Month: April 2019

On Monday, Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris began to burn. Images and videos circulated online, showing extensive damage to the structure, which was first built in 1163 by Pope Alexander III. As the fire continued, it became clear that much of the cathedral had likely been destroyed. “Everything is burning; nothing will remain from the frame,” […]

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Click:made of For the first time following their messy split, Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson publicly reunited at True’s first birthday party on Sunday, which, uh, looked a little awkward, to say the least. Over the weekend, Khloé threw True a baby blue–hued first birthday party in California, to which she kindly invited Tristan, nearly […]

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It seems Tom Schwartz had the money, after all. — Or did he? On last week’s episode, Lisa Vanderpump attempted to cash the investment checks from Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval — $50,000 each — which they’d given her during the previous season. Sandoval’s went through, Schwartz’s did not. (This is the outcome one would […]

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Birds are extremely hot right now. Need I remind you of Central Park’s hottest duck? Followed by the humble Canadian hot duck, the Brooklyn Ducboi, Australia’s Goth Duck, and finally, the rise of the Great Blue Heron? There’s something about the confidence of these majestic winged creatures, combined with their utter disinterest in humans, that […]

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Cluster Brooklyn Record Exchange, founded by the owners of Greenpoint’s Co-Op 87 and New York–based indie label Mexican Summer, has joined East Williamsburg’s vinyl district. Photo: Jason Lee/Courtesy of the vendors/Maxwell Schiano 1. Brooklyn Record Exchange (599 Johnson Ave., Ste. 1): Disco, post-punk, New Wave, jazz, rock, and soul, including Bob Marley’s Natty Dread ($15), Otis Redding’s Love Man ($25), and […]

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For decades, a Dutch fertility doctor secretly swapped in his own sperm for donor samples while administering IVF treatments: On Friday, DNA tests finally confirmed the late Jan Karbaat fathered dozens of his patients’ children without their knowledge or consent. After judges ordered the release of a sealed record detailing Karbaat’s genetic profile, a group […]

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