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Hundreds of marine species suffocate in toxic algae Hundreds of marine species suffocate in toxic algae In what has been described as a “‘horror movie for fish”, hundreds of species off the *********** coast have been killed by deadly algae in just two months. Source link #Hundreds #marine #species #suffocate #toxic #algae Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

European leaders arrive in Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine – CNN European leaders arrive in Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine – CNN European leaders arrive in Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine CNNZelensky welcomes European leaders in Ukraine in effort to secure ceasefire BBCEuropean leaders meet Zelenskiy in Kyiv to show support after Putin’s parade ReutersEuropean leaders in Ukraine’s Kyiv to press Russia for 30-day ceasefire Al JazeeraUkraine war live: leaders of ***, France, Germany and Poland arrive in Kyiv to push for ceasefire The Guardian Source link #European #leaders #arrive #Kyiv #show #support #Ukraine #CNN Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Essendon hold off fast-finishing Swans challenge Essendon hold off fast-finishing Swans challenge Essendon failed to score from midway through the third quarter but have hung on for a thrilling eight-point win over Sydney at Marvel Stadium. Source link #Essendon #hold #fastfinishing #Swans #challenge Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Ambani’s Reliance pulls trademark application for codename of Pakistan strikes Ambani’s Reliance pulls trademark application for codename of Pakistan strikes By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s film studio has withdrawn an application to trademark the codename for India’s military strikes against Pakistan after a public and political uproar on social media against the move. In a statement, billionaire Ambani’s conglomerate Reliance said the trademark application was filed inadvertently by a junior person at Jio Studios without authorization, adding that the phrase “Operation Sindoor” was “now a part of the national consciousness as an evocative symbol of Indian bravery.” India said it hit “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir earlier this week after militants killed 26 men, mostly Hindu, in Indian Kashmir. Sindoor, which refers to the red vermilion powder worn by married Hindu women, was an apparent reference to the widows left by the attack. Reliance’s statement came hours after some social media users posted screenshots of the Indian government website showing some individuals and Reliance had filed applications for trademark registration. “This isn’t branding, it’s blatant mockery … It’s disturbing to see something so serious being reduced to a joke,” posted an X user who identified herself as Archana Pawar. Aniruddh Sharma, a spokesperson for India’s main opposition Congress party, questioned why Ambani was trying to register the trademark for his business gains. In its application, Reliance said it was for “provision of entertainment; production, presentation and distribution of audio, video”. Bollywood films on India’s previous military operations have been huge hits. In 2019, “Uri”, based on India’s previous “surgical strikes” on alleged Islamist militant launchpads in Pakistani territory, was released in 16 countries including India. Islamabad said at the time there had been no Indian incursion into its territory and there was no retaliation by Pakistani forces. Reliance last year merged its Indian media assets with Walt Disney to create a $8.5 billion entertainment empire, which runs several channels and a streaming platform. (Reporting by Arpan Chaturvedi; Editing by Aditya Kalra and Aidan Lewis) Source link #Ambanis #Reliance #pulls #trademark #application #codename #Pakistan #strikes Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

NBA playoffs results and takeaways: Nuggets beat Thunder in OT to take 2-1 series lead, Cavs top Pacers – The New York Times NBA playoffs results and takeaways: Nuggets beat Thunder in OT to take 2-1 series lead, Cavs top Pacers – The New York Times NBA playoffs results and takeaways: Nuggets beat Thunder in OT to take 2-1 series lead, Cavs top Pacers The New York TimesNuggets rebound, outlast OKC in OT for 2-1 lead ESPNThunder vs. Nuggets odds, prediction, start time: 2025 NBA playoff picks, Game 3 best bets by proven model CBS SportsNBA playoffs: Thunder steamroll Nuggets in Game 2, with postseason-record 87 first-half points Yahoo SportsOKC Thunder can’t take reins of series vs Nuggets, falling into 2-1 hole | 5 takeaways The Oklahoman Source link #NBA #playoffs #results #takeaways #Nuggets #beat #Thunder #series #lead #Cavs #top #Pacers #York #Times Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Book Review: ‘State Champ,’ by Hilary Plum Book Review: ‘State Champ,’ by Hilary Plum STATE CHAMP, by Hilary Plum Though the decision to seek an abortion is an inherently private one, walking into an abortion clinic in the United States can be an uncannily public act. A patient may have to dodge protesters trying to block her path to the building, or hide her face as they brandish photos of fetal remains. This disconnect between the politicization of female bodies and the personal experience of inhabiting them is darkly fitting: Roe v. Wade derived the right to abortion from the right to privacy; after Roe was overturned, individual lives became a matter of communal interest. It is a disconnect that haunts “State Champ,” the sixth book by the novelist, poet and nonfiction writer Hilary Plum. The novel follows Angela Peterson, a 28-year-old receptionist at an abortion clinic in an unnamed Midwestern state where a “heartbeat law” has recently banned most abortions after six weeks. After Angela’s boss, Dr. M, is sentenced to at least 12 years in prison for violating this law, a jobless Angela takes up residence in the defunct clinic and stops eating. Reporters show up to interview and photograph her. The novel takes the form of her hunger strike journal, which she jots on exam table paper. In the public imagination, Angela passes for a noble dissenter. In private, the snarky former state-champion runner with a history of D.U.I.s, a hearty ******* appetite and disordered eating is less saintly. Protest doesn’t come naturally to her: She is “not much of a sign waver.” She struggles to articulate the “goals” of her self-sacrifice. Does she expect it to free Dr. M? Is starving herself a spiritual act? Or is she just a garden-variety “anorexic *****,” as she puts it? “State Champ” admirably resists the interpretive clarity the world craves from Angela. This feels true to the lived experience of protest: It can be alienating to translate the yearning to possess your own body, whether by aborting a fetus or starving yourself, into a public message. “The law is over here, it’s up here, it’s on the surface,” Angela tells one journalist. “When someone gets pregnant, it has to do with her up-here life, but it’s really a conversation the body is having with other bodies, including itself. … The law can’t get at what this is about.” So, during her 39-day strike, Angela communes not with the outside world but with an inner one. Her own inner conversation, driven by self-deprivation, engages with a long lineage of isolated, unraveling female narrators, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s in “The Yellow Wallpaper” to Clarice Lispector’s in “The Passion According to G.H.” Plum’s contributions to this canon are often funny, and pleasantly odd: “Janine’s boobs were her whole point of view,” Angela thinks about her nemesis, an anti-abortion activist with a penchant for handing out baby dolls to the clinic’s patients; 14 days into her fast, Angela muses, “My hunger strike is ovulating.” But Angela’s mental state never quite approaches the madness of her predecessors’ (Gilman’s protagonist is subsumed into the walls that confine her; Lispector’s devours the insides of a dead cockroach and abandons language altogether). And as Angela grows increasingly delirious with hunger, Plum fragments her prose into a kind of self-conscious poetry that strains beneath the weight of the plot. But the pleasure of this book lies not in its plot or even in its characters (Angela is more voice than character), but in the intimacy of its setting: the clinic that increasingly becomes the estranged Angela’s entire world. When the six-week ban came down, “the phones were ringing and the clock was ticking,” Plum writes, “like some supreme clock somewhere or every little clock everywhere, I was getting a feeling like everyone’s personal biological clock was in me, like that kids’ movie where a crocodile swallowed an alarm clock and he’s coming for you.” As Angela points out, the judicial system may not be able to comprehend the ungovernable parts of our bodies and minds, to hear those ticking clocks inside us — but a novel can. STATE CHAMP | By Hilary Plum | Bloomsbury | 216 pp. | $26.99 Source link #Book #Review #State #Champ #Hilary #Plum Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

WAFL 2025: South Fremantle out work, out gun Claremont in 17-point win WAFL 2025: South Fremantle out work, out gun Claremont in 17-point win South Fremantle have proven last week’s shock loss to the Eagles was merely an early-season blip, holding off a fast-finishing Claremont at Revo Fitness Stadium. Source link #WAFL #South #Fremantle #work #gun #Claremont #17point #win Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Detroit automakers fuming after Trump’s first trade deal gives preferential treatment to imported U.K. cars over their own Detroit automakers fuming after Trump’s first trade deal gives preferential treatment to imported U.K. cars over their own A lobby group representing General Motors, Ford and Stellantis attacked Trump for prioritizing a deal with the U.K. over the two largest U.S. trading partners on the country’s doorstep. “Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a U.K. vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts,” they said. Detroit’s three automakers blasted the White House for throwing the U.S. car industry under the proverbial bus with his U.K. trade deal. On Thursday, a lobby group representing General Motors, Ford and Stellantis expressed “disappointment” their U.K. competitors are getting a better shake than they are despite British cars largely lacking any appreciable American content in the form of drivetrain and chassis components. “Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a U.K. vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts,” said Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council. Blunt’s criticism comes after Trump negotiated the tentative outline of a deal that would see among other concessions the U.S. drop its 25% sectoral tariff down to 10% of a vehicle’s value, a level that reflects the U.K.’s own duty on imported cars. While that is only valid for the first 100,000 vehicles—with any cars above and beyond that once again subject to the full duty—it neatly matches the volumes exported from Britain last year. This is a relatively minor amount compared with the roughly 16 million light vehicles sold new last year, of which half were imported. Blunt furthermore criticized that the “America First” president ought to have prioritized talks that help out his own domestic industry first, rather than invest political time and capital for the benefit of British rivals. “This hurts American automakers, suppliers and auto workers. We hope this preferential access for U.K. vehicles over North American ones does not set a precedent for future negotiations with Asian and European competitors,” Blunt continued. ‘Severe and immediate threat’ The White House pushed back against Blunt in a statement to Fortune. “No president has taken a greater personal interest in reviving the American auto industry than President Trump,” spokesman Kush Desai said. “The Trump administration is working hand-in-glove with automakers to re-shore manufacturing that is critical to our national and economic security, including with custom-tailored tariff relief and deregulatory policies.” The timing of the tentative deal—which is itself only a broad outline and has yet to be finalized—was however governed by political realities on each side of the Atlantic. Both U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Trump have been under severe pressure of late. The former’s Labour party was just trounced in local elections while the U.S. president’s poll ratings have sunk after steering the country towards a possible recession over a trade war with his closest allies. The agreement represents a much-needed win for the two struggling statesmen, with Trump trumpeting a “MAJOR TRADE DEAL” with a “BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED COUNTRY” on Truth Social before it was actually official. While Blunt took aim at the agreement, his counterpart from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders was all too happy to hail it as “great news” for his U.K. industry. “The application of these tariffs was a severe and immediate threat to U.K. automotive exporters, so this deal will provide much needed relief,” said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes. Trump partial to Britain’s handmade luxury cars like Rolls-Royce Blunt’s candid criticism of the administration is unusual. Despite historically poor approval ratings for the president this early into a term, companies have been careful not to slight Trump given his reputation for governing based on instinct rather than studied policy analysis. The president even confessed being inclined to reduce tariffs he had unilaterally imposed without Congressional consent since they were deemed critical to U.S. national security. On Thursday, Trump told reporters he gave them preferential treatment, because he personally was partial to Britain’s ultra-luxury car brands like McLaren, Bentley and Rolls-Royce, the latter of whom he readily accepted would not set up a dedicated factory in the United States. “That’s really handmade stuff. They’ve been doing it for a long time in the same location,” he remarked. “So I said, ‘yeah, that would be good. Let’s help them out with that one’.” Even though the 100,000-vehicle cap effectively puts a hard ceiling on further growth for the U.K. car industry, investors welcomed the trade deal by bidding shares in Aston Martin Lagonda, the only British stock-exchange listed automaker, higher some 14% in Thursday’s trading session. This updates an earlier version of the story with a response from the Trump administration. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com Source link #Detroit #automakers #fuming #Trumps #trade #deal #preferential #treatment #imported #U.K #cars Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

US-China Open Trade Talks in Bid to Wind Down Their Tariff War – Bloomberg.com US-China Open Trade Talks in Bid to Wind Down Their Tariff War – Bloomberg.com US-China Open Trade Talks in Bid to Wind Down Their Tariff War Bloomberg.comU.S. and China Meet for High-Stakes Economic Talks The New York TimesFrom handshake to walkout, anything can happen at US-China trade talks South China Morning PostStock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq end volatile week lower as Wall Street braces for US-China talks Yahoo FinanceChina and the US to talk trade war ceasefire, not peace Reuters Source link #USChina #Open #Trade #Talks #Bid #Wind #Tariff #War #Bloomberg.com Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Hey *****, Let’s Meet for Steak, Crayons and … Jazz? Hey *****, Let’s Meet for Steak, Crayons and … Jazz? “Backgammon is the cruelest game — so much of it is based on luck,” said Joe Urso, who was one tournament away from earning his grandmaster title, but down a few points in his match on a recent Wednesday night last month. Mr. Urso, 41, and several other backgammon enthusiasts were meeting for the Clinton Hill Backgammon Club’s weekly game at Funny Bar, a new jazz-bar-restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The backgammon club typically convenes in the restaurant’s conversation pit, in the center of the space that once housed a mechanical bull. Before Funny Bar, the Essex Street venue lived several lives. It was once a Western-themed barbecue joint, then a hip-hop brunch spot. And for 40-years, it housed Schmulka Bernstein’s, New York City’s first kosher ******** restaurant. The current owners, Tom Moore and Billy Jones, have worked some relics from these disparate incarnations into Funny Bar’s design. But they made sure the new version had no distinguishable theme. “A lot of restaurants and clubs in New York present these very complete ideas to the customer,” said Mr. Moore, 30, whose parents met working in Chicago’s hotel industry. In the past couple of years, the rise of the overly designed clubstaurant has homogenized Lower Manhattan’s nightlife aesthetics: wood treated to look patinated, shelves packed with tchotchkes and vintage photos framed to imply a storied, local status that has yet to be earned. The cavernous 2,800-square-foot interior of Funny Bar, designed by Safwat Riad, reflects a cheeky, Lynchian sensibility, with kitschy glass bricks, a slick grand piano and just-between-us lighting. The dining room’s walls are lined with purposely empty shelves. Crayons and paper tablecloths add a playful vibe to the massive, low-slung leather booths. Servers with face tattoos wear spotless, buttoned-up uniforms, adding to the sense of dissonance and mischief. The overall effect may make diners feel like children who stole their parents credit cards and went out for martinis. “There are a lot of couples mindlessly doodling each other, but I really like when there are businessmen eating together and they start using the crayons to do math on the tables,” said Ava Schwartz, Funny Bar’s director, who, alongside Mr. Moore, can be spotted most nights greeting regulars and running steak frites. Funny Bar goes through about 600 crayons a week. The owners did not bother with a drink menu. “We’re not really going for special,” said Funny Bar’s head chef, Raphael Wolf. The restaurant’s menu is appropriately simple and crowd-pleasing: salad, steak frites and a brownie sundae. Usually, there’s an off-menu vegetable dish. Of the decision to offer only steak, Mr. Moore said he did not want diners to feel bloated or like their breath smelled; he wanted to keep the night sexy. “And nothing is sexier than steak,” he added. Mr. Moore and Mr. Jones opened the more popular Nightclub 101 just a few blocks away, but they have been reluctant to over-publicize Funny Bar, preferring to let it find patrons slowly. The location — tucked away on the side of Essex Street that most New Yorkers avoid — makes it that much more “if you know, you know.” The bar does not promote scheduled musical performances, and it has fewer than 3,000 Instagram followers. Despite being coy about seeking attention, Funny Bar has found an eclectic fan base. On any given night, the crowd includes young fashion hounds, baby stockbrokers, middle-aged couples on dates and musicians like King Princess and the Dare, who are connected to Mr. Moore and Mr. Jones through their third venue, Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn. Over the course of a typical night, tables and parties tend to merge, with guests eventually spilling into the conversation pit, mirroring the bustle and spontaneity of live jazz — the only music you’ll ever hear in Funny Bar. (So much is its commitment to the genre, that it was even worked into the restaurant’s phone number: 212-516-JAZZ.) Some patrons have compared the social swirl of Funny Bar to that of the bars portrayed in the first season of Sex and the City — a comparison that proves itself every time someone writes their phone number down in crayon, tears it from its sheet and hands it off to a cute stranger. Source link #Hey #***** #Lets #Meet #Steak #Crayons #Jazz Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus Donald Trump’s administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus – the right of a person to challenge their detention in court – one of the US president’s top aides has said. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday that the US Constitution allowed for the legal liberty to be suspended in times of “rebellion or invasion”. His comments come as judges have sought to challenge some recent detentions made by the Trump administration in an effort to combat ******** immigration, as well as remove dissenting foreign students. “A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not,” Miller said. There are several pending civil cases against the Trump administration’s deportation of undocumented migrants based on habeaus corpus. Most recently, a federal judge ordered the release of a Turkish university student who had been detained for six weeks after writing an article that was critical of Israel. Last week, another judge ordered a Columbia University student detained over his advocacy for Palestinians be released after a petition on habeas corpus grounds. However, other judges have sided with the Trump administration in such disputes. Miller described habeas corpus as a “privilege”, and said Congress had already passed a law stripping judicial courts of jurisdiction over immigration cases. Legal experts have questioned the veracity of his interpretation of US law. One of Trump’s key campaign pledges was to deport millions of immigrants from the US, and his administration has pursued different means of expediting deportations since returning to the White House. In March, a federal judge’s order prevented the Trump administration from invoking a centuries-old wartime law to justify deporting more than 200 Venezuelans, despite the flights going ahead. But deportations have lagged behind detentions – while one person has been deported erroneously. CNN reported, citing unnamed sources, that Trump was personally involved in the discussions around suspending habeas corpus. Trump himself has not mentioned the suspension of habeas corpus, but has said he would take steps to combat injunctions against his actions on deportation. “There are ways to mitigate it and there’s some very strong ways,” he said in April. “There’s one way that’s been used by three very highly respected presidents, but we hope we don’t have to go that route.” Habeas corpus – which literally means “you should have the body” – allows for a person to be brought before a judge so the legality of their detention can be decided by a judge. The legal right has been suspended four times in US history: during the American Civil War under Abraham Lincoln, in Hawaii following the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, in the Philippines during US ownership in 1905, and while combat the activities of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group in the 19th Century. It is unclear if Trump will attempt to suspend habeaus corpus without the approval of Congress. Source link #Trump #administration #suspending #habeas #corpus Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Birdie G’s Chef Has a Love-Hate Relationship With Customers’ Favorite Burger Birdie G’s Chef Has a Love-Hate Relationship With Customers’ Favorite Burger Last year, the chef Jeremy Fox started developing a recipe for a cheeseburger at his Santa Monica restaurant Birdie G’s. It affected him in strange ways. “For the last more-than-a-decade, any mention of a burger was extremely triggering for me,” he wrote on Instagram, because it brought back memories of customers storming out of his other restaurant, Rustic Canyon. There, “my marching orders were to get rid of the burger,” he said. “So people would actually order the farmers’ market dishes.” For a decade, Santa Monica had been divided between two beloved burgers: the Father’s Office (Gruyère, caramelized onions, arugula, aioli) and the Rustic Canyon (Cheddar, pickles, onion fondue, herb rémoulade) created by the previous chef, Evan Funke. But the drippy deliciousness of the Rustic Canyon burger had become an existential threat to the restaurant. Of 180 diners per night, said Mr. Fox, 75 to 80 would reliably order the burger, which was priced under $20. It generated little profit, and a lot of work, and the owners wanted it gone. “All the food runners had time to do was fill up ramekins with aioli and ketchup and rémoulade,” he said. Also, customers inevitably expect burgers to conform to personal taste, removing pickles, adding mayonnaise and changing cheeses at will, with each component adding to chaos in the kitchen. “Everyone loved it except us,” Mr. Fox said. High-end restaurants have long served burgers, but usually as a concession to popular demand, not as part of an ambitious menu. Today, trained chefs who would once have considered a burger beneath them spend years developing personal meat blends and customized buns. But ever since the trend took off in the early 2000s, chefs have nursed complicated feelings about their creations. Burgers bring in more customers, but they spend less. How much should your burger reflect your culinary skills and heritage? If the burger is a perfect composition of flavors, textures and temperatures, do you have to let customers change it? The main feeling restaurant chefs share about burgers, though, is exasperation. Each one is a feat of engineering, demanding attention from every station in the kitchen. “It’s a love-hate relationship for sure,” said ****** Mar, who hugged the formula for her dry-aged burger to her chest for years as a sous-chef, saving it until she got to lead her own kitchen. Even before Vogue.com called her burger at Le B. “the “Birkin bag of burgers” in February, it was drawing lines, recalling the early days of the Cronut. “I’m 110 percent proud of it,” she said. “But no matter what cuisine I create, or how accomplished I am, everyone will ask me about the burger.” That’s why Ms. Mar limits production to nine per night: one for each seat at the bar. (A line of hopefuls forms as early as 4:45 p.m.) “I could sell 900 a night,” she said. “But there is so much more that I want people to taste.” To manage the inevitable disappointments, Ms. Mar devised an ingenious solution: everyone who orders the seasonal tasting menu gets a midcourse “burger mignon,” a perfect three-bite version of the original. In 2001, when the chef Daniel Boulud put a $27 burger of dry-aged beef stuffed with foie gras and ****** truffle on the menu of his then-new Midtown bistro, it became a global sensation, even before social media. (The Times restaurant critic William Grimes dedicated the first three paragraphs of his review of DB Bistro Moderne to it.) It marked the beginning of the cheffed-up burger era, and also sparked a cultural conversation about the value of a burger that continues today. “I can’t charge $35 for a burger in Kentucky, no matter how much it costs me,” said the chef Edward Lee, who developed a (bar-only) burger for Nami, his Korean American steakhouse in Louisville. “That would be impossibly elitist.” Winning first runner-up in Netflix’****** Korean cooking competition show, “Culinary Class Wars,” last year gave Mr. Lee the chance to sift through his feelings about burgers, ethnicity and authenticity. As a newly minted celebrity in Korea, Mr. Lee felt his multiple fast-food chains offered him the chance to create a signature burger. The first decision was easy: he was eager to work with a Korean brand, so instead of McDonald’s or Shake Shack (both are popular in South Korea), he chose the most popular local chain, Mom’s Touch. The rest of the development process was more complex. “The cheeseburger is one of the only truly American, truly great culinary creations,” he said. Mr. Lee wanted to pay homage both to that and to his Korean roots. “It was like walking a tightrope.” He’d assumed that kimchi would work as a stand-in topping for the classic American pickle slice, but the Mom’s Touch team said that would never work: because kimchi is a live, ever-fermenting food, it would taste different from one day to the next, and from one location to another. (The company has more than 1,500 stores in South Korea.) In the end, he arrived at a burger with American cheese, bacon jam, bourbon barbecue sauce, sweet pickle slices and mayonnaise dosed with ssamjang that he felt was true to both American tradition and Korean taste. “It wasn’t until I saw my burger on a Mom’s Touch billboard that I realized the show was really a hit,” he said. Even that journey could be considered relatively simple compared with the burger saga at Emily in Brooklyn. The Emily burger, named for the chef Matt Hyland’s wife and partner, is one of the most renowned burgers in New York, and one of the first in the modern era to feature the pretzel roll, popular in the Midwest, as its bun. The burger’s breakout moment came in 2015, when the hamburger historian George Motz praised it in New York magazine (he was described as “pausing between bites only to emit low, ursine growls” as he ate it). The Hylands’ business quickly expanded from a neighborhood restaurant in Clinton Hill into multiple brands and a separate pizza chain (Emmy Squared, with 30 locations nationwide). But they fell out with investors, and with each other, divorcing in 2019. Each of the brands now touts a signature burger, but confusion reigns among the Emily burger, the Emmy burger and Le Big Matt, none of which are precisely the same. The original burger — thick medium-rare patty, caramelized onions, aged Cheddar, cornichons — is still served only at the original restaurant. Although the Hylands are no longer together, they still own that restaurant together, and share rights to the burger. It demands far more attention than its cousins. “A single patty takes 20 minutes: You have to temper it, cook it, rest it, transfer it to a sizzle plate and then the oven to melt the cheese,” Mr. Hyland said. All the other restaurants, he said, use two thinner patties. “A double stack burger takes four minutes, start to finish.” Rustic Canyon has now been burger-free for a decade. Over the course of a year, Mr. Fox weaned customers off it, reducing the number available each night to 36, then 24, to a dozen and then none. Denied a burger, “at first, people would just get up and leave,” he said. Eventually, it worked. Now his journey has come full circle; in March, he added a $32 burger to the menu at Birdie G’s. Nothing attracts crowds quite like a signature burger, and since the pandemic, Birdie G’s has been laboring to fill its 180 seats. “A burger is the only answer the suits in the restaurant business seem to have when you’re struggling,” he said, on a January day when he was stress testing the kitchen layout to see how a burger would move between stations. His current version — grilled over almond wood, cheese melted under a spun-iron cloche, butter-toasted Japanese milk bread bun — has the makings of a hit. “I wasn’t super eager to put a burger on the menu,” he said. “But I’m not going to be a baby about it.“ Source link #Birdie #Chef #LoveHate #Relationship #Customers #Favorite #Burger Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Book Review: ‘Warhol’s Muses,’ by Laurence Leamer Book Review: ‘Warhol’s Muses,’ by Laurence Leamer Leamer is undeniably excellent at setting a scene, especially a louche one. He knows just when to have someone wonder if he’s caught crabs from a couch or a *******. And Leamer is very good on rich people playing at being disheveled, tuned to the comic possibilities of that particular brand of tourism. (Holzer, of Florida real estate wealth, announces after seeing the Stones for the first time that “they’re all from the lower classes. … There is no class anymore. Everyone is equal.” Leamer adds that Holzer’s “maid and butler might have disagreed.”) Nearly every page has at least one great sleazy anecdote or pinch of gossip. The problem is that so many of these scenes, however expertly set, are variations on the same stale theme of boomers getting up to wild stuff because the times they were a-changin’. Does anyone still need reminding that “the ’60s was a decade of radical political and cultural dissent”? Or that it was once considered shocking that a high-culture figure such as Rudolf Nureyev could go straight from a performance of “Swan Lake” to dancing “to rock ’n’ roll in a nightclub wearing dungarees. Dungarees! Not a suit and tie like some uptight New York businessman”? Reading this book felt akin to being trapped in an endless Time-Life loop of jingle jangle mornings, lazy Sunday afternoons and warm San Franciscan nights, the author providing the stentorian voice-over as the usual footage rolls by: Bob Dylan “would soon emerge as the poetic troubadour of the ’60s”; Brian Jones, “addicted to drugs and sex … was on a short road to an early death”; Jim Morrison, “a troubadour of the counterculture … wrote poetic lyrics that chronicled the lives of his generation.” Such minor sins might have been forgiven had I ultimately gleaned some deep or unforeseen insight into the lives of the book’s subjects — a group that includes Ultra Violet, Ingrid Superstar, Brigid Berlin and other Factory figures — or, failing that, into Andy Warhol’s work. But I got neither. Nor was I convinced by the whopping claim that “without his Superstars, Warhol might never have become a world-celebrated artist.” Meeting these 10 historical actors in roughly chronological order as they enter Warhol’s life, one has a view of the artist and his milieu that actually narrows rather than widens. Warhol, a shape-shifter so manic and intense that he could slide into several personas in the span of a single season, is here reduced to a necessarily static figure so that the women can bounce off him. Which is fine as a narrative strategy, but then not much happens to the women, either. As each one flickers into view, her upbringing (often troubled) is dutifully covered before she provides some service to Warhol — as entertainment, as emotional consort, as visual material, as key holder to Park Avenue penthouses — and then fades out to make room for the next one. (Sedgwick is the exception, a frequent and always beguiling presence; Solanas, the would-be assassin, and not one of the 10 Superstars, stands out as foil rather than helpmeet, but appears only briefly.) Rarely is there any sense of genuine collaboration or exchange. The book’s subtitle gives away the game: In the end, these women of varied backgrounds, with their respective dreams and desires, are all here to play the same passive role — to be inevitably and unsurprisingly “destroyed by the Factory fame machine.” Source link #Book #Review #Warhols #Muses #Laurence #Leamer Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Elon Musk’s Use of X Mimics Hearst’s and Ford’s Manipulation of Media Elon Musk’s Use of X Mimics Hearst’s and Ford’s Manipulation of Media An entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a megaphone. His rants validate many people’s worst impulses while also encouraging enemies of democracy around the world. This sounds like Elon Musk and his social media site X in 2025, but it was also Henry Ford and his paper, The Dearborn Independent, in the 1920s. Ford, the inventor of the Model T, bought a suburban weekly and remade it to push his antisemitic views. The Dearborn Independent published a long-running series called “The International Jew,” which blamed Jews for the world’s ills, and publicized “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a hoax document. The Nazis gave Ford a medal. Ford was perhaps the most blatant example in a long tradition of moguls who bought media platforms and then used them to promote odious views. These tycoons often used the latest in technology to reach the widest audience, whether it was high-speed newspaper presses or, in Ford’s case, his network of car dealerships. Drive off in your new Model T and there would be The Dearborn Independent on the seat. Newspapers at the time were local businesses. With the dealerships, The Dearborn Independent became one of the highest-circulated papers in the country, printing more than 750,000 copies of each issue at its peak. After Henry Ford bought The Dearborn Independent, it published a long-running series called “The International Jew,” which repeated antisemitic tropes and blamed Jews for the world’s ills.Credit…Library of Congress The biggest difference between Ford and other media titans like Rupert Murdoch was that the latter generally promoted their views by hiring like-minded editors and anchors. The Dearborn Independent announced on its cover that it was the “Ford International Weekly,” and it included a full-page editorial signed by Ford. Mr. Musk’s actions signal a return to Ford’s personal approach. The Tesla and SpaceX billionaire has enthusiastically posted, reposted and endorsed incorrect or inflammatory claims on X that Social Security is fraudulent, that the Democrats are importing immigrants to win elections and that the federal judges who are ruling against the Trump administration should be impeached. There are plenty of precedents for what Mr. Musk is doing with X. But he has taken the process to a level unimaginable even a short time ago. The site says he has 220 million followers, an assertion impossible to verify. Even if it is only a fraction of that number, X has been optimized to blast its owner’s posts as widely as possible. People see them and hear about them. Mr. Musk’s $44 billion purchase of what was then Twitter in 2022 at first seemed to be a mistake, even to him. Then it was perceived as a billionaire’s toy. In last year’s election, it became a weapon. He used his political views to form an alliance with Donald J. Trump, which he then leveraged to put himself into the government expressly to shut down as much of it as possible. The repercussions are still unfolding. But for Mr. Musk, it was a clear victory. In the name of government efficiency, agencies fired regulators who were in a position to oversee his empire. Mr. Musk now has a much freer hand with his cars and rockets. (An X spokesman did not provide a comment.) “This is like nothing we’ve ever seen,” said Rick Perlstein, author of a four-volume chronicle of modern American conservatism. Noting Mr. Musk’s frequent use of memes and images, the historian added: “It’s the politics of the nervous system, not the higher functions of the brain. There’s no argument, just fear mongering.” Moguls in the United States and Britain have owned media with the purpose of exerting influence since the creation of the modern newspaper in the late 19th century. During World War I, Viscount Northcliffe of Britain controlled roughly 40 percent of the morning circulation and 45 percent of the evening circulation there. His properties included The Daily Mail, read by the working class, and The Times, read by the elites. The viscount, whose name was Alfred Harmsworth, played a crucial role in deposing Prime Minister Herbert Asquith in December 1916. Winston Churchill wrote that the press baron “aspired to exercise a commanding influence on events.” Viscount Northcliffe’s influence on the war was so great that the Germans sent warships to assassinate him in 1917, shelling his seaside home. In the United States, the control of the media was often more of a local phenomenon. In West Texas in the early 1960s, the ultraconservative Whittenburg family owned The Amarillo Daily News, the NBC television station and the dominant radio station. There were few competing voices. “If you feed people a far-right media diet, you’ll end up with a population almost exclusively on the far right,” said Jeff Roche, a historian who wrote “The Conservative Frontier,” a forthcoming study of the politics of the region. “Amarillo became the most right-wing city in America.” “Media ownership and political influence have gone hand in hand since the earliest days of the newspaper industry,” said Simon Potter, a professor of modern history at the University of Bristol who studies mass media. “For just as long, people have worried about this intimate relationship between the media and politics — does it really serve the public interest?” Behind that question is another: Does their megaphone really give them power, or is it shouting into a void? An American forerunner of Mr. Musk — William Randolph Hearst — provides an answer. Hearst, the owner of the upstart New York Journal, sent correspondents to Cuba in 1897 to cover a war with Spain. His interests were less humanitarian than promotional. He was in a circulation war. The New York Journal from March 25, 1898. William Randolph Hearst had sent correspondents to Cuba cover a war with Spain.Credit…Library of Congress One version of how that story played out showed Hearst as an all-powerful media magnate: The Journal correspondents discovered there was no war. “Everything is quiet,” Frederic Remington, the paper’s illustrator, cabled Hearst. “There will be no war.” They wanted to leave. Hearst replied: “Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” He then agitated in his papers for the war that President William McKinley in short order began. It liberated Cuba and acquired for the United States prized parts of the Spanish empire. The story was first published in a book by a colleague of Hearst’s named James Creelman and later immortalized in Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane.” It has been thoroughly debunked over the years. There was no evidence that Hearst ever said he would supply a war. The correspondents found plenty to illustrate. But the anecdote persisted because it showed a mogul so powerful that he could make wars out of nothing. When Hearst tried to move on from his wartime endeavors to advance his own political career, he stumbled. He secured a seat in the House of Representatives in 1902, but bids to become the mayor of New York faltered twice. He lost a 1906 campaign for New York governor, too. David Nasaw, who wrote “The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst,” thinks Mr. Musk’s use of X to rally supporters is as illusory as Hearst’s supposed creation of a war. “I haven’t seen anywhere that Twitter gets out the MAGA vote,” he said. Hearst, in Mr. Nasaw’s view, reflected the sentiments of his readers rather than leading them. But the historian agreed that something new was going on with Mr. Musk. Hearst, Ford, even Viscount Northcliffe and the other British press lords before World War II, all had something in common that ultimately limited them. “They were outside the room, screaming,” Mr. Nasaw said. “Twitter was important for Musk but only to get him inside the room, into the government. He’s unique in being both inside and outside with no constraints on his behavior. There’s never been anything quite like that.” Tesla sales are plunging. Hearst and Ford could have warned Mr. Musk: Courting controversy with hateful views is bad for your reputation and usually bad for your business, too. Ford was sued for libel over The Dearborn Independent and became the subject of boycotts. He closed the paper in 1927, although he did not repent his views. A stain lingered. Hearst went up against President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, putting his anti-Roosevelt screeds on the front page of his papers. As the editorials became increasingly abusive, readers had to choose: Whom are we going to support, the president or the publisher? “They chose Roosevelt,” Mr. Nasaw said. “Which meant Hearst eventually destroyed himself and his newspapers.” Source link #Elon #Musks #Mimics #Hearsts #Fords #Manipulation #Media Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Navy chief removed from duties for investigation Navy chief removed from duties for investigation The head of the Royal Navy has been removed from his duties while under investigation over allegations of misconduct, the Ministry of Defence has said. The MoD has not given any further details on the matter Adm Sir Ben Key is being investigated for, saying that it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time. This statement follows reports in the Sun that Adm Key was suspected of having an affair with a subordinate. Earlier this week, the MoD issued a statement to say that the First Sea Lord had “stepped back due to private reasons”. Adm Key was due to retire from his position this summer, after serving as the head of the Royal Navy since 2021. This means the search for his successor was under way before an investigation into his conduct was started. Senior officers can be removed from command and their duties if there is a reasonable suspicion that they are having a ******* relationship with someone more junior in their chain of command. Such relationships are frowned upon and seen as a potential abuse of power and contrary to the military service code of conduct. The MoD has not said long the investigation will take, with details of the allegations likely to remain private, or commented on whether he is likely to return to duty given his imminent retirement. A defence source said the MoD would only comment further “if appropriate”. Until a new First Sea Lord is elected, the Second Sea Lord, Vice Adm Sir Martin Connell, has taken full command of the Royal Navy. Source link #Navy #chief #removed #duties #investigation Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

‘Thunderbolts*’ Star Lewis Pullman Has Become Hollywood’s Go-To Bob ‘Thunderbolts*’ Star Lewis Pullman Has Become Hollywood’s Go-To Bob I had only three days to prepare for the screen test and audition, which wasn’t as much time as I’d like. So I tried to go as broad as possible, and then shrink it down and go as specific as possible in finding and discovering where it is that I, as Lewis, can relate to this character. Where did you pull from? What was so exciting and terrifying was how much I related to this character. In terms of the mental health parts of it, the anxiety and the depression, I have a good healthy dose of O.C.D., and just self-doubt and that negative self-talk that can paralyze you. I’m lucky to have come from a great family that was very proactive and resourceful about helping me figure it all out. And so to try to inhabit somebody who didn’t have that — I was close enough to those alleyways to be able to see what it would have looked like had I not had those. Have you had candid conversations with people in your own life about mental health? I was a social work major in college in North Carolina, and so I have had many conversations about these topics. Coming into this project, it was obvious that it was a major theme. But it was never our goal to make this a P.S.A. This is still an incredibly fun, large-scale blockbuster film. But by shining a flashlight on it, it becomes more real. In many ways, my anxiety is something I’m grateful for. It’s there as a protective mechanism. You don’t just make a movie about it, and then the conversation’s over. I’ll be talking about it until I circle the drain. And that’s something I’ve come to be OK with and embrace. Do you also have personal experience with depression? That’s something that’s less of a consistent force in my life. It comes in waves. But it’s something that’s deep in my marrow because, when you feel that, it’s very hard to forget. I was able to tap into that in a way that was safe, with therapy, and then friends and support. I go about therapy in the same way that I go about acting — I assume that I never know anything, that there’s always something to learn. I did a lot of cognitive behavioral therapy in high school, and now I’m in talk therapy. I’ve realized that the times when you should stick with therapy the most is when you think you’re doing the best without it. That’s a mind game that I’ve fallen for a couple of times. Why do you think the character has resonated with people? That oscillation that he has between feeling this worthlessness, met with this true belief in yourself, is very resonant. That’s something important about Bob: He wants to be of use, but he’s been told his whole life that when he tries to get involved, he always makes things worse. A lot of us have been told that, in one way or another. And so to see this very real person amongst these surreal and extraordinary circumstances is what makes it so resonant. Source link #Thunderbolts #Star #Lewis #Pullman #Hollywoods #GoTo #Bob Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

8 Literary ‘Classics’ to Enjoy With Your Spring Allergies 8 Literary ‘Classics’ to Enjoy With Your Spring Allergies A tale of pollen and prejudice, and more. (Achoo!) Source link #Literary #Classics #Enjoy #Spring #Allergies Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Steelers’ Omar Khan: George Pickens trade ‘happened quickly,’ search for new WR2 ‘not even close’ to ’24 – TribLIVE.com Steelers’ Omar Khan: George Pickens trade ‘happened quickly,’ search for new WR2 ‘not even close’ to ’24 – TribLIVE.com Steelers’ Omar Khan: George Pickens trade ‘happened quickly,’ search for new WR2 ‘not even close’ to ’24 TribLIVE.comSteelers’ GM Khan: Pickens trade ‘made sense for everyone’ ESPNFantasy Football Mock Draft: Lessons learned from 10-team half-PPR exercise Yahoo SportsSpagnola: Let’s chant, ‘Just give Pickens a chance’ Dallas CowboysCowboys WR George Pickens not focused on contract year, excited to play alongside CeeDee Lamb NFL.com Source link #Steelers #Omar #Khan #George #Pickens #trade #happened #quickly #search #WR2 #close #TribLIVE.com Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Revenge of the Savage Planet Review (XSX) – Fun with Goo | The Outerhaven Revenge of the Savage Planet Review (XSX) – Fun with Goo | The Outerhaven Console Creatures says, “Revenge of the Savage is a good follow-up that doubles down on what makes the series fun. An upgrade over its predecessor in every way, there’s so much to discover in the corners of this universe. The developers made some wise decisions to make this sequel work, and it pays off by honing in on the elements that make the series stand out—a lack of seriousness, satire, and fun upgrades. Many games are launching this year, but this one is just pure fun without taking itself seriously.” Source link #Revenge #Savage #Planet #Review #XSX #Fun #Goo #Outerhaven Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ and ’Night Court’ Canceled After Three Seasons Apiece at NBC – The Hollywood Reporter ‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ and ’Night Court’ Canceled After Three Seasons Apiece at NBC – The Hollywood Reporter ‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ and ’Night Court’ Canceled After Three Seasons Apiece at NBC The Hollywood Reporter‘Night Court’ Canceled By NBC After 3 Seasons Deadline‘Suits LA’ Canceled Ahead of Season One Finale The Hollywood ReporterNBC Shockingly Cancels 5 Scripted Shows, Including Network Favorites ‘Night Court’ and ‘Found’ Yahoo’Night Court’ Star Melissa Rauch Unpacks Season 3 Finale, Shares Season 4 Hopes After That Simon Helberg Bombshell TheWrap Source link #Lopez #Lopez #Night #Court #Canceled #Seasons #Apiece #NBC #Hollywood #Reporter Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks – AP News The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks – AP News The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks AP NewsThe U.S. has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with outbreaks: Where the virus is spreading NBC NewsAn Insider’s View of the Texas Measles Outbreak : Shots – Health News NPRUS surpasses 1,000 measles cases for 1st time in 5 years: CDC ABC NewsTexas’ measles outbreak is nation’s largest since 2000 The Texas Tribune Source link #measles #cases #states #active #outbreaks #News Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Horoscope for Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Chicago Sun-Times Horoscope for Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Chicago Sun-Times Horoscope for Saturday, May 10, 2025 Chicago Sun-TimesHoroscopes Today, May 10, 2025 USA TodayDaily Horoscope: May 9, 2025 VICEHoroscope Tomorrow, May 10, 2025, read predictions for all sun signs Hindustan TimesDaily Horoscope for Saturday, May 10 Dallas News Source link #Horoscope #Saturday #Chicago #SunTimes Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Menendez brothers' resentencing hearing will be next week; risk assessment says they pose moderate risk if released – ABC News Menendez brothers' resentencing hearing will be next week; risk assessment says they pose moderate risk if released – ABC News Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing will be next week; risk assessment says they pose moderate risk if released ABC NewsMenendez brothers resentencing battle heats up as Los Angeles judge weighs risk Fox NewsJudge sets Menendez brothers resentencing hearing for next week The GuardianDefense pulls motion to remove DA’s Office from Menendez case KTLAClemency evaluation found Menendez brothers pose ‘moderate risk’ for violence if released, DA says NBC News Source link #Menendez #brothers039 #resentencing #hearing #week #risk #assessment #pose #moderate #risk #released #ABC #News Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Ryan Daniels: Numbers show Justin Longmuir deserves more time despite ghosts of traumas past Ryan Daniels: Numbers show Justin Longmuir deserves more time despite ghosts of traumas past This is either the beginning of something, or the end of it, but it’s far too early to be calling for Justin Longmuir’s head, writes Ryan Daniels. Source link #Ryan #Daniels #Numbers #show #Justin #Longmuir #deserves #time #ghosts #traumas Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Tom Cruise Sidesteps Trump Tariff Question at 'Mission: Impossible' Interview – Variety Tom Cruise Sidesteps Trump Tariff Question at 'Mission: Impossible' Interview – Variety Tom Cruise Sidesteps Trump Tariff Question at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Interview Variety Source link #Tom #Cruise #Sidesteps #Trump #Tariff #Question #039Mission #Impossible039 #Interview #Variety Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]