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...The company behind the Bored Ape crypto art craze has said it is looking into reports that some attendees suffered “eye burn” from bright light displays at an event it hosted over the weekend in Hong Kong...
...While I was having a coffee on one of the comfortable lounge sofas, I noticed a pop-up stand serving ice cream in cones, while decadent cakes and pastries produced by the in-house patisserie were on display...
...Chef Christophe Bellanca, Joël Robuchon USA’s former culinary director, gets to the essence of his ingredients....
...The term “stagflation” is beginning to pop up with worrying regularity....
...Wood pops on to my laptop screen, instantly recognisable by her trademark horn-rimmed glasses and poker straight hair....
...Visits to its website, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and USA Today were all down by at least 10 per cent year on year this July, according to ComScore....
...Xi vs fan armies in crackdown on celebrity culture In its latest crackdown on popular culture, the Chinese government has taken aim at K-pop fan armies and supposedly “effeminate” men....
...Then came the release of last year’s album Western Stars, a whimsical exercise in the un-Bruce-like register of orchestral country-pop....
...would be shown a pop-up flagging official information....
...Five years later, the designs are also available in the UK, France, USA and Hong Kong....
...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...When you enter, you are struck by a display of candlesticks....
...The vast billboards around Tehran are now fading in the sunlight, the ubiquitous portraits of scowling ayatollahs, the crude graphics proclaiming “Down with the USA”, the expansive murals depicting US military...
...The average price Mr Ergen paid for his spectrum before the recent auction was about 30 cents per megahertz-pop (the standard industry measurement) — a fraction of the $2.71/MHz-pop paid in the recent government...
...Twitter also taps up pop stars, sportspeople and politicians....
...On the opposite end of the subtlety spectrum, pop designer extraordinaire Henry Holland took the 1960s rock groupie as inspiration....
...The Canadian historian’s talent for selecting the most telling anecdotes and quotations is on fine display....
...Their vocal harmonies and vibrant musicianship gave the antique surf-pop maestros a magnificent backing. They needed it....
...The work, a portrait of the Earl of Essex driving out peasants from Ireland, was put aside after an argument over the terms of its display in an exhibition....
...But Borders, like every mom-and-pop, bricks-and-mortar, non-virtual bookstore, would now be in trouble no matter what it had done....
...It has pitched in-text advertising – the commercial messages that pop up when your cursor hovers over a hyperlinked word in the text – as being able to “bridge the gap between search and display” advertising...
...Hopefully we will not stick to beer but will also pop some champagne bottles in celebration of victory!...
...Nokia’s Nuron 5230, which was launched this week by T-Mobile USA – a similar model, the Nokia 5230, is available in Europe – epitomises this new sub-category....
...“Nowhereville, USA” is one unkind description of Bentonville, Arkansas, but the town (pop: 20,000) boasts the headquarters of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart....
...But, he says, now London only has a “tiny footprint” compared with Belgium, France or the USA....
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