Month: January 2022

News Russia Labels Pussy Riot Members “Foreign Agents” The designation is a government effort to stifle dissent. “Russia will be free,” Pussy Riot responded. By Evan Minsker December 31, 2021 Facebook Twitter Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova (SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Nika Nikulshina have been officially labeled “foreign
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Chances are if you’ve purchased a pair of gold hoops in the past 10 years, you were influenced by Jennifer Fisher. The jewelry designer is one of the main forces behind the accessory’s resurgence, thanks in part to her dedicated celebrity following. She counts Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Selena Gomez, and Hailey Bieber as fans, which
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Are there rainbows on Mars? NASA decided to answer this questions in the latest episode of its ‘Ask The Expert’ series. Shared on Instagram, the video features the US space agency’s planetary scientist and Mars expert Mark Lemmon. The answer is “no.” But several other conditions on Mars are similar to Earth. Lemmon explained that
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Guy Hands, the billionaire financier, is plotting the sale of the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) biggest landlord in what could be one of Britain’s biggest private equity deals of 2022. Sky News has learnt that Mr Hands’ Terra Firma Capital Partners has begun talks with investment banks about overseeing an auction of Annington Homes. City
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Most news, by definition, is unpredictable. But there are, in the course of a day, month, year, a number of events that journalists know are coming. We call these diary events. Some are bigger than others. Some can be predicted to be significant, even seismic. While we don’t know yet the full impact of these
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Sony Pictures Entertainment follows its release of Parallel Mothers last week with Jockey in three theaters in NY/LA (Film Forum, AMC Lincoln Square, Laemmle Royal) in a specialty market crowded by holdovers and wide releases, and amid a Covid-19 surge that’s particularly tough on arthouses. The frame isn’t ideal for new specialty fare in any case but
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June CL Tan’s debut novel is the tale of two haunted teens, one by traumatic memories of losing his parents and his rightful claim to the throne, the other by the absence of any memories whatsoever.  Ahn feels stuck in the small village where she lives with her adoptive grandmother. She struggles to earn—and sometimes
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