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When I brought home review models of Amazon's Echo speaker, a sort of smart, voice- controlled speaker, and two Dash buttons that reorder household products with a single touch, I wasn't
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Few actresses bring the simple authenticity to the screen that Julianne Moore does; it's virtually impossible to imagine this actress sounding a false note. And so it's hardly a surprise
It's easy to imagine Kansas-born Karrin Allyson performing a lead role in "Oklahoma!" or "South Pacific," but she also happens to be a superb jazz singer with Grammy nominations for
Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is a five-time Grammy nominee. It makes sense that she would approach writing a book about her successful career in the music industry by organizing each chapter
Thais Faria sank into a leather love seat, relaxing under the ministrations first of a masseuse, then a manicurist and finally a hairdresser-cum-makeup artist. Not 24 hours after her daughter
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While I am still appreciating the exquisite ambiance, Director of Food and Beverages, Gil Santos, comes by and says hello. A Portuguese native who worked in four different continents with
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Once, during a raid in Ramadi, the GIs rounded up several men from a suspected safe house and forced them to lie facedown on the concrete with their hands behind
Without Matt Damon, the solitary fight for survival on Mars would be lonely indeed. Alone on screen for most of his scenes as an astronaut stranded on the red planet,
Luciana Souza has always emphasized her skills as an interpreter of lyrics — whether singing Brazilian bossa nova classics in her native Portuguese or American jazz standards in her adopted
A Mercedes and a BMW, both with British license plates, sit in a forest clearing on the edge of a small migrant camp in northern France. Everyone here speaks in
For various reasons, Irish whiskey is often overshadowed by Scotch whisky; little known is the fact that whiskey actually predates whisky by nearly a century, and not just by way
Man Ho’s Chef Andy, with forty years of experience in the kitchen, has selected eight exquisite types of mushrooms from a wide variety to create 14 special Cantonese dishes for
For decades, manufacturers employed waves of young migrant workers from China’s countryside to work at countless factories in coastal provinces, churning out cheap toys, clothing and electronics that helped power
The world of Nancy Meyers sure is beautiful. But her studied production design and dreamy interiors have become such a focal point, that they’ve almost eclipsed her storytelling. It marginalizes what
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