Iggy Pop’s life and work constitute one of music’s most remarkable survival stories. The savage and hair-raising ruckus he made with the Stooges in the late 1960s and early ’70s was some of the greatest and most influential rock ’n’ roll ever, and it was basically ignored or derided by the mainstream during the band’s brief original existence. Pop’s solo work has been almost as artistically significant — and somewhat more commercially successful — with albums like “The Idiot” (1977)
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In the weeks since Elon Musk took over as CEO of Twitter, the company has laid off nearly half of its workers and offered the remaining employees an ultimatum: Commit to being “extremely hardcore” going forward or leave the company. According to The New York Times, hundreds of employees have opted for the latter.
On Wednesday night—as the deadline loomed—Andy Wu, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, told me that Musk’s tough, authoritarian management style
Sam Bankman-Fried, a 30-year-old co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is a $15 billion enigma. As one of the richest and most powerful men in crypto, “SBF” is already a political megadonor in the vein of Peter Thiel and George Soros: He spent millions in support of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, and was one of the biggest Democratic donors in the country in the lead-up to this year’s midterm elections. Among his PAC’s expenditures was a whopping $10
In June 2014, Aleksandra Krylova and Anna Bogacheva arrived in the United States on a clandestine mission. Krylova was a high-ranking official at the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia, an ostensibly private company that was connected with Russian intelligence. Bogacheva, her road buddy, a researcher and data cruncher, was more junior. Their trip had been well plotted: a transcontinental itinerary, SIM cards, burner phones, cameras, visas obtained under the pretense of personal travel, and, just in
Another classmate of Alito’s, the future Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano, later offered the Princeton Alumni Weekly what might have been a more persuasive explanation: “There were two types of conservatives at Princeton—those who were conservatives before Ronald Reagan and those who were conservatives after. If you told Ed Meese”—Reagan’s hard-line Attorney General—“you were a member of cap, that told him you weren’t a new arrival. It was a way of saying, ‘I’m the real thing.’ ”
For Alito,
The nickname has really caught on among the millions thrilled by England’s surge into the finals of the women’s Euros. So when it was suggested that calling the team the Lionesses – rather than the Lions – is sexist, the roar of disapproval was deafening.
Dame Maureen Lipman led the backlash against the idea, branded as ‘absurd’ by some, saying that ‘The Lions’ are in fact a male rugby team, while at the same time sharing her excitement at the
*(New York, NY) — Emmy-preisgekrönter Journalist Cheryl Wills stellt ihr neustes Buch vor, Ist Her Grace nicht erstaunlich!: Die Frauen, die die Gospelmusik verändert habenzu Ehren von 25 legendären Gospelköniginnen, deren dynamische Stimmen die Nation beeinflussten und das Genre veränderten.
In diesem atemberaubenden Bildband zeichnet Wills Gospellegenden der Vergangenheit auf und kündigt die Künstler von heute in diesem großzügig illustrierten Angebot an, das mit ausführlichen Interviews, nie zuvor gesehenen Bildern
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It’s 2019 in Washington, D.C., and Theo is changing his art-history dissertation after finding a painting of a horse in his neighbor’s giveaway pile. He is 26 years old, a Black Londoner (his mother is Yoruba, his father Californian) and a former star polo player. He left the sport for academia because of relentless racist harassment, and now studies stereotypes of Africans in British painting. The working title for his dissertation is Sambo, Othello, and Uncle Tom: Caricature,
