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Aldeneil Española in pieces from Hazlewood, Village Green MCC Thrift and Value Village in Saskatoon as well as eBay and Facebook Marketplace. Photography by Molly Schikosky After a countrywide search, FASHION has declared the Saskatoon artist Canada’s Most Stylish Thrifter. By Bernadette Morra Date March 20, 2023 When FASHION embarked on a search for Canada’s Most Stylish Thrifter, we had no idea of what might unfold. Would any “serious fashion people” apply? Would all the submissions come from big cities? And from influencers looking to boost their followers? We knew what we wanted: a true thrifting devotee. Not someone who…

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The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.The Last of Us is bumming everyone out. Mostly because the HBO series’ juggernaut first season ended on Sunday, beginning the long arduous wait for a second season. But also because The Last of Us is really freaking sad. The series began with a man watching his daughter die, and ended with him shooting his way through a makeshift hospital to ensure another kid didn’t meet a similar fate. In between, everyone died or killed (or ate) someone, and short of…

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Olivia Jean has announced her new album, Raving Ghost. It’s out May 5 via Third Man. Check out the lead single, “Trouble,” below.Jean’s album features My Morning Jacket’s Bo Koster, the Raconteurs’ Patrick Keeler, drummer Carla Azar, and Jellyfish’s Roger Joseph Manning Jr. It includes a cover of Enya’s “Orinoco Flow.” Jean is a co-founder of the Black Belles; her new album follows 2014’s Bathtub Love Killings and 2019’s Night Owl.Last year, Jean married Jack White onstage in a surprise wedding that took place at the Masonic Temple in their mutual hometown of Detroit.All products featured on Pitchfork are independently…

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For the second straight week, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ruled the weekend box office chart, grossing $32.2 million and bringing its ten-day domestic total to a little over $167 million. But that’s pretty much where the good news ends for Marvel, as the film’s weekend-to-weekend drop was 69.7 percent — which represents a record worst second-weekend decline for any Marvel Cinematic Universe movie in history. (The previous worst drop in MCU history was Thor: Love and Thunder’s 67.7 percent just last year.)There are a few potential reasons for the film’s extreme decline. While Quantumania opened strongly last weekend — and in fact had the…

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New developments for achieving structural coloring through plasma irradiation of graphite can reduce the reliance upon harmful color dyes. Colors achieved by plasma irradiation are completely erasable and can be manipulated using time exposed to the plasma irradiation, intensity of the irradiation and the thickness of the graphite layer applied. The application of plasma-structural coloring aims to lessen the environmental toll typical adverse dyes have and combat them with the technology surrounding structural colors. Structural colors look different than how we perceive colors dyed by pigment, because structural colors are based on viewing how the light scatters when reflected, giving…

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There are a lot of suspicions that during this era of book bans, we’ll begin to see a different output of material from publishers. They may pull back on queer books and/or books by people of color, those books which approach “sensitive” topics like sex and sexuality, and even graphic novels. Unfortunately, because of how publishing works years in advance, we won’t be able to see how this plays out for another year or two. But there is another element of the publishing ecosystem worth reaching to see if they have seen changes: literary agents. For those who are not…

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Bobby was never going to give up on Wendall. If there were one major takeaway from 9-1-1 Season 6 Episode 12, it would be that even in death, Bobby owed Wendall so much, and he’d be damned if he didn’t do everything he could to take down the people who hurt Wendall. And through a series of flashbacks, we got to see their relationship develop and find out just what happened to Wendall on the day he died. The sponsor and sponsee relationship is built on a sense of community and understanding. A sponsee has to trust that their sponsor…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sacrificial dilemmas are popular among philosophers. Should you divert a train from five people strapped to the tracks to a side-track with only one person strapped to it? What if that one person were a renowned cancer researcher? What if there were only a 70% chance the five people would die? These questions sound like they have nothing to do with a government budget. These annual events are, after all, conveyed as an endeavor in accounting. They are a chance to show anticipated tax revenues and propose public spending. We are told the name of the…

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Photography courtesy of launchmetrics.com/spotlight Throughout the pandemic, surrealist aesthetics emerged as the new norm. But now, there’s a growing appetite for familiarity. By Natalie Michie Date March 21, 2023 In recent years, fashion has been doing the absolute most. Pattern clashing, exaggerated silhouettes and fantastical runway stunts became a welcome sartorial escape from the bleakness of day-to-day pandemic life — and no designer is more synonymous with this grandiosity than Jeremy Scott. Since 2013, Moschino’s creative director delivered a signature campy, kitschy, cartoonish approach to fashion. More than anything, he found the humour in clothes at times when the world…

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Not only are the Beats Fit Pro (9/10, WIRED Recommends) one of the best workout buds for Apple users, they’re one of the best everyday buds, period. They have squishy ear tips and elegant fins (that may be a little big for smaller ears, unfortunately). They have the Apple H1 chip and pair seamlessly with Apple products, but they also have a great app for Android that includes one-touch pairing, customized controls, and a fit test.The noise-canceling works extremely well, and you can click on a physical button on the buds to pause and let ambient noise in. The sound…

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Welcome (back) to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger: Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell are reuniting for a sequel to their 1997 cult comedy. Good Burger 2 is set to premiere later this year on Paramount+, with production slated to begin in May. Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert, who co-wrote the original film, serve as writers and executive producers on the sequel. In the new film, Dexter Reed (Thompson) is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed (Mitchell) welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open arms and gives him his old job back.…

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Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t had a (live-action) role since 2019, when he played the Terminator yet again in Terminator: Dark Fate. (My kids were big fans of Superhero Kindergarten, though, so there was that.) And he’s never starred in a scripted TV series before. But that all changes in a few months when Schwarzenegger headlines Netflix’s summer series FUBAR, a big action comedy show from creator Nick Santora (Reacher, The Fugitive).Netflix had previously announced the show but today they revealed its premiere date: May 25. They also unveiled a short first teaser for the show, which features Schwarzenegger getting hit in the balls by Fortune Feimster.…

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Every Other Weekend: Coming of Age with Two Different Dads by Anthony J. Mohr “Cry it out, Tony. You’ll feel better.” It was what author Anthony Mohr’s father said to him after escorting his young son back to take on a school bully, from whom he had already run away. “Cry it out, Tony.” Touching words from a father, you say? Actually, it was a line that Gerald, an established radio personality and later a bit TV actor, borrowed from one of his roles, yet he delivered it with such perfection to Tony that it seemed more sincere than scripted.…

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An artist’s illustration of what Patagorhynchus pascuali probably looked like in life.  (Image credit: Courtesy of Fernando Novas)Around 70 million years ago, a small, furry, platypus-like creature shuffled along the banks of an ancient lake. This would not have been a remarkable occurrence, except for one thing: The lake was in present-day Argentina, not Australia.The creature, dubbed Patagorhynchus pascuali, is the oldest fossil of the egg-laying mammal group known as monotremes ever discovered in South America. The discovery may rewrite the story of where these oddball early mammals evolved. Today, all five species of living monotremes — which include the…

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The Good Doctor star and CSI: NY alum Hill Harper could be gearing up for a new chapter outside of acting as he reportedly eyes a potential Senate run. According to Puck News, Harper who currently plays Dr. Marcus Andrews in ABC‘s medical drama is planning a Democratic Senate race in the state of Michigan, with plans to officially announce his run in April. As Michigan’s outgoing Senator, Debbie Stabenow prepares to step down, Representative Elissa Slotkin has announced her candidacy to win over the seat. (Credit: ABC/Jeff Weddell) Harper’s run would put him up against Slotkin for the coveted…

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Google India was granted relief on Friday as the Income Tax Appellate Authority (ITAT) said the payments made by the company to Google Ireland between 2007-08 and 2012-13 were not royalties and were hence not subject to withholding tax. The Bengaluru-bench of the ITAT passed the ruling after re-examining the matter on the orders of the Karnataka High Court. The case relates to whether payments totalling Rs 1,457 crore made by Google India to Google Ireland is a royalty and whether the tax was to be withheld in India.The ITAT in its earlier order in 2018 had held that Google…

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As Motley Crue tour South America, bassist Nikki Sixx shared a video of what’s been going on back home stateside, where his 3-year-old daughter Ruby sings “her favorite song” in the car.So, what’s Ruby’s favorite song? If you guessed it’s one by Motley Crue, then you’re correct! It also happens to be the song that the band has been opening their set with since embarking on a reunion tour last year — the Girls, Girls, Girls cut “Wild Side.”In the video clip Sixx uploaded on social media, Ruby is seen strapped into a car seat, clutching a plush toy giraffe while…

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According to Variety, Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney and Oscar winner Julianne Moore have signed on for the leading roles in the upcoming thriller drama titled Echo Valley. Moore is set to portray the role of grieving horse trainer Kate Garrett, while Sweeney plays her wayward daughter Claire. The project hails from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby as part of his multi-year deal with Apple TV+. Echo Valley will be directed by Michael Pearce from a screenplay written by Ingelsby, who is also serving as a producer. Acclaimed filmmaker Ridley Scott is attached as a producer through his Scott Free…

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Whether we are talking about World War ll, the American Civil War or the Vietnam War, experienced and inherited trauma have ongoing impact on human life and these are stories of children and parents who endured. Psychological scars are prevalent and all three authors, through their beautiful storytelling, exemplify the depth of human strength to overcome, and the power we have to choose how to live moving forward. Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner is a tense and heartfelt story about Jewish children placed in the homes of strangers and Christian orphanages to blend in going undetected during World War…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms in January and February 2023 that dumped record amounts of snow. This time, the storms are warmer, and they are triggering flood warnings as they bring rain higher into the mountains—on top of the snowpack. Professor Keith Musselman, who studies water and climate change at the University of Colorado’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, explained the complex risks rain on snow creates and how they might change in a warming climate. What happens when rain falls on snowpack? For much of the United States,…

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The best advantage an accused person has when dealing with legal proceedings is the base assumption that everyone is innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. That was a courtesy neither Perry nor his clients — Rafael and Mateo — were extended, and from the first hearing, to determine how long counsel should be given to seek evidence to mount their defense, it was clear minds were already made up. Perry, Della, and Paul tried to find alternative information about the night Brooks was murdered on Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 3. We weren’t deluded about how hard this case would be…

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Swimsuit, swim cap, $200, handbag, $6,750, Chet Lo. Platforms, Acne Studios.Adrienne RaquelDress, boots, Dior. Helmet, Eric Javits, $6,500. Bracelet, Paco Rabanne.Adrienne RaquelShirt, $1,425, skirt, $945, Dolce& Gabbana. Earrings, W.Rosado.Adrienne RaquelBeauty Tip: Pamper your lips with hydrating Augustinus Bader The Lip Balm. Apply under your favorite lip color-or wear it alone for a shiny, natural finish. Top, $735, shorts, $445, Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini. Boots, Marni, $1,590.Adrienne RaquelDress, Valentino, $4,200. Head scarf, Bora Aksu, $100. Sunglasses, CÉLIAvalverde, $106.Adrienne RaquelBeauty Tip: To put your best face forward each morning, revive skin overnight with Naturally Serious Sleepover Retin-Oil Nighttime Treatment.Sweater, $2,340, skirt, $1,830,…

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Google has reportedly removed 16 apps from the Play Store that were causing faster battery drain and higher network usage on users’ devices. The applications, which were identified by a security firm, allegedly performed ad fraud by opening web pages in the background to click on advertisements while masquerading as a real user, according to a report. The apps had a total of 20 million installations, according to the security firm, before they were taken down from the Play Store.According to a report by Ars Technica, Google has removed 16 applications from the Play Store, which were detected by McAfee. The apps, which were…

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Amsterdam have conducted a new study that examines how sugar reduction strategies affect new product sales. The article, published in the Journal of Marketing, is titled “A War on Sugar? Effects of Reduced Sugar Content and Package Size in The Soda Category,” and is authored by Kristopher O. Keller and Jonne Y. Guyt. The United States has a sugar problem. Excessive sugar consumption induces severe illnesses that increase health care costs. Not surprisingly, about 58% of U.S. adults indicate a desire to cut back…

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Ready for the big show? The 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards, hosted by Lenny Kravitz, will air live from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Monday (March 27) at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The awards show will feature appearances from Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Latto, Coldplay, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and more. Harry Styles, Lizzo and Swift lead this year’s nominations race with eight nods each. Other nominees include SZA, Drake, Bad Bunny, Bebe Rexha, Doja Cat, Jack Harlow, Red Hot Chili Peppers,…

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In honor of Pokémon Day (by the by, Happy Pokémon Day to all who celebrate), Netflix has announced a new animated series coming to its service in the near future inspired by the endless multimedia franchise. Titled Pokémon Concierge, the show is different from the standard Pokémon content in a few ways. For one thing, it’s not a 2D animated series; the show is stop-motion, made in collaboration with dwarf studios.For another, rather than a tale of battles and contests to determine the best Pokémon trainer of them all, Pokémon Concierge is set at a “resort” for Pokémon and their owners. (The carpet cleaning bills at that place must…

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Ridiculously Hopeful: A Story of Bold Faith and Hope During a Crisis by Maleah Stephens Book reviewers are real people too. Let me explain. I was in the middle of a personal crisis. Here at BookTrib, we have the luxury of access to so many books, so many different voices that might resonate with readers looking for something to grab on to and connect with in times of strife. Different experiences. Different perspectives. Different insights. Different messages. I needed such a voice and thought I could do a lot worse than picking up a book with the most optimistic title…

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Many small businesses fear that higher minimum wages will force them to lose profits or cut jobs. But new research co-authored at UC Berkeley finds that costs can be passed to customers with little impact on business — and considerable benefit for workers. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Restaurants, retail stores and other small businesses, long thought to be vulnerable to increases in the minimum wage, generally do not cut jobs and may actually benefit when governments raise minimum pay, according to a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley. The prevailing wisdom among many business owners and policymakers is that when the…

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March 2, 1998, serves as the debut of the Cartoon Network Powerhouse, which was widely considered the network’s best era due to its slate of original content at the time. With the transition from the Checkerboard and Starburst eras to the Powerhouse era, the network began to feature original series more prominently. This includes iconic shows like Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and Ed, Edd, n Eddy, among many others. Many of these shows started through their animated series What a Cartoon!, which showcased various pilot animations that would get greenlit if well-received. This is where many of the aforementioned shows…

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