Sam Riviere was born in 1981 and grew up “with music and artworks collaged from other music and artworks” – a practice he sees becoming more widespread, especially for poets who, like Riviere, “compose using copy-paste key strokes, search engines, AI software, and are accustomed to unfettered access to the storeroom of culture”. He does […]

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There is a basic rule of thumb that in the classical world people lived shorter lives than we do, that they were also shorter in stature than modern Europeans, and that their animals were smaller too. All those “facts” are partly correct – but as always, it’s more complicated. And some extraordinary Roman shoes recently […]

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An old-fashioned Western showdown is happening in Texas right now.  On one side you have Texas House Democrats who fled the state over the weekend to stop Texas Republicans from carrying out Trump’s orders to redraw the state’s maps. And Texas governor Greg Abbott who is very, very upset about it all. As of this writing, […]

The new parent company of a famous home goods retailer plans to open a new brick-and-mortar location this month, two years after the brand liquidated and closed hundreds of stores nationwide. The grand opening of the first Bed Bath & Beyond Home store is set for Aug. 8 in Nashville, The Brand House Collective, Inc., […]

The cause of death for heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne has been revealed. According to his death certificate obtained by The New York Times, the legendary rocker died of acute myocardial infarction — a heart attack — and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Other contributing factors included coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction. Osbourne […]

United Parcel Service, Inc. and its affiliated companies have been ordered to pay $1.745 million in civil penalties and related costs following a statewide investigation into the improper disposal of hazardous and medical waste at more than 140 of its facilities in California, authorities announced Monday. The settlement stems from a civil lawsuit filed in […]

City Council Democrats are planning to override Mayor Adams’ veto of a bill that’d decriminalize unlicensed street vending — but they’re likley to let another veto he recently issued stand that relates to a proposal for building a Bally’s casino in the Bronx, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Last week, a horrifying mass shooting unfolded in the heart of Midtown Manhattan — four lives stolen, families shattered, a city reeling. As New Yorkers mourn, we must confront a painful truth: what happened was entirely preventable.

Dear Eric: Last August, my husband and I told his niece that we would help with her daughter’s college expenses. We sent $2,000 to the college for the first semester. We received a thank-you text from his niece but nothing from the student. We eventually told the grandmother, my husband’s sister, that we expected something […]