Toward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It’s got a lot of ’60s folk-rock, including, she notes, “the four J’s.” Presumably she means artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Janis Ian. But maybe one of the J’s is the narrator herself — Jodie Rattler, a moderately famous singer with a knack for writing melancholy love songs. “Lucky” is framed as a rock ’n' roll novel, but it’s a tricky and...
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TopSpin 2K25 reviews are out, and they're good news for tennis fans.
DxE recently shared an Instagram video, shedding light on the dark reality behind the glamour of feather skirts in the fashion industry.
Gov. Maura Healey's administration has confirmed that family shelters, which have been at capacity due to an influx of immigrants into the state, could run out of dedicated funding by the end of April despite $250 million in supplemental funds approved in December.
I tend to use multiple web browsers for multiple purposes. Or sometimes, I just want to use something different. Right now, I'm bouncing between Opera, Arc, and Brave. Arc tends to get less usage because it's not available on the Linux operating system (yeah, I'm one of the few who still prefers desktop over mobile). Opera has been my default for a while now and it's hard to pull me away from its Workspaces feature (the best tab management on the market).Still, Brave has always been there,...
When it comes to thunderstorms, “severe” isn’t just a generic term. Here are the criteria that must be met for a storm to be deemed severe. - Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com
In recent decades, corporate consolidation of the book industry has shrunk the number of and the visions of publishing houses, concentrating power at the top of the remaining Big Five, prioritizing profitability over cultural contribution. Countering that contraction, the 2020 murder of George Floyd has triggered long-overdue inclusionary change in America, and in American book publishing. One manifestation of that change also began that year, when publishing veteran Molly Stern, former senior...
X (formally Twitter) is launching a video app for smart TVs.
Finns love their coffee. Per capita, people in Finland consume 12kgs of coffee per year, making them the second largest per-capita coffee drinkers, only surpassed by Luxembourg. Finland also often ranks as the most technologically advanced country in the world. So, it only makes sense that they embrace a merger of the two — technology, and coffee. Thus, an artisanal coffee shop in Helsinki, Finland, made news when they started selling an AI-formulated blend.
StormTeam 5 has a look at the forecast for Boston, Massachusetts and New England.