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Thedailybeast.com 

How a Horny 86-Year-Old Created the Country’s Largest Renaissance Fair

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A real-life Willy Wonka saga that occasionally veers into King Lear-by-way-of-Game of Thrones territory, Ren Faire is another in a long line of docuseries about wildly strange subcultures and their eccentric, cutthroat, and self-destructive inhabitants. In this case, that milieu is the Texas Renaissance Festival, the country’s largest such event, which takes place each October and November in Todd Mission, Texas. As director Lance Oppenheim’s three-part non-fiction affair lays out... Читать дальше...

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Opinion: Podcast Monologuing Is the New Mansplaining

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Close your eyes, hold your breath for a moment and you can almost hear it. Even if your iPhone isn’t presently hooked up to your Bluetooth speaker, it’s in the ether: the buzzing hum of thousands of podcasters all across the country, breathlessly monologuing into their freestanding microphones.

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Cyprus Mail 

Abercrombie & Fitch raises annual sales growth target as trendy styles drive demand

Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF.N) raised annual sales growth forecast and beat first-quarter estimates this week, expecting new and on-trend apparel and accessories to drive demand at its Hollister and namesake brands, sending its shares up about 13 per cent. Refreshing styles in low-rise baggy pants and wide-leg jeans to appeal to picky shoppers and relying […]

Rappler.com 

[Newspoint] The ominous case of Alice Guo

Indeed, the ominous case of Alice Guo is emblematic of our nation’s relationship to China. We conduct it with uncertainty and trepidation; China does it malevolently and with impunity.