RELATED STORIES Saturday Night Live knows exactly how you spend your Saturday nights… besides watching SNL, of course. During this weekend’s Nick Jonas-hosted episode, the sketch comedy series set its sights on the widely popular obsession with murder shows. In the music video, a husband (played by Jonas) heads out for the evening, leaving his […]
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TVLine Podcast: Dream Emmy Nominee Christine Baranski Talks Good Fight’s ‘Cathartic’ Trump Obsession, Shares Mixed Feelings About a Potential Julianna Margulies Guest Stint
RELATED STORIES The Good Fight‘s third season doubled down on all things Trump and, for her part, Christine Baranski admits the art-imitates-politics approach has become something of a double-edged sword. “On the one hand it is deeply cathartic because I can bring what I feel and what I think into my work,” the lifelong Democrat confesses […]
The Birth of America’s Obsession With the Perfect Cup of Coffee
Wanted: someone to set the record straight on coffee’s health effects and work out the recipe for a perfect cup. This was the National Coffee Roasters Association’s proposition to Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Samuel Prescott in 1920, in exchange for $ 40,000 worth of funding (half a million today). The public was fed up […]
Hearthstone’s design team has an obsession: top hats
One of my favorite cards in Hearthstone has nothing to do with its ability but rather its art. And it involves a top hat. Cat Trick shows a picture of an adorable kitty sitting in a top hat. But once the Hunter Secret fires off, it creates a Cat in the Hat minion on your board. […]
‘The Darkest Minds’ Trailer: Your Next YA Obsession Comes from the Producers of ‘Stranger Things’
Just when you thought the young-adult movie genre was just about to fizzle out, in comes The Darkest Minds. It’s everything you want and need in a YA movie: beautiful teens with inexplicably perfect hair, menacing government corporations, and a weird sci-fi twist. And that twist is superpowers. Yeah, that teen superhero thing has already been […]
Coronation Street spoilers: Kate in dark plot twist as Zeedan steps up obsession
New Coronation Street filming pictures reveal Zeedan (played by Qasim Akhtar) trying to photograph Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent) and Kate Connor (Faye Brookes) as they enjoy a game of pool. Shocked, Rana (Bhavna Limbachia) spots him and drags him away from the window. The spoiler photos look as though Sophie and Kate are getting things […]
Badoo’s wealthy founder Andrey Andreev explained the ways he takes his obsession with food to the next level
Business Insider/Ed Maggio Badoo CEO Andrey Andreev eats at Michelin-starred restaurants almost every day. Andreev often adds his own dishes and cocktails to restaurant menus. The tech CEO doesn’t like to spend over 30 minutes in a restaurant if he’s there for lunch — or over an hour if he’s having dinner with friends. Walk […]
We drove a $63,000 RAM 1500 pickup truck to see why it’s part of America’s latest obsession — here’s the verdict (FCAU)
Matthew DeBord/BI The RAM full-size pickup is the perennial third-best-seller in the US, behind the Ford F-150 and the Chevy Silverado. We spent a week with a well-appointed version of the truck. And we were mighty impressed. We certainly live in a Golden Age for luxury pickups, which are becoming America’s latest obsession. Detroit can’t sell […]
Inside Bigelow Aerospace Founder Robert Bigelow’s Decades-Long Obsession With UFOs
The budget hotel magnate and inflatable space habitat maker has a unique side project. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a90c5dcafa4b44b413e5453/master/pass/ufo-180359923-%5BConverted%5D.jpg
Heartland Tech Weekly: Tech’s growing obsession with income inequality
Last week, I wrote about Venture for America founder Andrew Yang’s unlikely run for president, with the aim of convincing the general public about the need for universal basic income. Whether or not one agrees that UBI is a necessity in today’s digital economy, the stories highlighted in this week’s Heartland Tech newsletter show that inequality is increasingly becoming […]