2019

7 Theater Actors Share Their Struggles With Not Having ‘The Look’

To quote one pretty famous musical, there’s a moment you know you’re f**ked. For me, it was standing in the holding room for a cruise tour of the musical “Rock of Ages.” I’d spent four years of undergrad being told I had “character actress potential.” To quote one acting teacher, “You’re like a sitcom best […]

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‘South Park’ Character Says ‘F**k The Chinese Government’ After Ban

“South Park” ramped up its jabs at China in Wednesday’s episode, having one of its characters profanely put the country on blast days after China essentially banned the long-running cartoon. “Fuck the Chinese government!” Randy says, after his ex-business partner Towelie makes him realize that selling weed to the human rights-trampling nation is wrong. Towelie

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Without Naming Huawei, E.U. Warns Against 5G Firms From ‘Hostile’ Powers

BRUSSELS — A 5G supplier from a “hostile” country could be forced by its home government to wreak havoc by causing cyberattacks, a European Union report warned on Wednesday, but the bloc stopped short of naming the Chinese giant Huawei, which the United States blacklisted after the White House labeled it a tool for espionage

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New E.P.A. Lead Standards Would Slow Replacement of Dangerous Pipes

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration was expected on Thursday to propose new regulations on lead and copper in drinking water, updating a 20-year-old rule that may have contributed to the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, Mich., that began in 2015. The draft plan, which was scheduled to be announced by the Environmental Protection administrator, Andrew

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Has your newborn’s identity already been stolen?

Imagine discovering that your newborn’s brand new Social Security number has already been used to construct what Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center, calls a “Frankenstein monster of identity.” Parents may discover their newborn’s tarnished Social Security number when they try to use it to file taxes, apply for government

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Sanders says he’ll resume campaigning ‘as soon as possible’

Bernie Sanders says he’s “getting my endurance back” and “getting stronger every day” after last week’s heart attack, while promising to return to the presidential campaign trail “as soon as possible.” “I am feeling great,” the 78-year-old Vermont senator said in a 7-minute video posted online Thursday. He said that, while lying in a hospital

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Meet the residents of the Riba Stirling Prize-winning Passivhaus

The homes on Goldsmith Street in Norwich are a little different. Built by Norwich City Council to Passivhaus standard, they have just won the Riba Stirling Prize for architecture and could set the template for the future of social-housing developments. These fuel-efficient homes, nearly 100 of them, are handed over with large blue ring binders,

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