Has writing paid you well? Twenty years ago I bought a 17th-century painting attributed to Job Berckheyde at Christie’s for £6,500 – a woman getting ready to go out, a maid putting a necklace around her neck and a servant giving her a glass of wine, very Vermeer-ish. I hung […]
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Sergei Dylevsky in the hallway of his apartment building in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 20, 2020. (Misha Friedman/The New York Times) MINSK, Belarus — Denis Dudinsky, the long-haired and mustachioed host of “Good Morning Belarus!,” can still hear the producer’s nervous voice in his ear any time his banter approached something […]
Apple TV+ picked up the opening night film CODA for an impressive $25 million. Photo: Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images This year’s COVID-19-edition Sundance Film Festival ran four days shorter than usual, screened nearly 40 fewer features than in 2020, and unfolded entirely online. Ahead of opening night, attendants and competitors wondered […]
Earlier this week, the news broke that a wealthy Canadian couple illegally snuck into a vaccination clinic in a remote Yukon community. Rod and Ekaterina Baker, a casino executive and actress who appear to be worth millions, are alleged to have traveled to Canada’s northern Yukon territory, chartered a small […]
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by panic_attack/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Dear Prudence, My girlfriend and I have been seeing each other for four months. When we started dating she told me she usually doesn’t go for guys as physically attractive as me, which I found odd. She is very cute but […]
One man left the house after an argument with his wife and walked 280 miles to cool off, breaching Italy’s national curfew. Another man wandered outside his quarantine room in Taiwan for eight seconds and caught the attention of the authorities. Still another drove 19 miles for a butter chicken […]
One man left the house after an argument with his wife and walked 280 miles to cool off, breaching Italy’s national curfew. Another man wandered outside his quarantine room in Taiwan for eight seconds and caught the attention of the authorities. Still another drove 19 miles for a butter chicken […]
Laura Perricone | Special to The Herald-Journal In 1970, before the Boy Scouts of America decided to go coed – long before – a group of teenage girls from Spartanburg broke the gender barrier by signing up with a newly organized BSA Explorers troop called the Girl Rangers. Some of […]
A California woman allegedly broke Hawaii’s COVID-19 quarantine rules and was arrested, Maui police said. Colleen Proppe, 52, arrived at the Honolulu International Airport from Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport on Nov. 7, the Maui Police Department said in a Monday news release. All visitors in Hawaii are required to self-quarantine […]