Author: Michelle Korhonen
The boss of the UK’s largest nightclub operator has blamed clean-living students unwilling to go out during the week for the closure of some of its clubs.Rekom UK, who own the PRYZM and Atik club brands, announced the closure of 17 of their venues earlier this month with the loss of 500 jobs.Company CEO Peter Marks said the rise in the cost of living and a drop in students’ alcohol consumption had also affected his business, which had 50 sites.Speaking to the BBC, he pointed out that a recent midweek trip to Leeds had opened his eyes to the scale…
Growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, my best friend and I lived only a quarter mile apart as the crow flies. We had nearly identical houses, both clad in a blend of brick and vinyl that allowed our newly minted middle-class parents to signal status without breaking the bank. Getting to each other’s homes should have been simple.The trouble was, we lived on opposite ends of two cul-de-sac neighborhoods, each fronting a busy corridor that had once been a farm road. A strictly legal trip from his house to mine involved a 25-minute, mile-long trek along aimless streets, largely without a…
Shops roared back from a dire Christmas last month fuelling hopes that Britain might already be out of recession.Retail sales saw the biggest single monthly rise in close to three years, with volumes soaring 3.4 per cent during January.That was far better than had been expected by analysts, and offset a dismal performance in December when the level fell 3.3 per cent.Supermarkets were among the winners, although the ONS said the recovery was broad-based. It was the fastest increase since April 2021, the month when non-essential retailers were allowed to reopen following the third national lockdown for the Covid-19 pandemic. Retail sales…
A huge Valentine’s Day balloon drop in Russia, Carnival festivities in several countries, a town-wide football match in England, sumo wrestling for youngsters in Japan, the Super Bowl Halftime Show in Las Vegas, a destructive wildfire in New Zealand, diving at the World Aquatics Championship in Qatar, and much more
A couple of years ago I started losing weight very rapidly, for no apparent reason. The pounds were falling off me, even as I waited for an appointment to see my GP.My clothes no longer fitted: the waist of my trousers suddenly sat on my hips. I thought, ‘This is it, not only has some disease invaded my brain, but now my body, too.’I was convinced I had cancer. ‘You know I don’t want treatment?’ I told my GP.‘Yes,’ she said, ‘but let’s cross that bridge if we come to it’.I pictured having to break the news to my two…
There is an open secret in the study of child development: Most of what we think we know about how babies develop is actually based on a specific subset of kids—those born to families from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (a.k.a. WEIRD) nations. The acronym was first coined in an influential 2010 paper to describe the wildly unrepresentative populations that many psychology studies have long relied on. This is an issue in the field generally, and certainly a thorny problem in developmental psychology, which primarily studies children: According to one paper, WEIRD subjects make up 96 percent of the…
It star Bill Skarsgård was fined Wednesday around $3,825 in connection with a possession of marijuana arrest at Stockholm, Sweden‘s Arlanda Airport that occurred back in October.Authorities said the 33-year-old actor, who plays the role of Pennywise in the horror franchise, had been detained with 2.43 grams of marijuana at the time of his arrest at the travel hub, TMZ reported on Thursday.The Stockholm, Sweden native entered a guilty plea to the allegations and was fined a total of 40,000 Swedish krona, which translates to $3,825 in U.S. dollars, in connection with the offense.Skarsgård will not have to serve any time in…
A perfect day in Los Angeles starts with a stroll along the Venice Beach boardwalk. Then a ride on the Ferris wheel in neighboring Santa Monica. Then visit the Getty Museum, some nine miles away by car. After that, Beverly Hills, then Hollywood to see the Walk of Fame, then Griffith Park for a hike, then Chinatown for dim sum, then downtown, perhaps to catch an evening show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.Or at least, that’s what a chatbot thinks a “perfect day” is. This agenda was custom-made for me by Microsoft Copilot after I told it I had…
Jermain Defoe has revealed his disgust at the sick Sheffield Wednesday fan who taunted Sunderland supporters by mocking the death of Bradley Lowery.Dale Houghton, 32, was seen laughing as he held up an image of the six-year-old cancer victim on his phone during a Championship match at Hillsborough in September. The yob was later given a 12-week suspended prison sentence.Defoe struck up a special friendship with Bradley – who died from neuroblastoma in July 2017 – during his playing days at Sunderland.Asked how he felt about what happened at Hillsborough, he told Mail Sport: ‘You just think, “What kind of…
A new study shows that an Ebola vaccine can cut mortality figures of those infected in half.