Новости за 25.06.2021

A judge has sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to a prison sentence of 22.5 years for the 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man whose death sparked global protests against police brutality and racism.

Since vaccinations started to become available in the U.S., various publications have posited that the summer of 2021 is a time to be Seen. The Wall Street Journal mused about the end of athleisure in the face of a newly-vaccinated public. High Snobiety proposed that post-pandemic dressing will trend towards the Big…

It’s the kind of thing where once you’ve noticed it, it’s hard to not start seeing everywhere: The silent conspiracy between certain men and their eyebrows, a weirdly private performance for an audience of one. A man, catching himself unexpectedly in a reflective surface, gives himself a quick up-and-down. Maybe he…

A few years ago at a weekend away with friends, the conversation took a turn towards the mundane. Someone had made a mess and was using an ineffectual rag to mop it up—-a reusable cellulose thing that was floppy and smelled faintly of mold. “You know,” my friend said, watching our other pal as her ineffective…

Once every decade or so, the fashion soothsayers at clothing magazines prophecy the return of the 1980s and ’90s mom-standard denim skirt to cultural relevance, a prophecy that heretofore has been incorrect outside paparazzi photos of people like Katie Holmes, who is very tall and rich and therefore able to wear…

About halfway through F9, Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), the franchise’s fall guy and icebreaker, asks his car buddies, “Are we special?” He poses this question because at this point in the history of the car franchise, his former street-racer friends have: Stolen a building-sized safe in a high-speed chase; stopped…

Here’s a fun treat for Pride: Wendy Williams getting absolutely, unmistakably, can’t-show-my-face-in-this-particular-all-ladies-establishment-ly shot down by Da Brat.

Kids are great and for mom-of-three Jennifer Garner, they are also a fascinating natural occurrence, much like mushrooms! It’s a strange comparison, but Garner stays up pretty late at night according to her Instagram, so this all tracks.

For some reason, they couldn’t keep this in a group chat.

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A few years ago in the Shreveport, Louisiana, airport, where there is not much to do and therefore security personnel can be chatty, a nice airport employee helped me lift my rolling bag onto the x-ray conveyer belt and informed me that America had put a man on the moon before anyone had thought to invent luggage with…

As John Locke himself once wrote, “What worries you, masters you,” and apparently what worried him as a young scholar was absolutely nothing, except needing his special blankie in his darkened dorm room, according to recently unearthed documents penned by a “friend” of the famous philosopher hailed as the “father of…

Less than one month after a First Nations group in Canada discovered the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children entrusted to the care of a state-sponsored Catholic boarding school in Kamloops, British Columbia, a similar discovery has been made in Saskatchewan at another school. However, this time the search…

The most recent season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta was maybe the worst one yet, and I say this as someone who has lost months, maybe even years of my life watching The Real Housewives. So bad, in fact, that rumors have sprung up that Bravo will potentially shake up the cast, as they’ve done in the past on The…