There was no question in Natalie Myers’ mind that the saltillo tile floors in her client’s Spanish-style Bel Air home were staying. “I’ve been flipping through a lot of books with photos of celebrities in the 1970s partying in Malibu and the Canyons—almost all the houses had these cool floors with white stucco walls and …
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It wasn’t too many years ago that a visit to your favorite Pennsylvania winery involved finding a spot at the bar and tasting through many of the selections, then making a purchase and leaving. Today, the expectations have evolved from a drive-by to more of a come-by-and-stay-awhile mentality, a fact that the Deputy Secretary of …
Earlier, the CBI registered a fresh FIR against Lalu Prasad in the alleged IRCTC scam during his tenure as the Union railway minister between 2005 to 2009. But the million dollar question arises here is what new proof the CBI obtained after 13 years against Lalu Prasad to register an FIR followed by raids at …
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There is always room for the absurd in comics, and it is fun to devour a feature-length burlesque starring iconic characters. The 1982 graphic novel The Incredible Hulk and the Thing – The Big Change by Jim Starlin and Berni Wrightson is as awesome and silly as its two protagonists. Today, Marvel touts “the deadliest …
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Danny Boyle is sitting in her kitchen sounding faintly surprised that her latest project has been made at all. “It’s so not the story that everybody wants to be told,” he says, “but it is the story that should be told.” Pistol, a six-part miniseries, certainly isn’t the first drama about the Sex Pistols. There …
In March 2021, I was driven by a stranger down to the Essex coast, and there I found myself at the end of the 19th century, in a place that had never existed, full of people who’d never been born. At any rate, that was the impression; in fact, I’d been deposited in a field …
It all sounds like a lesser-known Agatha Christie whodunit. In February 1905, Stanford University co-founder Jane Stanford died in Honolulu. Though initially recorded as a death by poisoning, the official account stated the cause of death was heart disease. Ella’s Stanford’s death occurred shortly after the 76-year-old widow survived an attempted poisoning at her San …
In India, catastrophic health issues are one of the most devastating life shocks that trigger a descent into poverty. Health coverage is low and costlier. While talking about the education gap prior to the pandemic, the report says that despite the marginal reduction in expenditure, schools are becoming more ‘infrastructurally developed’. It is only a …
It was never Riley Dunn’s intention to document history as it unfolded in real-time. She just wanted to write a book and earn the Girl Scout Gold Award. “I like to write,” said Dunn, whose book, “Personal Interviews on COVID-19’s Beginnings,” hit Amazon’s virtual bookshelves March 15. “We didn’t know how bad COVID was going …
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday registered an FIR against West Bengal minister of state for school education Paresh Chandra Adhikari and his daughter Ankita Adhikari over allegations of irregularity in securing her a teacher’s job while ignoring the merit list. The move came after Adhikari failed to appear before the CBI sleuths …
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