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Month: March 2020

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Taylor Swift’s Dad Fought Off Home Intruder At Florida Penthouse Apartment – DETAILS! – Perez Hilton

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Thank goodness Taylor Swift‘s dad is safe and sound after a truly horrifying ordeal. Scott Swift reportedly had a very scary encounter last month when he happened upon an intruder in his penthouse in St. Petersburg, Florida. According to Pinellas County court documents recently unearthed by the Tampa Bay Times, the incident actually occurred on January 17, even though it’s only being reported publicly now. Per the court docs, a man named Terrence Hoover snuck past the “fully gated and guarded entrance” to the property and made a mad dash towards the building’s…

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At Tock, this restaurant group owner and former trader is building a Spotify for reservations

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Tock, a six-year-old, Chicago-based culinary reservation service, has never had the kind of brand-recognition that other companies in the space have enjoyed, from publicly traded OpenTable to Resy, the New York-based company that was founded in 2014 and acquired last year for undisclosed terms by American Express. That’s because Tock has relatively quietly been supporting customers, many of them high-end restaurants like French Laundry that, with Tock’s encouragement, began selling prepaid “tickets” for meals years ago. These aren’t unlike buying tickets to a concert or NBA game, sometimes weeks or…

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Code Orange: Underneath review a thrilling new form of molten metal

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The Pittsburgh quintet marry technical mastery with genre-fusing risk in a record of poetry and spectacular potency Despite its reputation as the satanic scourge of curtain-twitching suburbia, metal can be prone to the kind of squabbling you might see at a parish council meeting, with endless taxonomic arguments about whether something is death or thrash or black metal. Such petty bloviating is silenced by Grammy-nominated Pittsburgh quintet Code Orange, whose fourth album throws thrash, hardcore punk, math rock, sludge, metalcore, industrial, screamo, grunge, nu-metal and classic rock into a centrifuge,…

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Is My Dark Vanessa the most controversial novel of the year? Author Kate Elizabeth Russell speaks out

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Exploring issues of abuse and consent, Russells novel My Dark Vanessa could not be more timely. She talks about the pressure to write a likeable victim and the line between fiction and memoir When, in 2018, Kate Elizabeth Russells agent presented publishers with her first novel, Kristen Roupenian. After years spent studying in near-penury, having money in the bank feels weird, Russell tells me. She had always told her husband, who works in academia: Ill move wherever you get a job, just dont expect me to bring in money. In…

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First Listen: IG Star Charly Jordan’s New Single “Blackstrap Molasses” | Betches

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Instagram influencers pretty often over here, but all that means is that you can trust us to know which ones are legit. And let me tell you, Charly Jordan (@charlyjordan) is super legit. The 21-year-old is already a model and photographer, and today (March 13th) she marks her entrance into the music industry with the release of her debut single, “Blackstrap Molasses” at a kick-off at Hakkasan in Las Vegas. Betches was lucky enough to get the single a few hours ahead of its official release and talk to Charly…

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Arweaves permaweb stops coronavirus censorship, raises $8M

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The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter. But before it can, that content is being saved, decentralized and highlighted thanks to Arweave’s permaweb. Today it’s announcing another $8.3 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Coinbase Ventures. Arweave has developed a new type of blockchain based on Moore’s Law of the declining cost of data storage. Users pay upfront for a hundred years of storage at less than a cent per megabyte, and the…

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Coachella Is Being Postponed Over Coronavirus Concerns | Betches

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UPDATED: Goldenvoice released a statement Tuesday evening confirming that Coachella is being postponed, writing, “At the direction of the County of Riverside and local health authorities, we must sadly confirm the rescheduling of Coachella and Stagecoach due to COVID-19 concerns. While this decision comes at a time of universal uncertainty, we take the safety and health of our guests, staff and community very seriously.” They added that Coachella 2020 will now take place October 9-11 and October 16-18; Stagecoach will take place October 23-25, 2020. All April tickets will be…

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Starbucks’ New Iced Pineapple Matcha Drink Is A Perfectly Sweet Sip

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Starbucks What Does Starbucks’ Iced Pineapple Matcha Drink Taste Like? It’s Perfectly Sweet By Daffany Chan March 3, 2020 Starbucks unveiled a new collection of spring sips that’ll keep you refreshed throughout the day. The lineup includes two exciting non-dairy options: the Iced Golden Ginger Drink and the Iced Pineapple Matcha Drink. If you’re wondering what Starbucks’ Iced Pineapple Matcha Drink tastes like, read on for more details. Beginning on Tuesday, March 3, customers can get their hands on exciting seasonal drinks at the coffee chain. The bright green Iced…

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