Month: February 2021

If you’re planning for a baby you may have found yourself inundated with well-meaning snippets of advice from friends and family, all with varying degrees of accuracy. “Just relax” anyone?! “Put your legs in the air”?! Please… One thing that actually can make a difference, not only to your fertility, but also to the future
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update reflects on some of the biggest headlines of the week. This time, that included Paramount+’s announcement that a Frasier revival series is officially happening. Because it’s been 16 years ago since the end of the original series, Colin Jost used Friends to explain Frasier to younger viewers, eliciting laughs and
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem for $3.99 Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh for $3.99 Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith for $3.99 Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor for $2.99 A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks
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A £5bn grant scheme to help pubs, restaurants and retailers hit hardest by lockdown restrictions is set to be unveiled by the chancellor in Wednesday’s budget. Rishi Sunak is also planning to support first-time buyers by incentivising lenders to accept deposits of just 5% for properties up to £600,000. The chancellor has warned hard decisions
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After the riots at the Capitol on January 6, debate is swirling over how platforms moderate content and what is protected as free speech. It’s a messy and expensive process, with Facebook spending billions to review millions of pieces of content every day. While TikTok directly employs content moderators, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube outsource most
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Ellen Pompeo penned an open letter the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and “White Hollywood” a day before the 2021 Golden Globes. Shared to her Instagram post, Pompeo’s letter calls out the HFPA for its lack of diverse members, a criticism that has echoed throughout Hollywood since an Los Angeles Times exposé revealed that the industry
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Tonight (February 27), D’Angelo is leading a VERZUZ battle against an unannounced slate of competitors live from the Apollo Theater. Take a look via Instagram or Apple Music. VERZUZ events have so far been one-on-one battles with occasional surprise guests, like Dionne Warwick dropping in on Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle last year. D’Angelo’s approach
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The COVID-19 pandemic shook up the world as we know it, and book festivals were no exception. Whether large or small, in-person book fairs simply couldn’t happen in 2020. Luckily, authors, readers, and booksellers are a resourceful bunch – and with the help of programmes like Zoom, Teams, and other video conferencing platforms, digital book
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While walking down the aisle, saying your vows and enjoying a *delicious* wedding breakfast are all important parts of any big day, getting ready on your wedding morning is a time you’ll remember forever. Before you put on your wedding dress and fix that wedding makeup in place, you’ll enjoy a few irreplaceable hours with
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