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☆ Pamela Anderson broke her makeup-free streak for her first Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Pamela Anderson broke her no-makeup streak at the 2024 Met Gala. AdvertisementAfter a slew of bare-faced public appearances, Pamela Anderson finally ditched the no-makeup look for her Met Gala debut. Pamela Anderson ditched her no-makeup look for her first Met Gala appearance. And since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it's just better for me not to wear makeup," Anderson said. Reflecting on her Met Gala debut, Anderson told the Times that it "means a lot" to her that she was invited.

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☆ A woman is trying to free her fiancé from prison after 49 years behind bars
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Thomas Lake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

According to a trial transcript, two friends of Durrett also testified they’d heard Ezra make similar statements. Durrett didn’t implicate Ezra until months after the crime — and after he, Durrett, had been charged with the murder. And although she has been “madly in love” before, Christine said she’d never felt such pure love as she does with Ezra. But the older man said the younger man couldn’t love her because he didn’t even love himself. A few days later he told Christine about another man who needed her help.

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☆ I recreated 3 popular fast-food chicken recipes in my air fryer, and one was better than the original
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Lucien Formichella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Dredging the chicken involved dipping it in an egg mixture and the flour mixture. Lucien Formichella for InsiderThe dredging process went well, though I definitely should've made more. It was relaxing to drop the chicken into the flour mixture, then the eggs, then back in the flour. Lucien Formichella for InsiderAfter putting the chicken in the air fryer, I genuinely wondered how the tenders would turn out because Popeyes chicken has such a distinct flavor. I left the second precisely as it came out of the bowl, figuring more of the flour mixture would stick to it.

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☆ Katy Perry, Billie Eilish, J Balvin and more lash out against ‘enormous’ AI threats that ‘sabotage creativity’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —More than 200 artists, including Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, J Balvin, Ja Rule, Jon Bon Jovi, The Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry, Miranda Lambert and more, are speaking out against artificial intelligence-related threats in the music industry. The letter highlights AI threats including deepfakes and voice cloning, as well as “irresponsible uses of AI” such as the using AI sound to diminish royalty payments to artists and the use of musical works by AI developers without permission to train and produce AI copycats. “Unfortunately, some platforms and developers are employing AI to sabotage creativity and undermine artists, songwriters, musicians and rightsholders.”The letter urges digital music platforms and services to pledge to protect artist. “We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists’ voices and likenesses, violate creators’ rights, and destroy the music ecosystem,” the letter says. In a statement, the executive director of the ARA, Jen Jacobsen, said the threats of artificial intelligence are worsening already-tough working conditions for artists.

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☆ Was Sydney Sweeney’s Oscars after-party look a subversive nod to Marilyn Monroe?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —There was something uncanny about Sydney Sweeney’s look at the Vanity Fair Oscars party last night. Last week, Sweeney made her “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut with a string of jokes centered around her sexualized typecasting, rumors of affairs with co-stars and the size of her chest. Were Sweeney’s breasts, as one writer for Canada’s National Post put it, “double-D harbingers of the death of woke”? “(But) with Sweeney, what it really comes down to is this: Sex sells.”Since then, it’s been open season for Sydney Sweeney boob jokes, especially in comments under the actor’s Instagram posts. “Leave Sydney Sweeney’s boobs out of this,” wrote The Cut.

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☆ The chef at London's Chishuru just won her first Michelin star. She started with a competition to open a pop-up restaurant.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on an interview with the founder and chef of Chishuru, Joké Bakare, about pursuing her dream to open a restaurant. A year later, some friends spotted a competition run by Brixton Village in south London — they were offering the winner a three-month pop-up restaurant. In some ways, the Brixton restaurant was straightforward — it was a small site with just 18 covers inside and 14 outside. Harriet LangfordThe restaurant's success continued and in April 2022, Time Out named Chishuru as London's best restaurant. It's the food that my grandmother might have cooked, but with a London restaurant spin.

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Admittance to Davis' event is notoriously challenging to receive. When it came time to introduce Clive Davis to the stage, actor Tom Hanks did the honors. Clive Davis, Clive Davis, Clive Davis,” he told the cheering crowd. "Clive Davis is the chef, in the kitchen, of the food of love of music, music, music. “We concentrate on the pure celebration of music,” Davis said at the start of the night — and by the end, that was evident.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The songwriters who gave us “Your Song,” “Tiny Dancer” and “Rocket Man” will add to their stuffed awards shelf later this year when Elton John and Bernie Taupin are awarded the Gershwin Prize. “Elton John and Bernie Taupin have written some of the most memorable songs of our lives. Taupin and John were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2023, John inducted Taupin into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. John this month achieved EGOT status after winning an Emmy for "Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.”

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☆ ‘Who Owns This Sentence?’ Increasingly, Who Knows?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WHO OWNS THIS SENTENCE? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, by David Bellos and Alexandre MontaguDavid Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s surprisingly sprightly history “Who Owns This Sentence?” arrives with uncanny timing. How quaint Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” theory of the Romantic poets now seems, amid the current cut-and-paste panic. Like a corrupt police officer, artificial intelligence is scanning for more plagiarism perps, while itself stealing writers’ words. Bellos, a translator and biographer, and Montagu, a lawyer, step confidently behind the yellow tape to guide us around.

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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Filmmaker Yance Ford was in a “Sundance haze” when he took a meeting with Netflix following the premiere of “Strong Island” in 2017. “Strong Island” would go on to get an Oscar nomination, too, as would its Sundance and Netflix peer “Icarus,” which would win best documentary in 2018. “Netflix understood what ‘Strong Island’ was doing and what it could say to a big, broad audience.”Ten years after “The Square,” an acquisition that put Netflix documentaries on the map, the streamer is back at the 40th Sundance Film Festival with an eye towards acquisitions and two very different originals. “We really were the new kids on the block trying to persuade filmmakers that having the reach of the platform was something that was really important,” Del Deo said. “I think it's going to put a lot of smiles on people,” Del Deo said.

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☆ From a date shake to fast-food burritos, here are the best things I ate on a 2-week road trip across America's West
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-08 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hands down, the best thing I had were fry bread tacos at Tiwa Kitchen in Taos, New Mexico. Dessert fry bread and a blue corn taco from Tiwa Kitchen. When Tiwa Kitchen was the only place that popped up on Google Maps for fry bread in Taos, I headed straight there. Sandoval, who is a member of the Taos Pueblo, handed me a cookie while we waited for my food. The fry bread was just as tasty as I remembered, and the lemonade had a tart flavor I was unaccustomed to.

Persons: Monica Humphries, Fry, Ben Sandoval, Sandoval Organizations: Google Locations: Taos , New Mexico, Salt Lake City , Utah, North America, Salt Lake City, Taos, Taos Pueblo, Pueblo

asked Kristen Brengel of the National Parks Conservation Association, noting that visitors on the ground far outnumber those overhead. Congress passed another round of legislation in 2000 with a goal of setting rules in other national parks. Historically, some of the nation's busiest spots for tour operators are Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which is home to one of the world’s most active volcanoes, and Haleakala National Park. But Brengel of the National Parks Conservation Association said the resistance doesn't have much traction. An amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill that would have required the agency to factor in the economics of commercial air tours over national parks failed in July, she said.

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☆ Trailer park caretaker surprises his hometown with a gift of $3.8 million, years after another secret millionaire did the same nearby
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Mike Winters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In the small town of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, people knew Geoffrey Holt as the unassuming caretaker of the mobile home park where he lived. What they didn't know was that he was a multimillionaire — and he donated the entirety of his $3.8 million fortune to the 4,000-person community after he died at age 82 in June. "Geoff was a private person, preferring to be in the crowd rather than in the front of it," Smith tells CNBC Make It. Holt had previously confided to Smith about his wealth, but Smith didn't know of Holt's plans until he became caretaker. He didn't own a car and lived frugally in a mobile home on the 25-acre land Smith owned.

Persons: Geoffrey Holt, Holt, Edwin, Smokey, Smith, Geoff, Mr, Holt's Organizations: CNBC, New, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Navy Locations: Hinsdale , New Hampshire, Brattleboro, New Hampshire, Hinsdale

☆ Why environmentalists are suing the National Park Service to prevent it from planting trees
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Jonathan Park | Janna Van Vranken | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The National Park Service wants to replant sequoia groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, where wildfires in 2020 and 2021 inflicted lasting damage on the iconic sequoia forests. Sequoias are among the species of trees that actually “depend on high-intensity fire in order to reproduce effectively,” said Hanson told CNN. In this September 2021 photo, the Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees near the Trail of 100 Giants overnight in Sequoia National Forest. David McNew/Getty Images“The Park Service has to abide by the 1964 Wilderness Act,” said Kevin Proescholdt, conservation director at Wilderness Watch. “The more that agencies will allow natural fire to burn and perform its role, the better these wilderness forests will be,” he said.

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☆ Man who lived frugally leaves unexpected gift of $3.8 million to small New Hampshire town after death
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Michelle Watson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A man who lived frugally all his life left an unexpected gift of $3.8 million after his death to his small New Hampshire town with less than 4,000 residents. He moved to New Hampshire in 1968 and lived on his social security checks for the last 15 years of his life, Smith said. Holt lived in a trailer park in the town, and the kitchen chairs in his mobile home were made of plywood, Smith said. The nearly $4 million gift came from a trust fund Holt established in 2001, primarily made in mutual funds accounts, according to Smith. A ‘transformational’ gift for a small communityThe town is considering various avenues to use the funds from the newfound gift, Lynch said, including possibly buying an electronic voting machine and fixing the town hall clock, which doesn’t work properly.

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☆ Opinion | ‘Now and Then, I Miss You’: The Love Story at the Heart of the Last Beatles Song
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Ian Leslie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sixty-one years after releasing their first single, “Love Me Do,” the Beatles have released their last. Inside the story of “Love Me Do” to “Now and Then” is the love story of John Lennon and Paul McCartney — which is our story, too. Beatles songs still speak to us so directly because they are vehicles for the transmission of feelings too powerful for normal speech. They gained their emotional education from music, especially the music of Black artists like Smokey Robinson, Arthur Alexander and the Shirelles. Almost everything they felt — and they felt a lot — was poured into music, including their feelings about each other.

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☆ What happens to the thousands of dead NYC rats that are being exterminated with a wildly successful new method
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rats are now being eliminated with carbon monoxide in New York City. Some dead rats get carried away, but others get buried. AdvertisementAdvertisementRats are being killed left and right in New York City . AdvertisementAdvertisement"If you walk into a room and it's full of smoke, you're going to presume there's a fire there and you're going to stay out of that room, right? Just last year, residents reported nearly 3.2 million rat sightings in the city, Insider previously reported.

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☆ A NYC exterminator, who has killed thousands of rats with a new weapon, explains what's happening to all the dead rodent bodies
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

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☆ The 16 Best Items to Add to Your Registry—and Where to Register
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Erika Veurink | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +17 min

By Erika VeurinkA wedding registry is a couple’s chance to creatively express the kind of life you hope to create together. If you’re a bride or groom to be, you can easily add a link to these eye-catching utensils to your Zola registry. Add the link to the multipurpose pressure cookware to your registry on Zola, or shop it at Amazon or Walmart. Add this link to your Zola registry (and browse other local gift options) and your guests can send a wedding-week-pick-me-up or gift an ongoing subscription. And if you don’t know where to start, Bloomingdale’s wedding registry checklist will help you narrow down what you need.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Dear Canada…’ an American firefighter’s heartfelt letter to north of the border
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Opinion Clare Frank | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

This means agencies creating the wildland-urban interface or WUI — where human settlements meet the natural environment — are not ultimately responsible for protecting it. By my fifth year in firefighting, I’d seen plenty of wildfires and structure fires, and wildfires threatening structures. As we convoyed in, a battalion chief instructed each engine company, “If it’s not savable, leapfrog to the next house. Smoke rises from the Texas Creek wildfire south of Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, on July 9. In this banner year, some are crying for Canada to form a national fire department.

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REUTERS/Carlos OsorioWINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 11 (Reuters) - The number of wildfires raging out of control across Quebec dropped on Sunday as firefighters in the Canadian province gained the upper hand in some areas, a provincial minister said on Sunday. Quebec Natural Resources Minister Maite Blanchette Vezina said told reporters that the number of out-of-control fires in the eastern province dropped to 44 from 72 on Saturday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported. By Monday, around 1,200 firefighters, including more than 100 from France and some from other provinces, are expected to be battling blazes across Quebec. A federal government meteorologist forecast on Saturday that Quebec could receive light rain on Tuesday in some burning areas. "Last Wednesday, we thought we could close down our emergency control center and come Friday, that idea went out the door when the fires went out of control very drastically," said Luc Mercier, chief administrative officer for Yellowhead County.

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REUTERS/Carlos OsorioOTTAWA, June 10 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Quebec says rain and outside help could help win the fight against more than 100 forest fires producing plumes of smoke that have left cities on the Atlantic seaboard gasping for breath. "Some rain is forecast ... in the next few days there is a risk the situation will stay critical. But the arrival of French firefighters is really going to help," forestry minister Maite Blanchette Vezina told reporters on Friday. By late Friday there were 422 fires across Canada, 125 of them in Quebec. Please use caution so that we can try our best to avoid a catastrophic fire season," British Columbia Premier David Eby told reporters on Friday.

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☆ New York City tops world's worst air pollution list from Canada wildfire smoke
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires blankets New York City affecting air quality on June 7th, 2023. A man sits at the bus stop with a mask on his face in New York City, June 6, 2023. Selcuk Acar | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesMillions of people in the Midwest are experiencing dangerous air quality conditions, with air quality advisories in effect in southeastern Minnesota, parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and areas in Wisconsin. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of global wildfires and air pollution from wildfire smoke is also growing worse. Last year, Stanford researchers found millions of Americans are routinely exposed to wildfire smoke pollution at levels rarely seen only a decade ago.

Persons: Leslie Josephs, Kathy Hochul, Hochul, Eric Adams, Adams, Gary Hershorn, Selcuk Organizations: Federal Aviation Administration, New York's, Newark Liberty International, CNBC New York Gov, Wednesday, Health, CIRA, NOAA, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Quality Health, Corbis, Getty, Canada, Anadolu Agency, of, National Weather Service, Stanford Locations: New York City, Northeastern U.S, Kist, York, Canada, York City, Quebec, New York, Herald Square, Manhattan , New York, Minnesota, of Michigan, Wisconsin, Air, New England

☆ Kraft Heinz wants you to mix flavors in your ketchup
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Now, Kraft Heinz wants to do the same for dipping sauces. Kraft Heinz (KHC) plans to start running pilot programs with the product in restaurants from late 2023 into early next year. The Kraft Heinz CompanyThe base options could change over time, a relief for those already worried about the lack of mayo. Through 2027, Kraft Heinz has a goal of an additional $2 billion in North American retail revenue from innovation. “We’re really excited to put consumers in control of that and what we can learn from it.”Lately, Kraft Heinz is all about letting customers mix and match.

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