The newly launched website, accessible at merchshop.jollibeefoods.com, boasts a diverse selection of streetwear apparel and accessories. From hoodies, sweatpants, and beanies to tote bags and bucket hats, the Jolly Merch Shop promises a variety of exclusive items for fans to explore. Additionally, the site features limited-edition pieces that will only be available while supplies last, adding…
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As we enter into the second month of summer, Netflix is focusing on the fun and the fresh to keep the party going. On July 5, WHAM! tells the story of the British pop duo through archival interviews and footage of its two members, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. On July 13, in Survival of the Thickest, stand-up comic Michelle Buteau stars as Mavis Beaumont, a stylist who start…
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The podcast bubble is bursting: This year has been filled with a slew of cutbacks and cancellations as major players like Spotify discover that hiring a former royal is no guarantee of retaining an audience. But perhaps podcast producers will return to their roots, turning away from half-baked celebrity series and back to chatty shows where critics talk about culture, to shows with we…
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The headline always comes first. “It’s Harder to Be Sad When the Weather Is Nice, But This Woman Is Still Trying” is one of Reductress co-founder Sarah Pappalardo’s recent favorites. So is “Is There a Doctor on This Plane? Asks Woman Who Wants to F—ck a Doctor.” Pappalardo solicits pitches for these headlines from their staff of six and freelancers and …
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A Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford can open doors to elite worlds—to a life spent in boardrooms and at gilded galas. Bill Clinton, for example, famously smoked (though “didn’t inhale”) marijuana there before becoming President. Pete Buttigieg served as his cohort’s whiskey purveyor before serving as a Cabinet Secretary.
But Texas-born Jaz Brisac…
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It’s easy to see why Adam Aron is so popular with the meme stock crowd. The eccentric AMC Entertainment Holdings CEO is refusing to take a pay increase in 2023. A few days before the new year, he tweeted that he and his leadership team plan to freeze their salaries as the struggling movie theater chain attempts recovery from pandemic lockdowns.
“No increase for those at…
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A lawyer representing Facebook’s parent company Meta called on a judge to “crack the whip” against a Black South African whistleblower on Monday, requesting a gagging order to prevent him from speaking to the media.
The whistleblower, Daniel Motaung, was paid $2.20 per hour to be a Facebook content moderator in Kenya. He was fired by Facebook’s outsourcing partner,…
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When Sam Bansfield first started working as a material handler at General Electric’s Lynn, Massachusetts plant in 2012, she remembers the noise—the loud clanking of her coworkers in the piece-making wing of the jet engine factory.
Nowadays, she says, the place is painfully quiet. “You can hear everybody,” she says. “There’s no machines running. There…
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When Deepica Mutyala partnered her beauty brand with Mattel to launch the first ever South Asian CEO Barbie doll—made in Mutyala’s image—she wanted to make sure it was authentic. Growing up in Sugar Land, Texas, she’d had to navigate both colorism within her South Asian community and Western beauty standards outside of it. (She recalls wearing blue contact lenses and hig…
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