Month: April 2024

Kering’s recurring operating income for the first half of 2024 is expected to decline by up to 40-45%, compared to the same period last year, the luxury conglomerate announced on Tuesday. In a performance update for investors, the parent company of Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Saint Laurent … Continue reading View Original Source Here
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Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton Photo: YouTube screenshot Big Mama Thornton — a six-foot tall, 300-pound, Black, gender-nonconforming blue musician who wore men’s apparel and sang with a growl — has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her influence on the genre. Though Thornton didn’t personally identify as LGBTQ+, modern
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How complicated can breakfast possibly get? In Zao Fan: Breakfast of China, Michael Zee writes that the enormity of Chinese cuisine is “both terrific and terrifying”—and what is usually the simplest, smallest meal of the day is no exception. Yet Zee demonstrates a knack seldom seen in English-language cookbooks for succinctly yet fully conveying the
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Chef Anthony Iracane is saying bon voyage to Below Deck. After cracking under pressure during multiple meal preps, the season 11 cook was fired by Captain Kerry Titheradge during the Bravo series’ April 22 episode. The French foodie got the boot after not having any pork alternatives for the show’s most recent primary guest, serving a vegetable adverse
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LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, a leading France-based company in the luxury goods industry, has reported a revenue of €20.7 billion (approximately $21.97 billion) in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 (Q1 FY24). The conglomerate recorded an organic growth of 3 per cent year-on-year (YoY) during this period. The revenue increase in Europe and the
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced the dates for its 2025 edition. The festival will return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, for the weekends of April 11-13 and April 18-20. Advance ticket sales will begin next Friday, May 3. This year’s Coachella, which took place during the weekends of
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We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer. Ray Garton was 61 years old. Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This
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Dim the lights, Katy Perry has a pitch for American Idol. The “Firework” singer, who is set to leave the ABC competition series after this season, recently revealed who she’d like to see join Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan at the judges’ table.  “I gotta say Jelly Roll was crazy when he came on the show,” Katy told E! News after
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So, you’ve landed a new office job. Congrats! Or perhaps you’ve been with the company for some time. In that case, keep up the good work! Regardless of your situation, if you work in an office today, there’s a decent chance the dress code is listed as “business casual.” But this term can take on
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Ken Carson has announced the 2024 Chaos World Tour, an extensive run of dates that will bring the Atlanta rapper across North America and Europe. He’s hitting the road in support of his new album, A Great Chaos, which came out last October. Find the complete list of tour dates below. The 2024 Chaos World
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A fifteen-track instrumental album inspired by Michigan poet Marty Achatz mixing progressive, folk, indie rock, and jazz influences may seem to guarantee an eye-roll-inducing amount of pretentiousness.  Streaking in Tongues’ Einstein’s Napkin defies such expectations. I’m suitably impressed. The fifteen performances recorded by father and son team Ronnie and Elliott Ferguson never overreach. Only two of the
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Much like Charlie Kaufman (whose movies I’ve also ranked), Alex Garland is probably just as known for his screenwriting as he is for his directing.  With his recent movie, Civil War, Garland has established himself as one of the most distinctive filmmakers that we currently have.  But, where does Civil War end up on the
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It’s the mid-1960s, right at the start of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, and the Red Guards are methodically upending—many would say demolishing—the cultural heritage of China. Books are burned, artifacts are smashed, history is erased. But two plucky biology students, Mei and Peng, are determined to rescue a lotus seed from the university library.  This
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Director Adrian Carr, who worked with Essie on his 2005 short film Blood Makes Noise, also paid tribute to the makeup artist that day. “How does one process the loss of a vital, vivacious, loving, intellectual, kind, generous, ageless, beautiful spirit… RIP Essie,” he wrote on Facebook. “Devastated… This morning Rosemary and I learned our dear,
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Pitchfork is happy to announce the return of Pitchfork Music Festival London and Pitchfork Music Festival Paris. The London event will take place November 5-10, with performances from Tierra Whack, Arooj Aftab, CASISDEAD, Sega Bodega, Kae Tempest, Empress Of, Billy Woods, Moor Mother, Chanel Beads, Drugdealer, Snow Strippers, Shame, Marika Hackman, Pom Pom Squad, Friko,
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Share Tweet Share Share Email Jonathan Bailey’s Stellar Year Continues 2024 is shaping up to be a fantastic year for Jonathan Bailey! The star of Fellow Travelers has already captured our attention with his upcoming role in Wicked, which is set to be released later this year. Now, he’s stirring excitement with rumors of joining a new Jurassic World film
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