Behind the high white walls of a nondescript single-story building in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, past the velvet ropes and ticket-checkers, and through a hallway filled with disorienting billows of white smoke lies Aku World, the alternate universe of Aku, a young Black astronaut. The blank walls of one room were covered with moving projections of…Continue Reading
In his first-ever appearance before Congress on Wednesday, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers about the social media platform’s ill-effects on children and teens. During the hearing, titled “Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users,” members of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security…Continue Reading
The gruesome lynching of a foreign national by religious extremists in Pakistan last week poses important lessons for India, whose Hindu nationalist rulers are pursuing the same policy of state-driven fundamentalism that now plagues their arch-enemy. On Dec. 3, hundreds of people in the city of Sialkot, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, were party to the…Continue Reading
For the first time in the 22-year history of Pantone’s color of the year, the Pantone Institute has created a brand new color for the franchise, made just for 2022: PANTONE® 17-3938 Very Peri is a dynamic periwinkle blue with a vibrant, violet-red undertone designed to evoke the glowing touchscreens of the digital world and…Continue Reading
Few institutions have sacrificed more for the cause of free expression than Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last independent newspapers. Since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, six of the paper’s reporters have been killed. One was bludgeoned to death. Another died of suspected poisoning. A third, Anna Politkovskaya, was shot five times…Continue Reading
Jussie Smollett (zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx 2018)Jussie Smollett’s trial wound up being about as bizarre as the crime he stood accused of: lying to Chicago cops about a racist, homophobic attack he allegedly staged on himself for attention. Naturally, the oddness continued into Wednesday, when prosecutors and Smollett’s defense attorneys made their closing arguments.At one point,…Continue Reading
Every holiday season, like cursed clockwork, we can count on cousin/uncle Bob to make a joke about marrying our sister, or trolling us for “not owning a home yet, SHEESH,” which sends our brain skyrocketing so far into space, we can see the glimmer of Richard Branson’s veneers. Everyone has a relative they don’t really…Continue Reading
The moon meets lucky Jupiter in Aquarius at 3:53 AM, inspiring optimism and generosity! Just watch out for short tempers as the moon squares off with warrior planet Mars in brooding water sign Scorpio. The moon enters intuitive, creative water sign Pisces at 9:53 AM.All times ET.AriesTake it slow today as the moon enters Pisces.…Continue Reading
Image Source: BlizzardLisa Bloom, a victims’ advocate lawyer, and an employee from Activision Blizzard held a press conference outside of the Activision Blizzard campus today. They asked that the company set up a fund for victims, review the career damage done to the employee, and apologize to her.Christine, the Activision Blizzard employee who is suing…Continue Reading
Palm Beach, FL, December 08, 2021 –(PR.com)– Jones Lowry, a national wealth transfer and insurance planning firm with offices in New York, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami, announced that Jeff Newman, MBA, has joined the firm as a director. He is responsible for design, implementation and management of wealth transfer strategies for the…Continue Reading