Images courtesy of Josef Adamu. Design by Danielle Campbelle.Welcome to My Story, our new weekly series dedicated to creatives of colour and their paths to success. By championing these diverse stories and backgrounds, we hope that our understanding of the cultural conversations around beauty and fashion will expand and that respect for our differences will
Founders: Brian Chesky (CEO), Joe Gebbia, Nathan BlecharczykLaunched: 2008Headquarters: San FranciscoFunding: $5 billionValuation: $18 billion (PitchBook)Industry: Hotels, travel, hospitalityPrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 List: 7 (No. 7 in 2019) George Kavallines Among the companies hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic and its stranglehold on travel is Airbnb. In early May the company laid off 1,900 people, or about 25% of
On an average day, the fact that Scott Baio and Kristy Swanson had crawled out of the dustbin of bad movie history to shoot a new divorce comedy would be news enough. But we’re living in weird times. And that calls for even more bizarre news. Apparently, the plug has been pulled on this duo’s
Motorhead icon Lemmy Kilmister previously graced the big screen in the 2010 documentary Lemmy, but the director behind that film is set to oversee a new biopic based on the singer’s life. So who should play Lemmy? The film will follow Lemmy’s life from growing up in Stoke on Trent to becoming a roadie for Jimi
June 16, 2020, 4:04pm Oprah Winfrey announced today that her next book club selection would be Deacon King Kong by James McBride, a novel that she says resonates at a time when America is facing a reckoning over race and violence against black people. “In a moment when our country roils with righteous anger and
Here’s what you can expect your next root touch-up or trim to look like, from how long appointments will last to salon sanitization procedures Filed under Some Good News, hair salons have opened over the last few weeks in provinces across Canada, from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, under Stage 2 Re-Opening, which allowed for
(CNN) — Alcohol sales may have boomed during lockdown, but our return to air travel will be an altogether more sobering experience. Airlines including Easyjet and KLM in Europe, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines in the United States, and Asia’s Virgin Australia, are suspending all or part of their alcoholic drinks service in response
Ewan McGregor voicing Jiminy Cricket in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio It’s been nearly two years since we last heard word that Guillermo del Toro would be co-directing a stop-motion adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s classic character Pinocchio and now it’s been revealed that Ewan McGregor (Birds of Prey) is set to voice the iconic Jiminy Cricket in the
Shout! Studios developing The Gambler remake TV series When Kenny Rogers was busy putting out Grammy-winning songs, he would try his hand at acting in a number of projects, including his hit TV film series The Gambler loosely based on the song of the same name and now Shout! Studios has begun development on a remake, according
‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’ (1946) is one of Wallace Stevens’s finest later poems. In just sixteen lines and eight couplets, Stevens summons the quiet and calm of solitary reading inside a house. You can read ‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’ here before proceeding to our analysis
This past weekend, Proximity and Brownies & Lemonade put on the second edition of their Digital Mirage Online Music Festival with 58 artists from around the world. With increased production value from artists, including Chet Porter’s Underwater Set and San Holo’s Slow Motion Set, there was way more of a visual component to each artist’s
Otherwise known as Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition has been making life uncomfortable for Silicon Valley residents, and now its Apple’s turn. As of June 16, Apple will find itself at the centre of two European Commission antitrust investigations. While the iGiant is no stranger to regulatory and legal scrutiny, these competition probes
In February, Tom Sandoval bombed through Laurel Canyon in his Mercedes E-400 coupe, talking excitedly about the time he asked his hero, Neil Degrasse Tyson, if our evidence of dark matter is solely based on gravitational lensing. Sandoval, 36, is an unlikely science enthusiast. The star of Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules is better known for his
Photo by Emma McIntyre/VF20/WireImageWatch out Kim and Kylie… By Maddison Glendinning Date June 16, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter It’s no secret that the Kardashian-Jenner family knows how to launch a best-selling beauty line – so it makes sense then that Kanye West, husband of Kim and brother-in-law of Kylie, would also be looking to expand his
An Airbnb on the island of Santorini, in Greece. Courtesy of Airbnb. Airbnb bookings are starting to grow again, thanks to pent-up travel demand. The company said that over the weekend of June 5–7, gross booking value grew in year-over-year terms for the first time since February, when the coronavirus began to devastate its business.
Josh Gad has made it his mission to use the lockdown as a means of bringing together the cast of classic Hollywood films in front of fans, via his YouTube channel, Reunited apart. The latest episode of the series featured a reunion of the cast of the original Ghostubsters. But viewers were in for an
System of a Down‘s lyrics have leaned political at times over the years, but as we’ve seen in recent weeks, the political views of the band members themselves don’t always line up. In a new social media post by singer Serj Tankian, he questions how someone who loves or plays along to their song “Temper”
June 16, 2020, 1:43pm The brilliant Bernadine Evaristo—a longtime advocate for writers and artists of color whose most recent novel Girl, Woman, Other took home last year’s Booker Prize—appeared on the BBC’s topical debate show Question Time last week to talk about the welcome wave of racist statue removal that’s has been sweeping Britain in recent weeks.