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☆ Judy Garland and ‘The Trolley Song’: Why an 80-year-old performance speaks to today’s LGBTQ community
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Scottie Andrew | Sydney Bishop | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“The Trolley Song,” a second-act standout from the 1944 movie musical “Meet Me in St. Louis,” was sung by Judy Garland in striking Technicolor. And yet it has found new life online nearly 80 years later as an unlikely anthem for LGBTQ Pride. “Happy pride month (sic) to Judy Garland in the trolley song. Kelleher likened it to Cher’s 1998 autotune fantasia “Believe” but “somehow even more gay.”Like Cher’s hit, “The Trolley Song” is dripping in artifice. “The Trolley Song” has been adopted by LGBTQ people since Garland first started singing it in concert.

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☆ Zing Coach thinks AI is key to building better health and fitness habits. Here's the pitch deck the startup used to land $10 million.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Zing Coach is a fitness platform that uses AI to create personalized fitness and wellness plans. The startup just raised $10 million in Series A funding from Zubr Capital and Triple Point Capital. BI got an exclusive look at the pitch deck Zing Coach used to raise funding. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Wellness and fitness startup Zing Coach just raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by Zubr Capital and Triple Point Capital.

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☆ Opinion: Thank goodness this season of ‘Bridgerton’ isn’t short on the sex
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —“Bridgerton” is finally back, and the new season has been infused with a much-needed aphrodisiac. But season three, which centers on Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) — a.k.a. In recent months, there’s been talk about how sex is returning to movies after a long, dull period of primarily PG-13 fare. ), but this season’s “Bridgerton” is doing a fine job with the foreplay as well, teasing the furtive looks and fantasies of its two leads as well as delving into several other boudoirs. Escaping into the candy-colored, racially diverse, endlessly horny utopia of Mayfair might just be the perfect balm for the 2024 soul.

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☆ I was afraid of losing my ex because I didn't want kids. I realized I'd be losing myself if I compromised.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Cristabelle García | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I loved my ex almost immediately, but he wanted kids, and I didn't. I wondered how much doubt about having kids was normal. When Cristabelle Garcia and her ex had differing desires about wanting kids, they parted ways. However, it only made me notice the relief I would feel whenever my ex entertained the idea of not having kids. My ex felt I was over-indexing on my alone time.

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☆ Biden trolls Trump over golf 'championship' trophies: 'Quite the accomplishment'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Retired professional golfer Jack Nicklaus presents Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump with the 2024 Trump International Golf Club Most Improved Player award on March 24, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. President Joe Biden trolled Donald Trump late Sunday after his Republican challenger bragged about winning not one but two "club championship" trophies at his own Florida golf club. The Democrat's social media team has been quick this election cycle to zing Trump as they prepare for a rematch of the 2020 election. Other social media users already roasted Trump for his boast on Truth Social, which said, "It is my great honor to be at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach tonight, AWARDS NIGHT, to receive THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY & THE SENIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY." Tim O'Brien, a senior executive at Bloomberg Opinion, replied to Biden's clap-back, writing, "He's too nice to note that Trump is a notorious cheater at golf."

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☆ A Weeknight Skillet Chicken Dinner, Rich With Greens
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Melissa Clark | More About Melissa Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For this recipe, I nestled my beloved greens in their pan with chicken thighs, another weeknight favorite. It makes for a skillet dinner that’s not much harder than cooking the greens by themselves, but a lot more substantial. Chicken breasts — either bone-in or boneless — will also work well. Boneless breasts have a narrow window of being done but not overdone, usually about 5 to 7 minutes less than boneless thighs, so watch them carefully. And if you’re a fan, olives or capers gives this a briny zing that rounds out the earthiness of the greens.

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☆ 3 theories to explain Trump's TikTok flip-flop
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

For instance: In 2020, when he was president, Trump said he wanted to ban TikTok from the US. While we are here, let's be even-handed, and note that Trump is not the only politician who has inconsistent and contradictory approaches to TikTok. So that's a lot of TikTok Ban news to consume over a short period. But I'm still sticking with the argument I made Thursday:It's easy to vote for a TikTok ban if you don't really think it's going to result in a TikTok ban. But it's a lot harder to actually ban TikTok for real — particularly during a very close presidential campaign, where the risk of blowback from angry users is a real thing.

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☆ I'm dating in my 30s after finding myself newly single. Instead of relying on dating apps like I did in my 20s, I'm trying to meet people in person.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Cristabelle García | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm recently single and dating in my 30s is new to me. AdvertisementBeing single is not new to me, but being single while in my 30s is. I figured, if I'm a person of fewer, deeper friendships, why should it be any different when there may be nakedness involved? I take it easy on the appsI'm only on one dating app (I'm also only on one social media app). And now, I also know what I'm looking for in a person and their companionship.

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☆ ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Movie Review: Look What We Made Her Do
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Wesley Morris | More About Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

We could talk, I suppose, about all Taylor Swift’s done for the economy, friendship bracelets, seismology and Travis Kelce. Nor is her show — produced as discrete segments devoted to nine of Swift’s 10 albums — the cultural gymnasium Madonna requires. Swift plays to her enhanced strengths: candied pitch, arresting stature, toothsome songwriting, winking, the very idea of play. Rapt in a movie theater, I felt the song’s heart-wrung pique in a new way. Some of that comes from watching Swift’s face register the ache, tsking recrimination.

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☆ Champagne sales are booming. But its taste could soon change forever — thanks to climate change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Hannah Ward-Glenton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

More than 325 million bottles of champagne were shipped from Champagne in 2022, according to Comité Champagne. More than 325 million bottles of champagne were shipped from Champagne in 2022, surpassing 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in sales for the first time, according to champagne trade association Comité Champagne. International brands are aware of the huge impact climate change can have on their businesses. A bar tender pours a bottle of Taittinger Champagne. Matt Hodson Founder of English wine retailer Grape Britannia

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☆ Make it a cool pickle summer with this easy method
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Casey Barber | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Sure, you can preserve food with a more advanced water-bath canning method, especially if you’re planning to save your summer pickles for up to a year. Or add pickled vegetables such as green beans or cauliflower to a grain salad or grain bowl as a topping. While pickled vegetables are always welcome in pasta salad (and potato salad, for that matter), they also bring an unexpected zing to hot pasta recipes. Or add pickled shallots, broccoli or peppers to pesto-sauced noodles. And when it’s too hot to think of anything else to do, there’s always “snack dinner” with a variety of pickled vegetables to save the day.

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☆ X: The Brand, the Generation and Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Stella Bugbee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s the stuff of revolutionaries (Malcolm X) and punks (X, the band). And why did Mr. Musk choose it? In the 1990s, X reigned supreme, after Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” permeated the lexicon. “We were in our 20s when we were named Gen X,” Anthony Sperduti, 50, founder of the branding studio Mythology, said. “So maybe X sounds good to us, because it seeped into our brain.” At 52, Mr. Musk falls right into that demographic.

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Rita Moreno was hooked when she was tapped to play a ghost in the television comedy "Lopez vs. Lopez," starring comedian George Lopez and his daughter, Mayan Lopez. "I loved why she comes back from the dead," Moreno said about her character on the show, which airs on NBC (NBC News and NBC are part of NBCUniversal). George Lopez and Rita Moreno in "Lopez vs. In her view, "Lopez vs. Lopez" has “all the makings of a successful family comedy,” Moreno said. Brice Gonzalez and George Lopez in "Lopez vs.

☆ Best Chinese food: 32 must-try dishes
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

Dan dan noodlesIt’s nearly impossible to dislike China’s soul-comforting dan dan mian, or dan dan noodles. Dan dan noodles are named after the way they were originally sold more than 100 years ago – on a dan dan, a carrying pole, by street hawkers. Some think dan dan noodles should contain a dry mix of noodles, made with minced meat, chopped scallions, spices, crushed peanuts and various sauces. Others disagree, preferring dan dan noodles in a hot, spicy, salty and nutty broth albeit with similar ingredients. Similar to Hainanese chicken rice, the Wenchang version is often served with yellow chicken fat rice and chicken soup.

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☆ Trina McGee, who played Angela on ‘Boy Meets World,’ says she was asked to ‘turn down’ her ‘Black meter’
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Another “Boy Meets World” mystery was solved during a recent episode of the rewatch podcast, “Pod Meets World.” Trina McGee, who portrayed Angela Moore during the final three seasons of the sitcom, revealed why she wasn’t part of the series finale. She’s somehow taking our light.’ [That] was the gist of it,” said McGee, who played Shawn Hunter’s (Rider Strong) girlfriend on the show. I remember when I was doing ‘Angela’s Ashes’ episode, somehow my Black meter had slipped up and I was at about a 9. Just got her for her hat.’”After the scene, McGee told Friedle his comment referring to her as Aunt Jemima was not okay. McGee recalled feeling “very small,” to which Friedle responded, “How could you not?”“It literally changed my life,” he continued.

☆ Malaysia food: Top 40 dishes to try
▼ + stars: | 2017-11-30 | by ( Justin Calderon | Cnn Travel Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

A fish curry popular throughout peninsular Malaysia, it’s commonly made with freshwater fish or stingray. Gulai ayam kampungThis chicken curry dish can be cooked in a number of ways. Chai tow kwayIn this dish, rice flour and grated white radish is mixed and steamed into large slabs or cakes. These are cut up into little pieces and fried with preserved turnip, soy sauce, fish sauce, eggs, garlic and spring onions. A Peranakan dish, chicken curry kapitan has a tangy flavor made from tamarind juice, candlenuts, fresh turmeric root and belacan (shrimp paste.)

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