Americans Want Tighter Railroad Regulations After The Ohio Train Derailment
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Last Saturday, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Springfield, Ohio, taking out power for over 1,000 people and prompting authorities to issue a temporary shelter-in-place order for nearby residents. And no, this wasn’t the oneContinue Reading
Arts Industries Represented $1 Trillion of the US Economy in 2021 – ARTnews.com
The arts and culture sectors represented more than $1 trillion of the US economy in 2021 and accounted for a record portion of country’s overall economic value, per new data from the government. On Wednesday, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) published their latest analysisContinue Reading
TikTok’s White Eyeliner Trend: Lady Gaga’s Makeup Artist Shares Tips
The white eyeliner really pops, Sarah shared, when it’s stacked with another color. As she noted, “You can create a giant white wing artistry look like we did in the ‘Rain On Me’ music video, then paint the whole lid.” For those preferring a more subtle style but still want toContinue Reading
The sporting weekend in pictures
Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Irish eyes were smiling on St Patrick’s Day weekend as Six Nations victory over England wrapped up a Grand SlamContinue Reading
Announcing the TC Include Founders program at Disrupt 2023
We firmly believe that all founders must have access to the tech world’s immense opportunities — and to our events. The TechCrunch Include Founders program is designed to promote and increase diversity at our events by making them more affordable to historically underrepresented founders. Building more diversity at TechCrunch DisruptContinue Reading
The Polls Were Historically Accurate In 2022
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Let’s give a big round of applause to the pollsters. Measuring public opinion is, in many ways, harder than ever — and yet, the polling industry just had one of its most successful election cycles in U.S. history. Despite a loud chorusContinue Reading
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Pointed and Poetic Forms of Storytelling – ARTnews.com
Born in 1976 in Saigon, Nguyen emigrated with his family as a refugee to the United States in 1979, and grew up in California. He began regularly visiting Vietnam during college, and after receiving his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2004, relocated to Ho Chi Minh City,Continue Reading
Inside Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song’s Unexpected Love Story
Upon their return to Los Angeles, the first sighting on record of Song and Culkin occurred in July 2017 during the dinner rush at Craig’s in West Hollywood, a celeb-packed haunt where you don’t go if you’re trying to keep a relationship quiet. They were spotted holding hands on what an eyewitness describedContinue Reading
Ireland 29-16 England LIVE! Six Nations 2023 result, match stream and reaction as Irish win Grand Slam
Six Nations Super Saturday concluded with a huge clash between old rivals in Dublin this evening. The stage was set for the world’s top-ranked team to clinch a memorable Grand Slam on home soil after a fantastic tournament and send out another major warning shot as they try to endContinue Reading
Elemental aims to pump $43M into climate startups with ‘deep community impact’
Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate-tech startups including BlocPower and ChargerHelp, says it’s “doubling down” in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank‘s collapse. Elemental intends to pump $43 million more into climate-tech startups — $13 million of which will be set aside for its twelfth accelerator program, beginning in October. TheContinue Reading
