Step out, step out everyone.
NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/style/easter-sunday-spring.htmlJustin Theroux, Tim Gunn and Alicia Keys at Last Week’s Parties
Benefits were held by Opening Ceremony, the Museum at F.I.T. and the National Cares Mentoring Movement.
NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2019/02/15/style/justin-theroux-tim-gunn-alicia-keys-parties.htmlMissing Flowers and Bitter Politics Put a Damper on Afghan Nowruz Party
Nothing ever completely stops the sprawling Persian New Year party in Mazar-i-Sharif. But fears of factional violence cast a chill on the revelry this year.
NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/asia/nowruz-afghanistan-atta-mohammed-noor.htmlSeeking a Harmonious Life With Feng Shui
Experts say the energies and directions of feng shui, the ancient Chinese practice for optimizing the home, change yearly.
NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/realestate/feng-shui-tips-harmonious-home.htmlWas John Mulaney's neighbor a cannibal? Pete Davidson and Jimmy Fallon try to guess.
Was John Mulaney’s neighbor arrested by the FBI for cannibalism? Did Pete Davidson go to Jamaica with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels over New Year’s?
See if you can guess what’s real and made-up, as the two comedians joined Jimmy Fallon for a game of “True Confessions” on The Tonight Show Thursday night.
The game works by each person revealing a random story, to which the others must guess whether it’s true or fake. But first, they must interrogate each other, and with these three, of course it’s hilarious. Read more…
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FuckJerry stole celebrity photos to sell its tequila
FuckJerry continues to be FuckJerry.
The guys behind the viral Instagram leech that is @fuckjerry used celebrity photos and stolen memes to push their tequila brand. To promote Jaja Tequila, Spanish for “haha,” they posted edited images of Amy Poehler, Idris Elba, Will Smith, and other famous people to advertise their product, Vice reports.
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Here’s the kicker — none of these celebrities consented to shilling Jaja. Anderson Cooper, for example, infamously (and painfully) did tequila shots on live TV during CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage, but it wasn’t Jaja. That didn’t stop the company from editing the image to look like Cooper was breathing fire and writing “Jaja vs other tequilas” above it. Read more…More about Memes, Fuckjerry, Culture, and Web Culture
Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic
Vastly unalike, Tan Dun’s “Fire Ritual” and Brahms’s “A German Requiem” are both full of luminous color and reflect complex attitudes toward death.
NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-tan-dun-brahms-review.htmlPancakes in space? No that's just the mysterious MU69
It’s a strange little world.
At 4 billion miles from Earth, MU69 (also nicknamed Ultima Thule) is the farthest-away object a human spacecraft has ever visited. For the past few years, scientists have labeled MU69 as an unknown, mysterious “puzzle.” After the 13-year-old New Horizons spacecraft eventually swooped by the frozen rock on New Years Day 2019, the object graduated to a snowman-shaped frozen rock.
Now, after receiving new images of MU69, planetary scientists suspect that both of its “lobes” are flattish, too.
“The larger lobe, nicknamed ‘Ultima,’ more closely resembles a giant pancake, and the smaller lobe, nicknamed ‘Thule,’ is shaped like a dented walnut,” the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (where the mission is headquartered) detailed online. Read more…More about Space, Science, New Horizons, Mu69, and Ultima Thule
Eight Killed in Knife Attack in China Amid Lunar New Year Celebrations
The police said that a man arrested in the attack had confessed that he had been drinking and suspected his wife of having an affair.
NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/world/asia/china-knife-attack.htmlWhat Lunar New Year Reveals About the World’s Calendars
Rather than a scientific given, calendars say a lot about the history and cultural values of the societies that created them.
NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/science/chinese-new-year-lunar-calendar.html