Month: August 2022

The popularity of photo-sharing app BeReal continues to grow, hitting number one in Apple’s App Store and boasting an estimated 10 million daily users. The Onion tells you everything you need to know about BeReal.

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On the dance floor, the bride and groom will be joyously lifted into the air on gurneys as they recover from snakebites.

NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with MoviePass co-founder and CEO Stacy Spikes about the return of the service after its bankruptcy in 2020.

Some fans of the late singer have taken to social media to denounce the use of digital technology to make her sound older.

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Tilda Swinton plays a literary scholar who has an encounter with a wish-granting genie, played by Idris Elba, in this flashy and ornate new fantasy film.

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Unripe watermelons are cooked over flames are a summer delicacy available only for a short time. The dish is made in the southern part of Gaza, traditionally associated with Bedouin desert culture.

“I’m selling the zinc mine that I co-own with Brad Pitt. I guess I’ll get my zinc somewhere else.”

Journalist Jesse Eisinger says a trove of IRS data acquired by ProPublica shows that many of America’s billionaires avoid paying any taxes — sometimes by claiming big deductions from posh hobbies.

Set in 1989 Germany shortly before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this series centers on a cocky female assassin and puts a playful spin on the end of communism.

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