Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. | | Kim Basinger in "9½ Weeks" (1986) (MGM/UA) | | | | “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” |
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| rantnrave:// I'm ranted out today so... KEVIN DURANT is leaving OKLAHOMA and the franchise he built in favor of Oakland and one of the scariest franchises in all of sport. Can the WARRIORS be beaten? Can the THUNDER recover? How it happened, what it means, and more... Despite introducing North America's first major league salary cap, the NBA now boasts its most complex and least effective payroll model. At the heart of this is the luxury tax, a 2003 addition that delivered superficial improvements but widened the gap between rich and poor teams. To retake its leadership position, the league has to accept a hard truth: the soft cap + luxury tax model isn't working. Why It's Time to End the NBA's Luxury Tax... Over the past century, technological advancements have massively reduced the cost and time needed to create and circulate content. Though this has liberated artists, consumers are now drowning in a virtually infinite supply of things to watch, listen to and read. How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry... MR. TRUMP is constantly trying the "these are not the droids you're looking for" defense. He's no OBI-WAN KENOBI... LA was lit up with fireworks. Pretty cool how every neighborhood had their own thing... Getting weary of the mismatches I feel in intensity and urgency. It's my fault for allowing it to be their fault... Happy Birthday to HEATHER BARAM TURKEWITZ, RICK MARINI and JON VLASSOPULOS. | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| | Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons |
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A “look” is a kind of instant style: quickly executed and dispatched, immediately understood and overcharged with incident. It is time for a new view. | |
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The Long Read: They promised it would be an easy victory. But they had no idea what was about to hit them | |
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A data-driven look at Beyonce, Kendrick, Rihanna, Drake, Kanye and the evolution of the pop album. | |
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Global retailers like Uniqlo, Lululemon and Nike are activating local communities with cultural programming, ‘superhero’ yogis and neighbourhood run clubs. | |
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Capitalism has only itself to blame, forcing millennials to look for an alternative. | |
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At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges. | |
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The Warriors won, obviously. The Based God, too. But who lost? | |
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Since its founding in 2008, Airbnb has been cited as a huge disrupter in the hotel industry, heralded as the next big thing in travel as consumers embraced the sharing economy. | |
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If you are in the media these days, the most common feeling is that of incredulity as developments seem to constantly upend media expectations and assumptions. Well, now, put Facebook in the category of Donald Trump and Brexit. | |
| "Empty tank cars head back to North Dakota for more Bakken crude" (2013). Photo via Flickr user Roy Luck. One-third of energy used in the US comes from natural gas. In 2015, the US consumed 7.08 billion barrels of oil and other petroleum products-more than 20 barrels per person. | |
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by THR Staff A weekend TV-programming note: Check out The Hollywood Reporter's acclaimed roundtable series on SundanceTV. Six of TV's top actors - Rami Malek (), Cuba Gooding Jr. (The People v. O.J. | |
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The New York Times columnist on politics, Brexit, technology, and foreign policy. | |
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What do large groups of people remember--and forget? | |
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Americans' greatest fears are actually the least of their worries. | |
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Bitcoin has long suffered the slings and arrows of being derided variously as “internet funny money”, “math-based beanie babies” and “buttcoin." | |
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"I’ve always liked the Nouvelle Vague. We watched all the movies that started from these directors… They were inspiring because they broke the rules! They did something different." | |
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Steam has begun warning users not to use a high-profile Counter-Strike: GO gambling website after its ownership turned out to be two YouTube stars - who were also using YouTube to promote the site. Trevor "TmarTn" Martin and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell are listed in newly-uncovered business records as the president and vice-president, respectively, of online gambling site CS:GO Lotto. | |
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On Oct. 13, 1996, 35-year-old Sharon Lopatka from rural Hampstead, Maryland, rode a train south with death on her mind. She told her husband that she was on her way to visit friends in Georgia, then drove her blue Honda Civic 45 minutes down to Baltimore's Penn Station, where she boarded the morning Amtrak to Charlotte, North Carolina. | |
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The consumer genetic-testing startup has amassed one of the world’s largest databases of DNA. Now it is sifting through it for clues to new drugs. | |
| | The Old Grey Whistle Test (1983) |
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