Новости за 02.08.2016

When you’re headed for blissful hiking or biking trails, do you resent having to carry a backpack? Part of the Low Rider MTB collection from CamelBak, the Palos is designed to carry the water weight and cargo weight on the hips, lowering your center of gravity and increasing stability. The waist pack design allows you to bring along enough gear for a half-day excursion, while allowing your upper body to move and stay cool on hot days. Inside the water reservoir pocket, compression webbing help... Читать дальше...

This past weekend, Lollapalooza celebrated its 25th anniversary at Grant Park in Chicago. Stereogum was there, hosting intimate performances at the Toyota Music Den alongside our friends at Spin, Vibe, and BrooklynVegan. On Friday, Day Wave -- the songwriting project of Oakland, CA-based Jackson Phillips -- took the stage to perform "Drag" off of his…

This past weekend, Lollapalooza celebrated its 25th anniversary at Grant Park in Chicago. Stereogum was there, hosting intimate performances at the Toyota Music Den alongside our friends at Spin, Vibe, and BrooklynVegan. On Friday, Modern Baseball's Brendan Lukens and Jake Ewald took the stage for an acoustic set. Watch them play "Apple Cider, I Don't…

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Mayor Edwin M. Lee today signed the City’s two-year balanced budget for Fiscal Years 2016-17 and 2017-18. To deliver this two-year consensus budget proposal, Mayor Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors and heard directly from residents and community leaders throughout the City, by meeting with residents, nonprofit organizations, City Commissioners, labor, business owners, and advocates to discuss priorities and address concerns including homelessness, quality of life... Читать дальше...

Trump posted a photo on Twitter Monday evening that's prompting some questions about his eating habits.

Attractiveness is in the way you carry yourself, the folks you hang out with, and how you talk to people — plus a whole lot more.

Apple is going way beyond your crying cat and smiling frog emoji to make those little cartoons you add to your urgent text messages more reflective of our reality.

Sie machen das Netz echt zu einem besseren Ort.

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"My thing is, ‘wow, as a human being how do you succeed?’ Don’t we all need to know how to succeed. This is a phenomenal story.”

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Nothing says fancy dining quite like a blob of foam. So soothing, such a great mouth feel. And get this: you can easily make it at home, expensive restaurants be damned!

Data Attack reveals the history of DC and Marvel films and how they’ve created Hollywood’s biggest franchises. Animation by Eric Power

What factors have led Haiti, once the world's leading coffee producer, to tumble into subsistence-level farming? And why does that industry repeatedly fail to return? Tate Watkins, author of Haitian Coffee Grows on Trees, discusses his work.

The mythology at the heart of the Star Wars motion pictures has become a powerful common language for talking about not just good versus evil, fathers and sons, and destiny and choice, but also foundational political ideas like the role of government, the nature of power, the decay of institutions, and the need for and permissibility of rebellion and revolution. In The World According to Star Wars, legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein offers insights on theses topics and more, showing how and why Star... Читать дальше...