Former US President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow on November 08, 2021. NBC News reports Obama will return to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he left office to promote the Affordable Care Act in an event alongside President Joe Biden. Jeff J
A Met Gala legend is missing this year’s ball. Zendaya revealed to Extra at the Euphoria For Your Consideration Emmy event that she will be skipping the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser on Monday, May 2. Blame it on Zendaya’s packed schedule, not her lack of desire to go. “I’m gonna disappoint my fans
How often do you find an adaptation of a novel that is better than the original work? The answer is not very often. But Silka Luisa has taken Lauren Beukes’ Shining Girls, adding layers that propel an already taught story into unexpected depths. Of course, I was also in the unique position to have watched
Spring is the sweetest time to discover new poetry. Lingering daylight and blossoms, the chance to open a book on a park bench and be transported, briefly, to a heightened world. Each spring, I find myself gravitating towards collections, both intimate and bold, that wrestle with identity and history, desire and self-definition. Poetry opens up
In this article SGRE-ES An offshore wind turbine in waters off Taiwan. Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs says it’s targeting 20% renewable energy generation by the middle of this decade. Billy H.C. Kwok | Bloomberg | Getty Images A large-scale offshore wind farm in waters off the coast of Taiwan has produced its first power,
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the space physicist Xiaojia Zhang explains how whistler waves in Earth’s radiation belts are accelerating high-energy electrons towards the North and South poles. As well as causing spectacular aurorae, these energetic particles can also disrupt modern technologies such as GPS, the UCLA-based researcher says. Also on
This summer will be significantly better than last, or at least that’s the expectation from Fandango’s second annual Moviegoing Trends & Insights Study, which just dropped this morning ahead of CinemaCon. Among those 6K moviegoers polled by the online movie ticket retailer, 83% plan to see three or more movies in theaters between the May to
SAN FRANCISCO – Six months after unveiling its next generation Pelican satellite constellation, Planet shared details April 21 on the 32-satellite constellation designed to offer higher resolution Earth imagery with more frequently updates than the San Francisco company’s SkySat constellation. “As you get more operational with your customers, they want more capacity and they want
In this article WFC BAC GS Stephanie Cohen, currently Goldman Sachs’ global co-head of consumer and wealth management, speaking at the 2018 New York Times Dealbook conference in New York City. Michael Cohen | Getty Images Goldman Sachs‘ long-awaited checking account is one step closer to reality. The bank is widening internal testing for the
Gary Robinson, the award-winning writer, director, producer, and editor whose clients have included CBS, Sony, Universal, and Martin Scorsese, among others, will lead a tour that will showcase the latest in post-production workflow tools for broadcast and cable networks at NAB Show 2022. The Film and Episodic TV Production Workflow Tour will premiere at the
Zoom is bringing new updates with features to make web calls easier and a lot more convenient. Some among this range of features include Gesture Recognition, Zoom IQ for Sales, improved Zoom Whiteboard, and Backstage for Zoom Events. Be it recording your response through a raised hand gesture, or using a whiteboard or sticky note
Section of Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain Source: The Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that California property law will be used to decide who owns a French painting — now in the possession of a renowned museum in Spain — that a Jewish woman surrendered to the
News 2022 MTV VMAs Set for New Jersey in August The show returns to Newark’s Prudential Center on Sunday, August 28 By Matthew Strauss April 21, 2022 Facebook Twitter Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Facebook Twitter The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards have gotten an airdate and location: The show will take place
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell affirmed the central bank’s determination to bring down inflation and said Thursday that aggressive rate hikes are possible as soon as next month. “It is appropriate in my view to be moving a little more quickly” to raise interest rates, Powell said while part of an International Monetary Fund panel.
Christopher John Rogers’ designs are hard to miss. His audacious, “pragmatic glamour” (his words) is instantly identifiable, and decidedly not shy. It’s a bit ironic, then, that Rogers was visibly nervous to take the stage for his first-ever live interview last night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rogers joined the stage with fashion journalist
Ellen Pompeo is speaking out in defense of her onetime Grey’s Anatomy co-star Katherine Heigl. Pompeo’s podcast Tell Me With Ellen Pompeo found the Meredith Grey actress addressing Heigl’s criticism of the long hours on the ABC drama several years ago. “I remember Heigl said something on a talk show about the insane hours we
When I was in my early twenties I watched the movie “Annabelle” with my cousins and brother. It did its job in discomforting me, but I’ll never forget what my brother said as he watched, bored, eating popcorn, and checking his phone. “After all our ancestors went through, there is no way they’re just going
Eloghosa Osunde and Okwiri Oduor. Photo of Oduor by Chelsea Bieker. It’s hard to argue with Booker Prize–winning author Damon Galgut’s assertion that 2021 was “a great year for African writing.” And as WLT’s “New African Voices” issue helped make clear, 2022 is shaping up to be one as well. Here, then, are two debut novelists