Lifestyle
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As a small business owner, I never expected to pay $100,000 protecting my business from ransomware
As a small business owner in Columbia, Pa., I have always paid my taxes on time each and every year. My family started Susquehanna Glass in 1910 when my grandfather installed a cutting machine in a shed behind his house. I joined the business in 1975 and spent five dcades growing it into a company…
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Top New York surgeon: Americans have better data for choosing restaurants than surgeons. That has to change
Americans comparison-shop for everything. Almost everything, that is. People scrutinize product reviews before making even minor Amazon purchases. They research restaurants based on Google and Yelp ratings. They spend hours meticulously investigating the merits of different hotels and cruise ships. But when the time comes to choose a surgeon for a major procedure — a…
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Elizabeth Warren on her proposal to bring back IRS Direct File: ‘For just one day of bombing Iran, we could pay for 20 years’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long been a vocal opponent of privatizing the tax filing system—ie, how things are now. When ProPublica completed an investigation in 2019 showing major tax giants like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block intentionally deterred people from accessing free filing from its sites, she and other senators called for…
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‘Unequivocal opposition’: Over 1,000 members of Hollywood royalty lobby against Paramount/Warner merger
More than a thousand movie stars, writers, directors and other Hollywood professionals announced their “unequivocal opposition” to the proposed Paramount merger with Warner Bros. Discovery in an open letter published Monday. A large swath of the movie industry, including Denis Villeneuve, Kristen Stewart, J.J. Abrams and Joaquin Phoenix came out forcefully against the $111 billion…
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‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ brings in $629 million globally over 2 weekends
“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” enjoyed otherworldly success at the box office in its second weekend in theaters. The Universal and Illumination sequel added $69 million from 4,284 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday. That brings its running domestic total to $308.1 million and its global total to $629 million.…
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Spinach is the most pesticide-laden produce in America, EWG’s Dirty Dozen shows. But farmers say the list ‘villainizes’ fruits and vegetables
It may be Popeye’s source of supernatural strength, but spinach apparently can’t fight off bugs as effectively as the sailor fights off his adversaries. For the second consecutive year, spinach topped the Dirty Dozen list of conventionally grown produce with the most residual pesticides. Published by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) annually since 2004, the…
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The ‘Tuscan Mom’ aesthetic is taking over TikTok as Gen Z glamorize McMansions and reject millennial gray
Gen Z loves to love what millennials hate. Now, they’re rejecting the millennial gray aesthetic and reinvigorating a classic early 2000s vibe: The Tuscan Mom. The resurgence has recently exploded across TikTok, racking up millions of views as the young professional generation romanticizes oversized, ornately decorated homes that epitomized early-2000s American aspirational living in suburban…
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Seeking to save Gen Z from foreign influence, China has quietly banned K-Pop for a full decade
As mega K-pop group BTS returns to the stage after a hiatus of more than three years, one major market is conspicuously missing from its 12-month world tour: China. The omission of one of the group’s biggest fan bases comes as no surprise. In fact, just the opposite would have been huge news. China has…
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Japan’s Prime Minister welcomes Deep Purple, capping 50-year love affair with heavy metal: ‘You’re my god’
Japanese Prime MinisterSanae Takaichi took a short — and happy — break on Friday as she hosted legendary British rock band Deep Purple in Tokyo as a longtime admirer. “Welcome to Japan … Uh-oh, I can’t believe Deep Purple are here,” Takaichi said as she walked into a guest room at the Prime Minister’s Office with open arms…
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‘Babies become sitting ducks’: Babies too young for vaccines remain vulnerable in measles ‘hotbed’ communities
With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June, the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started factoring into their grocery run. “We go to the Costco that was kind of a hotbed,” said John Otwell, who knew about the state health department’s warnings…