Month: October 2023

Photography courtesy of Veronica BeardThe sisters-in-law behind the U.S. brand Veronica Beard might have the same name, but, more importantly, they also share the same creative mind. By Annika Lautens Date October 6, 2023 Facebook Twitter “The uniform for the layered life”— that’s the Veronica Beard motto. As two working moms, Veronica Miele Beard and
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Now that it’s October, the battle is on for the house with the best spooky decorations. One house in particular has a perfectly-synced System of a Down light show with pyro, which makes for an incredible Halloween display. The light show is synced to the band’s massive hit “Toxicity” from their 2001 album of the same name. It was
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In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys a book about the rooms in which great writers worked ‘Writers stamp themselves upon their possessions more indelibly than other people, making the table, the chair, the curtain, the carpet into their own image.’ So wrote Virginia Woolf in Great Men’s Houses (1911),
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Taiwanese-Brooklyn transplant Calvin “Kai-Wei” Chang’s debut album Reprocessor is musical, dense and seemingly done-based, causing it to straddle a number of genres from experimental to darkwave to IDM, but that’s not what sets it apart. It’s the fact that it’s made entirely from found sounds, recorded by Chang between 2020 and 2022; no extra sounds
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October 6, 2023, 12:57pm Last Sunday, the 44th Annual American Book Awards were presented at the Koret Library in San Francisco, with Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney, and the late bell hooks among the recipients. Administered by the Before Columbus Foundation, which prides itself on not accepting any corporate funding, the awards were established in
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Universal Pictures has revealed another Trolls Band Together clip from DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming musical threequel, which will arrive in theaters on November 17. The video teases the first meeting between Anna Kendrick’s Poppy and her long lost sister Viva, voiced by “Havana” singer Camila Cabello. It also features Justin Timberlake’s Branch along with two of
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