Tag: Eclectic
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How to Map Out Your Kitchen Remodel’s Scope of Work
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MAK Design + Build Inc.Save Photo 3. Meet the pros at your home or virtually. Start seeing who you like, who asks the right questions, who is willing to give you some rough numbers and what they need in order to do so. Some firms don’t work this way — they might have showrooms and…
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A front-row seat to my country falling apart
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I’m not supposed to cry as a journalist when I am covering stories, but I have been crying a lot lately. Before December, when I travelled on a reporting trip from my home in the Sudanese city of Omdurman – just across the river from the capital, Khartoum – the only people I would see…
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Microsoft is testing out start menu ad placement in Windows 11
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As if the Windows 11 experience wasn’t commodified enough, Microsoft has begun testing ads within the Start menu of Windows 11, a change rolling out to users within its Beta Channel in the US. SEE ALSO: Windows 11 update fixes record number 147 flaws. This is why I switched to macOS. Specifically, these ads will…
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Here are three signs it might be time to refinance your mortgage
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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images It’s unclear when the Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates, but many homeowners who took out a mortgage in recent years — as rates hovered between 6% and 7%, and even touched 8% — are paying attention for opportunities to refinance. Thanks to those high mortgage interest rates,…
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What Phones Are Doing to Reading
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For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started innocently enough. I write book reviews from time to time, and so publishers sometimes send me upcoming titles that fall roughly within my interests. When a publisher provided a choice between a PDF of a book and a physical…
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Alex Garland and Park Chan-wook Reckon with America
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Photographs courtesy the artist Take it from a critic who never liked Christopher Wool and maybe still doesn’t: “See Stop Run,” the artist’s largest exhibition in ten years, should be visited by everybody with an appetite for aesthetic adventure and without a fear of heights or barbed wire. Situated on the previously abandoned nineteenth floor…
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Vietnamese real estate tycoon sentenced to death in fraud case
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Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan, center, looks on at a court in Ho Chi Minh City on April 11, 2024. Str | Afp | Getty Images The Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced to death on Thursday for her involvement in the country’s biggest financial fraud case, state media outlet Thanh Nien…
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Heavy new investments in the arts promise to lift Bunker Hill
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With two major expansions of downtown Los Angeles cultural institutions in the works, Bunker Hill is primed to elevate its status as the region’s leading arts center even as the area around it struggles with persistent homelessness and post-pandemic losses of office tenants. Bunker Hill will soon have the largest concentration of buildings designed by…
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L&L Holding Lands $911M Refi for Manhattan Tower
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425 Park Ave. Image courtesy of Alan Schindler In one of the largest deals of its kind this year, L&L Holding Co. has secured $911 million to refinance 425 Park Ave., its 47-story Manhattan office tower. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank was the lender for the property. The five-year floating-rate financing will retire a 2021 loan…
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I’ve dated a man for four years and never met any of his friends or family
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DEAR ABBY: I met a man online and have been dating him off and on for the past four years. His parents have been living with him since the pandemic, and I have yet to be invited to his home or to meet them. He is from Bolivia and says his parents want him to…
