From the death of Osama bin Laden (as announced by Dwayne Johnson) to the rise of Donald Trump, from #TheDress to the Oscars slap, it’s impossible to imagine the last twenty or so years of global cultural history without Twitter, the microblogging platform that no one has ever referred to as “X.” And over the past two decades, no subsection of the app’s vast user base has produced more enduring memes, more culture-shifting social-justice hashtags, and more pure comedy than the cohort known as...
Taylor Swift's Eras Tour arrives in Paris tonight, just a few months before Team USA Olympians and Paralympians are set to travel to the City of Light to compete for gold. "The Eras Tour is actually happening right where the pool [will be]," Paralympic swimmer Jamal Hill tells TC, admitting that he is a Swiftie, but not a fervent one. "I appreciate greatness, so it’s great that Taylor will get to perform in a place where I’ll be performing greatness," he added.Swift is headline shows at Paris's...
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Photo by Missy Rosa Former Erath High Principal Marc Turner surprised “Coach P” by dedicating the EHS basketball court in his name at the Homecoming Pep Rally in 2018. Erath High’s Tommie Pillette will retire in May 2024 after serving 46 years as an educator. Photo by Missy Rosa In 2018, Tommie Pillette served as the Erath High Homecoming Grand Marshal. ERATH — Retirement often offers the excitement of a new chapter but accompanies the bittersweet feeling of leaving a place PLEASE...
I changed my vacation plans and flew from California to Vermont, with less than a day to spare, so I could catch the total solar eclipse on April 8. There was no way I was going to miss the experience. Conveniently, astronomers knew exactly when and where it was going to happen, weather permitting. That meant all manner of planners, from hotel owners to traffic flaggers, had plenty of time to prepare. Decades, in fact. The only requirement was to look up, at the right moment, to behold...
I've always thought the term "reporter" undersells the job of writing the "first rough draft of history," as Washington Post publisher Phil Graham phrased it in 1963. That the word is so simple — and, frankly, humbling — is a reminder to every journalist who steps into the swirl of current events: Our job is to document what we see, hear and experience as accurately as possible, but, in the end, the story is not about us. We are recording the news, not making it. That said, to be a good...
Few drugs have achieved the stardom that semaglutide, marketed in the United States as Ozempic or Wegovy, has today. A synthetic, injectable version of an intestinal hormone, it is the flagship of a new category of drugs initially developed for diabetes that rose to fame in the medical and public arena as an effective weapon against obesity. Semaglutide has proved so successful that its manufacturer, the Danish company Novo Nordisk, is unable to keep up with demand. The US Food and Drug...
Much of the media’s runup to the 2024 presidential election has consisted of moralistic hand wringing about Democracy Itself being on the line, an echo of President Joe Biden’s own talking points. However, some of us remember a not-too-distant time ago, when some of today’s loudest outlets platformed an ACTUAL insurrectionist. This is the moment, broadcast on Univision seven years ago today, when Jorge Ramos, senior anchor and host of political affairs show Al Punto, asked Oscar Lopez Rivera...
Much of the media’s runup to the 2024 presidential election has consisted of moralistic hand wringing about Democracy Itself being on the line, an echo of President Joe Biden’s own talking points. However, some of us remember a not-too-distant time ago, when some of today’s loudest outlets platformed an ACTUAL insurrectionist. This is the moment, broadcast on Univision seven years ago today, when Jorge Ramos, senior anchor and host of political affairs show Al Punto, asked Oscar Lopez Rivera...
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