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Ultimate travel guide to Thailand: where to stay and what to eat

Thailand is vivid and immediate: the street food is zingy, the sand gleams white and the nightlife pulses with atmosphere. Wildlife encounters, from spontaneous elephant sightings to swinging gibbons, are part of the canvas, and trains and ferry transfers link verdant islands and national parks. Even airport vendors sell massages

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Euphoria creator Sam Levinson defends killing Rue in Season 3 finale

Sam Levinson defended the decision to kill Rue Bennett in the Season 3 finale, calling it the most “honest ending” for the show and saying, “people like Rue don’t make it.” He said he was motivated to honor late cast member Angus Cloud, adding, “I wanted to tell this

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How models were drawn into the Eternal Values cult

Documentary filmmaker Chris Smith, whose credits include American Movie and recent Netflix profiles of Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman, Devo, Wham! and the Fyre festival, has made an HBO miniseries, Bring Me the Beauties, about the rise and fall of Eternal Values, a group started in the 1980s by Frederick von

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How to make Wolfgang Puck's smoked salmon pizza

Wolfgang Puck created his smoked salmon pizza at Spago in 1982 after Joan Collins requested smoked salmon with brioche. He baked the salmon on pizza dough and finished the pie with crème fraîche and dollops of caviar; the dish has remained on Spago's menu for more than 40

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Which Sci‑Fi Hero Are You Most Like?

A sci‑fi personality quiz matches readers with one of five iconic heroes: Paul Atreides, Captain Kirk, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley, or Max Rockatansky. The eight-question test probes leadership under pressure, strengths in a crisis, what you might sacrifice, how you relate to others, and how you’d respond to

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Chris Hemsworth's Kockroach Transformation Fuels MCU Exit Speculation

Chris Hemsworth built a career on physically demanding, stunt-heavy blockbusters, with his turn as Thor the most widely celebrated. The God of Thunder is one of the MCU's longest-standing original Avengers, having headlined four solo movies and multiple Avengers features, including the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, the first part

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Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?

Ten questions will figure out which one of five Oscar Best Picture winners fits you. Parasite — a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that is darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking. Everything Everywhere All at Once — one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy,

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Iconic fashion moments from Euphoria through the years

Euphoria never met a dress code it didn’t want to violate. Since the HBO drama premiered in 2019, its fashion became as essential to the storytelling as any line of dialogue, launching trends and startling audiences. Costume designer Natasha Newman-Thomas, who joined in Season 3, ushered in a more

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Mating Season review: Krolls new show isn't Big Mouth — and that's OK

Big Mouth was a revelation when it premiered in 2017: a vulgar Netflix series about tweens and teens that pushed the boundaries of what animation could get away with, while also finding surprising poignancy in the pain of growing up. The show ran for eight seasons, spawned a spinoff and

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Doctor Who comeback could proceed without the Doctor

It has been just over a year since Ncuti Gatwa made his final appearance as Doctor Who's lead, and the BBC is still looking for a new main actor. Gatwa's exit also marked the end of the show's Disney/BBC collaboration, and while the

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Which Oscar Best Picture Fits Your Mind?

A ten-question quiz pairs readers with one Oscar Best Picture winner that aligns with how they like to experience film. The results narrow the field to five possibilities: Parasite, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Birdman, and No Country for Old Men. Parasite rewards close attention, operating on multiple levels

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Baltimore club redistributes income to help neighbors

Alex Zhu started the Baltimore Community Guaranteed Income Club in April 2025 after months of layoffs left friends and neighbors facing uncertainty. When DOGE quietly disbanded in late November and attention shifted elsewhere, Zhu saw people he knew—many from public and global health—lose federal jobs and struggle with

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Action Hero Quiz: Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner?

Action Hero Quiz: Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn't work.

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Ronald LaPread, co-founder of legendary group the Commodores, dead at 75

Ronald LaPread, the bassist who co-founded the Commodores, has died at 75. His daughter Sonya wrote in an Instagram Story: “It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that my Father Ronald LaPread has passed.” The New Zealand Herald reported he died after "a sudden medical event.

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Password Season 3: Premiere Date, Times and How to Watch

Keke Palmer and Jimmy Fallon return as hosts for Password Season 3 on NBC. The season premiere airs Tuesday, June 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and the episode will be available the next day on Peacock. Palmer and Fallon said they “couldn’t be more excited” to be

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Gaslit and shamed: play about Eleanor Glanville and her butterflies

'There's nothing wrong with having a hobby, or even what you might call in this case a hyperfocus,' Dr Godrick tells Eleanor Glanville in a claustrophobic therapy room. Outside the Phoenix theatre in Hampshire a summer heatwave delivers perfect conditions for butterflies; inside, in air-conditioned gloom,

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Noah Brown confirms he identified brother Matt’s body

Noah Brown said he identified his brother Matthew after the eldest Brown sibling's body was pulled from a Washington river. In an Instagram video Saturday, the youngest of the seven Brown siblings said he had been searching with groups and that they located Matt at 3:27 p.

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90 Day Fiancé: Egyptian ‘movie star’ Mido lashes out at Debby

Mido, 41, who says he’s already a movie star in Egypt, arrived in New Orleans and spent his first night with fiancée Debby, 55, on Sunday’s episode of 90 Day Fiancé. Because of his Muslim faith he said he won’t be intimate with her until they’re

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Hands-on with Warhammer 40K Armageddon — the push to go all in

Breaking open a launch box for Warhammer 40K Armageddon feels like setting up a shiny next-gen console: a fresh start, torn packaging and that heady ‘new’ smell. I spent a few days building the armies and poring over the rules, and whether you’re experienced, new or somewhere between, you’

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String Mace

String Mace is an indie, arcade game available on PC from developer and publisher SneakyToad. Release Date May 21, 2026. Content Rating N/A. Smash through swarms of enemies by swinging a huge spiked ball on a string! Build absurd combos, crush towering bosses, and chase the highest score you

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Sci-Fi Survival Quiz: Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?

A Sci-Fi Survival Quiz asks eight questions to figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd survive. The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, and Star Wars are the five universes on offer. Questions probe first instincts, what resource you guard most fiercely, the threats that keep

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'Euphoria' ended worse than 'Game of Thrones' and 'Stranger Things'

Critics and fans blasted the supersized, 93-minute finale of Euphoria Season 3, calling it tawdry, tasteless and accusing the writing of squandering its all-star cast. The episode kills Rue halfway through after she swipes pills from Alamo and overdoses on fentanyl, a turn many found grim and anticlimactic. Ali finds

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Five stunning walks on the new King Charles III England coast path

On the western side of Holy Island, swallows sweep the headland while ringed plovers feed on the beach and grey seals bob out at sea. The tidal Pilgrim’s Way and the nearby causeway mean Lindisfarne is only reachable at low tide, and the new stretch of the England coast

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Joe Negri, 'Mister Rogers' handyman, dies days before 100th birthday

Jazz musician Joe Negri — known for his role as the musical handyman on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" — has died at 99. Negri’s oldest daughter, Lisa Negri, said her father died Saturday of natural causes. He was just days away from celebrating his 100th birthday on June 10.

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‘A slap-up meal for €12’: my search for the perfect old-school Turin tavern

Turin is one of Italy’s most serious food cities, shaped by the culinary legacy of the House of Savoy and, more recently, the slow food movement. But as a local I’m drawn to something far less formal: the piòla. These were never quite restaurants; they served a quarter-litre