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Food & Drink

It’s National Cheese Fondue Day!

Okay cheese lovers, the fondue is back, and it's better than ever. We here in America are seeing a resurgence of a 1970s dinner-party set piece, and across the pond, Oxford University research has concluded that the fondue’s potential as a sharing dish and conversation piece is part of the attraction, but the comforting enveloping nature of all that melted cheese-y goodness doesn't hurt, either. What better excuse to break […]

todayApril 11, 2022

Weather Nerd

19 Named Storms are Expected this Hurricane Season, Topping the last Two Years’ Count

After two consecutive years of exhausting the hurricane name list, this year is predicted to top those numbers, as 19 named storms are expected this hurricane season, five more than normal. Of the 19 storms predicted for 2022, nine are expected to become hurricanes, and four are expected to become major hurricanes -- Category 3 or higher -- with winds exceeding 111 miles per hour, according to hurricane experts at […]

todayApril 11, 2022

Tech Made Simple

SpaceX Dragon docks at International Space Station with All-Private Ax-1 Astronaut Crew

The groundbreaking Ax-1 mission has arrived at its off-Earth destination over the weekend. Space.com reports that the SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four Ax-1 mission astronauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT) on April 9, ending an orbital chase that began Friday morning (April 8) with a launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The docking was delayed about 44 minutes due to a […]

todayApril 11, 2022

Food & Drink

The House Just Passed $42 Billion in Additional Relief for Restaurants

Few sectors were hit as hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as the hospitality industry, with restaurants and bar closures serving as a frontline defense against social mixing. And yet, many of these businesses have struggled to get relief funding. As Food and Wine reports, despite multiple iterations, the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program proved problematic and controversial. And more recently, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund only provided compensation to about a third of businesses that applied […]

todayApril 11, 2022

Fashion

Chromat’s collaboration with Tourmaline is officially Live

Chromat's Spring 2022 collection, created in collaboration with artist Tourmaline, was billed when it debuted on the September "runway" at Riis Park beach in Queens, New York, a historic gathering place for the LGBTQIA+ community, as a "future-forward bodywear" and "swimwear for girls who don't tuck, trans femmes, non-binary and trans masc people who pack, intersex people, women, men and everyone embracing Collective Opulence Celebrating Kindred." Artist and activist Tourmaline (who directed "Joy […]

todayApril 11, 2022

Health & Wellness

Dyson plans to launch New Bluetooth Headphones that Double as Air Purifyers this Fall

Who needs a face mask? Dyson has announced its first wearable product that builds the firm’s air purification expertise into a set of Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones aimed at city dwellers wanting to avoid polluted air. It delivers purified air to the mouth and nose while simultaneously tackling noise pollution through its active noise cancelling technology. Cancels out noise and air pollution?  Sounds great!  But there is one drawback, because […]

todayApril 7, 2022

Food & Drink

U.S. Avian Flu Outbreak means Higher Egg Prices right before Easter and Passover

As consumers continue to feel the crunch at the grocery store checkout, eggs are the latest product predicted to surge in price. Prices are expected to climb amid the seasonal demand during Easter and Passover with the outbreak expected to make prices even more expensive. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), 21 states have confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly […]

todayApril 7, 2022

Food & Drink

Pabst Labs Opens Cannabis-Focused Beverage Factory, Triples Capacity for THC-Infused Drinks

Part of the appeal of Pabst Blue Ribbon is the brand's underdog story. Practically forgotten by the turn of the millennium, a groundswell of support helped bring the brand back to its current prominence.  Among Pabst many innovations over the past few years — including hard coffee, hard seltzer, hard tea, and whiskey (no "hard" needed) — in 2020, now Pabst has granted the rights to Pabst Labs to begin […]

todayApril 7, 2022

Home Improvement

New Study reveals that Pets may actually Attract Buyers to Homes

Signs of pets in homes for sale don’t spook potential buyers, and may even be appealing to some home shoppers, says a new study from Quicken Loans. According to the study, seventy-nine percent of buyers making an offer on a home say seeing signs of a pet in a property won’t deter them, as long as damage from the pet isn’t present. Nearly two in 10 respondents said that seeing […]

todayApril 7, 2022

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