High demand for housing during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with limited supply, created a strong sellers market that resulted in record-breaking home values. At the same time, mortgage lenders and sellers were able to…
A fashion brand can become iconic for several reasons. It might introduce a radical new design, like Alexander McQueen’s dresses with wings. It might have endured for decades, like Chanel, Gucci, or Yves St.…
Taylor Swift has sold well over 100 million albums and her audio and video streams have topped 78 billion. Based on recent sales, she has only gotten started. Her new album, “Midnight”, has been…
The 2023 Grammy Awards are upon us and so too is the tradition of celebrating music in all its glories and permutations. Presented by the Recording Academy, the ceremony honors artists of not just…
The introduction of a polar vortex this week across the Northeast will introduce frigid temperatures that could challenge records. Accompanied by high winds, windchill could drive the temperature people feel to between 30 and…
The U.S. economy expanded at a faster rate than expected in the third quarter of 2022, with real gross domestic product growing at an annualized rate of 3.2%, rebounding from a 0.6% contraction in…
For the third time since 2020, the Kansas City Chiefs are headed to the Super Bowl to face off against the Philadelphia Eagles, and again we may see pushback against the former team’s arrowhead…
After two years of Covid-related disruptions, the 65th Grammy Awards will be held on Feb. 5 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The awards are the most prestigious in the music industry and…
Could this be the year ABBA finally wins a grammy? The wildly popular Swedish pop band of the 1970s and early ‘80s decided in 2021 to make a comeback – – after separating in…
The earliest evidence of people brewing alcohol is residue of a fermented rice and honey beverage dating from between 7000 and 6600 B.C., found in pottery jars discovered in Jiahu, a Neolithic village in…
You may not believe it till you see it, but according to a recent USDA report, retail prices of eggs have actually begun to ease. More than perhaps any other product, eggs have become…
The life expectancy at birth for Americans fell between 2020 and 2021, dropping from 77.0 to 76.1 years, according to the CDC. A great deal of the decrease was due to COVID-19 deaths, suicides,…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for single-family housing surged as supply constraints reduced inventory. These conditions not only sent home values soaring, but also gave mortgage lenders and sellers greater leverage in negotiating the…
Knowing when to retire as a professional athlete is a difficult decision. (Just ask Tom Brady who announced he was retiring again but this time it was “for good.”) Players must consider their families,…
Progress in diversity has come slowly in Hollywood. As an industry, movies have evolved from depicting Blacks as subhuman, childlike, or servile to offering films that speak to an authentic African-American experience. Yet greater…
