Dance Poles and Leopard-Print Walls: Love Motels Ready Rooms for Climate Summit
The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution.
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Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game
When new employees start at Weta Workshop, they’re herded into a meeting room with a long, unassuming conference table. On the walls, behind panes of glass and in between statues, swords, and masks, are five Oscars. Four of them were awarded to the studio for its efforts on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings…
We needed to change the narrative about trans people
27 July 2025 Laverne Cox thinks Orange Is the New Black has helped to change the “narrative with and about trans people”. Laverne Cox starred on the Netflix show The 53-year-old actress rose to prominence as Sophia Burset on Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime…
Xander Zayas outlasts Jorge Garcia to become boxing’s youngest active champion
Xander Zayas is a world champion for the first time at 22 years old. Zayas outworked Jorge Garcia for the vacant WBO junior middleweight championship on Saturday night, taking a unanimous decision for the vacant title. The fight was never in dispute, with Zayas not only outboxing Garcia but also landing the cleaner power punches…
Khosla Ka Ghosla 2 in the works; Huma Qureshi to join cast: Report
If the buzz in the industry is anything to go by, Khosla Ka Ghosla 2 is officially in the pipeline, nearly two decades after the cult satirical comedy first hit theatres in 2006. The original film—starring Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Navin Nischol, Pravin Dabbas, Tara Sharma, Ranvir Shorey, and Vinay Pathak—earned widespread acclaim for its…
James Leprino, ‘Willy Wonka of Cheese’ Who Revolutionized Pizza, Dies at 87
He turned a small family grocery store into a mozzarella empire, producing most of the cheese for American pizza chains like Domino’s, Papa Johns and Pizza Hut.
Clayton Kershaw can’t match Garrett Crochet in Dodgers’ loss
BOSTON — The Dodgers had MLB strikeout leader Garrett Crochet on the ropes early Saturday night, after Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández each homered within the game’s first three at-bats. But, in what became a frustrating 4-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Crochet bobbed and weaved around every knockout blow the Dodgers tried…
Canva skills are what people hiring graphic designers increasingly want to see
The software, once maligned by the industry, is increasingly becoming a standard. For our 2025 Where the Design Jobs Are report, Fast Company looked at which design tools were being mentioned in job listings across various disciplines, and how that has changed over time. With graphic design, there were a couple of particularly interesting findings….
James Gunn Unveils ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Theme Song
As John Cena’s Christopher Smith gets an upgrade with a parallel dimension in the forthcoming second season of the HBO Max/DC Studios’ Peacemaker, so will its soundtrack. Following James Gunn’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con previewing the sophomore installment — at the famed Hall H and prime Saturday evening spot of the weekend — the…
11 People Injured in Stabbing at a Michigan Walmart, Officials Say
One person was in custody after what the authorities said was a random attack at a store near Traverse City, Mich.