Month: April 2019

One of Chanel’s many, many projects is an exhibit titled “Mademoiselle Privé,” which has been traveling the globe since 2015. The show features three of the brand’s creative worlds: Chanel No. 5, the iconic scent launched in 1921; Bijoux de Diamants, the jewelry collection designed by Gabrielle Chanel in 1932; and of course haute couture, […]

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Lorraine Warren, a renowned paranormal investigator and custodian of what’s arguably the world’s most famous haunted doll, has died at age 92. On Friday, Lorraine’s son-in-law, Tony Spera, posted an announcement to the Facebook page for the New England Society for Psychic Research, which Lorraine and her late husband Ed Warren founded in 1952. “She […]

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Note to self, and to anyone else who has ever dreamed, thought, or tweeted a variation on “Jason Momoa slap me”: If the cruel fates of Game of Throneshave taught us anything, it’s to be careful what you wish for. On Thursday’s episode of HBO’s animated Backstories web series, GOT showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss recounted the story of […]

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In recent months, measles — a disease once effectively eradicated in the United States — has broken out in several regions across the country, including Brooklyn (where Mayor Bill de Blasio declared the disease a public health emergency), Washington state, and Michigan. Regions most affected have been those where immunization is low, a problem that’s happening […]

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