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Image: Ora/WapCar Judge me all you’d want, but there’s really very little here I don’t like. It’s a shameless knockoff of a 1960s-era Volkswagen Beetle, converted to electric power, stretched to four doors and glammed up an awful lot. It’s irreverent and fun and a bit silly, all things sorely needed in modern car culture. I wrote about it last week, but now this thing has more pictures and a name: the Ora Punk Cat. Wow. Advertisement Yes, the Punk Cat. Great Wall-owned Ora has a thing...

Cristin Milioti: A part of Hazel that I was excited to explore is that she doesn’t think before she acts. She just does it. I am someone who thinks way too much, so I am glad I got to play someone who acts on impulse. One of the things about working on that finale is that her intention when it starts is to get in and get out. She has little resources emotionally but she overcomes it, she finally wins. Then in the 11th hour when he reveals the information on Herbert’s health, she reverts bac...

Alerts A reed warbler warbling, and maybe unknowingly laying down the guest vocal for a new pop hit. Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty Images) Last fall, music producer and sound designer So Wylie pioneered what can only be called bird beat. The genre was born from her discovering the insistent call of the Saw-whet Owl, using that sound as the key sample in a pounding, immensely catchy instrumental, and posting the results on TikTok. A few months later, Wylie’s not only created a bunch of follow-up b...

Alerts A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water line near Hoover Dam on Lake Mead. Photo: John Locher (AP) The West is dry and getting drier. Federal officials said this week that a major source of water for the Southwest could face some of its first official water restrictions later this year if water levels keep dropping. Advertisement New projections issued by the Bureau of Reclamation predict that the water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead, two manmade reservoirs along the C...

Screenshot: Marvel Studios Kim’s Convenience is ending but Simu Liu’s movie career is just beginning—and in a very big way. To celebrate his birthday, Marvel Studios dropped the teaser trailer for Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, featuring Liu as the titular hero, marking the first Asian superhero to get a standalone MCU film. Advertisement The trailer shows Shang-Chi working as a valet attendant, doing karaoke with his friend Katy (played by Awkwafina), and having drinks with...

Graphic: Natalie Peeples “Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart.” Wandering the aisles of the pan-Asian grocery store, Michelle Zauner sees the specter of her mother. She cries when she can’t remember which seaweed brand her family used to buy, and she cries seeing a Korean grandmother in the food court, picturing how her mother would’ve aged had she lived into her seventies. Representing “freedom from the single-aisle ‘ethnic’ section,” H Mart’s abundance of instant noodles...

The most recent Simpsons episode, “Panic on the Streets of Springfield,” featured a Benedict Cumberbatch-voiced character named Quilloughby. Lisa is inspired by Quilloughby, who previously fronted the fictional English post-punk band The Snuffs, until she’s disillusioned by attending a reunion concert where, as it turns out, he’s aged from a suavely brooding ‘80s icon into a bloated singer who has rejected veganism because he believes it was invented by foreigners. Morrissey, who bea...

Union Moves for Results of Amazon Vote in Alabama to Be Invalidated Photo: Jay Reeves (AP) A litany of allegations about Amazon’s anti-union offensive today comes from the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). After Amazon workers in Bessemer chose not to unionize by a 1,798 to 738 vote, the RWDSU has accused the company of offering workers an impossible choice: reject the union or lose their job. If the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finds that the objections have mer...

Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight? In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying restrictions on human flight, teleportation, endless/consequence-free consumption, etc. As it is VR, it is inescapably VR—you can lose yourself, but only to a point. This has to do partly with the technology’s bulkiness, but also its sensory limitations. Smell and taste, two fairly major components of regular reality—key to memory, pre...

Made For Love Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti) makes a difficult choice in the closing minutes of the season-one finale. She spent the first seven episodes of the HBO Max dramedy trying to flee her controlling tech-billionaire husband, Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), who implanted a monitoring chip in her brain without consent. The former couple has a brutally honest confrontation in the finale, titled “Let’s Meet,” and Hazel gets a moment of peace when Byron signs the divorce papers. Howev...