From retail to restaurants, 2025 hasn’t exactly been kind to several notable chains spread throughout the U.S. .READ MORE: 21 Fast-Growing Restaurant Chains Opening Just About Everywhere In 2025Some, like Advance Auto Parts and Dollar General, are both closing and opening locations as they look for fresh approaches to win back customers. Unfortunately, the closings way outnumber the openings.Other chains have closed down for good. Party City went away in February. Arts and crafts store Joann followed shortly after.Here is a look at which chains are closing or have closed locations in 2025.Chains That Are Closing or Have Closed Locations in…
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Yaeji has returned with the new song “Pondeggi,” featuring E Wata. The title is a nod to beondegi, the Korean street food comprised of silkworms, and inspired its Andrew Thomas Huang–directed music video in which she transforms into that very bug. Through a series of hand claps—a reference to the schoolyard game that influenced the track’s beat—with co-producer E Wata, Yaeji’s silkworm self tries to “save the metamorphosis cycle from being disrupted by a techno-witch,” played by Uhm Jung-hwa. Watch it below.Yaeji has been on a roll with new songs lately. She teamed up with Girl Talk and T-Pain for…
Paving the way for boho-inspired styling to take over Paris’ streets, Chloé’s autumn/winter 2025 runway show brought some of the city’s chicest into the centre, clothed in swishy layers, floaty fabrications and lashings of lace. Amongst the pretty blouses and voluminous skirts that—quite predictably–cluttered the streets, I spotted an emerging trouser trend that genuinely took me by surprise.Managing to translate the same fluid feeling as the dresses and skirts that took over Paris, the chicest showgoers emerged styling voluminous bloomers this week. A striking departure from the flared jeans and trousers every Chloé attendee was wearing to their runway show…
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites was launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 2. Liftoff took place at 9:24 p.m. ET on March 3, with the mission including 13 satellites equipped with direct-to-cell capabilities. The first stage of the rocket successfully landed on the droneship “Just Read the Instructions” stationed approximately 400 kilometres off Florida’s coast. However, the booster, designated B1086, was lost shortly after landing due to damage sustained by one of its landing legs.Booster Loss After LandingAccording to SpaceX, a fire at the aft end of the booster resulted in structural…
The finalists for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award have been announced. The award honors the best fiction by permanent American residents within a calendar year. For this 45th iteration of the award, three writers—Bruce Holsinger, Deesha Philyaw, and Luis Alberto Urrea—were chosen to serve as judges. They whittled down the potential award winners to a ten-book-long list, and now they’ve shortened the list further into five books. Finally, in a ceremony on May 15, 2025, they will announce a winner who they deem to be “the first among equals.” Below are the five finalists. Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda Behind You Is…
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot full of gold jewelry, including a rare statuette that depicts a family of gods and may have been worn as an amulet.A team found the pot at Karnak Temple, a complex near Luxor (ancient Thebes). The temple was initially built around 4,000 years ago and was continuously expanded, renovated and modified over millennia. A number of deities were worshipped at the site, including Amun, the chief god of Thebes.The finds include beads, amulets and statuettes, many of which are gold, according to a translated statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Abbott Elementary Season 4 Episode 16, “Books.”] Abbott Elementary explored an important lesson on book bans in its latest episode, aptly titled “Books,” which saw Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph), Ava (Janelle James), and librarian Ms. Inez (Cree Summer) combat the dangers of uninformed parents. While the series is always good about tackling topical issues, Abbott Elementary‘s decision to address book bans in school libraries is especially appropriate, as more and more librarians are being forced to remove titles from the shelves across the country. The predicament in this episode revolves around a title, The…
Life is a B-Movie: Joe D’Amato’s Bizarre Prophecy of 2025 About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies. Editorial Design View Original Source Here
Haim is back with new music and their characteristic sense of humor. The sister trio took to Instagram on Wednesday (March 5) to post a photo in promotion of their upcoming single, “Relationships.” In the snap, Danielle, Este and Alana Haim are seen walking in a parking lot, basking in the sun with huge smiles on their faces. Of course, the photo is a tribute to a viral meme featuring Nicole Kidman, in which she is photographed the same way, widely believed to have been taken after the Babygirl actress finalized her divorce from Tom Cruise in the early 2000s.…
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here.The cutout dress is getting a 2025 makeover, and we’re here for it. Though cutouts have been everywhere these past few seasons, they’re getting more inventive and unique by the day. Stars like Teyana Taylor, Sofia Vergara, and Zoë Kravitz donned alluring ensembles with cutouts at this year’s Oscars, further cementing the trend. Cutout dresses now come with accents across the stomach, collarbone, chest, shoulders — you…
As the entry-level chip in the M4 family of Apple silicon (which includes the M4 Pro and M4 Max), the M4 packs a 10-core CPU and a GPU with up to 10 cores. Apple claims this CPU’s performance is up to twice as fast as the M1 version from 2020. All models start with 16 GB of RAM with the option to upgrade to 32 GB. (Apple doubled the memory on base models in October on its predecessor as well.) Storage starts at 256 GB, and you can upgrade to 2 terabytes for an additional cost.The M4 is mighty enough…
Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle “The reader will not want to put it down and will retain this story in head and heart long after the final pages are read.” Saint of the Narrows Street will shoot an arrow through your heart as you may likely weep for the plight of the primary characters. They are Risa Franzone, her younger sister Giulia and their loyal friend Christopher “Chooch” Gardini who are at the center of a morass that threatens their very existence. Eighteen years ago, they made a hasty ill-conceived decision late one night which continues to…
A visualisation of the Radcliffe wave, a series of dust and gas clouds (marked here in red) across the Milky Way. It is about 400 light years from our sun, marked in yellowAlyssa A. Goodman/Harvard University Our solar system passed through a vast wave of gas and dust around 14 million years ago, dimming Earth’s view of the night sky. The wave may even have left traces in our planet’s geological record. Astronomers have previously discovered large ocean-like waves of stars, gas and dust in the Milky Way that undulate up and down over millions of years. One of the…
All season long, there were rumblings that one of the FBI spinoffs were destined for cancellation. The negative buzz surrounding the fates of both FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted were both right. CBS said, “Hold my beer,” and swung the hatchet on both shows on Tuesday afternoon. (Nelly Kiss/CBS ) The unprecedented move means FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted will conclude with their fourth and sixth seasons, respectively. The only silver lining in this messy decision is that both series will likely get some form of closure. (Nelly Kiss/CBS) CBS was skewered last season for canceling NCIS: Hawai’i…
There Was This Girl singer Riley Green has come out to confirm his relationship status, announcing that he is not dating anyone at the moment. Green’s clarification comes amid dating rumors that have been linking the country music artist with Megan Moroney for a long time now. Nevertheless, the Alabama-born musician seems to have put all such speculations to bed by emphasizing that his presently single. Here’s what Riley Green had to say about his current relationship status. Riley Green is very much ‘single’ amid dating rumors During his appearance on the debut episode of the In the Blind podcast, Green was…
Finger Eleven singer Scott Anderson’s taste in music once earned a stern reprimand from one of his school teachers, who scolded him for loving two iconic bands.“At an early age, I understood only a handful of things about myself,” the Canadian rocker explained during a recent conversation with SNSMix.com (which you can watch below). “And one of them was that music was the most important thing. It was hitting me and it was all mine.”During his formative years, Anderson honed in on two different yet impressive acts: Genesis and Iron Maiden. On paper, the two seemingly had little in common…
It probably won’t surprise you to hear that Paris Fashion Week is one of my favourite moments of the fashion calendar. The street style! The runway moments! The celebrity looks! I’m ready to soak it all up.A magnet for the industry’s greatest, Paris Fashion Week is where, in my opinion, the best celebrity spotting takes place, and this week I spotted one of my all-time favourites out and about wearing a fresh spring colour trend that I couldn’t ignore. Packing away her dark brown and black knits and embracing a lighter hue, Beckham used a pale pink knit to enliven…
Balancing automation, privacy, and accountability in the age of AI-driven advertising In 2025, artificial intelligence powers nearly every aspect of digital advertising — from dynamic creative optimization to predictive audience targeting and real-time bidding strategies. As innovation accelerates, so too must our responsibility. At Voise Tech, we believe that ethical programmatic AI is not just a technical challenge — it is a moral imperative. This manifesto outlines our guiding principles, commitments, and approach to building an AI-first programmatic ecosystem that serves advertisers, publishers, and users with trust and integrity. Why Ethical AI Matters in AdTech AI holds enormous promise in…
Anisah Shukry / Bloomberg: Arm agrees to provide chip designs and tech to Malaysia for $250M over the next ten years, as the government targets semiconductor exports of $270B by 2030 — – Firm to provide chip technology to Malaysia over a decade — Malaysia aims to make its own chips within five to seven years View Original Source Here
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write North Country? North Country is a stand alone womens fiction/speculative fiction novel that follows four women on an adventurous mission to the isolated North Country. It exists in the same universe as my adult series, Pirates of New Earth and has characters that series readers will recognize. I have always known that my protagonist, Kat Wallace, needed to return to the land of her birth to settle some old scores. I also wanted to deal with the issue of chronic illness that affects so many people and I wanted…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, University of Bristol academics have found. In the study, “The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian—Triassic mass extinction” published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, their findings suggest the amphibians’ success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, enabling them to feed on a wide variety of prey despite the array of environmental changes happening all around them throughout the Triassic. Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates that the freshwater…
The Price is Right fans have proposed an interesting question. They know how the game Rat Race works in the sense of what has to happen in order for the contestants to win, but now they’re wondering how it works in terms of mechanics. Rat Race, which was created by host Drew Carey, has a contestant bid on prizes that increase in value. Every time they bid correctly, the contestant gets to choose one of the five mechanical rats, which are wound up, on the track in front of them. They can pick up to three rats if they guess…
Marvel’s new Daredevil television series is called Born Again. While the show borrows little material from the “Born Again” Daredevil comics by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, it turns out to be a fitting subtitle anyway. The show not only revives Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio’s fan-favorite versions of Daredevil and the Kingpin from the earlier Netflix TV show, its production was paused and then restarted, after Marvel was reportedly dissatisfied with the results of the first handful of episodes. The studio shifted the series’ overall direction and replaced Born Again’s original showrunner and directors.Despite the rocky development, the results speak for themselves. I don’t know if I would say…
All-star events like the Tibet House Benefit Concert offers music fans a truly unique experience. There aren’t many occasions where you’ll see, for example, Orville Peck covering Lou Reed before The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach delivers an Allen Ginsberg reading, Michael Stipe recites a century-old poem and then covers David Bowie, and Angélique Kidjo leads Carnegie Hall in an “Afrika” singalong — all in the same night. Now in its 38th year, the annual Tibet House Benefit is, of course, about more than just star-studded appearances. The purpose has always been to “protect, preserve, and empower the unique Tibetan culture,”…
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here.If you were already toying with the idea of braving the naked dress trend, catching a glimpse of Halle Bailey and Emily Ratajkowski sporting the look at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar party may just seal the deal for you. As someone who has thrown a birthday party for myself solely so that I could have a reason to wear a naked dress, I get it. When…
Two NASA missions aimed at advancing space research are scheduled for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 2 from Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The spacecraft, PUNCH and SPHEREx, have been designed for separate but complementary scientific objectives. While PUNCH will focus on the dynamics of the Sun’s corona and solar wind, SPHEREx will survey the broader universe using infrared observations. This dual launch, facilitated under NASA’s Launch Services Program, is expected to enhance understanding of cosmic evolution and space weather phenomena.PUNCH to Study Solar Wind and Space WeatherAs reported by Space.com,…
James by Percival Everett You probably already know that James is a reimagining of that Mark Twain classic just about everyone is assigned in high school, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You probably already know that Everett’s version is told from the perspective of Jim, or James in this story, the enslaved Black man who journeys down the Mississippi River with Huck. Until a few weeks ago, I asserted that I had never read Twain’s original tale, but as I was considering writing about James, a memory arrived out of the blue. I was in my 10th grade English class and…
A new stem cell therapy has repaired blinding damage to the cornea in 93% of patients in an early clinical trial.The cornea is the clear dome that covers the front of the eye and helps to focus light to enable you to see clearly. On the outer edge of the cornea are stem cells, called limbal epithelial cells, that have the potential to become any other type of corneal epithelial cell. As such, these stem cells can replace any corneal cells that are damaged through injury or normal wear and tear over time.However, severe injuries, such as those caused by…
Critic’s Rating: 4.8 / 5.04.8Each serial killer on The Hunting Party has been intriguing, but Roy Barber was the most complex and twisty. The Hunting Party Season 1 Episode 5 was my favorite installment because the murder mystery kept changing, and the team cemented their relationship. While procedurals don’t need fluffy romance, Bex’s relationships with Shane and Oliver were heavily coded, and so was her relationship with her daughter, Sam. (David Astorga/NBC) After several episodes, The Hunting Party found the balance of what worked for them. Childhood Trauma is One of the Major Triggers For Murder While we never condone…
Watch: Bong Joon Ho on Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson’s ‘joke’ accent and his favourite creatures About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies. Editorial Design View Original Source Here