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☆ Opinion | The Hope at the Bottom of the ‘Child Care Cliff’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

So I called Kathryn Anne Edwards, an economist and economic policy consultant, to see if there’s an argument that might change people’s minds about the utter necessity of more robust government child care funding — or if I should lose all hope in the possibility of a shift in the way that child care is thought about, discussed and sustained in the United States. labor force participation is midway through a historic decline. In Edwards’s phrasing, it “has been frozen in time for 25 years.” When you see headlines about how we’re at all-time highs for women’s labor force participation, Edwards suggests, that’s misleading. When you look at the actual level of increase since the 1990s, labor force participation among women has barely budged, and without a policy shift, we shouldn’t expect it to go up much in the coming years. The second thing that could force Congress to act on child care is that the birthrate is on the decline in the United States, Edwards said.

Persons: Kathryn Anne Edwards, Edwards, ”, ” Edwards, “, Peter G Organizations: Social, Peterson Foundation, Social Security Locations: United States

☆ A founder of Big Gay Ice Cream is suing his partner, accusing him of mismanagement and collecting government pandemic loans
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Big Gay Ice Cream cofounder Doug Quint sued partner Jon Chapski, The New York Times reported. It claimed that Chapski refused to "roll out new ice cream flavors" that Quint had created, and ignored other suggestions related to the brand's expansion. Big Gay Ice Cream, which started out as an ice cream truck in 2009, had multiple locations across New York and Philadelphia at its height. Big Gay Ice Cream pints were even sold in major grocery chains and drugstores. The store is operated by neighborhood restaurateur, Jeremy Wladis, who was given permission to use the brand and recipes on Friday, according to the New York Times.

Persons: Doug Quint, Jon Chapski, Quint, Chapski, Quint —, —, Gay, Bryan Petroff, Jeremy Wladis Organizations: The New York Times, Service, New York, Court, Big, Small Business Administration, Times, New York Times Locations: The, Wall, Silicon, Philadelphia, Maine, New York, leche

☆ Is There a Right Way to Talk About Black Culture?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Ismail Muhammad | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

At its best “Dark Days” is the record of an intellectual life sustained by the Black vernacular. In the essay “Reading Fire, Reading the Stars,” Reeves recounts learning how to be a critic in the Pentecostal church. “Profligacy” is the key word here: With a nod to Hartman’s explorations of “wayward” lives and the presumed promiscuity of Black urban culture, Reeves reframes promiscuity as an aesthetic and intellectual virtue. In Reeves’s hands profligacy becomes an ethical necessity: Everything must be thought of in relation to what it shares space with. Recounting a trip to speak with students at a Native school, he feels his status as a stranger among strangers.

Persons: ” Reeves, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Louis Till, Emmett Till’s, Ezra Pound, Mussolini, Hitler, Virgil, Dante, Reeves, Michael K, Williams, Solmaz, profligacy, ” Locations: ”

☆ This Hummus Holds Up After 800 Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Ligaya Mishan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

You take chickpeas, hard and dry, and boil them until their skins loosen and they reveal themselves, tender little hulks with souls of butter. For much of human civilization, recipes were rarely written down, and of those that were, almost none have survived. You might recognize this as hummus. Notably absent from the recipe is garlic, despite its ubiquity in the cooking of the Arab world at the time. It’s not certain exactly when garlic was introduced to the dish: Nasrallah notes that there is no documentation of hummus recipes after the 14th century until the late 19th century.

Persons: Nawal Nasrallah, It’s, Nasrallah, Frenchman, Spencer Merolla, —, Alexandria —, ” Zayan Organizations: JR Locations: United States, Mexico, Egypt, Cairo, Alexandria, France, Paris, Salle

☆ Quick to Mock MAGA, Biden Stays Silent on Trump Indictments
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Reid J. Epstein | More About Reid J. Epstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For months, President Biden has appeared to delight in needling Donald J. Trump and his Republican allies, trying at every turn to make MAGA and ultra-MAGA a shorthand for the entire party. This week, Mr. Biden cheekily highlighted a video in which Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia derisively ticks through his first-term accomplishments and likens him — not positively — to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “I approve this message,” the president commented on the video, which was viewed more than 43 million times in 24 hours. Mr. Biden recently did a victory lap when Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama promoted local spending in the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which Mr. Tuberville had voted against. And his campaign took a shot at Mr. Trump for not visiting Wisconsin during his current presidential bid, accusing him of a “failure to deliver on his promised American manufacturing boom.”

Persons: Biden, needling Donald J, Trump, MAGA, Biden cheekily, Marjorie Taylor Greene, —, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “, Tommy Tuberville, Tuberville Organizations: Republican Locations: Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin, American

☆ Seeing Yourself Onscreen Is Good, but Not Good Enough
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Elamin Abdelmahmoud | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WANNABE: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me, by Aisha HarrisBeing a Black critic in a time of exceptional art made by Black people has immense rewards and myriad risks. “Wannabe,” the debut essay collection from Aisha Harris, a co-host of NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour,” is at its best when engaging with those risks and the thorny questions of her profession. In what ways does identity inform a critic’s work? “I don’t want to ‘just be happy’ about ‘King Richard,’” she insists. “I want interiority and surprise and characters who feel as though they have a reason to exist beyond retelling history.”

Persons: Aisha Harris, Harris, John Legend ”, cheekily, Issa Rae’s, —, Black, Will Smith, Richard ”, King Richard, ’, “, ”

☆ A Lego Crime, a YouTube Rivalry, and the End of a Star Wars Friendship
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

Those who are into Lego Star Wars are among the most popular. It was at an informal contest where Louis met Victor, a fellow Lego Star Wars fanatic. Soon they ranked among the most popular Lego Star Wars YouTubers in France, known for the size and scope of their MOCs. The two friends no longer fit with that satisfying click that comes from snapping together two Lego bricks. Though it must have taken a truck to haul away all of Louis' Lego, no neighbor reported seeing anything suspicious.

☆ Joshua beats Franklin to draw a line under two Usyk defeats
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Boxing - Anthony Joshua v Jermaine Franklin - O2 Arena, London, Britain - April 1, 2023 Anthony Joshua in action during his fight against Jermaine Franklin Action Images via Reuters/Andrew CouldridgeLONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua got back to winning ways after two straight defeats by beating American Jermaine Franklin on a unanimous decision at London's 02 Arena on Saturday. It was also his first win in more than two years, taking his professional record to 25 wins and three defeats. Joshua invited WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to think again about a future fight. "I would be honoured to fight for the WBC Heavyweight championship of the world. "Tonight was a step down from Oleksandr Usyk, but there was huge pressure," said promoter Eddie Hearn.

☆ Adventure Awaits in the Scottish Highlands—for Those Who Make the Trek
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Matthew Kronsberg | Photographs Robert Ormerod For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

I HAVE LONG been of the mind that the harder a place is to reach, the better it must be. That bit of folk wisdom hasn’t always worked to my advantage, but a trip to the west coast of Scotland left me more convinced than ever. The odyssey began at the former fishing village of Badachro, a 70-mile drive west from the city of Inverness. Those driving the scenic North Coast 500 route detour here for elevated pub grub at the Badachro Inn, with its views of Loch Gairloch. He issues each visitor a passport; mine was number 14,933.

☆ Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel hails movie-going rebound, cracks wise about 'the slap'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Comedian Jimmy Kimmel, returning for a third stint as Oscar host, led a back-to-basics show on Sunday that sought to celebrate a moviegoing rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic while avoiding the kind of unscripted outburst that marred the 2022 telecast. "We know this is a special night for you," Kimmel told the crowd of Hollywood luminaries. Kimmel, who was cheekily promoted ahead of Sunday's telecast as an "unflappable, unslappable" Oscar host, then went on to give a mock recitation of "strict policies in place" to prevent a repeat of last year's incident. "If anything unpredictable or violent happens during the ceremony, just sit there and do what you did last year, nothing," Kimmel added. It was a departure from many years in which relatively little-seen, but critically acclaimed, films have dominated the Academy Awards.

☆ Ex-Bon Appétit editor Marissa Ross says the wine world ruined her. Now she's back and ready to give it hell.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Her rise was tied to a period of reinvention for the wine world during which natural wine conquered millennial taste buds and became ubiquitous on menus across the US. Marissa Ross, Bon Appétit's wine editor from 2016 to 2020, often posted pictures of herself chugging straight from the bottle — a technique she called "The Ross test." "Natural wine," a nebulous term that generally refers to wine made with minimal intervention and without additives like sulfites, was tentatively entering the American wine world. Many in the wine world took the idea that you didn't have to be educated to know about wine as a personal insult. When she first told BA that she planned to cover only natural wines, Ross said, Rapoport called to try to change her mind.

Gay men, who have arguably been the lifeblood of “The Real Housewives” fanbase, will finally get a drama-filled reality TV show they can call their own. On Thursday, MTV announced it is launching on Jan. 20 “The Real Friends of WeHo,” which will follow six gay friends living in Los Angeles' premiere gayborhood, West Hollywood. “If you like the wives, don't miss these new house guys,” a narrator says in the trailer, in what appeared to be a nod to Bravo's “Real Housewives” franchise. “Went ahead and preemptively muted 'the real friends of weho' from my timeline,” one Twitter user wrote. '” But, she later added, “I will also be honest and say that I will probably be watching the show.”“The Real Friends of WeHo” premieres Jan. 20 on MTV at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT.

☆ Fans Search for Coveted Film Merch—Five Decades After a Movie’s Release
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Jacob Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It’s been 48 years since “Dog Day Afternoon” hit theaters. But as of last week, you could purchase a brand-new hat reprising the film’s all-caps poster, down to its memorable tagline: “Incredible But True!”This hat is not officially licensed merch for Sidney Lumet’s twisty crime drama. It is an unsanctioned homage made by And After That, a teensy McAllen, Tx.-based clothing company that inventively—and often cheekily—pays homage to movies and bands with shirts, T-shirts and hoodies. Warner Bros. Discovery , the merchandising rights holder of “Dog Day Afternoon,” did not comment.

☆ Final farewell: From Sidney Poitier to Pope Emeritus Benedict a look back at the influential figures who died in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +55 min

Other world leaders who died in 2022 include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August. The final days of 2022 saw the loss of some exceptionally notable figures, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___Dan Reeves, 77. A Cuban-born artist whose radiant color palette and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice. A prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films.

☆ Aldi customers are scrambling to buy a $13 dress. That's the power of its 'treasure hunt' Aldi Deals aisle.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A limited-edition Aldi dress gained traction in a Facebook group of 1.5 million members. The dress was a feature in the Aldi Finds aisle, which is responsible for about 20% of total sales. The wrap-style dress from the brand Serra was featured in Aldi's weekly "Aldi Finds" advertisement for the week of November 9. Aldi's "Aldi Finds" aisle is a grab bag of products that changes throughout the year. Aldi did not respond to Insider's request for comment, but as Aldi plans to continue its rapid expansion, its Aldi Finds aisle likely will remain a key part of future store designs.

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