Month: September 2022

The wellness industry offers a seductive promise: If you work hard, are dedicated and buy this shiny new thing, then you, too, can have the healthy, beautiful life you’ve always dreamed of. But for journalist Rina Raphael, that dream sounds too good to be true. In her new book, The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus,
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Banned Books Week launches Monday, September 19, 2022, and the American Library Association (ALA) has released the latest numbers on book challenges in a new field report. Pulling from information reported directly to ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF), news coverage, and public records, the data show a marked increase in censorship and 2022 is
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Charities will receive financial help with their October energy bills, the government has confirmed. But the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy also said  this support would be backdated if necessary, seemingly acknowledging that the scheme might not be rolled out for several more weeks. The government has promised that energy rates for charities
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News Carly Rae Jepsen Shares New Song “Talking to Yourself”: Listen The latest single from The Loneliest Time was produced by Captain Cuts By Evan Minsker September 16, 2022 Facebook Twitter Carly Rae Jepsen (Meredith Jenks) Facebook Twitter Carly Rae Jepsen has shared her latest single from her forthcoming album The Loneliest Time. This one’s
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Kate Socatiyanurak & Grace Tungpanitansook Merandi Luxury Bag Inserts in ‘Tequila’ Founded in 2021, Bangkok-based luxury bag inserts maker Merandi believes that the “product complementing Hermès bags should not only add value in terms of function, but artistic value of the owners’ pride as well.” Using the best materials like Thai silk that has been
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Siyon was only trying to save his friend, not destroy the city. Sure, Zagiri is more of an acquaintance, but she is more reliable than most foppish nobles who moonlight as streetwise soldiers for hire in the city of Bezim. A petty alchemist, Siyon spends his time in the shadows, harvesting materials from other planes
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Speaking of ways, pet, there is such a thing as a tesseract.  I had eye surgery at the very end of third grade. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to swim for six weeks of summer vacation, I had to wear this really fetching sunglasses-visor combo whenever I went outside, and, worst of all,
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Disney has summarized a bulk of release dates that had been made known over the weekend out of D23. The important news to note here is that Rogue Squadron, the Star Wars movie that Patty Jenkins couldn’t commit to, has been removed from its Dec. 22, 2023, release date — not shocking. TBD if that film still
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Renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog has written more than a dozen books and screenplays, but The Twilight World (3.5 hours) is his first novel. Translated by Michael Hofmann and short enough to qualify as a novella, it’s the fictionalized story of Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, the real-life intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army who defended Lubang
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It Bags were over in 2008, or so declared trend pieces in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In the face of the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the very notion of those symbols of turn-of-the-century conspicuous consumption—the Fendi Baguettes, the Chloé Paddingtons, the Dior Saddles, and many others that cost
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