• Opinion: Are Influencers Losing their Marketing Influence?

    With many brands continuing to pour money into influencer marketing, Ian McGrath wonders whether influencers are starting to lose their their marketing influence? The ‘pay per shout-out’ influencer model is dying, as marketers lose faith from having only seen highly variable returns and influencers adapt to changes in their revenue streams. To remove any doubt, […]

  • Coachella weekend 1: No Doubt reunites, Blur flops and influencers influence

    The first weekend of the iconic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, has concluded — but social media is still buzzing about all the event’s highs and lows. From a much-hyped No Doubt reunion to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce sightings, the influencer-filled festival was full of moments that made headlines. Here’s what you might have missed. No Doubt reunites with a surprise guest It's been roughly nine years since the members of No Doubt, led by Gwen Stefani, performed...

  • Hear No Evil

    SponsoredCapitol Hill Auto Service, the Best of D.C. 2023 winner of Best Auto Repair! “We Don’t Just Work On Cars, We FIX Them”. Home | Arts Guide | Best of […]

  • Fallout recap: Now we're talking

    [Editor’s note: This is a recap of Fallout episode two. The recap of episode three publishes April 12.] Now that is significantly more like it. Of the many ways Fallout’s second episode is an improvement on its first, the most important, by far, is tone. Make no mistake, Vault Dwellers: This is, at least for now, a pitch-black comedy with some dramatic elements, not, as “Maximus” tried very hard to suggest, something that would occasionally try to get genuinely grim and joyless as our...

  • ‘Fallout’ Recap, Episode 1

    Of course it begins with the bomb. Or, rather, a series of bombs. In the

  • Shōgun recap: What are the costs of loyalty?

    The clear theme of this eighth episode of Shōgun is loyalty: Who is worthy of it? What function does it serve? Are there limitations to its usefulness? With tricksters like Toranaga-sama around, it’s hard to believe anyone would trust anything the guy does, at least as it applies to them personally. Is the justification for their devotion that the guy gets results? That he generally has good ideas and keeps the big picture in mind? That he’s (mostly) compassionate? Or is it just founded in the...

  • Shōgun recap: "Flowers are only flowers because they fall"

    Boy, is this ever Shōgun’s Mariko-sama episode. We begin with a flashback to her 14 years before the action of our story, wandering in the snow, heavy with child, and hellbent on self-destruction. Once she has been led into a tent to warm up, we learn that these attempts to escape her husband and end her life have formed a pattern for her. Here, she meets Father Martín for the first time. He christens her “Maria” and plops a rosary into her hand (“something to hold onto when she can’t talk”)....

  • 'Sugar' Episode 3 Recap: Who Goes There?

    Is John Sugar an alien?

  • ‘Manhunt’ Recap, Episode 6: ‘Useless’

    What is Stanton going to do with himself now that he doesn’t have to chase Booth around?

  • Recap of the Michael LaFlex murder trial

    BRAINERD — On Wednesday, April 10, a jury of 12 people found 46-year-old Michael LaFlex guilty of murdering his daughter’s boyfriend, Bryce Brogle, a year-and-a-half after Brogle’s body was found buried on public land near Merrifield.

  • Fallout Recap: Selling The End of The World

    The past and present timelines are colliding together.

  • ‘Fallout’ Recap, Episode 6: ‘The Trap’

    It’s fair to say that life in the vault is not as it was advertised.