Following in the footsteps of Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent launched his first fragrance for women, Y, in 1964 by creating, in his own words, “a lush, heavy, and languid perfume.” Just seven years later, the designer shocked the world of haute couture, posing naked to launch Pour Homme, the first and best YSL cologne for
In the second part of my book, Daughters of the New Year, one of the main characters, Xuan, goes to an athletic club with her mother. The Cercle Sportif was a real athletic club in Saigon, opened in 1902 for French colonials and Vietnamese social elite. There were tennis courts, a football field, sailboats, and
JB Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s a double whammy for would-be homebuyers. Not only are interest rates soaring, it’s getting harder to qualify for a loan. The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage climbed over 7% at the end of last week, according to Mortgage News Daily, and is expected to
The over and under on Universal/Blumhouse/Miramax’s Halloween Kills is $50M at 3,800 theaters. Some even see it possibly touching $60M. And that’s with a theatrical day and date on Peacock. That opening alone is what all films have been averaging at the box office over the last three weekends — $55M. Part 2 of the
by Regina Avalos, October 4, 2022 Season two of Firefly Lane will kick off in December on Netflix. It’s been revealed that this will also be the final season, but it will be an extended run. The streamer is producing 16 episodes for the season with nine arriving on December 2nd. The remaining seven will
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – NASA has awarded contracts to KSAT Inc. and SpaceLink as part the space agency’s campaign to begin investigating commercial sources for future space communications services. NASA awarded KSAT a $162,000 contract and SpaceLink a $190,000 contract to conduct studies related to direct-to-Earth and lunar-space-relay communications. The contracts stem from the effort
EA’s desktop PC app is out of beta and is now available to download. The gaming client will fully replace Origin for PC, launched in 2011, and promises a “faster, more reliable, and more streamlined” Windows gaming experience. Mac users, however, won’t be receiving this update and can continue using the Origin app. Shifting to
Source: FBI Prosecutors on Tuesday asked a California federal judge to jail without bail a recent fugitive accused of a brazen $35 million fraud that involved him falsely telling investors he was a billionaire, a Harvard MBA and a special forces veteran who was wounded twice in Iraq. An FBI SWAT team caught the fugitive,
Play video content TMZ.com Nelly is the kind of guy who will give you the jacket off his back — just ask young NASCAR superfan Jacob Lemke, who experienced just that … after a very cool encounter with the diamond-selling rapper. Jake was born with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a rare genetic order, and he and his
White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha speaks at the daily press briefing at the White House on October 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images People who stay up to date on their vaccines and receive treatments when they have breakthrough infections face almost no risk of dying from Covid-19,
“Ten years ago, the property that’s adjacent to my parents’ house became available for the first time in nearly a century,” says real estate developer Paul Arnhold, who grew up in New York City and spent weekends in bucolic Roxbury, Conn., two hours away. Arnhold introduced his husband, Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon, to
Angela Lansbury, one of the most iconic actresses in Hollywood, has died. She was 96. According to People, Lansbury passed away in her sleep Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at
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I first laid eyes on the Foo Fighters in England back in 1997 as they walked out onto the main stage of a newly formed rock festival. Dave was beardless, Taylor had short hair, and they played their set while it was still light out—somewhere between Prodigy and Placebo—because not many people knew about them
In this article META AMGN WBA LVS LEG WYNN ZS NFLX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A sign marks a rendezvous location for Lyft and Uber users at San Diego State University in San Diego, California, May 13, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Amgen —
Telling tales To create an image for the cover of the book, Jacob Van Dyk volunteered to undergo a 3T MRI scan. He notes that the two mirror images (generated using different MR settings) look like they are telling true tales to each other. (Reproduced with permission from Springer Nature, ©Jacob Van Dyk) What is
In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Electric Chevrolet Silverado shown at the New York Auto Show, April, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC General Motors on Tuesday said that it is forming a new business unit to offer stationary battery packs, solar panels, electric vehicle chargers and other energy-management products for homes
While tentpoles resuscitated moviegoing this past summer with pics like Top Gun: Maverick, it’s true that more adult-skewing fare is having a much harder time now. Nowhere was this more true than with David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, which rivals believed had a shot at opening to $12 million-$15 million this past weekend based on the