Director James Mangold is enthusiastic about his latest film, “Ford v Ferrari.” It’s centered around American car designer Carroll Shelby, played by Matt Damon, and British race car driver Ken Miles, played by Christian Bale. In this episode of “The Reel,” Mangold sits down with host Mark Olsen to talk about what’s behind his latest […]
Literary translator and author Jennifer Croft translated 2019 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Flights” from Polish into English. Croft recalls that after the two shared the Booker Prize last year, she began referring to the novel as “our love child.” But Croft’s joke also made a serious point about her role in making a […]
The world’s first Nutella cafe opened in Chicago last May and a New York site followed this fall. Now fans of the popular hazelnut and cocoa spread can stay inside a pop-up Hotella Nutella in California’s Napa Valley — but only for a weekend. Instead of making a reservation, you must submit a 60-second video […]
Which is the most stressful job at an airline? Pilot? Flight attendant? Lost-baggage troubleshooter? Chief executive? If you chose one of those positions, I would respectfully disagree. As a flight attendant employed at a legacy carrier for more than 30 years, I’ve had a ringside seat to what customer service agents endure. From where I […]
If someone walked up to you and asked for $5 for no reason, would you hand it over? How about $18? Would you mind terribly leaving that behind? Welcome to your most recent helping of outrage. My name is Catharine Hamm, and I’m lucky to work with a couple of guys who pinch pennies as […]
1/10 Born in England and raised in London and Scotland, Kathryn Ireland arrived in Los Angeles in 1986. Prior to launching her interior design business in the early 1990s, Ireland was an actress, clothing designer and filmmaker. Today she is considered one of the most influential interior and textile designers in the world, and recently […]
When New York’s climate change lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. went on trial last month in a Manhattan courtroom, the energy giant’s lead lawyer took great pains to emphasize that the state’s allegations weren’t really about climate change. After all, Theodore Wells said, Exxon was accused of hatching a cynical scheme to mislead investors. The […]
Full results from Free Practice 3 for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, round 13 of the 2019 Formula 1 world championship. Click Here: pandora Bracelets 2019 Belgian Grand Prix – Free Practice 3 results Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps 1 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:44.206s 9 2 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:44.657s + 0.451s 12 […]
For anyone who has grown up in the computer technology era, the recent histories of HP (that is, Hewlett Packard) and Xerox must elicit nothing but sadness. What’s saddest of all is the idea that merging these two doddering old hulks may be the only way to save them. HP and Xerox have a few […]
SEOUL — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday he was certain that the awarding of a $10-billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was done fairly. The Pentagon awarded the contract to Microsoft in late October, and Amazon said that there was “unmistakable bias” on the government’s part and that it intended to challenge […]