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Curio at Faena Bazaar’s annual sale lets shoppers strut into holiday season in style — and savings

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

Big name designers come with big price tags, but not this time. You can get designers like Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and so many others at half price, this weekend only. You’ll be strutting into the holiday season in style and savings!Store Manager in “Wizards of Waverly Place”: “These sales get crazier and crazier every year.”Get ready to shop till you drop during Curio at Faena Bazaar’s annual sale.Danielle Licata: “Curio is a multi-floor shopping experience where you can get men’s, women’s, full lifestyle clothing offerings, from shoes to swim to going out clothes or wedding attire.”Think all your favorite luxury brands in one place, up to 50% off and up!Danielle Licata: “Big designers that you guys would definitely know — like Dolce & Gabana and Etro, Zimmermann — to very small brands that are either hand-picked by us through our travels, or things that are made just for us as private label.”...

Meet Alf Dubs: The child refugee who became a UK parliament grandee

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music As war rages in the Middle East, host Jack Blanchard sits down with Alf Dubs, the 91-year-old Labour peer who arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport — which organized the rescue of children from the Nazis — aged just six. Dubs reflects on his experiences as a child refugee i...

The race to regulate AI before it’s too late

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music It has been a big week for the world’s key players in the race to regulate AI development and make it safe. In this episode of EU Confidential, we bring you a roundup of where things stand — after the AI Safety Summit, organized by U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak; the pub...

The mysterious case of the MEP lovers and the disappearing EU pharma report

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

A report published by an obscure EU panel without legislative powers risks turning into a political powder keg after it was published online and then taken down again — apparently at the behest of two center-right MEPs who are also in a romantic relationship. Both Pernille Weiss and Christian Ehler sit on the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA). In fact, Ehler chairs it. The fact that the pair are in a relationship risks casting a shadow on the appropriateness of the decision to withdraw the report by a panel that is, in theory, a non-partisan body that commissions external scientists to produce useful research for the EU Parliament.The report, on Europe’s market for pharmaceuticals, was published on Friday — POLITICO saved a copy here. By Monday it was gone, replaced by a broken link.POLITICO has been given different reasons for why the study was taken down. What’s certain is that the topic — people’s access t...

Van Zile: Tania Fernandes Anderson owes Boston an apology

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

Tania Fernandes Anderson, who represents Roxbury, Dorchester and part of the South End on the Boston City Council, owes Boston’s Jews, veterans and current members of the military an apology. The councilor, who has previously violated the state ethics code by hiring family members to serve on her staff, has, with her recent actions desecrated the memory of the city’s veterans, promoted hostility toward Jews, and has affirmed an atrocity story that has incited attacks not only against Jews throughout the world, but on American interests in the Middle East. In sum, Councilor Anderson has made life more dangerous and uncertain for Bostonians she was elected to serve.Anderson’s antics were on full display at an Oct. 18 meeting of the Boston City Council where, in addition to blocking the passage of a resolution affirming Boston’s solidarity with Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, she put forth a resolution of her own that called for a ceasefire and described the massacr...

Wrong notes keep ‘Priscilla’ from being a hit

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

Based on the 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me” by Priscilla Presley, Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” is a big cup of weak tea, especially measured against Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 effort “Elvis” with the Oscar-nominated, star-making turn by Austin Butler in the lead role. “Priscilla” is the minimalist Elvis-centric film compared with Luhrmann’s maximalist entry.“Priscilla” gives us the visually mismatched Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny as its doomed lovers. He’s 6’5”; she’s 5’1.” The height difference makes Elordi’s Elvis seem like the villainous giant in this fairy tale in more ways than one. It starts in West Germany in 1959, where 24-year-old Elvis is in the Air Force and 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu meet. Elvis invokes the tendency of rock stars of that period taking up with underage girls by playing rival Jerry Lee Lewis’s rendition of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” on a piano.Cue Frankie Avalon’s “Venus,” and, yes, “ple...

Barbara Eden brings her magic to RI Comic Con

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

At 92 with a career going back 70 years, Barbara Eden still feels the love for what she does.A trouper who’s done it all – stage, cinema, TV, nightclubs, records— Eden attends Rhode Island’s Comic Con in Providence Saturday and SundayIt won’t, surprisingly, be all “Jeannie! Jeannie! Jeannie!” fans who 38 years later still adore her touchstone series “I Dream of Jeannie.”“Or course it’s mostly ‘Jeannie’ but a lot of people now, according to my fan mail I’m getting all over the world, are seeing these older movies that I did at Fox with Elvis (“Flaming Star’) and Pat Boone (‘All Hands on Deck’), and the Irwin Allen films (‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’). That always surprises me. Or they will see one episode I did for ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ –  ‘The Manicurist’ – and they will have photographs of the show and I sign them.”Born in Tucson and raised in San Francisco, Eden settled into Hollywood’s all-girl Studio Club for aspiring actresses. ...

Editorial: Nee-Walsh at-large choice

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

Bridget Nee-Walsh is just what the Boston City Council needs — badly — today.She’s a single mom who said in a recent candidate interview that she can do all that and “still hold your composure and be a professional.” She’s a 44-year-old union ironworker from South Boston and is locked in a tight race for an open at-large seat.Her chief rival is Henry Santana, who has won the endorsement of Mayor Michelle Wu. Santana, 27, emigrated from the Dominican Republic as a child, and became a U.S. citizen at 17. His is a great story, but he has admitted he registered to vote just this year and cast his first vote in the preliminary election held Sept. 12.It’s clear the City Council, too often splintered and known more for being in the headlines than making wise decisions, should not be a training ground for novice politicians. No votes? For an at-large seat?The city could use another mature voice of reason and that person is Bridget Nee-Walsh.Give San...

Adams: China is exploiting our minerals weakness

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

For years, savvy policymakers have called America’s alarming mineral import reliance our Achilles’ heel. Now, China has zeroed in on it.As the U.S. outsourced its supply chains – and much of our industrial base – over the past few decades, our alarming dependence on overseas mineral production has reached catastrophic depths. The U.S. is now import-reliant on 51 minerals essential to nearly every dimension of our economy, energy future, and national security. China is the leading supplier of a stunning 26.Our astonishing minerals weakness has quickly become China’s strength. China already dominates mineral supply chains, particularly metals essential to the energy transition, which is already driving soaring mineral demand.We have provided China with geopolitical leverage on a silver platter. And as competition with Beijing has escalated to trade confrontation over intellectual property and control over critical industries – such as semiconductor production – China has unsurprisingl...

Stellar comedy ‘Quiz Lady’ comes up a winner

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:32 GMT

Awkwafina aka Karen Lum has been a regular sidekick and supporting cast member in several recent films. She voiced Scuttle in the recent “The Little Mermaid” reboot and was third-billed in this year’s “Renfield.” In “Quiz Lady,” she plays the title role of Annie Yum, a nondescript worker stuck in the back of an office, who lives alone with her beloved bulldog Mr. Linguini and obsessively watches (and successfully beats) her favorite game show “Can’t Stop the Quiz.”The show has had the same host for decades. His name is Terry McTeer (Will Ferrell, playing yet another eccentric TV figure), and any resemblance to Alex Trebek late of “Jeopardy” fame is accidental, I’m sure. Terry has catchphrases and wears a bow tie only once per show and then has the tie mounted on the studio’s walls. Currently, the show has a long-running champion, a thoroughly annoying individual named Ron Heacock (Jason Schwartzman), whose bleached teeth look radioactive. Ron is a loathsomely...