Month: July 2022

When you’re a spy, regime change is tricky. Even positive shifts can make for treacherous times. Two novels uncover the messy, uncertain lives of intelligence operatives in times of tectonic political change: Allison Montclair’s The Unkept Woman explores English life after World War II, at the dawn of the Cold War, while Dan Fesperman’s Winter
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Suffragettes armored themselves with the striking color as they fought for the right to vote. In 1912, beauty pioneer Elizabeth Arden handed them the bullets—tiny, but mighty tubes of red lipstick that were shaped like ammunition. The bold move symbolized strength, independence and defiance all in one. “It wasn’t worn by everybody at that point,” Bésame Cosmetics founder
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News The Comet Is Coming Announce Album, Share New Song “Code”: Listen The London-based electro-jazz trio recorded Hyper-Dimensional Extension Beam at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios By Jane Bua July 29, 2022 Facebook Twitter The Comet Is Coming, portrait by Fabrice Bourgelle and edit and graphics by Veil Projects Facebook Twitter The Comet Is Coming
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View gallery Image Credit: John Salangsang/BEI/Shutterstock Beyoncé has ushered in the new Renaissance. The long-awaited and highly-anticipated album arrived on Friday (July 29), and to say fans were hyped would be an understatement. Though the new album offered plenty for the BeyHive to buzz about, one thing they noticed was Bey making a reference to
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News Beyoncé Releases New Album Renaissance: Listen and Read the Full Credits Queen Bey’s long-awaited follow-up to Lemonade features contributions from Jay-Z, Drake, Skrillex, Grace Jones, 070 Shake, and more By Madison Bloom July 29, 2022 Facebook Twitter Beyoncé (Photo by Mason Poole). Facebook Twitter Beyoncé has returned. Six years after releasing Lemonade, Queen Bey
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Whether you like it or not, Crocs are having a renaissance. We’ve seen the brand’s Classic Clog—which has become many a pandemic purchase—on countless celebrities like Kendall Jenner, Priyanka Chopra, and Ariana Grande. Plus it’s been re-worked by other major A-listers like Bad Bunny and Justin Bieber. Even luxury labels like Christopher Kane and Balenciaga
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Many of us feel trapped in a grind of constant change: rolling news cycles, the chatter of social media, our families split along partisan lines. We feel fearful and tired, on edge in our bodies, not quite knowing what has us perpetually depleted. For Katherine May, this low hum of fatigue and anxiety made her
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News New “Weird Al” Yankovic Photo Book Announced Lights, Camera, Accordion! collects over 300 photos taken by Yankovic’s longtime drummer and photographer By Rob Arcand July 28, 2022 Facebook Twitter “Weird Al” Yankovic, March 1984 (Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images) Facebook Twitter “Weird Al” Yankovic is the subject of a new book from 1984 Publishing. Lights,
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