Free hot dogs. Free fried olives. Free truffle popcorn. Did we mention it was free?Need I say more? I suppose I will, mainly for the sake of hitting my required word count. In, sorry, this economy, free stuff is the ultimate treat. Especially at a bar or resta... More »
“Shared Destinies” (2014), welded steel, 85.5 x 108 x 85 centimeters. Photos by Geoffrey Quelle. All images © John Pai, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Hyundai, shared with permissionJohn Pai Transforms Steel Into Delicate, Airy SculpturesSeptember 12... More »
Six decades after its birth as an elegant refuge for Manhattan’s elite, the Midtown restaurant says ‘adieu’ this week.La Grenouille, the last survivor of an elegant corps of French restaurants that arrived in New York in the 1960s and helped secure the city’s ... More »
The latest episode of The Silky Mitten State is live!It wasn't a busy week around hockey in the great state of Michigan, but we cover all of what little there is. We get started with a contrived Axel Sandin-Pellikka vs. Lane Hutson debate, considering the rela... More »
EPAThe UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says six of its employees have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school it runs in central Gaza. More »
Apple at its iPhone event Monday premiered the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models, as well as the new Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4 devices (see everything Apple revealed at the iPhone 16 launch event). When those phones hit the shelves on September ... More »
The SummaryBoeing officials have made few public comments about the company's Starliner spacecraft over the last six weeks.The capsule returned to Earth on Saturday without a crew, ending a problem-plagued test flight.Boeing representatives did not appear at t... More »
Illustration of the end-Permian extinction event, when extreme temperatures may have killed off forestsRICHARD JONES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The Great Dying at the end of the Permian Period 250 million years ago may have been amplified by El Niño events far stro... More »
Part of a mountain and glacier alongside Dickson Fjord in Greenland in August 2023 (left), and the same spot after a landslide in September 2023Søren Rysgaard/Danish Army On 16 September 2023, seismic monitoring stations around the world detected a strange sig... More »
The greatest extinction in Earth’s history may have begun not just with a bang, but also a change in the wind. Some 250 million years ago, more than 80% of marine species and two-thirds of those on land died off in the end-Permian mass extinction—the closest l... More »
In FocusA time-lapse image of satellite tracks, taken in Montana over 1 hour, won a commendation this week from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The photographer, Matt Jackson, says he wanted to hel... More »
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable.In his ruling, state District Judge Bruce Romanick also said tha... More »