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“I feel like there’s a lot of different facets of what we do that are in that episode,” says “Stranger Things” makeup department head Amy L. Forsythe about the episode “Chapter Two: Vecna’s Curse,” for which she’s nominated for an Emmy for Best Period and/or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic). Watch our interview with her and co-department […]

The Truss camp’s calls to ‘roll back the frontiers of the state’ invite the question: to where?

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The increase of 160,000 top grades during the two years of teacher assessment is to be halved this year

The baseball world got some disappointing news Friday night when San Diego Padres shortstop slash motorcycle rider slash drug user slash all around cool guy Fernando Tatis Jr. was handed a 80 game suspension by Major League Baseball after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Stranger Things earned 13 Emmy nominations this season, including Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the unsung heroes of the show—the below-the-line departments who put in the tireless effort to create the “surreal madness” of the series. From ‘de-aging’ Millie Bobbie Brown to building Vecna and his lair in the Upside Down, the collaboration of the craft […]

Facebook and Apple have been at odds for several years now; Apple announced back at WWDC 2020 that iOS would require apps to ask users to opt-in to cross-app advertising tracking. Facebook spent much of the next months speaking out against Apple's plans and predicting revenue instability due to the upcoming changes, but the feature was released in iOS 14.5 back in April of 2021. Somewhat surprisingly, though, a new report from The Wall Street Journal claims that before this all went down, Facebook... Читать дальше...

All you can ask for from a starting pitcher is to give your team the best possible chance to win, and Max Scherzer certainly gave the New York Mets every opportunity to win at Citi Field on Friday night. It was a frustrating evening with the Phillies winning in extra innings and Eduardo Escobar and […]

RALPH Hasenhuttl labelled midweek reports that some of his Saints players had lost trust in his management as "sh*t”, following their 2-2 draw with Leeds United.

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The busy summer of transfers at Tottenham Hotspur isn’t over yet according to journalist Alasdair Gold, who claims the club are still looking to bring in another central defender before the window shuts. Spurs have already signed six players this summer, with Ivan Perisic, Fraser Forster, Yves Bissouma, Richarlison, Clement Lenglet, and Djed Spence adding […]

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says his side's quick response to goals scored by Leicester was his favourite part of their 4-2 win against Leicester.

After 11 seasons and more than two decades on HBO, Emmy voters are still finding “Curb Your Enthusiasm” to be, in Larry David parlance, “pretty … pretty … pretty good.” Since the comedy series’ debut in 2000, “Curb” has amassed a staggering 51 nominations — including two wins — with the most recent season adding […]

Two suspected ISI agents arrested from Rajasthan on espionage charges

Even 10 years into his run as the Hulk, Mark Ruffalo apparently can be surprised. Disney+’s She-Hulk, premiering this Thursday, Aug. 18 with the first of nine half-hour-ish episodes, follows legal eagle Jen Walters (played by Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany) as she accidentally becomes a Hulk akin to her cousin, Bruce Banner (Ruffalo). The bulk […]

A giant disco ball holds the DJ booth at this nightclub in Seattle, designed by local firm Mutuus Studio to be a "safe and welcoming environment for women, BIPOC, and all members of the LGBTQIA+ community". Read more

The monkeypox outbreak is growing in the US. Here are the facts.

Revitalizing a vacant building, on a prominent corner of the Quarters neighborhood in downtown Edmonton, Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective (OCAC) will provide a physical home for local Indigenous Canadian modern art. The building’s new multifaceted mirrored façade is symbolic of the collective’s commitment to innovation and creativity; the ever-changing reflections are a commentary on how the building and the art within can lead to shifting contemporary dialogues around indigenous traditions, breaking normative expectations. Читать дальше...

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Middleweights Josh Fremd and Tresean Gore are targeted to meet this fall.

The award-winning eatery, which offers fine wines and food, is on stilts at Durban’s harbour

As an experiment, this man decided to let a venus flytrap digest his finger for an entire day. First, he shows us how a venus fly trap reacts when it catches a bee. RIP to the bee. Next, he tapes the flytrap around his finger so that he doesn't have to sit next to the plant all day. — Read the rest

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