Tag: Armoire

  • Amy Herzog Wants You to Enter Into the Strangeness of Caregiving

    Amy Herzog Wants You to Enter Into the Strangeness of Caregiving

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    A child we cannot see is in danger. We hear the beeping of medical monitors. We hear his nurse say, with sudden sharpness, “I don’t like this.” We hear his mother’s voice, threading through the noise, rising above it, as she tries to rouse him, asks him to stay with her. Someone—a visitor—runs to find…

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  • Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ Surprise Songs: Which Songs Are Left?

    Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ Surprise Songs: Which Songs Are Left?

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    During every “Eras Tour” concert, there comes a time that audiences are always waiting for: surprise-song o’clock. This is when Taylor Swift sits down with just a guitar and a piano to play acoustic versions of two songs — sometimes mashups, sometimes not — that change between each show. And fans don’t know what songs…

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  • Long Beach resident drives to stop unhosted short-term rentals

    Long Beach resident drives to stop unhosted short-term rentals

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    First came the all-night parties and music blaring from a neighbor’s house in Long Beach that kept Andy Oliver up at night. Then there were the “smoke outs,” when visitors enjoying refuge from hostile cannabis laws in their home states blazed marijuana throughout the day, sending clouds of hazy smoke into Oliver’s sanctuary, his house…

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  • Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations | The New Yorker

    Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations | The New Yorker

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    The journalist Nellie Bowles writes a column called “TGIF” for the Free Press, a new media company she started with her wife, Bari Weiss. Both women previously worked at the New York Times: Bowles was a tech reporter, and Weiss was a right-leaning opinion writer and editor before resigning with an open letter lamenting that…

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  • Vulnerable Biden tries to straddle both sides with new asylum rules | US immigration

    Vulnerable Biden tries to straddle both sides with new asylum rules | US immigration

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    The Biden administration has said its proposed changes to asylum standards, unveiled on Thursday, that would fast-track some deportation will enhance security and speed up a backlog of cases amid record numbers of arrivals at the US-Mexico border. The changes will also, by Biden’s own admission, be limited in scope and only affect a “small”…

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  • Hailey Bieber Pregnant with Justin Bieber’s Baby, Six Months Along

    Hailey Bieber Pregnant with Justin Bieber’s Baby, Six Months Along

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    12:35 PM PT —  Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Hailey Bieber‘s a little over six months pregnant, so sounds like she’s entering the third trimester soon and we might have Baby Bieber by late summer!!! Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber are having a baby — something the couple just announced … and it…

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  • Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

    Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

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    The summer travel season starts in just a few weeks, but if you are looking for software that goes beyond simply booking flights and hotels, you’re in luck. Search engines enhanced by artificial intelligence can help with your research and outline full itineraries. Certain older apps have recently been updated to suggest more eco-friendly travel…

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  • FTX says it will return money to most of its customers : NPR

    FTX says it will return money to most of its customers : NPR

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    The FTX logo appears on home plate umpire Jansen Visconti’s jacket at a baseball game with the Minnesota Twins on Sept. 27, 2022, in Minneapolis. Bruce Kluckhohn/AP hide caption toggle caption Bruce Kluckhohn/AP The FTX logo appears on home plate umpire Jansen Visconti’s jacket at a baseball game with the Minnesota Twins on Sept. 27,…

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  • Opinion | Britain’s Conservative Party Is Being Held Captive by Bad People

    Opinion | Britain’s Conservative Party Is Being Held Captive by Bad People

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    At 3 a.m. one day last December, a 78-year-old volunteer for the British Conservative Party was reportedly woken by a call from Mark Menzies, the Conservative lawmaker she worked for. He said that he was being held somewhere by “bad people” who demanded £5,000, or $6,300, to release him. The volunteer, a former campaign manager…

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  • Semi-Cylindrical Steel Buildings Set the Stage for Skylab’s Office

    Semi-Cylindrical Steel Buildings Set the Stage for Skylab’s Office

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    After outgrowing their previous space in an old building in downtown Portland, Oregon, Skylab Architecture sought to find to a new home that could address their concerns: How can our studio evolve from a dedicated workspace to a playground for the art and design community? Where can we find a space to integrate gardens, an…

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