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
Use a damp microfiber cloth and a dusting brush or a vacuum with a brush attachment, and dust everything from the top of the ceiling fan or light fixtures to the baseboards.
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Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
11 May 2026
Boston sports fans are dusting themselves off and wiping away their tears after playoff-ending games by both the Bruins and the Celtics over the weekend, and an extremely rocky start for the Red Sox.
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
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.
In addition to a cushy design, the sneaker also offers great traction, with little grooves on the outsole for grip on everything from shiny airport floors to rainy city streets.
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Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2026
Against the backdrop of a rainy, nocturnal London, O’Shaughnessy reprises his role as photographer Miles who obsessively captures unforgiving, morbid portraits of unaware strangers.
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