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☆ Adeel Khan's MagicSchool AI Empowers Teachers With AI Tools
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Khan founded MagicSchool AI, an AI-assistant program catering to teachers. Costing teachers about $100 a year each, MagicSchool applies generative AI to classroom-specific tasks such as developing worksheets, creating multiple-choice test questions, or adapting texts and outreach for students with specific needs. Khan previously worked as a Teach for America fellow and later was the founding principal at DSST: Conservatory Green High School in Denver. MagicSchool says more than 3 million educators and 5,000 schools and districts worldwide use its product. It plans to soon roll out separate tools meant to help students to develop AI literacy.

Persons: Khan, MagicSchool Organizations: America, Green High School Locations: DSST, Denver

☆ Historic Biltmore Estate shutters after floods from Hurricane Helene ravage Asheville
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Deon J. Hampton | Deon J. Hampton Is A National Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — America’s largest privately-owned estate has abruptly shut down in Asheville after Hurricane Helene caused extensive flooding and building damage along the 8,000 acre property. The iconic Biltmore Estate, situated in the Blue Ridge Mountains, spans 175,000 square feet, boasts 250 rooms, 43 bathrooms, 65 fireplaces and 22 miles of walking trail. “We are still assessing impacts to the estate from Tropical Storm Helene and that will take some time,” the estate said. In forested areas, which is a large portion of the estate, wind damage is extensive to grounds and some structures.” The post also said crews are clearing roads to start repairs. Last weekend, tree branches, logs and a dumpster floated across the nearby Biltmore Village after the area was submerged in water in the wake of the initial landfall.

Persons: Hurricane Helene, Melissa Sue Gerrits, Tropical Storm Helene, Sean Rayford, George Vanderbilt, Cornelius “, ” Vanderbilt Organizations: Biltmore, Hurricane Locations: ASHEVILLE, N.C, —, Asheville, Hurricane, Biltmore, Tropical, Florida, North Carolina, Buncombe, Staten Island , New York

CNN —The death toll from Helene has risen to at least 225 across six states, according to CNN’s tally, after seven more deaths were announced Saturday in North Carolina. Emergency responders from across the US respond to hurricane-ravaged North Carolina county: Hard-hit Buncombe County, North Carolina, is getting help from several hundred emergency responders from agencies nationwide who were on the ground there by Saturday, including from the New York Fire Department. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has more than 3,000 federal responders on the ground in North Carolina, said MaryAnn Tierney, FEMA’s National Incident Management Assistance team lead. About 562,007 customers in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Virginia were waiting for power to be restored as of Saturday afternoon. More than 74,000 people were without power in Buncombe County Saturday, according to county manager Avril Pinder.

Persons: Helene, Mike Litterst, Litterst, “, Lillian Govus, MaryAnn Tierney, Avril Pinder, “ Crews, Nathan West, “ It’s, ” West, ” Organizations: CNN, National Park Service, Pictures, New York Fire Department, FDNY, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Incident Management, Biltmore, Black Mountain Presbyterian Church Locations: North Carolina, United States, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Gooch, Buncombe County , North Carolina, ”, FEMA’s, North Carolina , Georgia, Buncombe County, Carolina, Asheville’s, Asheville, “, Black Mountain , North Carolina

☆ I thought I was going to an influencer event in Central Park. It was actually my own surprise engagement.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Cailey Griffin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In August 2022, I thought I was attending a garden party to celebrate the launch of a new line of Sunglass Hut glasses. It turned out to be my dream Central Park engagement. Leo and I met in March 2019 during an influencer trip to Disney World. Although we discussed getting engaged before, I believe an engagement should be a surprise, and ours was the most incredible surprise. I ended up giving her a dress that she wore while getting engaged.

Persons: Rachel Martino, Leo, Prince Eric, Facetimes, Noelle Organizations: Service, Disney, Coachella, Park Locations: Orlando, LA, New York, Mexican, Central Park, Paris, Greenpoint , Brooklyn

☆ Designer Aurora James offers a view into her LA cottage
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“I think I always see potential in things,” she told Architectural Digest for the magazine’s September cover story. James is a visible figure in the fashion world. Reclaimed terracotta tiles make up James' outdoor kitchen. Less zen: the process of getting a 1,000-pound stone sink into her indoor kitchen. “Sometimes you have to just do what’s right for you right now.

Persons: Aurora James, Vellies, ”, “, Farrow, Ball, James, Ayo Edebiri, Rosario Dawson, she’s, Frank Frances, Michelle Obama’s, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Isamu Noguchi, Sarah Ellison, ” Frank Frances, Tyler Mitchell, Mickalene Thomas, Tschabalala Organizations: CNN, Nordstrom Locations: LA, Laurel Canyon, Brooklyn —, Black

☆ Paris Haute Couture Week 2024: Modern-day villains, deceptive celebrity cameos and a dress with 42,000 hooks
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Alice Pfieffer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week. In the wake of last week’s Haute Couture Fashion Week and in the midst of the decisive French elections, a general sense of unrest is palpable in the country. Peter White/Getty ImagesThe collection explored refined elegance. Gowns with the flair of theater costumes (a distinct departure from his ready-to-wear garments) turned haute couture into an escape from reality. Courtesy Robert WunAt Robert Wun, on the other hand, each silhouette evolved to a different element.

Persons: “ Couture, Louis XIV ”, Alice Litscher, Chanel, Virginie Viard, Karl Lagerfeld’s, Garnier, Peter White, ”, Guillaume Henry, —, Rose, Carl Jung, Charles de Vilmorin, Robert Wun's sartorial, Robert Wun, Iris Van Herpen, Emmanuel Farge, Iris van Herpen, Victor Virgile, ArdAzAei, Bahareh Ardakani, Viktor, Rolf’s, Rolf's, Rahul Mishra’s, “, Dior, Alexis Stone’s, Miranda Priestley, Cristobal Balenciaga’s, Jean Paul Gaultier, Swan, Jean, Paul Gaultier, Courrèges Nicolas Di Felice, tulle Organizations: CNN, Paris Fashion, Couture, Paris CNN —, Paris’s Institut, Institut Marie Curie, Olympic Locations: Paris, Patou, India

☆ I have 2 men in my life, so I wear 2 rings
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Stacy Brooks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But I also wear a white gold band on my right ring finger to celebrate my commitment to my longtime life partner. We got married a year later and exchanged wedding rings. I always tell people that if you know one person in a polyamorous relationship, you know one person in a polyamorous relationship. Stacy Brooks and her husband both wear wedding rings. We think of a wedding ring as something that symbolizes love and dedication to a relationship that you want to last for the rest of your life.

Persons: I'm, we've, He's, Stacy Brooks, didn't Organizations: Netflix

☆ World Snooker Championship: The near-silent sport which has become the latest focus of Saudi Arabia’s imagination
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —No one dares speak louder than a whisper as nearly 1,000 people respectfully take their seats inside the dimly lit Crucible Theatre. They’ve come to witness the nerve-shredding, silently electric atmosphere of the World Snooker Championship. The World Snooker Tour (WST) – organizers of the World Snooker Championship – say the sport is watched by half-a-billion people around the world. The Crucible Theatre has been the home of the World Snooker Championships since 1977. Saudi Arabia’s pursuit of snooker should not be surprising, but moving the World Snooker Championship would be an emotional decision for many of its fans.

Persons: they’re, They’ve, Shaun Murphy, It’s, ’, they’ve, George Wood, Mike Watterson, Hossein Vafaei, –, it’s, ” Murphy, Young, Murphy, ” Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Ronnie O’Sullivan’s, O’Sullivan, ”, “, Steve Dawson Organizations: CNN, Crucible, CNN Sport, Sheffield, Crucible Theatre, ‘, Wembley, Snooker, Wimbledon, ”, Theatre Locations: Sheffield, England, Augusta, Saudi Arabia, “, Saudi, China

☆ The Best Headwear at the Central Park Hat Lunch
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Sandra E. Garcia | Amir Hamja | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

They waltzed down the steps of Central Park’s Vanderbilt Gate on Fifth Avenue on Wednesday morning like Marilyn Monroe in her bejeweled performance of the song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.”But here, there were many more women, each of them escorted by a waiter in a white coat, seemingly floating down the staircase and into the Conservatory Garden. And instead of diamonds, they wore hats or fascinators or headbands made of feathers, Legos and artificial flowers. One was even fashioned as a swan. The procession that entered the 42nd annual Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon at the Conservatory Garden — or the hat luncheon, as it is colloquially known — donned frocks in shades of pink, orange, lavender, ice blue and Kelly green — enough colors to rival the eggs in an Easter basket.

Persons: Marilyn Monroe, Frederick, Frederick Law Olmsted Organizations: Central, Vanderbilt, Conservatory, Frederick Law

☆ Homelessness Is Especially Hard on Children. Making Music Helps.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Andy Newman | Todd Heisler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“We’re going to be making a beat,” Dannyele Crawford said as the kids settled noisily into their seats at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. The room filled with clashing, tinny riffs leaking from headsets as the pint-size producers danced and bobbed in their seats. What the children did not know this recent Monday afternoon was that Ms. Crawford, 27, is not just a teacher. She is a music therapist, there to help children deal with the stress of not having a permanent place to call home. Since 2015, therapists who work for the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music have made regular visits to the 158-family shelter in the Brownsville neighborhood, run by the nonprofit Camba.

Persons: “, ” Dannyele Crawford, Bella Diaz, Crawford Organizations: Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Locations: Brooklyn, Brownsville

☆ Opinion: What made Duke Ellington a true genius
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Opinion Sammy Miller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —This spring marks both the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, and what would have been his 125th birthday. I use their particular ways of expressing themselves and it all becomes part of my own style.”To know Duke Ellington is to know his band — although few can name its other members today. Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington hovers over fellow pianist and band member Billy Strayhorn in this 1948 photograph. “Ellington plays the piano, but his real instrument is the band,” Strayhorn said. If it involved music, Ellington gave it a shot, always with his band in tow.

Persons: Sammy Miller, Duke Ellington’s, Duke ”, Ellington, “, ” Ellington, Duke Ellington, Sonny Greer, Greer, Miley, Jimi Hendrix’s, Harry Carney, Billy Strayhorn, Strayhorn, “ Ellington, ” Strayhorn, ”, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Clark Terry, — Organizations: Juilliard, CNN, New, Washington D.C, Harlem Renaissance, Ellington, Getty Locations: Harlem, New York, Washington, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Sugar

☆ San Francisco Art Institute Headquarters Sold to Group Led by Laurene Powell Jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | More About Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The main campus of the bankrupt San Francisco Art Institute, which is home to a beloved Diego Rivera mural, has been sold to a new nonprofit organization led by the philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs. The nonprofit, made up of local arts leaders and supporters including Powell Jobs, the widow of the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, bought the campus — which has been plagued by debt — through a limited liability company, for about $30 million. The sale, reported earlier in The San Francisco Chronicle, includes “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City,” a 1931 mural by Rivera, which has been valued at $50 million and will remain in a viewing room. The former school will house an unaccredited institution that will include a residency program where artists can “develop their work and show their work,” said David Stull, the president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, who is a member of the new nonprofit organization’s advisory committee. He described the new center “as a platform for supporting artists and creating a center for the community around art.”

Persons: Diego Rivera, Laurene Powell Jobs, Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs, Rivera, ”, David Stull Organizations: San Francisco Art Institute, Apple, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Conservatory of Music Locations: City, ”

☆ How Rick Beato struck YouTube gold with his ‘Everything Music’ channel
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

I first heard about Beato after stumbling onto his YouTube channel. During the pandemic, for example, many music fans migrated to the internet to watch various forms of music because live music was off-limits. “I still feel at 60 the same way I did when I was 14,” he said recently in a YouTube video. His face lights up when he talks about his family on his YouTube channel. “My YouTube Channel was a way to honor my parents and leave something for my kids.

Persons: Rick Beato, Instagram, Beato, ”, Pat Metheny, Sting, Jimi Hendrix, he’s, it’s, “, you’re, He’s, Rick, —, Mike Rowe, Jobs, ” Rowe, I’ve, I’m, “ Woo, Bach, Brad Mehldau, Keith Williams, Williams, ” Beato, Dick Cavett, Keith Jarrett, Jarrett, John Coltrane, Beato regaled Jarrett, awestruck, ” Jarrett, Steve Gadd, Chuck Mangione, Oscar Peterson, Music —, Nina, Dylan, Lennon, Layla, Eric Clapton, polychords, Taylor Swift’s “, Paul Allen, Everybody, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Rick Beato's, Melissa Golden, John Blake Organizations: CNN, YouTube, Costco, Twitter, Facebook, Berklee College of Music, Eastman School of Music, Ithaca College, New, Conservatory, Music, Ithaca, Microsoft, Intelligence Locations: Atlanta , Georgia, London, Berlin, New Jersey, Fairport, Rochester , New York, Italian, New York, Ithaca, Atlanta, Silicon Valley

☆ How Beyoncé Jolted the Cuban Singer Daymé Arocena Into a Fresh Era
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Ed Morales | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Running her fingers through her dreadlocks in an outdoor cafe overlooking San Juan’s grittily trendy Calle Loiza strip, Daymé Arocena reflected wistfully on an old flame. “There’s a song on the album, ‘American Boy,’ that I wrote 10 years ago,” she said, discussing a track from her latest LP, “Alkemi,” due on Feb. 23. “He was a serious bass player from New York, the first person who introduced to me free jazz. But I felt the song was so simple, so easygoing, so … pop, that it didn’t fit what I wanted” at the time. “I had that double world of rumba at home and Bach at school,” she said and smiled.

Persons: Arocena, ”, Santos Suárez, Amadeo Roldán, “, Bach Locations: San, New York, Santos, Havana

☆ Second City Expands to the First City and Sets Up Shop in Brooklyn
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Kathryn Shattuck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

From the very beginning of the improv theater Second City, its name made clear that it wasn’t a New York institution and didn’t aspire to be. But after 65 years, the Chicago-based institution that has strongly influenced modern comedy is opening an outpost on Monday in Brooklyn, in what is the First City. Two weeks before the lights were set to officially go up, Ed Wells, Second City’s chief executive, showed off its new 12,000-square-foot home on North Ninth Street in Williamsburg even as he acknowledged the headwinds facing the expansion. There is a 190-seat main stage theater with a wraparound mezzanine and a 50-seat black box theater for student shows. The Bentwood restaurant, named after the chair that Second City actors use onstage, sometimes as a prop.

Persons: Ed Wells Organizations: Improv, North Ninth Locations: City, New York, Chicago, Brooklyn, It’s, Williamsburg

☆ I visited Mackinac Island, the most beautiful island in the Midwest where no cars are allowed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Molly O'Brien | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Mackinac Island is in Lake Huron in Michigan and it feels like it's part of a fairy-tale. The island's Grand Hotel is famous and has fancy dinners, high tea, and some formal dress codes. AdvertisementThere are a few places to stay, but the historic Grand Hotel is worth a visit no matter whatThe Grand Hotel looks gorgeous at sunset. Molly O'Brien for InsiderIt's also worth visiting Mackinac Island State Park, which offers miles of walking trails, woods, and the signature limestone Arch Rock formation. Molly O'Brien for InsiderWhen you're downtown, grab some famous Mackinac Island fudge at one of the sweet shops on the main street.

Persons: —, mack, It's, Molly O'Brien, there's, There's, William Vanderbilt Organizations: Service, Historic Landmark, Surrey Hill, Wings, Mackinac Butterfly Conservatory Locations: Mackinac, Lake Huron, Michigan, Lower, Mackinaw City, Fort Mackinac, Rock

☆ 5 reasons to be unapologetically thrilled about this year’s Oscar nominations
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were revealed last week and – as they so often do – caused quite a stir. Co-written and directed by Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall” is nominated for five Oscars this year in total, including for best original screenplay and best picture. That gives Williams more Academy Award nominations than any other living person. According to the Academy, the late Walt Disney holds the overall record of career nominations, with a grand total of 59. Still, it seemed to be a role destined for Brooks, who received a Tony Award nomination in 2016 for playing the same character in the Broadway revival of the musical.

Persons: Barbie’s, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, there’s, we’re, Justine Triet, Palme, Sarah Meyssonnier, Triet, Sandra Hüller, Barbie ”, Colman Domingo, Bayard Rustin, Rustin, David Lee, Steven Spielberg’s “, ” Domingo, “ Rustin, ”, Domingo, – Ian McKellen, Jodie Foster, Bonnie Stoll, Anthony Allen Ramos, ” Ramos, ” Cord Jefferson, Cord Jefferson, Claire Folger, Jeffrey Wright, Cord Jefferson’s, Jefferson, he’s, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, ’ ”, Percival Everett, Wright, Sterling K, Brown, John Williams, Ray Dolby, Michael Kovac, “ Indiana Jones, ” Williams, Oscar, Williams, Walt Disney, Danielle Brooks, Eli Ade ´, ” Brooks, Oprah Winfrey, Spielberg, Alice Walker, Brooks, “, Corey Hawkins, Harpo Organizations: CNN, Cannes Film, Reuters, “, Netflix, Orion, Jefferson, Hollywood & Highland Center, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy, Warner Bros, Entertainment Inc, Broadway, Juilliard Locations: Cannes, France, German, Steven Spielberg’s “ Lincoln, “ Nyad, Hollywood, Sofia, New York City

Rubin died Friday at a hospital in Manhattan after “a brief and sudden illness,” according to his nephew, David Rotter. “Steve Rubin was a great publisher,” Grisham said in a statement. “For more than a month, it was humanly impossible to miss ‘Fire and Fury,’" Rubin wrote in his memoir “Words and Music,” published earlier this year. Rubin joined Bantam Books, a venerable paperback publisher, in the mid-1980s, and remained there for six years before leaving for Doubleday. In his memoir, he offered a succinct, if incomplete prediction: “I suppose the headline of my obit will read 'Publisher of ”The Da Vinci Code" dies'.”

Persons: — Stephen Rubin, John Grisham, ”, Rubin, “, David Rotter, Jacqueline Kennedy, Beverly Sills, Jane Friedman, ” Rubin, Kennedy, Henry Holt, Simon, Simon & Schuster, Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard, Laura Esquivel’s, Mitch Albom’s, ” Hilary Mantel’s, George W, Bush's, Bush, John Grisham's, Grisham, unshaven, “ Steve Rubin, ” Grisham, Doubleday, Dan Brown’s, Brown, Steve, Holt, Trump, Michael Wolff’s, Steve Bannon, Wolff, ’, Michael, Luciano Pavarotti, Sills, Cynthia Organizations: HarperCollins Publishers, Associated Press, New York Times, Doubleday, Henry Holt and Company, Simon &, Holt, New York University, Boston University, UPI, The New York Times Magazine, Bantam Books, Rubin Institute for Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music Locations: Manhattan, Europe, New York City

☆ Fact Check-In wake of Maui fires, here’s why some trees survive damage
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Some posts on social media in the wake of the fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, however, suggested that the fact some trees had remained standing showed proof that the fires were somehow engineered or steered to intentionally burn homes and vehicles, leaving trees unscathed. Reuters photographs and satellite imagery of the Lahaina Banyan Court area produced by Maxar Technologies shows buildings, vehicles and trees damaged following the fires (shorturl.at/bpsTX), (here). Other trees were more heavily damaged, but remained standing, Reuters pictures show (here), (here). Regardless, the fact that some trees could remain standing or were less damaged than cars or buildings during a fire is not abnormal. Trees sometimes survive severe damage during fires due to factors including their water content and the ways a fire spreads.

Persons: Albert Simeoni, ”, Erica Fischer, Fischer, Christopher Baird, ” Baird, Katie Kamelamela, James Urban, Niamh Nic Daeid, Nic Daeid, Read Organizations: Reuters, Facebook, Maxar Technologies, Fire Protection Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Wood Science, Engineering, Oregon State University, “, JB, University of Hawaii, West Texas, M University, Conservatory, Akaka Foundation, Tropical Forests, HOW, Fire Protection, Leverhulme Research, Forensic Science, University of Dundee Locations: Maui, Instagram, Lahaina Banyan, Oregon, Colorado, Manoa, Hawaii

☆ Did Gérard Grisey’s Music Predict His Own Death?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jeffrey Arlo Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And in the final two movements, the singer, inhabiting the character of Gilgamesh, describes the myth’s apocalyptic flood and its aftermath. In the fifth and final piece, not a complete song but a short “Lullaby,” a crystalline, pulsing texture is there one second and gone the next. On the early morning of Nov. 10, 1998, Grisey returned from Milan to the Paris apartment he shared with his partner, the mezzo-soprano Mireille Deguy. Deguy returned to their apartment in the evening. Deguy remembers that Grisey removed his watch and asked her to do the same before he collapsed from a brain aneurysm.

Persons: Erinna, Gilgamesh, Grisey, Mireille Deguy, ”, “ You’ll, Deguy Organizations: Paris Conservatory Locations: Milan, Paris

☆ How audio startup PodCo is cashing in on Disney and Nickelodeon nostalgia with podcasts hosted by the stars of shows like 'Wizards of Waverly Place'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

PodCo produces podcasts themed around Nickelodeon and Disney Channel shows from the past two decades. Since their debut, several PodCo shows have ranked among the top 10 television and film podcasts on platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts, according to Chartable. Along with the hosts, other big-name alums have made appearances on PodCo shows, which are also recorded on video and viewable on YouTube. So when he heard Carlson Romano and Rooney's idea, he leapt at the chance to bring the show back in a new form. Some have written to him personally to say the "Ned's" podcast is leaving them feeling less isolated in their own lives, he added.

Persons: Stevens, Christy Carlson Romano, Brendan Rooney, Kim, Ned Bigby, Harper Finkle, PodCo, Rooney, Krystal Eve, Carlson Romano, Ren Stevens, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Stone, David DeLuise, Stone, Lee Citron, Stone —, California —, —, it's, wouldn't, Alyson Stoner, Zack, Cody, Devon Werkheiser, Werkheiser, Scott Simock, PodCo's, Reed Alexander Organizations: Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Wizards, Marine Corps, Columbia University, American Film Institute, Apple, PodCo, Edison Research, Triton, Intelligence, Disney, Paramount, Netflix, YouTube, Social, Spotify Locations: Waverly, Hollywood, NBC's, California, TikTok, Texas

☆ Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Will Heinrich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They all read as more or less black, particularly when viewed in groups. But layers of glitter, whitish stains and their exact siting amid the floral light and shadow give each a subtly different chromatic effect. Patterson, 42, who lives and works between Kingston, Jamaica, and Chicago, has taught and exhibited widely in the United States. She also talks about vultures as caretakers, indispensable parts of a natural world that includes death, decay and extinction. Whether standing alone or in bustling groups of up to 30, as though engaged in contentious debate, the vultures seem to inhabit spaces you wouldn’t have noticed.

Persons: Patterson Locations: Kingston , Jamaica, Chicago, United States

☆ What Steve Martin, Sigourney Weaver and Others Wore to Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Emma Grillo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As June ushered in warmer weather in New York City, guests at two garden-themed events left layers at home and wore their best florals. On June 1, the New York Botanical Garden hosted its annual Conservatory Ball. After cocktails, attendees made their way into the conservatory for dinner and dancing. The ball raised more than $1.3 million, according to organizers, and the guest list included Sigourney Weaver, a chair of the event. After dinner, attendees danced to performances by MUNA, Romy, and Coco & Breezy.

Persons: Ebony G, Sigourney Weaver, Barbara Chase, Ed Ruscha, Marlene Hess, Darren Walker, sipped, MUNA Organizations: New, Botanical Garden, Enid, Haupt, Museum of Modern Art, Party, MoMA, Ford Foundation . Artists, Coco Locations: New York City

☆ Meet a millennial radio host in England with 62,000 pounds in student debt who says he's 'not that worried about it' — even though 'there's no option to pay it all off'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jordan Lee, 28, has 62,000 pounds in student debt and works as a radio host in Manchester, England. Jordan Lee, 28, has 62,000 pounds in student debt. In the meantime, monthly payments are required to receive eventual relief, and spiking interest rates have made that more of a burden. One couple, for example, started with $54,000 in student debt, paid $140,000 toward it, and still owe $130,000 — all thanks to surging interest rates on student loans in the US. "When it comes to university and getting a degree, it's like, there's the 50,000 pounds debt there.

Persons: Jordan Lee, he's, —, Lee, who's, that's, Joe Biden's, you'll, You've Organizations: Service Locations: Manchester, England, London, United Kingdom

☆ Free wellness activities in 5 major U.S. cities—including NYC, Las Vegas and D.C.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

From NYC to Las Vegas, here are five wellness activities you can attend free of charge in some of the travel capitals of America. Yoga in Bryant Park - New York City, N.Y.Every year when the weather gets warm in NYC, Bryant Park hosts free yoga classes for residents and tourists. Seattle Free Walking Tours - Seattle, Wash. In several big cities, you can find free walking tours run by nonprofit organizations. And the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas is a beautiful one to add to your bucket list.

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