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☆ Heather Graham on Her Best Movies & TV Shows: 'Austin Powers,' 'Boogie Nights'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Once upon a time, Heather Graham really wanted to play a murderer. Fresh off career-making turns as the porn star Rollergirl in "Boogie Nights" and the short shorts-wearing CIA agent Felicity Shagwell in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," Graham wasn't having trouble getting work. "I'm just really intrigued, not only as an actress but as an audience member, by movies that are from a female storytelling perspective." But Graham didn't dwell on what could have been. The network just didn't really believe in it, and they pulled it after an episode.

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☆ Milan Fashion Week highlights: A surprise drop-in from Madonna and an ‘anything goes’ attitude
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Scarlett Conlon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty ImagesCreative director Mattieu Blazy said “it’s like that first day at school when (you arrive) looking impeccable and you come back at the end of the day crumpled.” Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty ImagesPerfectly imperfectHigh octane glamour was dialled right down, too. Blouses also popped up at Marni, N°21 and Bottega Veneta — ranging from clean cut, office-ready designs to the more flouncy and feminine. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty ImagesPointe shoes were reimagined as thong sandals. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty ImagesElsewhere at Fendi, soft, bathrobe-like gowns — much like the one recently worn by Rihanna — were worn with sheer embroidered socks. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty ImagesMiuccia Prada told the press she was "very very nervous” about presenting this collection.

Persons: Milan, Miuccia Prada, Prada, Max Mara’s, Max Mara, Ian Griffiths, ”, Maximillian Davis, Matthieu Blazy, Vittorio Zunino Celotto, Mattieu Blazy, “, Kim Jones, chunky, Kate Moss, Kate, Gucci’s Sabato de Sarno, Normcore, she’s, Peter Pan, Jil Sander, Lucie, Luke Meier, chinoiserie, you’ll, Francesco Risso’s, Alessandro Dell’Acqua, ord, Versace, Donatella, Madonna, philes, Jean, Paul Gaultier, Gaultier, Rachpoot, Bauer, Griffin, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Julianne Moore, Jacob Elordi, Kendall Jenner, Michelle Yeoh —, Steven Spielberg’s, E.T, Blazy, Jacopo M, Donatella Versace, Jonas Gustavsson, Maximilian Davis, Victor Virgile, Prada Sabato, Daniele Venturelli, Karen Elson, Roberto Cavalli, Piovanotto Marco, Rihanna —, Versace Kim Jones, Gabriel Bouys, Adrian Appiolaza, Marco Beroorello, Marco Bertorello, Ferragamo, Delphine Achard, Francesco Risso's Marni, Mattieu, Judy Blame, Justin Shin, Boss, Raf Simmons Organizations: Milan CNN, Milan, Brands, Prada, Bottega Veneta, Red Wing, Dolce, Gabbana, Rocky, Getty, Moschino, Milan Fashion Locations: —, Ferragamo, Bottega, buttoned, Marni, Milan, AFP, British

☆ On the Brazilian Coast, a Tropical Town Beloved by Artists and Makers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Nora Walsh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Sign up here to find us in your inbox once a month, and to receive our weekly T List newsletter. Roughly halfway between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the coastal town of Paraty (population 45,000) isn’t the easiest place to reach. It’s that relative seclusion that keeps the tourist hordes and unbridled development at bay, despite the town’s obvious appeal. African slaves not only worked in the mines but built much of the town’s early infrastructure, such as its roads. At the end of the 19th century, Santos, 190 miles to the south, supplanted Paraty as the country’s primary coffee-exporting port, and the town began to languish.

Persons: São, Luana Assunção, ”, Dom João, “ You’ll Organizations: São Paulo, Free Walker Tours Locations: tlist@nytimes.com, Rio de Janeiro, Paraty, Costa Verde, Ilha Grande, CHEE, Minas Gerais, Santos, “, Rio, Orleans

☆ My husband doesn't wear a wedding ring. I don't mind, but I wish we hadn't spent money on one.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

My husband only wore his ring during our honeymoonAt first, my husband tried to wear his ring. Related storiesTwelve years later, I can't remember the last time my husband wore his ring, and that doesn't bother me at all. Just like it doesn't bother me that he doesn't wear a bracelet, I didn't care when his ring came off. He lost his wedding ring after removing it to get stitches. Over more than a decade, we've been able to move beyond what society expects from us with wedding rings and define what truly works for us.

Persons: we've, we'd, I've, they're Organizations: Service Locations: New Hampshire, Florida

☆ When Hot Bacon Meets Sliced Brussels Sprouts, Salad Happens
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Melissa Clark | More About Melissa Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The first time I heard a friend praising “wilted salad,” the memories came flooding back. I could picture that half-full bowl of droopy, oil-slicked greens sitting in the fridge, leftover from the night before. When I was growing up, my mother hated the idea of wasting food so much that she saved uneaten salad for breakfast the next day, often topping it with a fried egg. My sister and I thought my mother’s breakfast salad looked unappetizing, to say the least. Except my friend was extolling a completely different wilted salad.

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☆ The Girlies Know: ‘Oppenheimer’ Was Actually About Us
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Iva Dixit | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Here the girlhood parallels move beyond the facetious to acquire a darker quality, as shame begins to erode Oppenheimer’s sense of self. The great Oppenheimer realizes that no amount of personal brilliance can counter the force of the state. Near the film’s end, Oppenheimer silently reckons with visions of what his brilliance has wrought: unimaginable suffering and fire as the invention he fathered wipes out civilization itself. For a Great Man like him, it took the twin shames of the bomb’s destruction and public disgrace to have this life-altering yet basic realization about his own powerlessness. This is a rule and a warning that life has drilled into girls from age 13, if not sooner.

Persons: callow, Murray Kempton, Oppenheimer, discontents, Lewis Strauss, he’s, Annie Ernaux’s “, Barbie ”, Iva Dixit, Sean Paul Organizations: Communist, U.S .

☆ Lea Salonga on the groundbreaking representation of Broadway’s ‘Here Lies Love’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Ann Bindot | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“Here Lies Love” arrives onto Broadway, though, at a moment of greatly increased visibility, representation and empowered Filipino identity. Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images“Here Lies Love” is an immersive experience that invites show-goers to the dancefloor, literally, imbuing the proceedings with a fun, nightclub-meets-karaoke vibe. That’s what I remember.”When the Marcoses fled to Hawaii in 1986, having been granted asylum by the United States, Salonga was celebrating her 15th birthday in Manila. The cast of "Here Lies Love" performing onstage. Watching “Here Lies Love” over two decades later, the emotion returned, packing an even stronger punch.

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☆ Charles M. Blow on ‘Rapper’s Delight’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Charles M. Blow | Charles Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

America Is An Island Where the Rules Never Changepick the one piece of culture thatbest captures the country. America Is ... We asked 17 columnists topick the one piece of culture thatbest captures the country. Opinion America Is Black Pain and Joy“Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang was the first rap song I remember hearing. Struggle and pain are often a kiln for creativity, and that has meant that much of American culture is born of the story of Black American life. It took the crosscurrents of Black life and produced of them a chorus, and America — and the world — was enthralled.

Persons: topick, Joy “, Eric Reese, I’m, America — Organizations: Library of Congress, Sugarhill, America Locations: America, South, New Jersey

☆ Lube That’s Too Chic for the Sock Drawer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For Portia Brown, a sex coach in Brooklyn, lube is nonnegotiable. “I don’t think I’ve had sex in the last five years without reaching for a lubricant,” she said. Inside her night stand drawer is an array of personal lubricants: some silicone-based, some oil-based, some infused with CBD. One thing most of them have in common, however, is the chic packaging and bottles they come in, imbuing a sex aid with the allure of a beauty product. Indeed, there is now a “lube aesthetic.”

Persons: Portia Brown, I’ve, Ms, Brown, “, ” Locations: Brooklyn, lube

TEL AVIV—Israel’s citizen soldiers, a pillar of the country’s identity, played a pivotal role in pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pause a planned judicial overhaul that divided the nation. For weeks, military reservists took to the streets in large numbers, joining huge popular demonstrations against Mr. Netanyahu’s proposed changes, and, for some at least, imbuing the protests with a sense of patriotism and duty. Then some reservists began saying they would refuse to report for duty in protest.

☆ How SAP is future-proofing business data with the unveiling of its newest technology and strategic partnerships
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With Sap | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

SAP Datasphere is a new data fabric architecture that integrates data and contextual metadata across enterprises. A data fabric architecture can seamlessly incorporate new partners and deliver cutting-edge solutions as they evolve. What a business data fabric architecture can doSAP Datasphere's capabilities are enabled by its data fabric architecture, which integrates data from many sources into a single environment that can run multiple services and technologies. SAP Partnerships: Databricks integrates SAP data — including its complete business context — with its Data Lakehouse platform. As the volume of business data continues to expand, unleashing its capabilities with a data fabric architecture is becoming essential to success.

☆ 16 of the biggest controversies in Hobby Lobby's 50-year history — from denying contraceptives for employees to illegally smuggling ancient tablets
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Bethany Biron | Heather Schlitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

We took a closer look at Hobby Lobby's biggest controversies over its nearly 50-year history. The arts-and-crafts store — led by the conservative Christian founder and CEO David Green and his family — has a long history of scandals. Most recently, this included the DOJ confiscating an ancient tablet from Hobby Lobby that had been smuggled into the US. In its most prominent incident, Hobby Lobby faced scrutiny for its battle against paying for insurance coverage of contraceptives for employees, culminating in a high-profile and divisive Supreme Court case. We took a closer look at Hobby Lobby's scandals over the years, including accusations of discrimination, illegally smuggling artifacts, and endangering employees during the coronavirus pandemic.

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