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From The Boss to Baz Luhrmann: Five surprise influences behind Slowly Slowly’s new album Photo by Kyle Caulfield Leaping headfirst into 2021, Slowly Slowly’s fourth record, Race Car Blues – Chapter 2 is hitting shelves today. The Aussie pop-punks’ 2020 release, Race Car Blues (RCB), was received with wide acclaim, securing the triple j Feature Album spot and hitting number eight on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart.  Chapter Two was seeded in the makings of RCB and has sin...

On a sunny winter day in downtown Los Angeles, the painter Juliet Johnstone leads me up an industrial stairwell and into her new studio: a vast, light-flooded warehouse space, where dirty paintbrushes are soaking in the sink and Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities lays open beside an easel with detailed sketches of butterflies and flowers. Johnstone spends up to 12 hours a day here, painting not only in her “work uniform” of carpenter pants, but also on them. Johnstone always had amb...

Image zoom Credit: Priscilla Gragg Not long ago, my friend Marni was playing tag at a local park with her 7-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter. They finished the game with shouts of laughter and a three-way hug—and as they started to leave, an older mom who’d been watching the family caught Marni’s eye. “Enjoy it now,” she said with a wry smile. “Pretty soon they’ll be teenagers and they won’t even ta...

“Oh! Hey, how are you, sir?” he asked Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins. Wins, wearing a mask with the U.S. Army logo, asked the cadet and his roommate for their names, majors and hometowns before inquiring whether they needed anything. After a brief chat, VMI’s interim superintendent moved down the Econo Lodge corridor to the next room. “I just wanted to make sure you guys were OK,” Wins told another cadet, explaining his presence. Wins last week began daily visits to check in wit...

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The Atlantic We Were the Last of the Nice Negro Girls In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance. This article was published online on February 9, 2021. My high-school counselor at Western High School, an all-girls public school in Baltimore, was a rotund white woman with a pleasant but less than energetic countenance. She was wholly absent from my education until one day, after rumblings about affirmative action in colleges ha...

Eve Hewson, star of Netflix's 'Behind Her Eyes' talks her new show, shooting sex scenes, and battling night terrors.

Living in nightmarish monotony hardly makes for interesting debate or entertaining chit-chat. On a recent walk with my husband, I lapsed into silence for a good half hour. Awkward, he joked. I have nothing new to say! Luckily, a simple yet ingenious trend has come to my rescue. Conversation cards. Whether you yearn to connect more meaningfully with your partner or simply take a break from anxious exchanges and laugh over silly, sweet, or outrageous personal topics, there is a game to suit.  An...

Students care about their data privacy, and this concern is increasing. A 2016 EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) survey found that one-third of undergraduate students were "concerned that technology advances may increasingly invade [their] privacy." A Gallup poll in 2015 found that 44 percent of Millennials believe their personal information is kept private "some of the time" and that 26 percent believe their personal information is kept private "little" or "none of the time." I...

How to spot the winners among the small-to-medium sized companies on the JSE 10 February 2021 8:51 PM Share This: Small Talk Dailys Anthony Clark has expert advice on investing in the small to medium-cap sector and avoiding the pitfalls. Looking at investing in the stock market? Theres new life in many of the smaller companies listed on the JSE. Bruce Whitfield interviews an analyst whos been looking into investment opportunities in this sector for over 25 years. Small Talk Dailys Anthony Clark...