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Jeong says that Mad About Seafood is far from just a whistle-stop tour of Korea’s culinary highlights, but instead, an in-depth program about culture and heritage that also provided space for Lee to share more about his identity as a Korean-American.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
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The Life of a Showgirl, produced and written by the singer herself along with hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback, was thought to be a return to some of her most standard pop albums, like 1989, but instead leaned more towards a mix of Evermore and Midnights.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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The shoe has moved fluidly through fashion eras, first embraced as a practical but polished pump and later evolving into an entire family of silhouettes — including the Varina flat introduced in 2007, the Vanna ballet flat style, slingbacks, mary janes and sandal iterations.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Dark matter, first proposed in the 1930s, is thought to make up roughly a quarter of the universe.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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