On a cool, drizzly day in Oakland, California, the film director Boots Riley often seemed less like a person than like a landmark—clockable from a distance.
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Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
On a drizzly summer night, Adams signed and signed.
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New York Daily News,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
There have been several incarnations since, all with shapeshifting powers that transform their drippy clay body structures; all have been adversaries of Batman.
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Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
14 Apr. 2026
Austin had a particularly itchy and drippy cedar fever season to start the year.
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Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Mar. 2026
In an update on Friday night, Covey said emergency crews have been able to maintain the temperature of the tank by continuously spraying it with water.
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Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
The district also may conduct targeted ground spraying to reduce adult mosquito populations.
Ciudad Perdida, Colombia Hidden deep within the misty peaks of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the ancient city of Teyuna—better known as Ciudad Perdida—is one of South America’s most extraordinary archaeological sites.
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Carla Vianna,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Apr. 2026
Today’s fear that AI might wipe out vast swaths of jobs across the economy—not in some misty future, but in just a few years—is a relatively new phenomenon.
Photos from the rainy Buckingham Palace gathering — complete with umbrellas and overcast skies — further echoed familiar scenes from the late monarch’s reign.
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Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
That's it on this rainy Tuesday with 36 holes of golf on my schedule this week.
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