The first image that pops into your head when you think of Josephine Baker is probably of the Jazz Age performer dancing in a barely there skirt made of faux bananas—it is, after all, one of the most enduring images of the Roaring ’20s. But there is so much more to Baker’s life story that […]
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Previous experiments with lava stone inspired her firepitâs organic form. The intricate stoneware creation also features a gradient that augments light from the flames. âWe did this hot-cool effect where the glaze crackles and you put some black stain into it, so that makes it a bit more volcanic,â Cognet says. Indeed, the melting effect
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Over the years, interior designer Annalise Taft-Gersten and her husband James Gersten, principal at Silver Street Hospitality, have weathered their share of renovations—a 1900s Connecticut farmhouse where they channeled London charm, a midcentury gem designed for entertaining, and two New York City apartments in historic buildings. This past year the couple decided to pivot and
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“Holocaust scholar Richard Plant said [del Castillo’s book Tanguy] ‘begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.’ With its graphic account of privation, suffering and death in French and German concentration camps, Mr. Plant warned, it was ‘not meant for the squeamish.’” – The New York Times Source link
There is a scene in Aunjanue Ellis-Taylorâs new film in which she gives a hug unlike any other hug youâll see on screen. The film is Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whiteheadâs 2019 novel based on the real-life horror of Floridaâs Dozier School for Boys, with Ellis-Taylor playing Hattie, the grandmother of Elwood (Ethan Herisse),
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Getty Images Payal Kapadia’s (third from right) All We Imagine As Light won the Cannes Film Festival’s second-highest honour this year In 2024, as Bollywood struggled to find its footing, smaller films by Indian women that told nuanced stories made headlines in the country and across the world. In May, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s All
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As 2025 approaches, we’re reviewing all our… reviews. Yes, everything we poked, prodded, and critiqued this year. Alongside inevitable smartphone and laptop upgrades (it was a particularly strong year for Pixel phones, while Apple continues to offer a premium phone experience on its pro iPhones), it was also a year of impressive drones and cameras,
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In October, President Biden formally apologized for the U.S. Indian boarding school system—a brutal legacy of forced assimilation that inflicted profound harm on Indigenous communities and continues to reverberate today. For those who are unfamiliar, Native children at these boarding schools suffered horrific physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse, all while being isolated from their
Dr. Leana Wen said Sunday that the lack of testing for bird flu doesn’t mean that the virus isn’t alive in humans, and that she feels the federal government “should have learned our lesson from COVID” and should be proactive in making tests available for Americans — and not wait for labs to characterize the
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With Jimmy Carter’s passing, many will reflect on his impact at home and abroad. Yet, one his most personal acts will also stand as one of his most enduring legacies. At 100, not only was our 39th president the longest-lived president, he was also to first to publicly elect hospice care, prioritizing the quality of
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