Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers at the grand reopening of Apple’s flagship Apple Fifth Avenue retail store on September 20, 2019 in New York City. Taylor Hill | Getty Images Shares of Apple and Tesla rose sharply on Monday, the first day after their recently announced stock splits took effect, as investors continued to
Month: August 2020
The top nation for Tenet, according to Deadline, was the UK which brought in $7 million, and which accounted for nearly three-quarters of all movie tickets sold last weekend in the nation. Korea, France, and Germany all put up comparable numbers. The numbers put up were especially impressive because even in nations where theaters are
Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Fred and Daphne are in mourning … ‘Scooby-Doo’ co-creator Joe Ruby has died. The animation writer and TV executive who co-created the famous cartoon series “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?” died Wednesday in Westlake Village, CA of natural causes … according to his family. Joe, along with his animation partner Ken Spears, worked
If you told me nine years ago about a Hunger Games prequel, I’d be booking my spot for its midnight release at Borders Books. I first devoured The Hunger Games Trilogy as an 18-year-old (back in the final glory days of Borders). Suzanne Collins’s dystopian world immediately ensnared me. The world and the Katniss-Peeta-Gale love
The coronavirus pandemic has uprooted most aspects of daily life — and much of the economy built around it. But out of crisis comes opportunity. And for some young entrepreneurs, the pandemic has unearthed green shoots for a new future. In Singapore, fast-growing start-ups in the food, retail and technology industries have been working to respond
Stock your closet with these quar-ready, WFH-friendly basics Like nearly every other facet of our lives, there’s a good chance the COVID-19 pandemic has totally upended your approach to fashion. Gone are the days of buying showy, impractical pieces just because. Our much narrower worlds means a few closet staples receive heavy rotation, while most
LOS ANGELES — Lady Gaga has been confirmed as the latest artist to perform at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga will join the group of performers who were previously announced, which includes BTS, Doja Cat, The Weeknd, Roddy Ricch and Maluma. The VMAs will air live on Sunday, August 30th at 8pm
The employability charity Shaw Trust has announced plans to recruit more than 600 employees to meet growing demand for its services. The charity, which specialises in helping young people and adults into work, currently has 2,500 staff members and 1,000 volunteers. It said it was planning to grow these numbers by 25 per cent over
If not for the pandemic, today would have marked the start of Notting Hill Carnival, a celebration of West Indies culture in Britain that dates back to the 1960s. But while the coronavirus has cancelled those plans, Adele chose to participate anyway, with a picture of herself in a Jamaican flag bikini and a Bantu
As superyachts become larger and more innovative, so do the toys that come with them. The once-standard 25-meter luxury cruisers decked out in the most sophisticated technology and design are now some of the smaller fish in the yachting industry. Some of the most extravagant liners to be seen at the 2019 Monaco Yacht show
Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC They say 90 is the new 70, and in Warren Buffett‘s case it may be true. The chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway announced today, on his 90th birthday, that his company has acquired a slightly more than 5% stake in each of the five leading Japanese trading companies.
Update: Focus Features’ Sundance acquisition of Annapurna/Plan B’s Kajillionaire will now open on Sept. 25, a week later than anticipated in select theaters. We also hear the Miranda July directed movie will hit PVOD around Oct. 16. Despite that, the pic’s marketing will be driven toward its theatrical release, and the movie will continue to be available to
If you thought Miley Cyrus‘ “Wrecking Ball” days were over, you were quite wrong. At Sunday’s 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, the pop star performed her new single “Midnight Sky” and, after experimenting with some dizzying red and blue lighting, brought along a prop that’s sure to remind fans of her most memorable music video.
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Tonight, the MTV VMAs are hosting the first major in-person live awards show during the coronavirus pandemic in New York City. Missing from the A-list celeb crowd? The Jonas Brothers, including Joe Jonas and his wife Sophie Turner. Joe and his brothers actually have a nomination for Best Pop Song (“What a Man Gotta Do”).
Even though the 2020 MTV VMAs are taking place largely remotely and at various outdoor venues across NYC, celebrities still dressed to the nines to celebrate the big night. Stars like Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and Doja Cat posed their hearts out in their finest designer duds in front of a green screen at home
The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a charity that promoted fake coronavirus protection kits. In April, the regulator said it had opened a compliance case into The Kingdom Church GB, which runs a church in south London, after the National Secular Society said the charity had been advertising false coronavirus cleansing products
Virtual raves are all the rage right now — and although we’ve traded venues for living rooms, ravers are reportedly still using drugs in socially distanced settings. A recent study examined recreational drug use during virtual events and online happy hours. To explore this new phenomenon, online surveys were issued in April and May 2020 via
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch | Reuters Whichever coronavirus vaccine candidates win regulatory approval in the U.S. will likely be in short supply once they are cleared for public distribution, Director of the Centers for
It’s an understatement to say that Cyril Kongo’s art is expressive. In 2016, a collaboration with Richard Mille saw the international street artist transform his namesake RM 68-01 Kongo Tourbillon into an unprecedented work of art. Abstract yet avant-garde, his contemporary work is infused with street culture, boasting layers of heavy contextual expression. Kongo’s most
Wild moorland, Grecian blue sea and world-class fish and chips Cornwall is on everyone’s lips these days. Those lingering shots of wild moorland, Grecian blue sea and soft pale sand in every episode of the BBC’s Poldark have drawn visitors from around the world. Despite such popularity the county retains its cloak of tradition and
Luce (Hulu) Luce stars Kelvin Harrison Jr., Octavia Spencer, Noami Watts, and Tim Roth. This 2019 film directed by Julius Onah is based on a play of the same name, so it feels very much like a film with theatrical origins. Luce revolves around adoptive parents who start to question if their star son is
Ben fought the impulse to kill Ciara, a vision of Paige got through to Eve, Nicole and Sami battled over the baby, and Gabi and Rafe left Salem on this week’s Days of Our Lives. Our TV Fanatics Jack Ori and Christine Orlando are joined by Kathy from MyHourglass a Days of Our Lives fan
Sometimes you know you shouldn’t laugh, but you do it anyway. Sometimes you don’t know you shouldn’t laugh, and are then embarrassed when you do because you look like a dope. I present to you this list of hilarious titles about serious topics, in honor of one particularly choice incident when I laughed at a
Anna Vela had three days to pay her rent or her landlord would evict her and her three children. She didn’t have the money. When the pandemic hit, Vela’s boss at the supermarket where she worked in Davenport, Iowa, had cut her weekly hours to around 11 from 35. And when she learned that she’d
Kylie Jenner came home to the cutest surprise ever: a homemade sign by daughter Stormi! The 2-year-old even used her mom’s favorite color: pink! Stormi Webster, 2, is the cutest little artist! The toddler surprised mom Kylie Jenner, 23, as she arrived home from her Paris getaway with a sweet sign that read “Welcome Home
Four charities are suing a disgraced former solicitor, arguing that they lost out on a legacy gift from a will of which she was the co-executor. Linda Mary Box was jailed for seven years in 2017 after stealing money from the client account of the firm where she worked, with a further eight years to
Exclusive Kanye West‘s looking to expand his empire in the Cowboy State … so his family’s horsies have more room to roam. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … the rapper and presidential candidate has visited the Double Doc Ranch in Cody, Wyoming and expressed interest in buying the property. The ranch — which serves
Tiger selfies in Thailand, donkeys buckling beneath heavy riders in Greece, guests doing yoga atop elephants at a luxury resort — these instances, and others, were the impetus behind new animal tourism guidelines published last week by adventure travel company, Intrepid Travel, and the global animal welfare organization, World Animal Protection. The Animal Welfare Policy Toolkit says
There is a certain art to cooking eggs. Go too high or too low on the heat and disaster awaits. Even boiling eggs can be dicey, depending on whether one starts with water at a boil, or brings water and eggs to boiling point together. To be sure, eggs are amongst the easiest things to
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