A Wednesday night protest in central Merced at the intersection of West Olive Avenue and R Street took a tense turn after two groups exchanged words in the area of the Chevron gas station. Police said no injuries were reported and no arrests were made during the face-off between the […]
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How does a campaign take a 77-year-old man — who admits he needs his granddaughter’s help with his cellphone and pitches himself as sober and reasonable — and make him go viral? That perplexing challenge has become a consuming focus of Joe Biden’s campaign as it tries to finally up […]
Click here to read the full article. No splashy premieres at the Palais. No Croisette-apartment dealmaking. While there won’t be a physical Cannes Film Festival this year, this just might be the most important Cannes ever for getting business done. As much of the industry’s work has been restricted to […]
This article is from Thrillist Credit: Diego Grandi/Shutterstock Even when the lights are out on Broadway, NYC is still the cultural capital of the world. Lucky for those of us stuck at home, the city’s greatest artists and curators have moved quickly to bring New York’s unparalleled cultural offerings online. When […]
Sir David Adjaye Accra, Ghana The pandemic happened to co-incide with the one-year anniversary of my return home to Accra. In many ways, being here in the midst of this global crisis has furthered my process of rediscovery into Ghana’s past and its narratives—both biographical and national—that have inspired my […]
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D uring the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton delivered a speech raising alarm about Donald Trump’s association with the “alt-right.” In Clinton’s telling, conspiracy theories and rank bigotry from “the dark, far reaches of the Internet” fueled Trump’s rise. But if Clinton correctly identified a new political […]
Click here to read the full article. The unprecedented Cannes virtual market is underway and there are a surprisingly large number of pre-sale titles on offer. Big-canvas projects such as Will Smith starrer Emancipation and Michael Mann movie Ferrari will be on sale alongside action-thrillers like Gerard Butler movie Kandahar […]
It is 6:45 a.m. on an unusually warm late spring morning in the tony Lowry Hill neighborhood of West Minneapolis, and Charlie Youakim is already awake, sitting on his porch and sipping a frothy cold brew coffee. The blue light beaming off his laptop bathes his face as the first […]