Great curations from Jeremy Okai Davis and Morgan Ritter, and the upside down server case we all can't stop talking about. by Ashley Gifford Peterson Looking at this season of spring gallery shows, we are reminded that art is all at once political, speculative, and personal. At the top of our list are interesting curations: Jeremy Okai Davis presents work by his contemporaries at Nationale, and Morgan Ritter pairs up painstaking...
A therapist and body-neutrality expert explains why it's a big deal and how we can redirect the way we talk about anti-aging around little ears.
There are few things on the Biden administration’s long list of failures that so exemplify pure ineptitude as the rollout of the simplified Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Three months after finally launching, the Department of Education can’t stop messing it up. The latest error from the incompetent and bloated agency was a calculation […]
A few years ago, when James Carville was teaching at Louisiana State University, he heard that one of his students had gotten into the school of her dreams to work on an advanced degree. He wanted to toast her. “I get a $25 champagne and four plastic flutes,” he recalled, “and I said to the students: ‘All right. You are not going to get out of James Carville’s class unless you know how to properly open a bottle of champagne.’ “I said: ‘Here’s what you’re going to do. You don’t pop it like you...
Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey interrogates our insatiable appetite for doom - and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the lastIt is a sunny afternoon in Taormina, Sicily, and two wealthy couples on holiday are drinking Aperol spritz on a balcony overlooking the sea. Harper, who runs on anxiety and guilt, says she has trouble sleeping because of “everything that’s going on in the world”. Daphne, who runs on pleasure and denial, asks what she...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against technology access restrictions during talks with Dutch PM Mark Rutte amid tensions over chip exports.
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including Deal or No Deal Island, the Oscars, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Grey’s Anatomy! 1 | In the first of S.W.A.T.‘s episodes last Friday, couldn’t the bad guys have […]
When Jeannette came by the social security office to claim a payment, Richard Smith was struck by her sunny and cheerful demeanour. It would go down as his ‘best day’s work’On Valentine’s Day 1968 I was working at the newly founded Department of Health and Social Security in London when I was summoned to the front desk to deal with a confusion about a client’s identity.Waiting for me there was a beautiful young woman with a big lovely smile. She needed her single-mother’s payment but she and her...
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Fight Club is a '90s classic, but it has been taken up as a favorite movie by some of the worst people in the world. The movie's director David Fincher has made his views very clear, though. If you can't find the true message of Fight Club, then he literally doesn't know what he can do to help you figure it out. Continue reading If you don’t understand Fight Club, David Fincher can’t help you MORE FROM THE DIGITAL FIX: Best...
The British athlete is considered one of Formula 1's greatest drivers of all time. But has Lewis Hamilton transcended the sport itself? Team LH weighs in.