Month: November 2022

In How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, journalist Maria Ressa, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, gives readers a riveting inside view of what it’s like to be a dissident fighting authoritarianism. This engrossing book is a political history of the Philippines and an intimate memoir, but it’s
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Scarlett Johansson is going streaming.  The actress will star in the upcoming Prime Video series Just Cause, according to Deadline.  Based on the 1992 John Katzenbach novel of the same name, the television adaptation will find the book’s male protagonist, Miami newspaper editorial writer Matt Cowart, “undergoing a gender swap,” according to the outlet, “with Johansson playing the
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When it comes to the human condition, there’s always a need for something more. The search for something seemingly missing, be it a literal physical thing or (more likely) an emotional hole that can’t ever quite be filled, is a part of human operation as much as eating and sleeping. URL: https://www.chrismccooey.com/ There’s an undying
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Jill Weinlein Celebrity Cruises has a new slogan, #JourneyWonderfull on a relaxed luxury resort at sea. They promise that when you board a Celebrity Cruise you will awaken your senses with a journey full of wonder while discovering the world again. Celebrity Cruises visits more than 300 destinations around the world on their fleet of
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From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine Jean-Christophe Sabatier, Chief Product Officer at Ulysse Nardin, will speak about The Freak, one of the Le Locle-based watchmaker’s best-known timepieces, at the upcoming Horological Society of New York (HSNY) lecture on Monday, November 7. Jean-Christophe Sabatier, Chief Product Officer at Ulysse Nardin. Sabatier’s lecture is the latest of the HSNY’s
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Just when you thought the deals were sunsetting, the Huckberry Cyber Monday sale 2022 is picking up where Black Friday left off. The one-stop shop has all the makings of an everything-store, but with the level of curation you’d expect from your favorite boutique. We’re talking hardened outdoors gear, plush merino wool cardigans, niche Japanese
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Welcome to Cyber Monday, book lovers! You’ve very likely been flooded by all the early Black Friday sales happening in store and online since sometime in October (it gets earlier every year!), then there was actual Black Friday and the “official” start of the holiday shopping season. What deals are left, you ask? Plenty! We’ve
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It’s easy to toggle streamers on and off. Which one has the best programming next month if you only want to pay for one at a time? By Tara Ariano November 28, 2022 Photographs: Getty Images; Collage: Michael Houtz Streaming platforms’ fees have been rising, which means it costs even more to maintain multiple subscriptions
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“What an amazing world we live in today,” Laura Baanstra said. She was speaking at a 2018 press conference to announce the scientific process that had been used to solve the 1987 murders of her brother and his girlfriend. The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder details this brutal
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