After an extraordinary week at Cheltenham last month, when she finished the four days as the leading rider for the first time, there is something very unusual about Rachael Blackmore and it has nothing to do with her gender. It goes beyond the distinction between jumping and Flat racing too. […]
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A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made “false and deceptive” statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and other material that violates its rules. The lawsuit, filed by Muslim Advocates in Washington, DC, Superior Court on […]
The show does have a splendid lead in the form of Irish actor Laura Donnelly, whose character, Amalia True, oversees an orphanage for “the Touched,” people who acquired a variety of bizarre powers during an inexplicable event in 1896. Three years later, strange doings are afoot, in a seamy side […]
FILE PHOTO: A 3D plastic representation of the Facebook logo is seen in this illustration in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 13, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic//File Photo (Reuters) – Facebook users may not be learning about jobs for which they are qualified because the company’s tools can disproportionately direct ads to […]
Anne Beatts, an original writer for “Saturday Night Live” and creator of the sitcom “Square Pegs,” has died at age 74. Beatts died at her West Hollywood home on Wednesday, her family confirmed. She is survived by her daughter Jaylene Beatts, her sister Barbara, her brother Murray and her nieces Kate […]
For far too long it was a scene so laughably common that it could have been in a comedy sketch show. A sleek, smarmy salesman in a shiny silver-grey suit welcomes a husband and wife into his car dealership and proceeds to talk to the man about engines and horsepower, […]
A personal pronoun is a form of speech that stands in for a person or group of people. She is having opinions online; they are fighting in the comments; and, of course, as in the Prince song made famous by Sinead O’Connor, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Nonbinary pronouns, as well […]
So The Real World Homecoming ends, as it began: with tears, hugs, and extremely on-the-nose music cues. Gin Blossoms’ “Found Out About You” scores a montage of the moments we’ve shared over these last six weeks: belly laughs over pizza, a bar in a rolling suitcase, a joyful squirt-gun fight, […]