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Music
Yasmin Williams Shares Statement on Decision to Perform at Trump-Led Kennedy Center
Last week, Yasmin Williams announced a free show at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on September 18. Now the Virginian composer and guitarist—who posted screenshots of a heated email exchange with Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell in April, and later elaborated on the experience in an interview with Pitchfork—has shared a statement explaining…
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Food
The 9 Best Soup Recipes You’ll Ever Make
This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my disclosure policy. There’s nothing cozier than a warm bowl of soup on a chilly day! These are my top 9 reader-favorite soup recipes. And honestly? The hardest part for me about these soups isn’t making them, it’s about choosing which one to make!…
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Movie
Alan Ritchson Wants This DC Role Instead of Aquaman or Batman
Alan Ritchson has been one of the most popular fan cast choices for Batman in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe. However, during a recent interview, the Reacher star expressed uncertainty about taking on the Caped Crusader, making it unlikely that he will play Bruce Wayne in the new continuity. While discussing his future in the franchise, Ritchson clarified…
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Arts & Theater
“Some Things Are Meant to Be”
That stillness, the calm acceptance in Beth’s voice, is what makes the song devastating. We expect tragedy to roar, but here it whispers. And in that whisper is something unshakably true. Sometimes the people we love most are the ones who teach us how to let go. There are plenty of great musical theatre songs about death, but most of…
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Business
Jeffrey Katzenberg says legislation to protect children from online harms is unlikely: ‘It took 80 years’ to pass seatbelt laws
Jeffrey Katzenberg—film producer, former DreamWorks CEO, and founding partner of tech investment firm WndrCo—is, perhaps most importantly, a dad and a grandfather. That role prompted him to back Aura, a startup developing AI-driven tools that go far beyond standard parental controls, in 2021. Aura’s platform tracks behavioral patterns such as sleep and focus, flags mental health risks including self-harm or…
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Education
Things You Can Say To Encourage A Child
by TeachThought Staff There are many ways to encourage a child, but for students of any age, honest, authentic, and persistent messages from adults that have credibility in their eyes are among the most powerful. The National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning has put together a graphic below–50 Ways To Encourage A Child. It was designed for younger students (head…
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Culture
Russia is not the sea
‘Will the Slavic streams flow into the Russian sea? Or will it dry out? This is the question,’ wrote Alexander Pushkin in 1831. The line is from ‘To the Slanderers of Russia’, a triumphal ‘ode’ to Russia’s crushing of the Polish uprising of 1830–1831. The poem is a defiant statement of a tenet of Russian geopolitical thinking that continues to…
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Gaming
Octopath Traveler 0 Platform Specs Reveal Town Size Limitations on Some Devices
Square Enix has announced Octopath Traveler 0 will have town building placement limitations for some consoles when it launches for PC, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S this December. Details about hardware restrictions were revealed alongside full platform specifications for the Octopath Traveler prequel. It comes with information about what resolution and…
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Celebrity
Dancing With the Stars’ Corey Feldman, Jenna Johnson Reunite
DWTS’ Jenna Johnson Says She Hasn’t Seen Partner Corey Feldman Since Cast Reveal Corey Feldman realized it takes two to tango. The Goonies alum reunited with his Dancing With the Stars partner Jenna Johnson after she admitted that she hadn’t seen him since they got paired up for season 34 of the reality TV show on Sept. 3. In a…
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Science
Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections?
“It has a huge, huge impact on almost every facet of life,” says Duncan Boak. “Not being able to breathe properly. Being bunged up all the time. Blowing your nose constantly, snot running out of your nose constantly, not being able to sleep, facial pain. And it is one of the biggest causes of smell loss, which, for the majority…
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