Posts by Morgan Hills
An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre
On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple died at Jonestown, the agricultural settlement they had founded in a remote part of northern Guyana. Many, in answering the call to “revolutionary suicide,” drank Fla-Vor-Aid laced with cyanide; others who resisted were forcibly dosed. But nearly all of the congregants had…
Read MorePeter Nygard Convicted in Montreal Sexual Assault and Forced Confinement Case
The former fashion mogul Peter Nygard was found guilty of sexual assault and forcible confinement in a Quebec court on Monday, according to a Quebec Crown prosecutor. The new development marks the latest legal conviction that Nygard, 84, has faced. The executive stepped down from Nygard International in 2020, after federal investigators and officials from…
Read MoreA Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World
Celan’s influence is tricky to absorb for any poet who did not suffer in a labor camp or witness his parents taken away to be murdered by the S.S. It is impossible to isolate Celan’s aesthetic innovations from his trauma and its historical meanings; Wright preëmpts that bind by presenting his own suffering as sort…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: BPCM Names Christian Langbein Executive Vice President of Growth and Strategy
BPCM has appointed Christian Langbein executive vice president of growth and strategy, creating an executive-level role as the communications agency continues to expand beyond traditional public relations into broader brand strategy, creative development and business consulting. “I’ve watched how the agency has really diversified its expertise and grown its value proposition,” Langbein said. “I am…
Read MoreThe Stellar New Restaurant That’s Put a Museum on the Map
Amant, the sprawling four-building, twenty-one-thousand-square-foot campus where Zoli lives, is the project of Lonti Ebers, a serious art collector and a MOMA trustee married to the Canadian billionaire Bruce Flatt. The space opened, in 2021, to real notice in the art world and comparatively little beyond it—but Zoli, which opened in the spring, has put…
Read MoreThe Summer I Surrendered to Wilson Phillips
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer Iraq invaded Kuwait, and I didn’t know what I was doing in Seattle. We had just moved to the United States, because of my father’s job, and I was lonesome and friendless, in a weird purgatory state: while my dad spent long days at work, I was…
Read MoreMichael Jordan’s Original Air Jordan 16 Is Coming Back for the First Time Ever
There are certain sneakers in Michael Jordan’s incomparable legacy of footwear, such as the Air Jordan 1, Air Jordan 3 and Air Jordan 4 which are kept in production nearly indefinitely. Then, there are other models, such as the Air Jordan 16, which have a devoted cult following, but are rarely seen in Retro form. …
Read MoreFrom Cynthia Erivo to Sabrina Elba – These Celebs Served Up Style at Wimbledon 2026
With the all-Czech Ladies’ Singles Final underway at Wimbledon 2026, celebrities are out in force at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London today. Karolína Muchová is facing off against Linda Nosková — and while tennis is the main event, the fashion is on point, too. Big names like Sabrina Elba, former…
Read MoreOur Plastic-Surgery Nightmare
As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying. Source link
Read MorePerfect Corp. Set to Go Private
Perfect Corp., an artificial intelligence and augmented reality company known for its beauty and fashion technology, said that it has agreed to go private. The company signed a merger deal with ProjectNY, a firm controlled by Perfect Corp.’s own founder, chief executive officer and chairwoman, Alice H. Chang. Under the agreement, shareholders will receive $2…
Read MoreMark Morris’s Summer Season
Shortly after the conclusion of the fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster “Stranger Things,” in 2022, one of the series regulars, Joe Keery, released “Decide,” his second album as Djo. His career as a musician largely existed in the huge shadow of the show, and for a while it seemed as if it would stay…
Read MoreShoppers Have Bad Reviews About Returns
Stricter return policies are eroding consumer trust in the U.S., according to a new analysis of millions of Trustpilot reviews, as retailers pull back on the generous return policies. Reviews that mention “returns” had the largest drop in star reviews compared to any other topic, according to a new report from the review platform, which…
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