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☆ VMAs top moments from Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Katy Perry and Carson Daly
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Taylor Swift’s 9/11 tribute and call to actionTaylor Swift took a moment to honor victims of the September 11 attacks of 2001 while accepting the first award of the evening. (L-R) Post Malone and Taylor Swift accept the best collaboration award for "Fortnight." Swift’s message to young voters comes after she made a splash on Tuesday when she endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential run. Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter kissed an alien onstage during her hotly-anticipated performance. “It was the best, best show.

Persons: Taylor Swift’s, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Katy Perry, Eminem, “ Houdini, Lenny Kravitz, Megan Thee, Taylor Swift, “, I’ve, ”, ” Swift, Post Malone, Swift, Manny Carabel, Travis Kelce, Kamala Harris ’, Carpenter, Cyndi Lauper, Bob Mackie, Madonna –, ” Lauper, Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry Katy, Perry, Bloom, ” Perry, Daisy, ” Chappell, Chappell Roan of Arc, Roan, Babe, Joan of Arc, Noam Galai, ” Carson Daly, Carson Daly –, –, Lisa, ” Daly Organizations: CNN, VMA, Post, Poets Department, ”, Moon, MTV Locations: New York, New York City

☆ I lived in Silicon Valley, New York, and London as a founder. If you're looking for a place to build a business, there's one clear winner.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I've lived in the Bay Area, New York, and the UK while building and scaling Zyper. But if you want to be laser-focused without distractions, you can't beat the Bay Area. Particularly in the Valley, there's a propensity for very quickly backing "zero-to-one ideas" and creating something entirely new. Silicon Valley is special, and I plan to stayI moved Zyper to San Francisco right before the pandemic hit. AdvertisementThere are other emerging markets, like Korea, Brazil, and China, but I think there's something very special about the ecosystem and history of Silicon Valley.

Persons: —, Amber Atherton, I've, Zyper, Y Combinator, Y, it's, Michael Seibel, Everyone's, London's, There's, overregulate Organizations: Service, Business, Patron, Nvidia Locations: San Francisco, London, New York, Palo Alto, Bay, California, Zyper, Mountain View, Hong Kong, England, American, Delaware, . New York, York, Europe, Silicon Valley, Miami, Austin, Silicon, Korea, Brazil, China

☆ Israel-Hamas War and Gaza Cease-Fire Proposal: Latest Updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Isabel Kershner | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Image Smoke billowing after an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. In a statement on Sunday, the group said it objected to “more rounds of negotiations” and the introduction of any new proposals or conditions. Officials in Gaza said over the weekend that dozens of people had been killed in Israel’s strike on the school compound. The authorities in Gaza do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in reporting death tolls. Israel’s political and military leaders have argued that it is essential to keep up the military pressure on Hamas, to force it to come to terms on a cease-fire deal.

Persons: Biden, Khan Younis, Bashar Taleb, Abdel Fattah el, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Tisha B’Av Organizations: Lebanese Hezbollah, ., Agence France, Getty Locations: Beirut, Tehran, Israel, Iran, Gaza, Egypt, Qatar, Thani, Cairo, Doha, Jerusalem, Aqsa

☆ As President Milei’s austerity hits hard, jobless Argentines appeal to the patron saint of work
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Struggling to feed her family after losing her job as a cleaner earlier this year, 56-year-old Norma Villarreal went to church Wednesday in the hardscrabble outskirts of Buenos Aires and waited in the pre-dawn darkness for over an hour to petition St. Cayetano, the patron saint of bread and work. Throughout decades of political change in Argentina, the annual Aug. 7 pilgrimage to St. Cayetano Sanctuary has served as a potent, and grim, reminder that in Argentina, economic despair remains a constant. But this year might be unique in one thing: The desperation over rising joblessness that drives Argentines to call on St. Cayetano has been matched by rage at the painful austerity program of libertarian President Javier Milei. While Milei has prioritized combating the country’s dizzying inflation rate — which fell in June to 4.2% month on month, the lowest since January 2022. Unemployment has become a growing concern as Milei’s government freezes public works projects and shutters ministries in his campaign to cut down the state.

Persons: Norma Villarreal, Cayetano, ” Villarreal, Javier Milei, Milei, ”, Ana Maria Muñoz, hasn’t, “, I’m, Orlando Ortega, we’ve, Milei’s, Wednesday’s, Manuel Adorni, Rodolfo Aguiar Organizations: Roman Catholic, National Secretariat for Children, Ministry of Human, ” Union, State Workers Association Locations: hardscrabble, Buenos Aires, Naples, Argentina, St

This came after the Israeli military said it had struck a “terrorist cell operating a drone” in southern Lebanon after “numerous projectiles” were fired at northern Israel. Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel. The killing came a day after Shukr, a senior Hezbollah leader died in an Israel airstrike on Lebanon’s capital Beirut. Israel’s military said it struck a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools. It came after an Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza earlier in the day.

Persons: Joe Biden, Jordan, Jalaa Marey, Ismail Haniyeh, Fuad Shukr, Haniyeh, Masoud Pezeshkian, Israel “, ” Israel, Shukr, ”, Menahem Kahana, Burcu Ozcelik, Mahmoud Zayyat Organizations: NBC News, Rockets, Israel's, Getty, Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Israel, Pentagon, Navy, Royal United Services Institute, NBC, Diplomats, Health Locations: Israel, Gaza, United States, Australia, France, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Turkey, Lebanon, Beirut, Galilee, AFP, Iran, Tehran, Golan, Shams, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, U.S, Britain, Haniyeh’s, London, Lebanese, Sidon, Gaza City

☆ In Palermo, a Catholic Saint Joins the Hindu Pantheon
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Emma Bubola | Gianni Cipriano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After they spread pink petals on golden statues of Ganesh and Shiva, and recited prayers to blue-skinned and eight-armed gods, the Hindu faithful left their temple and headed to a party for another one of their divinities — the Catholic St. Rosalia. “To the other goddess!” said Swasthika Sasiyendran, 23, after she changed from her gold-and-white sari into a T-shirt bearing Rosalia’s face. Every year, in the height of Sicily’s summer heat, Palermo fills with festival lights and honking scooters as people gather to celebrate Rosalia, the city’s patron saint. Among the hundreds of thousands who join the procession, which culminates with a towering statue of the saint being carried through the streets, are members of the city’s Sri Lankan Tamil community, some of Rosalia’s most ardent worshipers. Palermo is prone to this kind of medley.

Persons: Ganesh, Shiva, Rosalia, “, ”, Swasthika Sasiyendran Organizations: Sri Lankan Tamil Locations: Palermo, Sri Lankan

☆ Opinion | The Radical Message of ‘Sweet Valley High’
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Sally Franson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When news broke that Francine Pascal, creator of the “Sweet Valley High” universe, died last weekend at the age of 92, appreciations began rolling across the internet like a certain red Spider through a high school parking lot. Nostalgic and bereaved, I drove to the library to check out a few, only to discover they had been removed from the catalog. “But I loved them.”This backhanded praise would have been familiar to Ms. Pascal, whose literary talents were either sneered at or dismissed for decades. Even as her franchise blanketed best-seller lists — 200 million books and counting, thanks to teenage readers like me — she, and they, received astonishingly little media coverage. For those affected by the blackout, the Sweet Valley universe comprises hundreds of novels and numerous spinoffs, all set in the eponymous Southern California town and starring Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, identical twins with blue-green eyes, shining blond hair and sky-high ambitions — Elizabeth’s literary, Jessica’s social.

Persons: Francine Pascal, appreciations, Pascal, Jessica, Elizabeth Wakefield, — Organizations: Guardian, Playboy Locations: Sweet, Southern California

☆ Russia pulled back weapons shipment to Houthis amid US and Saudi pressure
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Natasha Bertrand | Katie Bo Lillis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

For the Houthis to engage in that kind of weapons transaction, moreover, “would demonstrate to us a lack of commitment” by the Houthis to peace talks, the official said. Currently, the Houthis “appear to be drifting further away from a commitment to a negotiated peace in Yemen,” the official said. And while the imminent weapons transfer was pulled back, Russia did deploy military personnel to Yemen to help advise the Houthis over a three-day period in late July, the sources said. The Russians carried bags with them, but nothing that appeared large enough to carry weapons or weapons components, the sources said. It is not clear whether the Russian ships were carrying the equipment that Russia had been preparing to transfer to the Houthis before the Kremlin abandoned the plan.

Persons: “, Saudi Arabia’s pushback, Vladimir Putin, Biden, Oman — Organizations: CNN, US, Saudi Embassy, Kremlin, US Central Command Locations: Russia, Yemen, United States, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Moscow, Saudi, Russian, Ukraine, Somali, Shabaab, China, Oman

☆ In Education and Media, Markets Aren’t Always Right - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Don’t Tell My Friends, But… is a seriesin which we asked Times columnistswhateveryone else is wrong about. On its face, there’s nothing necessarily political about the mantra that the customer is always right. But the idea that the customer is always right also contains a worldview, a kind of market fundamentalism that typifies much of the American right today. The problem starts when our decisions aren’t merely subjective — that is, when questions of truth, moral or factual, are involved. Students today, whose parents often pay fortunes for their education, are treated like valuable customers, not lowly apprentices.

Persons: “, didn’t, —, Walter Cronkite, That’s, It’s, Hadrian, ”, Marguerite Yourcenar, there’s Organizations: Conservatives, University curriculums, Liberal, Yale, Princeton Locations: United States

☆ Surprising element found in traces of Tyco Brahe’s alchemy lab confounds scientists
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The covert nature of Brahe’s work was common among alchemists of the Renaissance, who kept their knowledge close to the vest. “Tungsten had not even been described at that time, so what should we infer from its presence on a shard from Tycho Brahe’s alchemy workshop?” Rasmussen said. In addition to serving as Brahe's home, Uraniborg functioned as a scientific center where students across Europe came to live and work. And Brahe himself wrote that the king was eager to support the scientist’s work in both astronomy and alchemy. Given the amount of gold found in Brahe’s remains, he may have also taken medicine containing potable, or drinkable, gold.

Persons: Tycho Brahe, Brahe, Kaare Lund Rasmussen, Poul Grinder, Hansen, Uraniborg, Lund University Gold, Rasmussen, ”, “ Tungsten, ” Rasmussen, Ann Ronan, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Juan José, Fausto d’Elhuyar y de Suvisa, wolfram, Georgius Agricola, Agricola, Lawrence Principe, Drew, ” Principe, King Frederick II of Denmark, De Agostini, Paracelsus, Rudolph II, Emperor, Stjerneborg, “, ” Brahe, Isaac Newton, Johns, King Frederick II’s, Christian IV, Johannes Kepler, Kepler, Newton, Galileo Galilei Organizations: CNN, University of Southern, National Museum of Denmark, Heritage, Lund University, Getty Images, Humanities, Singleton Center, Johns Hopkins University, De Agostini Editorial, Culture, Hulton, Art, Sun, Scientific Locations: Danish, Ven, Sweden, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Europe, Baltimore . Principe, Norway, Uraniborg, Brahe’s, Mercury, Principe, Johns Hopkins

☆ Tipping culture keeps creeping into ever more parts of daily life — and some people are resisting it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"Everyone is thinking they deserve a tip," Pam — who asked to go by her first name for privacy, but whose identity has been verified with Business Insider — said. Advertisement"I just don't think tipping is a good thing to do," Sandberg told BI. AdvertisementFor instance, Sandberg doesn't see tipping as necessary if he's buying something himself because "there's no extra service." "If I have to stand up to order my food or to buy my product, you're not getting a tip," Sandberg said. AdvertisementMeanwhile, there are services Pam doesn't tip for and ones she does.

Persons: —, Pam, Pam —, It's, Ted Rossman, Rossman, I'm, Xers, culture's, it's, Pam isn't, Michael Sandberg, shouldn't, Sandberg, Tipping, Uber Organizations: Service, Pew Research, Business, Pew Research Center Locations: gratuities

☆ ‘Chariots of Fire’ immortalized the 1924 Paris Olympics. Decades later, the film finds a way of ‘really speaking to people’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

So begins the 1981 Oscar-winning film “Chariots of Fire,” introducing a group of British athletes as they train for the Olympic Games. Based on the lives and gold-medal-winning performances of sprinters Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams ahead of the 1924 Paris Olympics, “Chariots of Fire” won four Oscars – including Best Picture. Athletes and officials process during the Opening Ceremony of the 1924 Paris Olympics. “The film has got a way of really, really speaking to people … something much more than we envisaged or probably had been put into it. He went on to become an influential journalist, broadcaster and athletics administrator, and he remains one of only three British men to win the Olympic 100m title.

Persons: St Andrews, ” David Puttnam, ”, Eric Liddell, Harold Abrahams, Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden, “, It’s, Liddell, Abrahams –, –, Ian Charleson, Allan Wells, ” Eric Liddell, Firmin, Wells, Abrahams, Liddell’s, ‘, ’, I’ve, they’ll, ” Sue Caton, He’d, ” John MacMillan, MacMillan, “ He’s, Robin Hood, ” Abrahams, ” Harold Abrahams, Ben Cross, Sam Mussabini, “ Harold Abrahams, Mark Ryan, ” Liddell’s, Ryan, Puttnam, Oscar, Tom McNab, Nigel Havers –, Andrew Lindsey –, we’d, … I’ve, ” Courage Organizations: CNN, Olympic Games, CNN Sport, Keystone, Hulton, Scottish, international, University of Edinburgh, Olympics, Topical Press Agency, Getty, Eric Liddell Community, Cambridge, AAA, Central Press, BBC, “, Paris, ABC, Disney, Entertainment Locations: Scottish, St, Paris, Scotland, China, Asia, Moscow, Edinburgh, “, St Andrews, England

☆ Catherine, Princess of Wales, Attends Wimbledon Men’s Final
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Amelia Nierenberg | More About Amelia Nierenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Wimbledon is a familiar setting, with the promise of a friendly and enthusiastic crowd. Catherine — a high school athlete who has repeatedly played sports as a working royal — has been a fixture at the tournament. She is the patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (commonly known as Wimbledon), a role she has held since 2016. She did not attend the women’s final on Saturday, although she has previously awarded trophies to both winners. Catherine’s husband, Prince William, will also attend a major sporting event on Sunday, Kensington Palace said: The final of Euro 2024 in Berlin, where the English men’s soccer team will face Spain.

Persons: “, —, Catherine —, Catherine’s, Prince William, Keir Starmer, ” Organizations: Wimbledon, Lawn Tennis, Croquet Club, NATO, England Locations: Buckingham, Wimbledon, Kensington, Berlin, Spain, Germany, England, Washington

☆ Princess of Wales receives standing ovation from Centre Court crowd as she attends Wimbledon men’s final
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —Catherine, Princess of Wales, received a standing ovation from the Centre Court crowd as she attended the Wimbledon men’s singles final on Sunday alongside her daughter Princess Charlotte. GET OUR FREE ROYAL NEWSLETTER • Sign up to CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on the royal family, what they are up to in public and what’s happening behind palace walls. While Kate is in southwest London for the tennis final, her husband Prince William is due in Berlin for the UEFA Euro 2024 final between England and Spain. The Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte met British tennis players, including Emma Raducanu. Aaron Chown/PA WireThe Prince of Wales is the president of England’s Football Association (FA) and a regular sight at England football games.

Persons: London CNN — Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte, Kate, Charlotte, Emma Raducanu, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Kate –, King Charles III, “, It’s, Prince William, Wales, Aaron Chown, Prince, William, you’re, ” King Charles, Gareth Southgate’s, ” Organizations: London CNN, Court, Wimbledon, Sunday, CNN’s Royal, Lawn Tennis, Croquet Club, London Clinic, UEFA, England’s Football Association, England, Switzerland Locations: Wales, London, Berlin, England, Spain, British, Düsseldorf

☆ Opinion: This film is chilling reminder of how ‘not sorry’ Louis C.K. is
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —“Sorry/Not Sorry,” in theaters Friday, revisits the 2017 comedy-world firestorm involving five women’s accounts of sexual misconduct by comedian Louis C.K. only to be shut down; and Abby Schachner, a comic and writer who went public with her account of C.K. Then it was followed by C.K.’s Grammy-winning 2022 album “Sincerely Louis C.K.,” in which he joked about the behavior as a sexual hangup rather than abuse. “There are dozens of Russell Brands,” was the headline of one Guardian piece on female comics. I want a world where female comics have a workplace where they feel they’ll be supported — and, more importantly, employed — if they speak out about abuse.

Persons: Sara Stewart, CNN —, Louis C.K, ” Sara Stewart Todd Thompson, Caroline Suh, Cara Mones, Jen Kirkman, Megan Koester, Abby Schachner, Rolling, Suh, C.K, ’, it’s, Tig Notaro, Timm Sharp, Stephanie Allyne, Notaro, she’d, haven’t, they’re, …, Dave Chappelle, Olivia Cathcart, Maria Bamford, Bamford, Russell Brand, Brand, ” Organizations: CNN, New York Times, C.K, Toronto, Hollywood, New York, Paste Magazine, Russell Brands Locations: Pennsylvania, Mississippi

☆ Prince Harry accepted the Pat Tillman Award at the 2024 ESPYs, but a PR expert said he should have declined the honor
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

One of the special honoree awards is the Pat Tillman Award for Service, which recognizes "a person with a strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy" of Pat Tillman. AdvertisementESPN and the Pat Tillman Foundation selected Prince Harry to win the award for 2024 because of his work with the Invictus Games. Some thought Prince Harry didn't deserve the Pat Tillman AwardThe Invictus Games are a worldwide sporting competition for injured veterans. AdvertisementMary does not work for the Pat Tillman Foundation or play a role in deciding who wins the annual award. Despite the controversy, ESPN and the Pat Tillman Foundation stood by their decision, as the organizations shared in a statement with Business Insider ahead of the ESPYs.

Persons: —, Prince Harry, Pat Tillman, Pat, Duke, Duchess of, Prince Harry didn't, Harry, Mary Tillman, Chris Jackson, Mary, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Pat's, Marie Tillman Shenton, Princess Diana, Evan Nierman, Banyan, Nierman, Meghan, Serena Williams, Williams, Kevin Mazur, Neirman, Yaroslav Sabitov, Misan Harriman, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Taylor, William, Prince, Wales, It's, approachability Organizations: Service, Dolby Theatre, Business, Arizona Cardinals, NFL, Army, NPR, ESPN, Pat Tillman Foundation, Invictus, British Armed Forces, Invictus Games, Games, Daily, Getty, Aviation, Tillman Foundation, Invictus Games Foundation, PR, Netflix, Spotify, European Locations: Los Angeles, Afghanistan, Duchess of Sussex, Nigeria, Kensington, England

☆ Beckham, Guardiola and the Princess of Wales: Welcome to Wimbledon’s Royal Box
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Nick Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

On the upside, you get the best view in the house for the most famous tennis tournament in the world. The Royal Box at Wimbledon is an unending source of fascination for people ostensibly tuning in to watch some top-class sport. Guardiola and Williamson acknowledged the crowd, as is traditional in the Royal Box on middle Saturday. You get drinks on arrival, served on the balcony behind Centre Court, which overlooks some of the smaller courts. The invitation reads: ‘The Chairman and Committee of Management of The Championships request the pleasure of the company of [insert name] & Guest in the Royal Box on [insert date].

Persons: Jeff Bezos, David Attenborough, Princess, Wales, Kylie Minogue, Prince Albert of Monaco, Pep Guardiola, Bear Grylls, David Beckham, Samuel L Jackson, David Cameron, Sachin Tendulkar, Richard Branson, Alex Ferguson, James Bond, Christopher Eubanks, Debbie Jevans, Jevans, Pat Cummins, Niamh Cusack, Sir John Timpson, Keir Starmer’s, Theresa May, Sir David Attenborough, Katherine Jenkins, Dave Grohl, Olga Morozova, Ian Hewitt, Dame Sarah Gilbert, Gilbert, Irene Tracey, Dame Ruth Beverley, Nazanin Zaghari, Ratcliffe, Andy Murray’s, Murray, Zaghari, Roger Federer, Ryan Peniston, Karwai Tang, Pierce Brosnan, Anna Wintour, Russell Wilson, Sam Mendes, Eddie Redmayne, Sienna Miller, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Michael McIntyre, Duke, Duchess of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Queen Elizabeth II, Geordie Greig —, —, George Osborne, John Witherow, they’re, Guardiola, Williamson, Andrej Isakovic, Mark Philippoussis, Roger Federer’s, Conchita Martinez, Leah Williamson, Denise Lewis, Ben Stokes, Beckham, Gareth Southgate, Jordan Henderson, Geoff Hurst, Bobby Charlton, Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia, David Haye, Chris Hoy, Kelly Holmes, Nicola Adams, Jessica Ennis, Hill, you’ve, Aaron Chown, Tom Cruise ”, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic, ” sniffed, –, ” Alan Chalmers, didn’t, ”, Pippa Middleton, Ilie Nastase, Serena Williams’s, hasn’t, Boris Becker, Eamonn Dalton Organizations: National Health Service, Wimbledon, Court, Lawn Tennis, Green Sport, Conservatives, Foo Fighters, BBC Radio, Royals, Evening, The, England women’s, European, Getty, Manchester City, Augusta, British, The New York Times, Olympic, Management, Inter Miami CF ’, “ Wimbledon Locations: British, Iran, Ratcliffe, Wales, That’s, London, AFP, England, Marbella, it’s, Romanian

☆ Cracker Barrel employees and customers say the restaurant chain needs a turnaround, too
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

They also pointed to some ways Cracker Barrel could get diners back in the chain's iconic rocking chairs waiting for a table. Last month, one guest responded: "It seems like Cracker Barrel is trying to squeeze every dollar out of its patrons." AdvertisementA Cracker Barrel spokesperson said patrons "have responded positively" to the $5 offering since it was introduced last year. CEO Masino, who previously held executive roles at Taco Bell and Starbucks, has indicated that changes are coming to Cracker Barrel. Do you work at Cracker Barrel or another major restaurant and have a story idea to share?

Persons: —, Neal Klein, Klein, Julie Felss Masino, We've, crave, Masino, Tom Smith, it's, Bob Horner, Horner, That's, I've, It's, Smith, he's Organizations: Service, Business, Space, Taco Bell, Starbucks Locations: Florida, Chicago, Tennessee, Texas, Midwest

☆ 'House of the Dragon' just introduced a big-mouthed new character — but he's probably going to be important later on
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewWarning: Spoilers ahead for "House of the Dragon" season two, episode three, and the book "Fire and Blood." We're probably going to be seeing a lot more of Ulf in "House of the Dragon," depending on how closely it follows "Fire and Blood," George R.R. Ulf fought alongside other dragon riders like Hugh Hammer in the Battle of the Gullet, a pivotal sea battle during the war. According to Mushroom's historical account in "Fire and Blood," Ulf descended into hedonism, raping multiple women in Tumbleton each night and constantly drinking. But the fight came to Tumbleton when Addam Velaryon (previously Addam of Hull), another dragon rider, attacked the city on his dragon Seasmoke.

Persons: —, Ulf, there's, We're, George R.R, Baelon, King Jaehaerys, Dorne, coy, Jaehaerys, Daemon Targaryen, King Viserys, Rhaenyra, Jacaerys Velaryon, Jacaerys, Silverwing, Alysanne, Ulf White, Hugh Hammer, Hugh, Lord Stokeworth, Ormund Hightower, Prince Daeron, Bitterbridge, House Tyrell, Addam Velaryon, Daeron, Hobert Hightower, Ulf — Organizations: Service, Business, Aegon, King's Locations: Westeros, Tumbleton, Hull

☆ Thom Browne’s 2024 couture collection takes a lead from the Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Alice Pfeiffer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Paris CNN —True to his theatrical form, Thom Browne’s fall 2024 couture show opened with spectacle. The collection featured couture made from muslin "toiles" as well as intricate embroidery and needlework in gold, silver and bronze. Thom Browne (which has, since 2018, been part of Zegna group who own a 90% stake) is also a ready-to-wear business currently offered in over 300 department-stores and boutiques across 40 countries, as well as in 110 Thom Browne retail stores. “I like to entertain and to ground it in beautifully made clothes.”"The work in progress becomes the final work... Couture," wrote Thom Browne in their show notes, of the decision to use toile in the collection. Kristy Sparow/Getty ImagesPerhaps surprisingly for a couture collection, it was muslin — the simple, lightweight cotton used to create initial mock-ups of clothes (called “toiles”) at ateliers — that comprised much of Browne’s finished pieces.

Persons: Thom Browne’s, riffed, weightlifters —, Francois Durand, Browne, Thom Browne, ” Browne, ”, “, Kristy Sparow, Browne’s, … Couture, Laurel, —, David Fisher, Jared Ellner, Emma Chamberlain, Molly Gordon, Sabrina Carpenter, Sabrina, Emma Organizations: CNN, Paris Fashion, Couture, Paris CNN, Getty, Apollo Locations: Paris, France, New

And they were everywhere, although, naturally, New York City was a magnet, as it has always been for L.G.B.T.Q.+ people looking for a place in which they can be themselves. New York City was where you lost your soul, and we wanted to be closer to the earth. I wore an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall Statue of Liberty costume to the Easter Parade in New York City, and Kirsten came along with me. By the time I turned 30, I’d been telling people I was older for years, because I’m not the type to bemoan the loss of my youth. Going to New York felt like this moment of emerging to a wider audience, and then I started to travel a lot.

Persons: André De Shields, Lady Bunny, Michael R, Jackson, Juliana Huxtable, Wong, J.D, Samson, Pat Oleszko, it’s, —, John Rechy, ”, Danez Smith, Trump, he’d, “, Jenna Lyons, Avram Finkelstein, Joe Mantello, …, Catherine Opie, you’re, Willie Norris, “ I’d, It’s, you’ve, ” — Mark Harris Read, De Shields, Justin French, Chuck Ashley, Anthony Cotsifas, William F, Robert O’Hara’s, Hermes, — Max Berlinger Jenna Lyons, Antonio Lopez, Jenna Lyons’s, Grace Jones ”, Juan Ramos, Antonio Lopez’s, Grace Jones, Tina Chow, Marisa Berenson, Pam Anderson, That’s, — Jason Chen Jayne County, Jayne County, Gus Stewart, Billy Idol, Wayne County, — M.B, Bill T, Jones, Arnie, Arnie Zane, Zane, Keith Haring, Lois Greenfield, Jack Mitchell, Peggy Jarrell Kaplan, Gertrude Stein, Alice B, we’d, Bill, Arnie ”, I’m, — Juan, Norris, Yael Malka, Tomas Abad, West, Black, I’d, — Colleen Hamilton B.D, New York’s Eugene, . Wong, David Henry Hwang’s, Richie, wasn’t, Wayne Barker, — John Wogan Edmund White, Edmund White, Horatio, Leonard Fink’s “, Barbara Confino, Leonard Fink, Joseph Rodriguez, Bleecker, You’d, Gosh, Michael Snyder Pat Oleszko, Chichi, Kirsten, who’d, she’d, — C.H, Brian Michael Smith, Gay, Smith, Kiki Ball, Josue Infante, Skyler Cruz, Jamison, — J.A.R, Agnes Denes’s “, Don Yowell, Finkelstein, Agnes Denes, Leslie Tonkonow, Don, Agnes Denes’s, JD Samson, Sia, Mark Hunter, Anthony Cotsifas I’d, Johanna Fateman, Tigre, Michael O’Neill, Obama, might’ve, — Kate Guadagnino Kristen Kish, Kish, Suzanne Kreiter, David Moir, Bravo, isn’t, — J.W, Stephen Spinella, Mantello, Joan Marcus, Photofest, Tony Kushner’s, Louis Ironson, Milton Glaser, he’s, David, Marshall Grant, Joe Pitt, Walter, Awards, Stephen, ” —, Freedia, Devon Hurst, Sissy Nobby, Barack Obama’s, Lyle Ashton Harris, Big, Bounce, ” — M.B, Thom Browne, Browne, Los Angeles’s Chateau Marmont, Malcolm Venville, Paul Fortune, Michèle Lamy —, — J.C, Catherine Opie’s “, Opie, Ian, Lehmann Maupin, Eileen Myles, Jenny Shimizu, I’ve, Nicole Acheampong Danez Smith, Juan Cordero, ” Womp, They’d, hookups, Who’s, We’ve, You’re, J.A.R, Linda Simpson, India, Little Louie Vega, who’s, — K.G, Alexander Chee, Alexander Chee’s, Marguerite Duras’s “, Jeongneung, King Jungjong, Eric McNatt, Chris Chee, — M.S, Sam Jay, Jay, Jonah, Kumail ”, hadn’t, K.G, Phillip Lim, Lim, Tourmaline, Sylvia Rivera, Luce Capco Lincoln, York’s, We’d, Marsha P, John Cameron Mitchell, Larry Kramer, Mitchell’s, Mitchell, Martha Swope, Billy Rose, Mark Tusk, ” Kramer’s, Larry, Ned Weeks, Ned, “ Hedwig, J.W, Joerg Lohse, Reena, there’s, Matt Bomer, Bomer, Simon Halls, Neal Caffrey, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally —, — I’d, Hollywood, Wu Tsang, Neil Rasmus, Wildness, ’, Wildness ”, Roxane Gay, Mueller, Brandon Williams, Donna Gottschalk, Donna Gottschalk’s “, Duchess, Galerie Marcelle Alix, goddamn, Coco Romack Michael R, Aaron Kinney, Nova, “ I’m, Bob Damron’s, Sgt, Shirley, Waldorf, Harold’s, Jean ] Genet, Marcel, Proust Organizations: Pride, Stonewall, West, America’s, ACT UP, San, Playwrights Horizons, Odeon, New York’s TriBeCa, Electric, Getty, Police, Billy, New York Live Arts, Keith Haring Foundation, BAM Hamm, Liberation, Brooklyn Liberation, Brooklyn Museum, Fort, New York’s, New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre, Broadway, Equity, LGBT Community Center, Fulbright, Mudd, New, Bisexual, Transgender Community, Center, Transgender Community Center, “, Maxwell, Museum School, Farmers, Seattle, Boston Globe, Travel, New York Times, Rancho Mirage, Gay, Caesar’s, FEMA, Yale, York’s Webster Hall, Masters, Records, Pyramid, Work, ACT, Carpenters, Seymour, Edinburgh, Atlanta —, Ninja, Huntington, New York, Lesbian, Equal, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library, The New York Times, USA, Children’s Hospital of Los, MoMA, Whitney Biennial, University of Nebraska, Alamy, HarperCollins, of Engineering, Google, Division, Astor, Tilden Foundations, Pershing, University of Southern, Pershing Square Locations: New York, Berlin, “, America, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York’s, New York City, California, Atlanta, Europe, Wayne County, Dortmund, Germany, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Rockland County, N.Y, ’, I’m, Brooklyn, West Dakota, Fort Greene, New, Leonard Fink’s “ Bars, Street, Rome, —, Aspen, Colo, Copenhagen, Danish, Peru, Los Angeles, Agnes Denes’s “ Wheatfield, Downtown Manhattan, North Moore, TriBeCa, Hoboken, N.J, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, Boston, Williamsburg , Brooklyn, Vinnie’s, Bedford, Austin , Texas, Copley, Menton, Asian American, York, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles’s, L.A, Hong Kong, Seoul, Casa, Koreatown, Minneapolis, Grindr, East, India, Wigstock, Tompkins, Vershire, Chee, Iowa, Huntington Beach, Chelsea, Barneys, Madison, Miami, New York State, Washington, The, LA, Silver Lake, Missouri, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Zurich, Central, American, Westlake, Los Angeles and New York, Lincoln, Alphabet City , New York, Lenox, United States, University of Southern California, Downtown Los Angeles

☆ Wimbledon 2024 storylines: Djokovic’s knee, Iga Swiatek on grass, Hawk-Eye challenges
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Charlie Eccleshare | Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

Is Iga Swiatek going to make her move on grass and further cement her position as the player to beat across the WTA? Probably not, since that meniscus belongs to one Novak Djokovic, the seven-time Wimbledon champion and the world’s best grass-court player. Then he showed up in London this week and started testing out the knee with practice sessions on the grass. Charlie EccleshareWill Swiatek win her first Wimbledon title? She’s never been past the quarterfinals at Wimbledon and her game isn’t a natural fit on the grass.

Persons: Novak, Matt Futterman, Charlie Eccleshare, Will Novak Djokovic, Novak Djokovic, Djokovic, Casper Ruud, Clive Brunskill, Carlos Alcaraz, Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Felix Auger, Frenchman Arthur Fils, Andy Murray’s, Murray, Jack Draper, Shaun Botterill, Tim Henman’s, Draper, Charlie Eccleshare Will Swiatek, Iga, She’s, Roland Garros, Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart, it’s Boulter, Sloane Stephens, Jessica Pegula, don’t, Boulter, Raducanu, Stephens, Jonathan Nackstrand, Hannah Klugman, Agassi, Serena, Venus Williams, It’s, Coco Gauff, Aryna, she’s, Swiatek, Gauff, Daniel Leal, Pegula, Marketa Vondrousova, Danielle Collins, Tommy Paul, Paul, Sebastian Korda, Korda, Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton, there’s, Sally Bolton, John Walton, —, Wimbledon Charlie Eccleshare Will, Princess Catherine of Wales, Roger Federer, Rob Newell, CameraSport, Sebastian Bozon, Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, Murray didn’t, ”, Jelena Ostapenko, “, Glyn Kirk Organizations: Wimbledon, WTA, Olympic Games, Court, Djokovic, England Club, British, Queen’s, London, Paris, Rothesay International, Nottingham, Eastbourne, Getty, Orange, Sampras, Wimbledon —, Swiatek, Alycia Parks, Queen’s Club, All England, U.S, All England Club, U.S ., Athletic Locations: Paris, London, Canada, SW19, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Rothesay, Eastbourne, Britain, Nottingham, Great Britain, AFP, Alycia Parks, British, Florida, American, Australia, France, Berlin, Wimbleson, Alycia, Israel, Palestine, there’s

☆ China is watching warily as Putin and Kim forge new ‘alliance’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Putin said Russia and North Korea have ramped up ties to a “new level.” Kim, meanwhile, called the new “alliance” a “watershed moment” in bilateral relations. In contrast, the reaction from China, the main political and economic patron for both Russia and North Korea, has been all but muted. “But they do know that China plays an irreplaceable role for both Russia and North Korea,” she said. China remains the largest trade partner to both Russia and North Korea, providing a crucial lifeline to the heavily sanctioned economies. “China doesn’t think that an alliance between Russia and North Korea would be a betrayal,” said Liu with the City University of Hong Kong.

Persons: Vladimir Putin glided, Kim Jong, Xi Jinping, Kim, Putin, ” Kim, Xi, Liu Dongshu, Liu, Kim Jong Un, ” Liu, Beijing doesn’t, Alexander Ryumin, ”, Edward Howell, Russia –, ” Yun Sun Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Benz, China’s Foreign, City University of Hong, KCNA, North Korea Treaty, Cooperation, Mutual Assistance, Getty, –, University of Oxford, North, Stimson Locations: China, Hong Kong, Pyongyang, Beijing, North Korea, Russia, United States, Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, Northeast Asia, City University of Hong Kong, Soviet Union, Friendship, North, Korean, Russian, Iran, Moscow, United Kingdom, Washington

☆ The 40 Best Songs of 2024 (So Far)
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Jon Pareles | Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs. After six months of listening, here’s what they have on repeat. LINDSAY ZOLADZFollowing her worldwide 2023 hit “Water,” Tyla pulls away from temptation in “Safer,” harnessing the log-drum beat and sparse, subterranean bass lines of amapiano. Her choral call-and-response vocals carry South African tradition into the electronic wilderness of 21st-century romance. JON PARELESOne We MissedAt once strobe-lit and silky, Ariana Grande appropriately channels Robyn — the patron saint of crying in the club — on this nimbly sung, melancholic pop hit, a highlight from her bittersweet seventh album, “Eternal Sunshine.” ZOLADZ

Persons: Sabrina Carpenter, LINDSAY ZOLADZ, Tyla, JON PARELES, Ariana Grande, Robyn —, ” Organizations: The New York Times, Spotify, Apple Music

☆ Opinion: If Dolly Parton can be canceled, we’re in serious trouble
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Opinion Allison Hope | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The most uncancellable person in US History — iconic American singer, songwriter and actress, Dolly Parton — has been caught in the crosshairs of cancel culture. Have the haters run afoul and gone and ruined Dolly Parton as the magical unifier that she has long been known for? But Dolly Parton slid through over the past years, decades even, largely unscathed by the polarization and division. Indeed, the pitchforks coming for Dolly Parton serve as an apt reminder of America’s decline and sheer terror of the evitability of civil war. That is, if we can heal from this episode and uncancel Dolly Parton.

Persons: Allison Hope’s, Dolly Parton —, Barbie, Parton, Allison Hope, Allison Hope Parton, Ericka Andersen, ” Andersen, ”, Dolly, “, Dolly Parton, “ Jolene, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, —, Dolly Patron, “ Jolene ” Organizations: CNN, Yorker, The New York Times, Washington, Federalist, Democratic, Twitter, Alabama hillbillies Locations: Slate, Switzerland, Conservative, Covid, California, Forge , Tennessee, America

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