NYC's new One World Trade Center dominates the skyline but I went inside and it didn't look like
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New York City's new One World Trade Center, nicknamed the "Freedom Tower," cost $4 billion and took eight years to build between the start of construction in 2006 and the first tenants moving in 2014. Four years after opening its doors to the first tenants, about 8,000 people now work in the building for companies that include Condé Nast, ADVERTISEMENT
He told me Here's what the inside of One World Trade Center looks like, four years after the first tenants moved in.
Olive Kitteridge, directed by Lisa Cholodenko from playwright Jane Anderson’s script, is adapted from Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction. It stars Frances McDormand as Olive, Richard Jenkins as her husband Henry, John Gallagher Jr. as their son Christopher, Zoe Kazan as Denise Thibodeau and Bill Murray as Jack Kennison. The movie, which will be shown on HBO Nov. 2nd and 3rd, had its world premiere this week at the Venice Film Festival, where we saw it and shared our thoughts, as follows.
Patrick Mahomes was already slogging through the roughest regular season of his career, before the Las Vegas Raiders nearly ruined Christmas.
In the weeks preceding the December 25 matchup, frustration began mounting in Kansas City. Receivers kept dropping Mahomes’ passes. He had thrown a sideline tantrum against the Buffalo Bills, after an offsides call negated a late go-ahead touchdown. Mahomes was fined $50,000 for his outburst.
The world's eyes had turned toward Kansas City.
‘SxSW’ winner gets 11-screen bow, an eight-year U.S. bow record for a Spanish-language movie from Spain
Broad Green Pictures’ Gabriel and Daniel Hammond are putting their money where their mouth is. Bursting onto the scene at 2014’s Toronto with the proclaimed desire to cultivate talent, and paying a reported $3 million for U.
Pregnancy is a period in which you're careful about a lot of things. This is because you're not just thinking about yourself but also about the little one inside your body. You're careful about the kind of food you eat, the drugs you take, and the general wellbeing of your body. Many women in Nigeria eat a lot of soups during pregnancy because of the natural ingredients used to prepare them.
Religion: A Common Ignorance | TIME
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Should an American Jew abandon his Jewishness and try to “assimilate” himself? Or should he cling to the fundamentals of his own tradition, even though it makes him “different”? Either course would be preferable to the one U.S. Jews are actually following, says British Literary Critic David Daiches, who has spent ten years teaching English at the University of Chicago and Cornell.
Writing in the current issue of Commentary, this eminent son of a rabbi finds “American Jewry .
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June 5, 2015 3:20 PM EDT
Taco Bell announced Friday that it is adding Cap’n Crunch Delights, warm donut holes covered in Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries cereal and filled with “milk icing,” to its national menu, starting July 2.
The chain started testing the item in select locations in February, selling packs of two for $1.00, four for $1.69 or 12 for $4.49.
While Taco Bell recently announced it would rid its menu of artificial ingredients—artificial colors, flavors and high-fructose corn syrup—by year’s end, the pledge does not apply to branded items like the Cap’n Crunch donut holes or Doritos Locos Tacos, a spokesperson told the Associated Press.
As a form of artistic expression, fashion has never functioned as a purely utilitarian pursuit, often being used as a vehicle for political or cultural symbolism, a documentation of the times, or sometimes just a flight of fancy. In fact, the embrace of the fantastical and creative — especially when it comes to high fashion — can be so earnest within the industry that it’s given birth to a general idea that the fashion world is willing to go to ridiculous lengths for the sake of style.