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Marram Montauk

from InsideHook We Found America’s Chillest Hotel at the End of the World Marram Montauk merchants in vibes, waves and s’mores. You will leave relaxed and recharged, whether you like it or not. BY TANNER GARRITY Read McKendree I left my balcony door open both nights at Marram Montauk last week, with only a screen and […]

Longest Home Run Ever

NYFU FWD

from One Sports Exclusive: Behind New York Fury’s quest to build a new era in Valorant Always moving forward. BY WANZI KOH The New York Fury is ready to create a new era for its organization, unveiling a brand new Valorant roster ahead of VCT NA Stage 2 Challengers. Built around former Version1 in-game leader Chad “Oderus” Miller, […]

Streaming Crickets

from SFGate Spotify podcasters are making $18,000 a month with nothing but white noise by Ashley Carman, Bloomberg News Calming sounds of white noise podcasts are bringing in one podcaster $18,000 per month. (Rachel Austin/The University Of Western Australia via AP) People on the prowl for a new podcast to consume often go for a stimulating […]

Lido Gone

from AP Show’s over for famed cabaret show at France’s Lido By JADE LE DELEY PARIS (AP) — It’s the end of an era for the famed Lido cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees. Amid financial troubles and changing times, the venue’s new corporate owner is ditching most of the Lido’s staff and its high-kicking, high-glamour dance […]

Mort Janklow Gone

from The Washington Post Mort Janklow, literary agent who brokered gargantuan advances, dies at 91 His clients included Ronald Reagan, Al Gore, David McCullough, Barbara Walters and Danielle Steel By Associated Press Mort Janklow, a former corporate lawyer who raised high the power of the literary agent as he brokered gargantuan advances for publishing political and […]

Book Blobs

from Inside Hook Why Do All Books Suddenly Look the Same? The ubiquitous “blob” cover is a combination of content, design and, yes, clickability BY TRISH ROONEY Why are all books so abstract? / Getty, Riverhead Books, One World, Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book You probably already know what the hottest new fiction book of the […]

AC GOOD BAD

from Vox The air conditioning paradox How do we cool people without heating up the planet? By Umair Irfan A woman fans her child with a sheet of paper as a fan sits idle amid a power outage during a heat wave in Jacobabad, Pakistan, on May 11. Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images The world is now […]

Dead Planes

from ABC 15 The Boneyard: World’s largest airplane graveyard is in Tucson, Arizona By: Kari Steele What happens to our nation’s militarized aircraft when it’s time to toss it? Welcome to the largest aircraft graveyard in the world, The Boneyard! See all of the cool planes and space aircraft in the video above! The Boneyard is […]

Go Go Gonzo!

from The Washington Post via MSN The gonzo journalist who forever changed political campaign coverage by Jason Vest It was presidential campaign reporting unlike anything seen before. The reporter made it clear: He had no desire to join the permanent Washington press corps, or ever cover politics full time, and indeed he never did. He […]