Month: April 2024

Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians is a new book documenting just that. Real Estate’s Alex Bleeker and the travel writer Luke Pyenson (formerly of Frankie Cosmos) compiled the book, enlisting Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering, Bob Mould, Dawn Richard, Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz, Pavement’s Mark Ibold , and many more
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A new study published in the Social Science Research Network [SSRN] found that job applicants using they/them pronouns are less likely to be hired. The study’s author, University of Toronto Ph.D. candidate Taryn Eames, states it is “the first large-scale correspondence study focused on evaluating hiring discrimination based on pronoun disclosure.” Eames sent out 7,970
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In 2007, doctor Paul Volkman was charged with illegally distributing opioids via pain clinics in southern Ohio, leading to the overdose deaths of over a dozen patients. Journalist Philip Eil was drawn to the case because of a personal connection to the 60-year-old doctor: Volkman was a med school classmate of Eil’s father. Relying on
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Roberto Cavalli — the Italian designer best known for his vivid, maximalist animal prints — has passed away. He was 83. “It is with great sadness that today we say our final goodbyes to our founder Roberto Cavalli,” read a statement from his namesake brand, posted to Instagram. “From humble … Continue reading View Original Source
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J. Cole meant it when he titled his new mixtape Might Delete Later. The rapper has removed the song “7 Minute Drill,” his now infamous diss track about Kendrick Lamar, from streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal. It originally served as the mixtape’s closing number. Last week, Cole headlined his annual Dreamville Festival.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) and former President Donald Trump (R) Photo: C-SPAN screenshot President Donald Trump (R) helped defend Christian Nationalist Speaker Mike Johnson (R) from far-right House members threatening to kick him out by appearing in a joint press conference in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Together, they proposed a bill
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Up next from director Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan, The Shallows) is the Universal & Blumhouse thriller The Woman in the Yard, and the cast is growing this week. Deadline reports that Russell Hornsby (Fences) has signed on to star in the upcoming thriller, joining the previously announced Danielle Deadwyler (The Harder They Fall). Okwui Okpokwasili (The Exorcist:
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