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Two injured women are seen inside Brussels Airport after deadly explosions on March 22. (Ketevan Kardava/Georgian Public Broadcaster via AP) Ketevan Kardava was at the airport in Brussels on Tuesday, headed to Switzerland for an assignment. So she was there when the first explosion occurred, a blast that sent debris flying, she told Time magazine. The airport filled with…
We all know Batman, the billionaire who dons a kicky bat-themed ensemble to fight crime by punching it squarely in its face. He is brooding, laconic, muscular and absolutely unbeatable in a fight. This is the Batman of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight film trilogy, and if the gloom-and-rain-soaked trailers are any indication, it is what…
A near-total drag, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” plays like a loose, unofficial quarter-billion-dollar remake of “The Odd Couple,” in which Oscar and Felix are literally trying to kill each other. I kid. A little. This certainly is not true of director Zack Snyder’s solemn melee. The movie does not kid. It takes the…
As the world’s media struggles to explain the Donald Trump contagion, it has found a ready antidote in Canada’s dashing new Liberal prime minister, Justin Trudeau. While Trump promises to keep Muslims out, Trudeau is meeting Syrian refugees at the airport with his million-dollar smile. But amid the headlines about Americans literally begging Trudeau to…
Last spring, as Beckett Delaney was hoverboarding to his office in SoHo, his man bun flailing behind him in the wind, he came to an abrupt halt. “I realized I just couldn’t work that day,” Delaney recalled recently, in between puffs of an e-cigarette outside the Bushwick Sweetgreen. “Because I hadn’t finished binge-watching Master of…
Raymond Moore, the CEO of the Indian Wells tennis tournament, has resigned from his role, one day after saying that the women’s tour “rides on the coat-tails” of the men’s game. Moore was roundly criticised after he proclaimed that women in tennis “don’t make any decisions” and are “very, very lucky”, during an interview before…
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In theaters May 20, 2016! http://www.theniceguysmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/TheNiceGuysM… “The Nice Guys” takes place in 1970s Los Angeles, when down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a…
The unfortunate views on women’s tennis expressed yesterday (Mar. 20) by the CEO of the Indian Wells tennis tournament, Raymond Moore, set off a firestorm, with perhaps the most powerful response coming from Serena Williams. Speaking at a press conference ahead of this year’s Indian Wells tournament finals in California, Moore reportedly said the Women’s…
In for a penny, in for a pound. I want to clarify a few things, based on some feedback: 1. I love NPR. I hope it thrives forever. 2. I think NPR is filled with amazing, creative, brave, smart journalists. 3. I think that it’s possible to simultaneously love NPR and be very worried about…