Against the bleak backdrop of mid-Pandemic New York, Fashion Week F/W 2021 was held as news of widespread vaccinations and lowering caseloads became common. While most shows were held virtually some designers forged ahead with in-person shows and presentations in hopes of retaining a sense of normalcy.
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In White Smoke, the critically-acclaimed second novel by Itamar S.N, the character Yonatan Green is a bisexual intellectual playboy, who will do anything to provoke his right-wing father, Israel’s Prime Minister, who always puts the country before his family.
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Nestled along the northern reach of California’s central coast shoreline, near a cliff-edged plain that drops into the turbulent Pacific, sits an idyllic collection of berry brambles in manicured rows behind a washed-out sign warmly declaring “Fresh Made Pies.”
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Sacrilegious. Irreverent. Shocking. All apt superlatives for John Matthew Gillen’s debut episodic novel: American Blasphemer.
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$69 Million. That is the all-time record for the sale of artwork by a living artist, and the third-highest sum by anyone. – In this case, anyone is Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple. Auctioned by the storied House of Christie’s on March 11th, beyond the number is the art itself. An NFT or non-fungible token.
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Brian, how did you get interested in boxing?
My dad and my older brother Pete were both fans of Floyd Patterson. He was from Brooklyn as we were. Pete took me to see the first Patterson Johansson fight which was I believe in June of ‘59 and Floyd got knocked out and I was really upset and started crying because I had been a fan. -
Nearly three centuries after Ponce De Leon embarked to discover the fountain of youth, a shipwrecked Spanish brigantine forged the path of another discovery.
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Flavor is that elusive characteristic to describe yet alluringly simple to identify. It breaks across the palette like fireworks: bright, bold, fresh, with heat or tang. It is something that opens minds and breaks down cultural barriers. Flavor is after all what caused our European forebears to venture to parts unknown in search of spices to season their bland daily fare.
