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On International Women’s Day, we look at the female cricketers set to star in 2018… ANYA SHRUBSOLE England’s hopes of a fourth World Cup title – and third on home soil – were slipping away at a sold-out Lord’s last…
MoviePass, the company that allows subscribers to see one theatrical-release movie a day for a monthly flat fee, has always seemed too good to be true. Once MoviePass lowered its fee from $50 per month to $9.95 — which it’s…
After tragedies like the Parkland school shooting or the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, we’ve seen false news stories and rumors spread on social media at a frightening speed — often outpacing the truth. In 2013, people on Reddit and…
At 2 am on Sunday, March 11, daylight saving time begins. We’ll set our clocks forward one hour, and the change will push sunsets later into the evening hours and sunrises later into the morning hours. The cost is that…
The pianist Vicky Chow says that playing “Sonatra” is a “traumatic physical experience.” Composed by Michael Gordon, in 2004, and released on Cantaloupe Music, in two versions, one in normal tuning and one in unsettling just intonation, “Sonatra” is a…
Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” has always seemed like a fluke. In November, 1968, the irascible songwriter from Belfast released a jazz-influenced acoustic song cycle that featured minimal percussion, an upright bass, flute, harpsichord, vibraphone, strings, and stream-of-consciousness lyrics about being…
