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Month: January 2025

Review: Malpaso Returns, With Boundless Energy but Little Risk

This is the 10th season that Malpaso Dance Company, the Cuban contemporary dance troupe based in Havana and founded in 2012, has come to the Joyce Theater. Malpaso is an associate company of Joyce Theater Productions, and the longevity of…

Elon Musk and His Allies Storm Into Washington and Race to Reshape It

Storming Into Washinton On Friday afternoon, the world’s richest person showed up at what sounds like one of the world’s most boring agencies to demand a list. Elon Musk had arrived at the Office of Personnel Management, a mundane-sounding agency…

Jensen Ackles’s Batman is The Frontrunner for DCU Batman

The DC Universe finds its Batman for The Brave and The Bold in Jensen Ackles through new DC art. While it may not have a release date yet slotted in the DCU’s Chapter 1: “Gods and Monsters” schedule, fans are actively looking to find out…

WNBA star Angel Reese lands Vogue cover

WNBA Athlete and Vogue Model WNBA player Angel Reese has landed a Vogue cover, posing for a story about how the worlds of fashion and sport have collided. With interviews from Reese, tennis player Frances Tiafoe and Olympic sprinter Gabby…

Unique wild ice skating experiences around the world

Temperatures drop As temperatures drop and waterways freeze over, outdoor adventure enthusiasts can lace up their skates in search of perfect ice skating spots. Finding the best place for wild or Nordic skating, which involves skating outdoors on naturally formed…

Are Americans Doing Fitness Wrong?

For many people in the United States, staying in shape means getting in your car and driving to the gym. Movement is something on a to-do list, siloed off from the rest of daily life. That mentality is quintessentially American,…

DeepSeek Panic Live Updates: Nvidia Stock Pulls Back Again

The release of a less capital-intensive artificial intelligence model from China’s DeepSeek sent a chill through the U.S. stock market Monday with major stock updates, initiating a massive selloff led by Nvidia, which roared back Tuesday, recovering almost half of…

A Look at “Landscapes” @ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

V1 Gallery Landscapes is a group exhibition featuring 27 artists whose work deals with ecology and a spirituality grounded in landscape. It seeks to be an incomplete examination of landscapes through a contemporary lens, taking place between V1 Gallery and Eighteen, covering…

Cool-Kid Restaurateur Andrew Tarlow Goes Grown-Up at Borgo

Finding A Location When the Brooklyn restaurateur Andrew Tarlow was scouting sites for his new restaurant, he wasn’t focused on location. What he was looking for was good ghosts. The space he eventually chose for Borgo, on East 27th Street…

A brief history of the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop

Since crowds first began gathering in Times Square to commemorate New Year’s Eve over a century ago, it has been a ritual to flock to midtown’s brightly lit chaos to ring in new beginnings. At 11:59 p.m. a dazzling ball…

A wine-lover’s guide to the Costa Brava

Visitors will see storied history, diverse terrain and landscapes, inspiring architecture and an exceptional food and wine scene. People think of the Costa Brava for its Mediterranean beaches and classic holiday resorts.  The coastline is spectacular and this northeastern region…

RFK Jr. grilled on his views on vaccines and abortion in first confirmation hearing

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before senators Wednesday for his first confirmation hearing as President Donald Trump’s nominee for health and human services secretary, facing a grilling from Democrats on his views on vaccines and abortion. Kennedy sought to defend…

Sample Snitching: How Online Fan Chatter Can Create Legal Trouble for Rap Producers

In summer 2020, I received an email from an independent rap label, promoting one of its new releases. It had a note attached about samples. “Do your best to refrain from mentioning them by name unless you know they’ve been…

Ala Wai Canal Cleaned by Honolulu Resident

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – After heavy rains left the Ala Wai Canal clogged from end-to-end, one man has taken it upon himself to clean it. They call him “Smurf,” and he lives on the streets, but tries his best to keep…

Miss America 2025 goes to an Alabama nursing student

Miss America: Alabama A new Miss America has been crowned: Abbie Stockard, a 22-year-old Auburn University nursing student and cheerleader who was named Miss Alabama last June ahead of her senior year. Stockard triumphed over 51 other hopefuls — one…

Sonic X Shadow Generations Sales Top 2 Million In Another Sega Milestone

Sonic X Shadow Generations Sells Over 2 Million Units President of Sega, Shuji Utsumi recently announced that sales for their action-adventure platformer SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS have surpassed two million units sold worldwide; The title combines elements of two titles, SONIC Generations featuring Classic…

Can’t Afford a House? Just Build One in the Backyard.

After the last of their three children moved out, Joe and Rosalee Mihevc wanted to downsize from their 3,000-square-foot house on the west side of Toronto. The couple considered leaving the city — too much of a lifestyle change, they…

Self-Taught Artist Lands His First Solo Museum Show at MoMA

Artforum, Art in America, and Frieze have all featured in his paintings A self-taught artist who often takes art and art magazines as his subject will get his first solo exhibition this coming winter. In its Projects gallery, which is…

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books to Customers

An Idea Was Born When Andy Hunter started Bookshop in 2020, his goal was to build an online bookstore that served as an indie alternative to Amazon. Five years later, more than 2,200 independent bookstores sell books through the site,…

Everything you need to know about sports tourism

Traveling to celebrate sports Twenty-one years ago, armed with a backpack and England rugby shirt, I set off for Australia. After 18 joyless months of saving up my salary and holiday days, three glorious, sunlit weeks Down Under awaited. But it…