Two companies have partnered on what they’re hyping up as “a new pathway to realizing the American Dream for the 52 million Americans who own digital assets.” Per a March press release, Better Mortgage and Coinbase are allowing Bitcoin holders to use those cryptocurrency assets as collateral towards buying a home. Polymarket Offer: Deposit $20,
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A Michelin star can change arestaurant’s fortunes overnight, butFeast or Famine, adocumentary about the pursuit of that prestigious seal of approval, is more interested in the personal cost of trying to win one. Directors Adrian Choa and Michael Boccalini split their focus between the present-day efforts of Dalston restaurant Angelina to claim its first star,
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Staffers at People Magazine Share Their Favorite Queer Books And the list is pretty solid. There’s the National Book Award-winning experimental Blackouts by Justin Torres, the Nigeria-set Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde, the vampiric
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[ Gifting for fathers has evolved beyond the predictable tie, wallet (or heaven-forbid, book). In 2026, the most compelling gifts are those that both personal and have an element of utility — objects that fit seamlessly into the user’s daily life while reflecting the interests, habits and aspirations of the person receiving them. This year’s
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The rich are revolting inSavage House, Peter Glanz’s powdered-wig satire of aristocratic rot that works best when it stops trying to befunny and allows the decay seep in. Set in 18th-century England against the backdrop of the Jacobite uprising and apox epidemic,the film follows Sir Chauncey Savage (Richard EGrant) and Lady Savage (Claire Foy), adebt-ridden
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It’s hard to overstate the contributions DMX, who died in 2021 at 50, made to New York hip-hop history during his lifetime. This week, the city recognized that impact by naming the corner of School Street and Brooke Street in Yonkers, where the MC was born and raised, “Earl DMX Simmons Way.” Per the Yonkers
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[ The FIFA World Cup stadium The countdown to the crowning of a winner at the World Cup rarely begins with the opening match. Long before a ball is kicked, conversations gather momentum in cafés, offices and living rooms across the globe. Predictions are exchanged, favourites debated and dark horses identified. Every tournament arrives with
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Ever since physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax paper in the journalSocial Textin 1996 to skewer the “fashionable sectors of the American academic left,” a mini-industry of polemicists has dedicated itself to exposing the ideological excesses and intellectualbizarreriesof humanities scholarship. In 2018, the provocateurs James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose performed Sokal’s stunt on
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In his narrative poem ​‘The Divine Comedy’, accepted to have been written between 1308 and 1321 and widely considered to be the most influential work of Italian literature, Dante Alighieri set out astriking vision of the afterlife which changed literature forever. In Julian Schnabel’s 2025 adaptation of Nick Tosches’ ​‘In the Hand of Dante’, inspired
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Poisoned Pen Press Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, start a family. Then―he kicks her out, hires the best divorce lawyers, and takes up with a 20-something. Naomi should accept defeat: move into a dingy apartment, and piece together the shattered remains of her life. But why
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