchell, and Billie Eilish, among othersBy Jazz MonroeAugust 17, 2023FacebookTwitterJeff Tweedy, photo by Sammy TweedyFacebookTwitterJeff Tweedy is heading out on a book tour of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music. On select dates, the Wilco frontman will invite guests including Nick Offerman, journalist (and sometime Pitchfork contributor) Amanda Petrusich, guitarist Nathan Salsburg, radio host April Baer, and others. The tour…
The average sticker price for college, or published costs for tuition and fees, has been rising — but most families don’t pay full price.Tuition, fees and room and board — plus books and supplies, transportation and personal expenses — total an average $27,940 at a four-year, in-state public college for the 2022-23 school year, according to the College Board, which tracks trends in college pricing and financial aid. In total, the equivalent annual cost for a four-year private college is $57,570 on average. At some private universities, the total cost of college is more than $80,000 a year.More from Life Changes:Here’s…
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022.Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNew York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, pointing to security concerns that have made the app a target of bipartisan scrutiny across the country.Congress already voted to ban TikTok on federal devices last year and several states have taken similar steps. The concern generally stems from TikTok’s ownership by China-based tech company ByteDance, since many policymakers fear that structure could make U.S. users’ information vulnerable to being accessed by…
In this articleMETAAJGFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTChatGPT can be a helpful job-hunting tool, if used correctly, according to career coach Sarah Doody.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesIf the tech industry’s top AI models had superlatives, Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4 would be best at math, Meta’s Llama 2 would be most middle of the road, Anthropic’s Claude 2 would be best at knowing its limits and Cohere AI would receive the title of most hallucinations — and most confident wrong answers.That’s all according to a Thursday report from researchers at Arthur AI, a machine learning monitoring platform.The research comes at…
In this articleBALLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTThe Ball Aerospace-manufactured Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite for the U.S. Space Force.Ball CorporationBall Corp. agreed to sell its aerospace division to U.K. defense contractor BAE Systems for $5.6 billion in cash, the companies announced Thursday.The deal is expected to close in the first half of next year, pending regulatory approval.The aerospace unit of Colorado-based Ball, widely known for its beverage and household packaging products, deals in manufacturing spacecraft and specialized aerial systems. It counts NOAA, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies as some of its key customers.BAE noted that more than 60%…
In this articleGOOGLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTSakana AI founders Llion Jones, left, and David Ha, meet at a rooftop bar in Tokyo. Jones, a co-author of Google’s prominent Transformers research paper, is the generative AI research lab’s technology chief, and Ha, a former Google research scientist, is its CEO.David HaLlion Jones had a big role at Google, where he worked for almost 12 years. He was one of eight authors of the pivotal Transformers research paper, which is central to the latest in generative artificial intelligence.However, like all of his co-authors, Jones has now left Google. He’s joining fellow…