Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
She-Hulk just cleared up a debate that’s been raging on the Internet for more than a decade: Is Captain America a virgin?
It’s a conversation that kicks off in She-Hulk, Disney+’s winking new comedy that delights in poking fun at the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s self-seriousness. While in the car with her cousin Bruce Banner, a.k.a. The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Jennifer Walter (Tatiana Maslany) presses Bruce on what he knows about Captain America‘s sex life.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
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| 460 words
| Tandra Barner
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber’s classic 1939 short story, is a tribute to the sometimes unsettling power of the human imagination. It’s also very, very funny and, alongside a number of other Thurber gems — “The Catbird Seat,” “The Night the Bed Fell,” “If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox” — remains an indispensable example of the uniquely American, mid-20th-century humor that found its highest expression in the pages of the New Yorker.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
BeerPager
Throughout the ages, man has tried several beer-identifying tactics: the sideways tab, the mid-can dent, and even the same lowly name-on-masking-tape method used to identify the lunchboxes of common pre-schoolers. When your beer can gets lost in a sea of other beer cans, the BeerPager is a noisy beacon of hope.
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| 274 words
| Patria Henriques
Angelica Nwandu’s media company described as Instagram’s TMZ has grown to a community of 15 million followers on Instagram within the last two years. Here are five things you should know about the entrepreneur: 1. Nwandu was born in the United States of America in 1989. Both of Nwandu’s parents were Nigerians who migrated to the states. ADVERTISEMENT
2. She spent her childhood in foster care. When she was seven, her father killed her mother and she and her four sisters were taken into foster care.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Beyoncé releasing a new album is an event. Not only because she is one of the biggest pop stars in the world, but also because her music begs to be dissected with a fine-tooth comb. We started seeing her develop projects more focused on looking at a particular subject from different angles and exploring new genres with her music in 2016 with the release of Lemonade, a vulnerable album on which she openly calls out her husband’s infidelity.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
| 10 minutes
| 2054 words
| Martina Birk
“What time will you be here today?” asks Jonny Fowle via WhatsApp. “I’ve got us about £150K of whisky to drink.”
An invitation from Fowle is a precious thing. As the head of rare spirits for auction house Sotheby’s, he is surrounded by some of the world’s most coveted and expensive liquor. Plus he doesn’t do hyperbole—I’ll later find out, his estimate of $180,000 for our tasting is almost half-a-million dollars short.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Profession: Italian Tenor
Biography: Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor and multi-instrumentalist, known for his massive popular success and for the fact that he has been blind since age 12 when he suffered a brain hemorrhage after a football accident.
Bocelli first came to fame in 1994 when his performance of "Il mare calmo della sera" won at the 44th Sanremo Music Festival. Since then he has gone on to sell over 75 million records, including the 15 studio albums which he has released which vary between pop and classical music.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Whether you play 18 holes multiple times a week, or you’re mostly there for the 19th hole festivities, the best golf shoes not only make your round more comfortable, they can improve your performance. The right golf shoes are as essential to a golfer’s equipment as the proper golf bag or golf pants. Not only do golf shoes look stylish on (and off) the golf course, they offer traction and support that regular tennis shoes simply can’t provide, even in inclement weather.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Whether you remain committed to skinny jeans or have embraced the styles TikTokers are currently favoring (think wide-leg or “mom jeans”), short women know one thing to be true: Shopping for women’s jeans can be a real challenge.
I’m just over five feet tall and I know the struggle. Jeans are right up there with yoga leggings, dress pants, and sweatpants on the list of items that are wardrobe staples…yet they don’t often work well on a shorter frame, at least not without alterations.
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Posted on August 31, 2024
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| 176 words
| Martina Birk
August 21, 2024 1:38 PM EDT
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a 14-term incumbent and a fixture in his hometown of Paterson for more than four decades, died Wednesday, according to a statement from his social media account. He was 87.
Pascrell had been in and out of the hospital with an illness recently.
“It is with deep sadness that we announce that Bill Pascrell Jr.
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